Anyone install OS 10.9 and test it with Mathematica yet? I have received numerous warnings from other software providers about the update not being compatible including RStudio, but Wolfram has not issued any updates or statements on the update so I am assuming there have been no reported issues.
I installed Mavericks today, and I am not able to open Mathematica.
I double-click the application icon, and the only thing that happens is that the icon expands out, as if I was opening any other application. No dock icon bounce or anything.
I also installed Mavericks and experience the same thing: launching Mathematica fails, it will only show the screen zoom as if it is launching an application but nothing past that.Very bad as I have deadlines. Had no choice, must start supporting this for clients immediately.
On a hunch I closed everything, all windows, and then relaunched. A window was waiting for me, telling me that I need to install Java before I can run Mathematica. Incidentally same was true for my CrashPlan, part of what inspired me to check. So try closing (or minimizing) all of your windows, then you should see the Java installation dialog.
I’ll know if that’s all I needed in about an hour, the time it’ll take to download Java.
Hope that helps!
On the first start of Mathematica 9.0.1.0 on OS X 10.9, it requested installing (new? specific?) version of Java, and I did it. After that, it just worked.
I do not have issue to launch Mathematica 9 after this OS update.
Just as @jari said, make sure you choose to update Java SE 6 at the end of the installation of OSX 10.9
Everything working fine: Macbook Pro Retina.
I encountered exactly the same problem.
It was solved by installing Java 6 issued by Apple (JavaForOSX2013-05) and downgrading from Java 7 to Java 6 according to
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5559?viewlocale=en\_US
Since Mathematica 9, neither the front end nor the kernel launch Java automatically anymore, as our Java specialists have confirmed to me.
So if the reinstallation of Java on your machine fixed your previous inability to start Mathematica, is it possible that you are loading any specific packages or such at start-up, through according code in the init.m file?
Also, could you please describe what your original situation was:
- Was your Mavericks update a complete reinstall on your system?
- Did you install Java before trying to run Mathematica the first time?
- Did you try a preferences reset or a clean reinstall of Mathematica as described in the articles below help:
http://support.wolfram.com/kb/3274
http://support.wolfram.com/kb/4730 + a subsequent installation
It would help determining whether all of you have actually encountered the same or different situations.
Thank you.
Here is my case:
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Was your Mavericks update a complete reinstall on your system?
I upgraded from Mountain Lion. -
Did you install Java before trying to run Mathematica the first time?
No. I was not prompted to install Java.
Java 7 was installed before the upgrade but it seems that Java 7 was not working after the upgrade. -
Did you try a preferences reset or a clean reinstall of Mathematica as described in the articles below help:http://support.wolfram.com/kb/3274http://support.wolfram.com/kb/4730 + a subsequent installation
No.
The following is the message displayed when I tried to open Mathematica from a terminal:
LSOpenURLsWithRole() failed with error -10658 for the file /Applications/Mathematica.app.
Although I could not open Cyberduck and the same message was displayed,
the problem was also solved at the same time.
I hope the information helps.
On my two macs, I was asked to update java se after the new OSX is installed. Not sure what would happen if you choose not to update.
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Was your Mavericks update a complete reinstall on your system? I upgraded from Mountain Lion.
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Did you install Java before trying to run Mathematica the first time? Yes. I saw the java se prompt and update java first. Apple- java se 6 was installed in OSX 10.8 (Mountain lion)
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Did you try a preferences reset or a clean reinstall of Mathematica as described in the articles below help:http://support.wolfram.com/kb/3274
No, I did not modify anything in Mathemtica after the OS upgrade and java se update.
I upgraded from Mountain Lion. Didn’t have to do anything about Java. Mathematica runs, but has become very sluggish. Just as a number of other applications i run (Including VMware fusion, that normally ran Win7 and Ubuntu at the same time without problems).
Macbook Pro Retina, 2.6Ghz i7, 16gb ram, flash harddrive…
Mathematica requires Java version 6 which is an earlier version than the current latest version. For whatever reason, if you have Java 6 installed and then upgrade the Mac OS, the upgrade removes Java 6. Hence the prompt to install it when first starting Mathematica after the OSX upgrade.
I have installed OS X 10.9 on both my computers without incident. For both computers, I was prompted to download and install JRE, as others have noted. Apple does not include this by default, and the download and installation is handled from Apple’s servers. If Mathematica no longer uses Java, then perhaps there is a component in the installer that thinks it does.
It appears to be as speedy as ever.
2013 iMac 27 inch 32 Gbytes RAM, 3 TByte Fusion drive
2011 Macbook Air 11 inch, 4 Gbytes RAM, 128 GByte SSD
Another case of Mathematica not launching after Mavericks upgrade:
Upgrade from Mountain Lion.I was not prompted to install Java.Preferences were reset with no improvementInstalling Java 6 and downgrading fixed the issue
Mathematica makes use of Java for a number of things. I do not have a list of elements that make use of it but, for example, DatabaseLink makes use of it as its communications link between Mathematica and the SQL databse. Also, looking into the Mathematica distribution, RLink also makes use of Java as does WebServices and XMLSchema (and, of course, JLInk 
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Sometimes the Mathematica workspace windows does have “stripes” around it. The other programs running at the same time are doing fine. Restarting Mathematica won’t help. I’ll have to restart my MacBook Pro and then everything is ok.
Does anybody recognise this problem?
[PS My Mac was slow when running Mathematica but after installing Maverick (and the Java update) things got much better. Only thing that’s slow now is when I start Safari when running Mathematica.]
Mr. Woldinga,
The striping is probably a different issue.
You said that restarting the computer fixed it. Does it re-occur after a while, or is it permanently fixed?
If it re-occurs, I suggest holding down the SHIFT key as Mathematica starts up, to reset some
initialization files. See http://support.wolfram.com/kb/3274.
Started separate discussion without knowing about this thread. It belongs here I believe:
Some days ago I’ve upgraded my IMac to Maverics. 30 minutes ago I’ve tried to launch my Mathematica 9 which welcomed me with Product Activation screen. Strange, the product was activated long time ago and was working flowlessly until the upgrade to Maverics.
Online activation failed with the following error message (image):
The manual activation attempt was similarly disappointing (image):
Wolfram Research contacted (web page popped up after click on the link in the error message). Now looking at my mail and clicking refresh button now and then…
Does it mean I need to roll back to previos OSX?
Many thanks, Alexander
fyi, Mr. BrockHaus’s other thread was http://community.wolfram.com/groups/-/m/t/158848 .
His situation is different from the Java problems discussed above.
Probably due to the OS upgrade but not MacOS 10.9-specific.