I have been communicating back-and-forth with Wolfram support for a few weeks trying to figure out why I cannot use Mathematica 12 on the new MacBook Pro running the latest version of macOS Mojave. I will attach our entire conversation, and will help you guys in any way I can to help diagnose this.
Not being able to use Mathematica has been a huge pain for the last few months and would be incredibly grateful to any help you guys could give.
In the emails I reference several attachments. I have put them all here. Looking at these videos may be a good first step for you guys trying to help.
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On Apr 19, 2019, at 2:41 PM, Bruce Miller wrote:
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From: Bruce Miller <[email protected]> Date: 2019-04-19 13:39 To: Max Coplan <email> Subject: RE: [CASE:4249523]LiveChat: Cocoa integration in the frontend
Mr. Coplan,
Please feel free to attach the SystemInformation[] notebook and Profiler output to a reply to this email.
I will get these to developers and get back to you.
Best regards,
Bruce Miller Wolfram Technical Support Wolfram Research, Inc. http://support.wolfram.com/
On: 2019-04-19 17:52:51 email,email submitted the following Case:
Max Coplan: Question I am having trouble using Mathematica 12, presumably related to the new Cocoa integration in the frontend. I cannot click in notebooks, I cannot type in them, and I cannot scroll.
Allison: Hello. Thank you for contacting Wolfram Research Customer Service.
Max Coplan: hey Max Coplan: Have you heard about any similar problems to what I described?
Allison: Our technical support staff would be better able to assist you with this. May I please have your license number, or activation key, so I can get you the correct contact information for them?
Max Coplan: sure
Max Coplan: It's just that I just installed the newest version of Mathematica but cannot even open it :(
Max Coplan: license numberAllison: This shows to be the student site license for University. It will take me just a moment to get you connected to our technical support team. May I have your email address in case we get disconnected? Max Coplan: email is my Wolfram id email
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Max: P.S. That open permission dialogue was from me trying to install Mathematica 11.3. It had nothing to do with 12
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Max: Downgrading to version 11.3 fixed the issue, so it’s something with version 12.
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Max: Figuring it may have something to do with the more complex graphics libraries, I rebooting into Safe Mode to see what would happen if those were disabled, as well as disabled all my startup items, etc. Safe Mode did not do anything
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On May 10, 2019, at 11:02 PM, Wolfram Technical Support <[email protected]> wrote:Mr. Coplan,
Thank you for the files.
A developer asks,
if you modified system libraries,
if Mathematica present in the list of apps in Security & Privacy -> Privacy -> Accessibility ,
and if this is just Untitled-1 or more general.
He said the behavior is consistent with 10.14 system libraries which Mathematica does not use.
Regards,
Bruce Miller Wolfram Technical Support Wolfram Research, Inc. http://support.wolfram.com/
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Max: Thank you for your help!
I don’t know if I’ve done that, so probably not. I have SIP enabled, so I could not have changed anything in /System/Library, if that’s what you mean by system libraries
no
Let me know what other information I can give you. I’ve been looking forward to Version 12, and would love to get it up and running as soon as possible.
Additionally, I got Wolfram Desktop 12 to see if that could help diagnose my issues. Unfortunately, Wolfram Desktop has the same problem as Mathematica.
Thanks for all you’re doing,
Max
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My apologies. It affects all notebooks. The video was a side by side comparison of Mathematica 12 vs. 11 behavior (https://youtu.be/EJlPfXL-zKo). Mathematica is not in the list of accessibility enabled apps (https://youtu.be/94_JK4sVDEs).
I was hoping the video would illustrate what my issues were.
You mentioned that it could be due to some problems with system libraries. While I don’t recall ever messing with that stuff, how would I go about trying to fix it (hopefully without having to reinstall macOS)? Additionally, I got Wolfram Desktop to see if that would work, but unfortunately Desktop version 12 has the exact same problem as Mathematica.
Please let me know if there’s anything else you’d like to see me do. Whether in words or YouTube I’ll try to give you whatever help you need. It would be very problematic if I couldn’t get version 12 working by the time 10.15 rolls out. And I’ve been meaning for a while now to do a talk about Mathematica 12 at my school, but have had to delay until I can get this working.
Thanks for all your help,
Max
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Mr. Coplan,
Thank you for the additional information. I added it to the problem report.
At this point, I do not have any additional information that could help you further. We hope that this issue will be resolved in future versions of Mathematica (or MacOS).
We are always interested in improving Mathematica, and I want to thank you once again for taking the time to send us this report. If you run into any other behavior problems, or have any additional questions, please don't hesitate to contact us.
Kind regards,
Bruce Miller Wolfram Technical Support Wolfram Research, Inc. http://support.wolfram.com/
Again, THANK ALL OF YOU so much for reading through this and trying to help me.
