growlnotify not working on Leopard

[Malesca]

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growlnotify -m "foo"

has no apparent effect for me on Leopard.

Console.app says

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10/26/07 20:43:49  GrowlHelperApp[1051] *** -[NSMachPort handlePortMessage:]: dropping incoming DO message because the connection or ports are invalid

I also tried getting growlnotify from SVN and compiling, but no difference.

EDIT: Tried reinstalling Growl. It's now intermittent – sometimes it works, sometimes not with that console error. Don't see a system to it.

[The_Tick]

Is any of this nonworkingness from crontab, or is it all from an interactive shell?

[Malesca]

Is any of this nonworkingness from crontab, or is it all from an interactive shell?

It's from the shell. Example session (just now):

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henrik@Atlas ~% growlnotify -m "foo"  # works
henrik@Atlas ~% growlnotify -m "foo"  # no notif, console error
henrik@Atlas ~% growlnotify -m "foo"  # works

[The_Tick]

Wow, that's just... weird. I'll have to try it when I get 10.5 installed next week or the week after.

Maybe someone else with 10.5 can try this before then.

Are you seeing anything else going on? This is with 1.1.1 right?

[Malesca]

Wow, that's just... weird. I'll have to try it when I get 10.5 installed next week or the week after.

Maybe someone else with 10.5 can try this before then.

Are you seeing anything else going on? This is with 1.1.1 right?

Yup, Growl 1.1.1. No other issues that I can think of. Thanks!

[cneth]

I see something similar, except it's every third notification that shows up. This is from an interactive shell.

Funky!

[shakma]

hmm, even weirder. growlnotify DOES work on my Leopard install (1.1.1 Growl). Trying to get Growl to notify via AppleScript does, however, not work here.
As is Adium not able to display any growl notifications.

edit: I'll have to retract the above. It did work yesterday, but as to Growl not working in AScript or Adium, I didn't have much use for Growl at that time, so I deinstalled it. Now, to try it out some more, I installed it again and it's the same behavior here as well. Every third time of growlnotify gives an actual notification...

[Malesca]

cneth and shakma, do you see the error message I described in the console (/Applications/Utilities/Console.app)?

[shakma]

shakma, do you see the error message I described in the console (/Applications/Utilities/Console.app)?

yup same one.

tip:
Might be interesting for people, Growl version 0.7.3, which I found laying around on some backup disk, works flawlessly on Leopard :) Go figure ;)

[bgannin]

Thank you for your patience and testing.

[exie]

Adium 1.1.3 works fine for me in 10.5, although I have not as yet had any of my MSN Messenger contacts actually come on line so can't speak to compatibility there.

[cneth]

Yes, I get the same console message about "connection or ports are invalid".

[hasseg]

I'm having the same exact problem - growlnotify messages not working intermittently, with the described error message.

Just updated to 1.1.2 (also remembered to replace my growlnotify binary to the one distributed with 1.1.2), but to no avail - the problem prevails.

[bgannin]

You'll know this has been fixed when the status on the compatibility page changes or the release notes for a new version indicate it.

[hasseg]

In the meantime, it seems that there is a temporary workaround for this: simply make growlnotify send the messages through the network interface. I Made a wrapper shell script to accomplish this transparently.

[NeedInput]

I spent quite a few hours attempting to get growlnotify working on Leopard last night. It turns out that I didn't need any of the fixes listed online: applescript replacements or any of the various growlnotify.wrappers using the --host param. In fact, the only result I got from any use of --host was: 2/16/08 3:04:09 AM growlnotify[2687] Exception: NSPortTimeoutException.

growlnotify began working fine after I selected a "default starting position" that did not overlap a portion of the dock. For example, if my dock was on the bottom, I can NOT select the bottom left or bottom right as a starting point for messages. If the dock is on the left, I can not select top left or bottom left. And so on. When they do overlap, console messages indicates:
2/16/08 3:05:43 AM GrowlHelperApp[2533] *** -[NSMachPort handlePortMessage:]: dropping incoming DO message because the connection or ports are invalid.

I hope this helps others.

Leopard 10.5.1
growlnotify 1.1.2