Re: Zenmap not working

[David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>]

On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 03:26:51PM -0700, Aaron Katz wrote:
> Zenmap crashes with the following error:
>
> 9/1/09 10:48:29 AM    [0x0-0x2c72c7].org.insecure.Zenmap[28851]        
> 2009-09-01 10:48:29.305 zenmap.bin[28854:e17] Python applications can  
> not currently run from paths containing a '/' (or ':' from the  
> Terminal).

Thanks for your report. This is a limitation of all Python programs, not
just Zenmap. When a path contains a ':' it confuses the splitting of
sys.path.

http://bugs.python.org/issue1507224

For some reason the Mac OS X Finder displays the ':' character as '/',
so if you have a folder with a name like "misc/junk", its name is really
"misc:junk" and you can't run a Python installation from inside it.

The fix in this case is easy--just move the Zenmap icon to a different
folder. The installer normally puts it in /Applications.

David Fifield

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