Alignment Process Fails

[braincoded]

I use the sample "Sonnet" from the original Aeneas project, however, other language samples and formats lead to the same situation: The attempt of aligning a text to an audio file just gets always stuck. The button changes to "processing ", that's it.

Aeneas was already installed on the Mac, but I also installed it again using the linked DMG.

Are there any suggestions how to find out what could cause the alignment process to always fail? THX!

[pietrop]

Ok cool so if you followed these steps then it might be this issue to do with the path to the python file? See link for more details https://github.com/sillsdev/aeneas-installer/issues/33 ?

[pietrop]

cmd+alt+i opens up the inspector console in the app, if you can upload a screenshot here when it gets stuck that’ll be helpfull to see if it is the same problem

[braincoded]

Thanks a lot for the quick reply! This is the error message that is logged in the console:

/Applications/subtitles-composer-app.app/Contents/Resources/app/src/renderer.js:33 dataPath /Users/sub1/Desktop
/Applications/subtitles-composer-app.app/Contents/Resources/app/src/renderer.js:34 desktopPath /Users/sub1/Desktop
/Applications/subtitles-composer-app.app/Contents/Resources/app/src/renderer.js:35 appPath /Applications/subtitles-composer-app.app/Contents/Resources/app
/Applications/subtitles-composer-app.app/Contents/Resources/app/src/renderer.js:97 opening file:  /Users/sub1/Downloads/Sonnet.mp3
/Applications/subtitles-composer-app.app/Contents/Resources/app/src/renderer.js:116 opening file:  /Users/sub1/Downloads/Sonnet.txt
/Applications/subtitles-composer-app.app/Contents/Resources/app/src/renderer.js:140 Creating subtitles
/Applications/subtitles-composer-app.app/Contents/Resources/app/node_modules/subtitlescomposer/aene…:24 stdout runAeneasComand: 
/Applications/subtitles-composer-app.app/Contents/Resources/app/node_modules/subtitlescomposer/aene…:25 stderr runAeneasComand: /bin/sh: /usr/local/bin/aeneas_execute_task: /usr/local/opt/python/bin/python2.7: bad interpreter: No such file or directory

/Applications/subtitles-composer-app.app/Contents/Resources/app/src/renderer.js:171 filePath /Users/sub1/Desktop/Sonnet.mp3.srt
fs.js:652 Uncaught Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '/Users/sub1/Desktop/Sonnet.mp3.srt'
    at Object.fs.openSync (fs.js:652:18)
    at Object.module.(anonymous function) [as openSync] (ELECTRON_ASAR.js:172:20)
    at Object.fs.readFileSync (fs.js:553:33)
    at Object.fs.readFileSync (ELECTRON_ASAR.js:508:29)
    at /Applications/subtitles-composer-app.app/Contents/Resources/app/src/renderer.js:176:20
    at /Applications/subtitles-composer-app.app/Contents/Resources/app/node_modules/subtitlescomposer/index.js:21:11
    at /Applications/subtitles-composer-app.app/Contents/Resources/app/node_modules/subtitlescomposer/aeneas_node/index.js:27:13
    at ChildProcess.exithandler (child_process.js:289:5)
    at emitTwo (events.js:125:13)
    at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:213:7)
fs.openSync @ fs.js:652
module.(anonymous function) @ ELECTRON_ASAR.js:172
fs.readFileSync @ fs.js:553
fs.readFileSync @ ELECTRON_ASAR.js:508
(anonymous) @ /Applications/subtitles-composer-app.app/Contents/Resources/app/src/renderer.js:176
(anonymous) @ /Applications/subtitles-composer-app.app/Contents/Resources/app/node_modules/subtitlescomposer/inde…:21
(anonymous) @ /Applications/subtitles-composer-app.app/Contents/Resources/app/node_modules/subtitlescomposer/aene…:27
exithandler @ child_process.js:289
emitTwo @ events.js:125
emit @ events.js:213
maybeClose @ internal/child_process.js:921
stream.socket.on @ internal/child_process.js:348
emitOne @ events.js:115
emit @ events.js:210
_handle.close @ net.js:549

To me it looks like it's the same issue that you were referring to above.

[pietrop]

Yeah, thanks, seems like it. What operating system are you on?

[braincoded]

I'm running High Sierra 10.13.6.

After trying to fix the Python installation via brew in numerous ways without any success I've found a workaround that helped: I created a symbolic link to the missing directory causing the error:

ln -s /usr/local/bin/python /usr/local/opt/python/bin/python2.7

This solved the issue for me at the moment. Thanks again for sharing the great GUI for Aeneas with us!

[pietrop]

Awesome thanks @braincoded !

Glad you were able to use it, and thanks for sharing the workaround!

Going to share this symlink solution with a few other folks who had this problem while I see if there can be a more permanent solution

[pietrop]

Re-opening as others having same issue. and the ln -s fix is not working for them

Possible quick fix, suggested by @bfasenfest

• installed brew (https://brew.sh/)
• installed python 2 using brew - brew install python@2 (https://docs.python-guide.org/starting/install/osx/)
• copy symlink usr/local/opt/python2
• and rename symlink to usr/local/opt/python

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However it be good to find a more solid solution of some sort.

[pietrop]

There's a new release of the Aeneas installer sillsdev/aeneas-installer/releases for mac aeneas tools Installer v1.7.3.0_2 updated for Python 3.7 which seems to be fixing this issue so closing this for now.

I tested it by installing aeneas tools Installer v1.7.3.0_2 updated for Python 3.7 on a new mac using these latest releases and it worked without needed to tweak anything. But feel free to re-open if this shows up again.