[argyllcms] Re: ColorMunki on OS X
- From: Jonathan Buschmann <jonthn@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: argyllcms@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 19:29:11 +0100
On 10 Feb 2014, at 08:30, Graeme Gill <graeme@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> FreeLists Mailing List Manager wrote:
>
>> Jonathan Buschmann wrote:
>
>> Today I tried using ColorMunki with dispcalGUI (argyllcms 1.6.3) after
>> using the software from X-Rite =93ColorMunki Design=94 on Mac OS X 10.9
>> Mavericks'.
>>
>> And at first it gave me an error :
>>
>> dispcal: Error - new_disprd() failed with 'Instrument Access Failed
>>
>> in the GUI I briefly saw (=93kill nprocess..=94) in the log (several
>> times) there is :
>> kill_nprocess: killing process 'ColorMunkiDeviceService' pid 108
>> kill_nprocess: kill process 'ColorMunkiDeviceService' failed with 1
>>
>> As it didn't work I tried unloading the daemon/service from launchd (as
>> written on the page
>> http://argyllcms.com/doc/Installing_OSX.html#ColorMunki) afterwards it
>> worked flawlessly.
>>
>> So I am wondering if it would be possible to use the command (as
>> privileged user like root) :
>>
>> launchctl unload =
>> /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.xrite.device.colormunki.plist
>>
>> instead of trying to kill processes ?
>
> Hi,
> I'd imagine that will work, but then I also imagine that running
> ArgyllCMS or dispcalGUI as root would also work.
>
> If you follow the advice here
> <http://www.argyllcms.com/doc/Installing_OSX.html>
> and modify com.xrite.device.colormunki.plist to run as you rather than root,
> then you should also not have any problems.
>
> The advantage of the Argyll tools killing the ColorMunkiDeviceService
> process is that you can simply run either tool, without any further
> consideration.
>
In that case would it be possible to print the url in argyll commands output
(log window in dispcalGUI) when the ColorMunkiDeviceService is running as root
and cannot be killed ?
> Graeme Gill.
>
>
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