neuroConstruct crash on Mac

[renzocom]

Hello,
I'm on a Macbook 2009, running OS 10.10.5 and Java8, and neuroConstruct unexpectedly crashes when I tried to view any model.
Changing the NC_MAX_MEMORY at the nC.sh file did not fix the problem.

To reproduce the error, simply create a template cell, then click on view/edit morphology, opening the Visualization tab. Then, when clicking the View button one or two times, neuroConstruct crashes.
Here is part of the report:

Process: java [450]
Path: /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_65.jdk/Contents/Home/jre/bin/java
Identifier: net.java.openjdk.cmd
Version: 1.0 (1.0)
Code Type: X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process: java [444]
Responsible: Terminal [226]
User ID: 501

Date/Time: 2016-01-08 14:58:07.165 -0200
OS Version: Mac OS X 10.10.5 (14F27)
Report Version: 11
Anonymous UUID: 45A0DFEB-A03F-C081-B5AD-21A5EFCA3E0F

Time Awake Since Boot: 160 seconds

Crashed Thread: 0 AppKit Thread Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread

Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGABRT)
Exception Codes: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at 0x000007fdc5ebf320

Thanks in advance,
Renzo Comolatti

[pgleeson]

Hi @renzocom, did you install nC with the binary installer or did you compile it from source from GitHub?

[renzocom]

@pgleeson I compiled it from source from GitHub, then tried run both with ant run and with ./nC.sh -make, both leading to the crash.

I've just downgraded to Java 7 and the bug disappears.

[pgleeson]

Ok, thanks for letting me know. I've to update my MacOS version soon and I'll try it out with Java 8.