GrowlNotify 1.3 + Growl 1.3.1 for Lion: error

Question

I'm working on Mac OS X 10.7.2 with Growl 1.3.1 for Lion. I installed growlnotify version 1.3 and executed growlnotify -a Emacs.app -m "foo" in the terminal. I obtain:

2011-12-11 11:26:39.349 growlnotify[86152:707] <GrowlGNTPRegistrationAttempt: 0x7fa202017f00> failed because Error Domain=GCDAsyncSocketErrorDomain Code=7 "Socket closed by remote peer" UserInfo=0x7fa202202450 {NSLocalizedDescription=Socket closed by remote peer}
2011-12-11 11:26:39.351 growlnotify[86152:707] Failed to register with (null)

Afterwards, growl disappears from the menu bar. In other words: It crashed.

Has anyone experienced something similar?

It's most likely not an emacs problem, I also get this if I choose other applications.

Answer 1

Try setting a password in your Growl network settings and specify the password via the -P option.

Apparently it's a known bug: http://metacpan.org/pod/Net::Growl#Internal-OO-API-only

Answer 2

I know this may not apply specifically to OS X 10.7.2 but I came to this answer looking for a way to Growel in the latest (currently Yosemite 10.10.5) and found this other answer that works in Mavericks+ and was exactly what I was looking for:

With Mavericks and later, you can do this using AppleScript's 'display notification':

display notification "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet" with title "Title"

AppleScript can be run from the shell using /usr/bin/osascript:

osascript -e 'display notification "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet" with title "Title"'

There are a lot more details in How can I trigger a Notification Center notification from an AppleScript or shell script?