running ardour for 1st time

===== Sun Nov 05 2006 ===== 22:55:22 Europe/Berlin =====

I cut and pasted this from the console.log
my computer is a mac osx 10.3.9.
the processor type is: 1.25 GHz PowerPC G4

This was what I assumed I had to do from the README.txt that came from Ardour.

that was such a helpful post i just sent…!
the console.log. should have read:

Mac OS X Version 10.3.9 (Build 7W98)
2006-11-05 12:33:44 +0100
yylex: ERROR.
*** malloc[370]: Deallocation of a pointer not malloced: 0x4360120; This could be a double free(), or free() called with the middle of an allocated block; Try setting environment variable MallocHelp to see tools to help debug
open: /Users/alistairzaldua/Desktop/Pd/Pd-0.39-2.app/Contents/Resources/Scripts/…//Users/alistairzaldua/Desktop/mhwaveedit-1.4.8/config.guess: No such file or directory
config.guess: No such file or directory
pd: exiting
2006-11-05 14:11:33.838 SoftwareUpdateCheck[436] Checking for updates
Warning: no locale found: /usr/local/share/locale/qjackctl_en_US.qm
button returned:OK
29:150: execution error: Ardour got an error: AppleEvent timed out. (-1712)
args are /Volumes/Ardour-0.99.3/Ardour.app
cwd is /Volumes/Ardour-0.99.3/Ardour.app/Contents/Resources
SHELL=/bin/bash
USER=alistairzaldua
__CF_USER_TEXT_ENCODING=0x1F5:0:0
PATH=/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/Users/alistairzaldua
PWD=/
SHLVL=1
HOME=/Users/alistairzaldua
SECURITYSESSIONID=210760
_=/usr/bin/env

XFree86 Version 4.3.0 / X Window System
(protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6600)
[DRI] screen 0 installation complete
Screen 0 added: 1024x768 @ (0,0)

and, it seems as though Ardour doesn’t run…
Thanks for any help, best,
alistair

What version of ardour are you trying to run?

Why do I see a reference to PD in there?

The version I downloaded is -0.99.3-panther
The reference to PD came about as I managed to click accidently on the PD icon as I was (at that stage) trying to figure out the next step…
Strange thing is, though, that I tried running ardour again, today, just to see, and it managed to build everything up as expected, and even work. So, false alarm… -at least for the time being!
Thanks anyway.