SheepShaver not starting up

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dabuchenauer
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SheepShaver not starting up

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I have a Mac Pro laptop that is giving me problems in trying to install SheepShaver. I've had to delete the SheepShaver folder several times and also deleted the .sheep* files in my home folder, but when I put in a newly unzipped SheepShaver folder into my Applications folder, the SheepShaver application only bounces once then dies. Since I have been deleting everything I could find and then starting with a new install, I'm not sure what I might be missing.

Any ideas would be welcome. The console messages are as follows:

2/18/16 4:27:29.577 PM URL Manager Pro[788]: WARNING: The Gestalt selector gestaltSystemVersion is returning 10.9.3 instead of 10.11.3. This is not a bug in Gestalt -- it is a documented limitation. Use NSProcessInfo's operatingSystemVersion property to get correct system version number.
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2/18/16 4:27:29.577 PM URL Manager Pro[788]: 0 CarbonCore 0x98d61913 ___Gestalt_SystemVersion_block_invoke + 135
2/18/16 4:27:29.577 PM URL Manager Pro[788]: 1 libdispatch.dylib 0x94b66763 _dispatch_client_callout + 50
2/18/16 4:27:29.577 PM URL Manager Pro[788]: 2 libdispatch.dylib 0x94b6663f dispatch_once_f + 78
2/18/16 4:27:29.577 PM URL Manager Pro[788]: 3 libdispatch.dylib 0x94b67ec9 dispatch_once + 31
2/18/16 4:27:29.577 PM URL Manager Pro[788]: 4 CarbonCore 0x98cdd576 _Gestalt_SystemVersion + 1047
2/18/16 4:27:29.577 PM URL Manager Pro[788]: 5 CarbonCore 0x98cdc6a5 Gestalt + 154
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Re: SheepShaver not starting up

Post by adespoton »

Looks like those Console messages are regarding URL Manager Pro, not SheepShaver.

The behaviour is what you'd expect if you didn't have the ROM image in a location that matches the path indicated in the prefs file.

However, it's possible that URL Manager Pro is stomping on SheepShaver's memory footprint -- actually quite likely, considering how they both work.
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Re: SheepShaver not starting up

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Thanks. I had forgotten to reinstall the ROM file in the SheepShaver folder. Hopefully I will not make the same mistake on the other 2 machines that I must setup.
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Re: SheepShaver not starting up

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And don't forget to rename the rom file to "Mac OS ROM", see setup guide.
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