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Update: Adding the -w option (--wait) and sending the process to the background causes growlnotify to work every time:
Hopefully, this piece of information helps debug the underlying issue.

So, it seems having an image is not enough—it also needs to be missing a title (which is an empty title in the implementation). Could the problem be the empty notification title? That seems strange. This command failed for me on 27 out of 30 attempts (with a title): $ growlnotify --image ~/.autotes...

We need a growlnotify command that tries, and fails 100% of the time, to post a notification. That sounds like a bit of an unfair request, considering this problem is an intermittent one. This command fails for me approximately 93% of the time (I invoked it 30 times, it worked only twice.) $ growln...

Both of you, please post the output of growlnotify --version $ growlnotify --version growlnotify 1.1.4 Copyright (c) The Growl Project, 2004-2008 That article was written for growlnotify 1.1.2. We fixed a bug causing intermittent droppage in growlnotify 1.1.3. While, yes, that article was written f...

ed_ruder wrote:It looks like Leopard has caused similar problems with growlnotify for a few versions--is there a robust fix/work-around?

Yup, growlnotify hasn't been reliable for me in a very long time. The only workaround I know of is documented here: http://hasseg.org/blog/?p=111

Bumping this as I would like to disable this notification as well. It's completely unnecessary and comes across as rude.

What do you mean by “doesn't work”? Sorry, I should have clarified. The notification doesn't display 100% of the time. Continue to run the same growlnotify over and over. For me, it doesn't not display every notification and I'd guess it's at a 33% no-fire rate. It almost appears to be a race condi...

Additional information. The --image works, but not when the path passed to it contains a dot-dirctory in the path. For example:

growlnotify --image ~/.autotest.d/fail.png -m "Tests Failed"

It appears that when the --image option is passed to growlnotify v1.1.3, it still doesn't work on Leopard. I continue to be stuck using the workaround hack. Has anyone else experienced this as well?