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Re: IDL DE startup error on OS X [message #80519 is a reply to message #80502]

Thu, 21 June 2012 08:01

wlandsman
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On Thursday, June 21, 2012 10:07:02 AM UTC-4, Kenneth P. Bowman wrote:
> I don't normally use the IDL development environment, but we have been following
> the recommended procedure for eliminating the bogus Time Machine errors on OS X.
>
> Doing so involves starting idl and idlde one time with root privileges.
>
Try checking for any hanging IDL processes (e.g. ps aux | grep idl) and killing them.

> When we start idlde, we inevitably get this error message:
>
> Workspace in use or cannot be created, choose a different one.
>
> We have tried deleting any workspaces and .idl directory. When we start idlde
> it creates a new workspace and a new .idl directory, but the error message
> recurs and nothing will let us actually start idlde.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks, Ken

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