Sorry for the stand-alone thread, but I did a clean install of 10.6, then installed Celerity drivers, restarted and installed Connection Manager 5.12 (fibre.)  I had not installed any other applications, including Media Composer.  Just Fibre Manager on top of the clean install and Rosetta.   

The icon does its little double bounce, but the application does not open...  I had previously done an upgrade from 10.5.5 to 10.6 and had the same problem.  The fact the problem also occurs with a clean install PROBABLY means the the Connection Manager just doesn't play well with 10.6...

I'd be delighted to hear that someone has found otherwise...  Otherwise it's back to 10.5.5 I go...

BTW, green light on the card and worked perfectly before the upgrade...  I'm experimenting on a Mac Pro station that I use strictly to transfer files from set to Unity...

Until there is a 10.6 version of Connection Manager or someone contradicts me, don't upgrade your systems that are on Unity. 

I did notice that when running the uninstaller, the Tiger pkg is listed...  So 5.12 was last written for Tiger, I take it?

Post Pipeline....

Snow Leopard is currently being tested and in qualification now but is not officially supported on any Avid systems yet. 

I expect we shall know more on compatibility within the coming weeks.

marianna

Post Pipeline:

Until there is a 10.6 version of Connection Manager or someone contradicts me, don't upgrade your systems that are on Unity. 

Most people running Unity I would think wouldn't upgrade unless absolutely necessary, I'm working on a client system that is still on MC v3.0 and OS 10.5.3 because they don't want to upgrade the Unity to match the newer version of editor just yet..  It's one thing to toy around with one edit suite and such, but your storage is your lifeblood.

I don't think tht Post' is expecting it to work here. I think they are just reporting areas they've tested that definitley do not work.

That's how I read it anyway.

You're right - after re-reading it from that angle it's clear.  I was reading it as if they upgraded to an unsupported OS and were surprised that it didn't work.  

Oh, no, no, no, no, no...  I was fully aware it may not work and would be likely be buggy if it did...  I've been following the other threads and was just doing some tests.  I was a little surprised that Connection Manager doesn't work at all and wanted to just report it and get thoughts...  I'm running 5.1.2, which is the latest version and I'm back running beautifully after a clean re-install of Leopard.  I'm more concerned and curious for future jobs. 

I'm supporting the Post technology for a  $200 million dollar movie.  We have four Mac adrenalines and a Symphony Nitris attached to a Media Engine via fibre, and a Nucoda grading system and a PC adrenaline attached via fibre...  I also have an H264 encoding system attached via fibre, as well as a Mac Pro that we use to copy DNX 36 MXF files directly from the set to the Unity...  We are running 3.1.3 on 5.1.1 of Media Networks, on 10.5.5 OS for the Macs and version 7.5.5 of Quicktime... That is unlike to change during the remainder of the show...  I'm not insane... :)

By far the least critical of the machines I listed is the Mac Pro that we just use as a convenience to transfer files...  Being a nerd and knowing that that machine could be down for a day or two without worries, I decided to do a purely academic experiment of seeing if it worked with Unity and then playing around with the performance and measuring copy times, etc....  If it worked, I would have installed Media Composer, created a new project and just played around/test render times versus Leopard, that kind of thing...

I've been doing this for a long time and have worked on probably 300 features doing Post support.  I never recommend upgrading at all unless there are compelling reasons, and never to a configuration that hasn't had another sucker on it for at least three months...  Still, I ask a lot of questions before an upgrade.  

Despite a few odd bugs here and there, we're pretty stable on our current configuration and I see it remaining for the next 12-16 months that this movie will be in Post.

But bottom line, if you were also curious and run Connection Manager, no need to bother testing...  Doesn't work.

Post Pipeline...

Already passed this along to the tetsing team.  Note that when someone reports something like this, even though we arent finished testing a new OS for example, I send it along.  It is improtant they know what has already been discovered - they might have even found that out already.  I send it anyway just to be sure they see it.

Onward

marianna

Last time I checked (and it's been a while), Connection Manager was a PPC app.  PP mentioned installing Rosetta.  Seems like you'd have to be certain that was running before you could expect any PPC app to work.

Has there been any updates on this. I just purchased 3 new Intel Macs that came with Snow Leopard installed all ready and I can not get the OS to Back rev to Leopard. We also just purchased the new MC v4 to go on the new Macs, but we also can not get the Connection Manager to work. I just get the Icon to do one bounce and just stop. No errors. We have Unity Mac Client 5.1.3

Any help to get our upgraged MC systems would be great.

Chris

Same issue here.  Snow Leopard on new Power Mac.  We can not roll back the O.S. AND we can not get Fiber Manager (5.1.3) to run.  Rosetta is installed and other Rosetta apps run.  This means, there is no way to purchase new Apple hardware.  Grrrr, I have some old boxes I want to upgrade.

I do get one error, sort of.  If you monitor processes in a shell with top, it shows crash report process when I launch FM, but no crash report window comes up.  The FM process never hits top.  I'm guessing it dies too fast to capture.

Does anyone know if Avid is working on getting MC 3.5.x to run under snow leopard, or just 4.x?

GOZ:

Snow Leopard on new Power Mac

Apple is not making new PowerMacs and Snow Leopard is only qualified on MacPro.  

GOZ:

Snow Leopard on new Power Mac

knowing Goz, he meant Mac Pro, not Power Mac. he's wise enough to know the difference.  

but the burning question remains... how do you buy a new machine in confidence if you can't roll back the OS?

Sorry about the Power Mac.  I meant new Mac Pro... my bad