Edit: @CarlLange recommended I look for any errors in Console.app. This is what I got. Apologies for the bad formatting. Is there a better way to attach these logs?
error 11:17:19.078120 -0400 Mathematica nw_path_close_fd Failed to close guarded necp fd 3 [9: Bad file descriptor] error 11:17:19.459129
-0400 Mathematica nw_path_close_fd Failed to close guarded necp fd 3 [9: Bad file descriptor] error 11:17:19.488852
-0400 Mathematica nw_path_close_fd Failed to close guarded necp fd 3 [9: Bad file descriptor] error 11:17:22.003149
-0400 WolframKernel nw_path_close_fd Failed to close guarded necp fd 24 [9: Bad file descriptor] error 11:17:22.007884
-0400 taskgated cannot open file at line 42270 of [95fbac39ba] error 11:17:22.007901 -0400 taskgated os_unix.c:42270: (2) open(/var/db/DetachedSignatures) - No such file or directory default 11:17:22.008069 -0400 taskgated MacOS error: -67062 error 11:17:22.016468 -0400 taskgated cannot open file at line 42270 of [95fbac39ba] error 11:17:22.016483 -0400 taskgated os_unix.c:42270: (2) open(/var/db/DetachedSignatures) - No such file or directory default 11:17:22.016543 -0400 taskgated MacOS error: -67062 error 11:17:23.108475 -0400 WolframKernel nw_path_close_fd Failed to close guarded necp fd 24 [9: Bad file descriptor] error 11:17:23.302284 -0400 WindowServer SLXServer: Unexpected notification msg received: id is 65 default 11:17:23.681533
-0400 loginwindow -[PersistentAppsSupport saveLogoutPersistentState:finalSnapshot:] | checkAgainstApp is : Mathematica default 11:17:23.681549
-0400 loginwindow -[PersistentAppsSupport appShouldBeRelaunched:] | entered. checking app: Mathematica default 11:17:23.681574
-0400 loginwindow -[PersistentAppsSupport saveLogoutPersistentState:finalSnapshot:] | Adding to relaunchArray: Mathematica default 11:17:23.686914
-0400 loginwindow -[PersistentAppsSupport saveLogoutPersistentState:finalSnapshot:] | Contents:(
{
BackgroundState = 2;
BundleID = "com.wolfram.mathematica";
Hide = 0;
Path = "/Applications/Mathematica.app";
},
{
BackgroundState = 2;
BundleID = "com.apple.console";
Hide = 0;
Path = "/Applications/Utilities/Console.app";
},
{
BackgroundState = 2;
BundleID = "com.apple.finder";
Hide = 0;
Path = "/System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app";
} ) default 11:17:28.639517 -0400 Mathematica LSExceptions shared instance invalidated for timeout. error 11:21:15.039503
-0400 Mathematica CGContextGetCTM: invalid context 0x0. If you want to see the backtrace, please set CG_CONTEXT_SHOW_BACKTRACE environmental variable. error 11:21:15.039523
-0400 Mathematica CGContextGetDefaultUserSpaceToDeviceSpaceTransform: invalid context 0x0. If you want to see the backtrace, please set CG_CONTEXT_SHOW_BACKTRACE environmental variable. error 11:21:15.039539 -0400 Mathematica CGContextSaveGState: invalid context 0x0. If you want to see the backtrace, please set CG_CONTEXT_SHOW_BACKTRACE environmental variable. error 11:21:15.039553 -0400 Mathematica CGContextConcatCTM: invalid context 0x0. If you want to see the backtrace, please set CG_CONTEXT_SHOW_BACKTRACE environmental variable. error 11:21:15.039565 -0400 Mathematica CGContextSaveGState: invalid context 0x0. If you want to see the backtrace, please set CG_CONTEXT_SHOW_BACKTRACE environmental variable. error 11:21:15.039632
-0400 Mathematica CGContextSetCompositeOperation: invalid context 0x0. If you want to see the backtrace, please set CG_CONTEXT_SHOW_BACKTRACE environmental variable. error 11:21:15.039647
-0400 Mathematica CGContextDrawImages: invalid context 0x0. If you want to see the backtrace, please set CG_CONTEXT_SHOW_BACKTRACE environmental variable. error 11:21:15.039660
-0400 Mathematica CGContextRestoreGState: invalid context 0x0. If you want to see the backtrace, please set CG_CONTEXT_SHOW_BACKTRACE environmental variable. error 11:21:15.039671
-0400 Mathematica CGContextRestoreGState: invalid context 0x0. If you want to see the backtrace, please set CG_CONTEXT_SHOW_BACKTRACE environmental variable.
Again, thanks so much for any assistance. It really means a lot
~/Library/Mathematica/except for theLicensingfolder; also, I noticed the title bar of your mathematica window is black in dark mode; but on my machine the title bar of mathematic notebooks is the same as the light mode. did you install other software that may change this? $\endgroup$