[X-Newbies] Application Failures in OS 10.3.8

[Alex]

On Apr 16, 2005, at 4:55 PM, Carlie Van Winkle wrote:

> The application "(null)" could not be launched because
> of a shared library error: "F<(name of app.
> here)><Apple;Carbon;Multimedia><CFMPriv_DVComponentGlue><>

Bad news. I suspect your OS installation is toast.

The message says that the DVComponentGlue framework has generated an  
error. It could be missing, but I think it's more likely corrupt. Check  
if

/System/Library/Frameworks/DVComponentGlue.framework/Versions/A/ 
DVComponentGlue

is present. If it is, then it's corrupt (and probably not the only one).

You could try to replace it with a fresh copy from another Mac OS X  
install or backup, but I doubt it will work. Someone with a deep  
understanding of Mac OS X could probably tell you precisely which files  
to replace, but even then it might not work, because in all likelihood  
other libraries are also corrupt.

What caused the corruption? Unless you've gone and deleted some  
libraries yourself, then it's either a damaged hard disk, or bad RAM.  
You'll have to check your hard disk and RAM for errors, and then  
re-install the OS, either from the original discs or from a backup.

> I have gone to my System Folders and tried deleting
> any redundancies, but that has not seemed to help this
> matter any.

Hm, "System Folder" is a Mac OS 9 concept. If you mean you've deleted  
files from the Mac OS X system folders (/System, /usr, etc.), then  
naturally you're toast. You should leave those folders severely alone;  
in fact, the OS doesn't allow you to change anything there unless you  
authenticate yourself as root or admin user.

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