Re: Zenmap quits after "Zenmark wants to make changes" window on Mavericks 10.9.4 (nmap-6.46, xquartz 2.7.6)

[David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>]

On Sat, Aug 02, 2014 at 11:20:17AM -0600, Paul Martin wrote:
> After downloading the Mac install dmg today and installing the latest
> Quartz, I am having zenmark issues. I can start zenmap from my applications
> screen and get the "Zenmark wants to make changes enter your username and
> password to do this" window, but after clicking OK, the GUI disappears
> forever.
>
> I did a bit of research, and my issue initially seemed similar to this bug
> report from November 2013: http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2013/q4/125. As in
> this bug, nmap itself works just fine.

Sometimes Zenmap takes a few minutes to start, only the first time you
run it. I think it is building a font cache or something. If the icon
remains in the dock, that is probably what's happening. But if not...

> The differences are that:
> 1) I am using the latest dmg that supposedly fixed the bad library.
> 2) When I run zenmap from the command line, I get no errors. Things just do
> not work. E.g.:
>
> Pauls-MacBook-Pro:/ paul$ sudo open /Applications/Zenmap.app
> Password:
> Pauls-MacBook-Pro:/ paul$
> /* After this the "zenmark wants to make changes" GUI appears, asks for the
> system password, and after I press OK, disappears forever. */

Try running
/Applications/Zenmap.app/Contents/MacOS/Zenmap or
/Applications/Zenmap.app/Contents/MacOS/zenmap.bin from the command
line.

Also try opening the Console application and see if there are any log
message produced. (Filter by "Zenmap".)

David Fifield
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