Issue with Desktop installation Mac (Intel)

[itsnilskerwer]

Hi,

(Disclaimer: I've never used Wolfram Language before so i might be simply missing something. )

After downloading the Wolfram engine, and the wljs notebook desktop app, it seems like everything has started fine.
I am now stuck at this screen "Starting server" for quite some time...

Mac os: Ventura 13.6.6
Wolfram engine version: 14.1 for Mac OS X x86
Wolfram js notebook version: 2.5.6

Expected: Re-direct to authenticate with wolfram cloud (i haven't done the signup with wolfram yet - just freshly downloaded the engine and the notebook).

Logs:
Mica-Electron only works on Windows!
Mica-Electron: Disabled
{
new_file: [ 'Cmd+N', 'Ctrl+N' ],
new_quick_file: [ 'Cmd+Shift+N', 'Ctrl+Shift+N' ],
overlay: [ 'Shift+Alt+Space', 'Shift+Alt+Space' ],
open_file: [ 'Cmd+O', 'Ctrl+O' ],
save: [ 'Cmd+S', 'Ctrl+S' ],
find: [ 'Cmm+F', 'Ctrl+F' ],
toggle_cell: [ 'Cmd+2', 'Alt+2' ],
delete_cell: [ "Cmd+'", 'Ctrl+d' ],
abort: [ 'Cmd+.', 'Alt+.' ],
evaluate_init: [ 'Cmd+i', 'Alt+i' ],
clear_outputs: [ 'Cmd+u', 'Alt+u' ],
evaluate_all: [ 'Cmd+a', 'Alt+a' ]
}
Electron >> starting powersafe blocker
[ 'JerryI/wolfram-js-frontend', 'main' ]
[98546:0917/195548.486819:ERROR:trust_store_mac.cc(750)] Error parsing certificate:
ERROR: Failed parsing extensions

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[Symbol(kCapture)]: false
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[Symbol(realm)]: { settingsObject: {} },
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cacheState: '',
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[Symbol(headers)]: HeadersList {
cookies: null,
[Symbol(headers map)]: Map(23) {
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'cross-origin-resource-policy' => [Object],
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'x-cache' => [Object],
'x-cache-hits' => [Object],
'x-content-type-options' => [Object],
'x-fastly-request-id' => [Object],
'x-frame-options' => [Object],
'x-github-request-id' => [Object],
'x-served-by' => [Object],
'x-timer' => [Object],
'x-xss-protection' => [Object]
},
[Symbol(headers map sorted)]: null
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}
{
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"version": "2.5.6",
"recommended-client-version": "2.4.9",
"description": "Web-based notebook interface for Wolfram Language",
"author": {
"name": "Coffee liqueur",
"email": "[email protected]"
},
"main": "Electron/main.js",
"scripts": {
"start": "wolframscript -f Scripts/run.wls",
"build-terminal": "rollup --config Electron/rollup.config.mjs",
"build-terminal-preload": "rollup --config Electron/rollup.config_preload.mjs",
"el": "electron .",
"dist": "electron-builder",
"dist-win": "electron-builder --win --x64",
"dist-linux": "electron-builder --linux --x64",
"dist86": "electron-builder --x64",
"dist-all": "electron-builder -mwl --x64",
"build-css": "npx tailwindcss build Assets/Styles/Tailwind.css -o Assets/Styles/Optimized.css"
},
"build": {
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"copyright": "WLJS © 2024 ${author}",
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"dmg": {
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"icon": "./Electron/build/512x512.icns",
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TRY
Started! app

[JerryI]

Hi @itsnilskerwer,
It puzzles me a bit, since I am also using OSX.

However, the activation can be done manually:
Could you, please, try to run wolframscript directly?

open a terminal

wolframscript

it should print some message about license activation I believe. Then it can be activated on the same page, where you downloaded Wolfram Engine (after clicking download it should redirect to a corresponding page)

After that, you can run wolframscript again with -activate flag

wolframscript -activate

and enter you login/pass. After that you can kill a terminal and start WLJS Notebook normally.

[itsnilskerwer]

This worked. Thank you for your time.

[JerryI]

Great! I will keep it as an issue, until we fix it in the app

[HaoxuanGuo]

I got the same problem with Apple Silicon. Manually activate doesn't work for me.

[JerryI]

@HaoxuanGuo I believe it is still different, since it managed to reach "In".

Could you, please, try restart and click DEBUG button? Then after exiting an app it will generate a log file

[HaoxuanGuo]

System.log
@JerryI Here's the log.

[JerryI]

System.log @JerryI Here's the log.

Thanks! If you just open your terminal and run wolframscript does it work properly?

PS: I tested on M1 (WEngine 14.1)

[HaoxuanGuo]

@JerryI It works sometimes. Sometimes it works, sometimes it crashes with license error.

[HaoxuanGuo]

@JerryI Sometimes, and sometimes...

[JerryI]

Hm. Then this is a problem within wolframscript.
Please, check in Activity Monitor if you have other instances of Wolfram Kernel running. There is a license limitation to just 2 processes on the same machine (or account) from WR. If it still does not work:

a. reboot mac (might help)

b. 1. uninstall Wolfram Engine
2. reinstall in using homebrew

[JerryI]

Today I had the same issue

Wolfram Kernel crashed repeatedly. Then, when I opened a terminal and run wolframscript

it thrown some info about activation and then WLJS App started to work again. I believe this is somewhat related to Wolfram Kernel issue :(

[HaoxuanGuo]

@JerryI I have tried both kill, reboot or reinstall. But none of them worked.