[squeak-dev] Running headless on a Mac

Tom Rushworth tom.b.rushworth at gmail.com
Sat Feb 1 22:27:58 UTC 2014


Hi Frank,

On 14-02-01 11:04 , Eliot Miranda wrote:
> Hi Frank,
> 
>     from the command line say e.g.
> 
>     /Applications/Cog.app/Contents/MacOs/Squeak -headless my image.image

Whatever script runs the job may also have to be run by the same User ID
as is logged into the screen.  I ran into this issue trying to get the
CI stuff running on my server.  EVEN HEADLESS, the VM startup code
needed some sort of access to the console, although it doesn't display
anything :(.
> 
> I'll email my startup script, which makes this much more convenient, real soon now.
> 
> Eliot (phone)
> 
> On Feb 1, 2014, at 10:05 AM, Frank Shearar <frank.shearar at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> OK, so I've run out of patience in my flailing around. All I want is
>> to run a headless image on a Mac (so I can unbreak the SqueakTrunk-OSX
>> job, which _used_ to work).
>>
>> How? Do I say
>>  "-headless"? ("could not find module vm-display-X11")
>>  "-vm-display-null -headless"? ("squeak: could not find any sound driver")
>>  "-vm-sound-null -vm-display-null -headless"? ("could not find module
>> vm-sound-null")
>>
>> I don't mind whether I use Cog or Interpreter, as long as I can just
>> get an image running tests.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> frank
>>
> 
> 


-- 
Tom Rushworth


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