[G4] Jaguar - many apps fail to start - unexpected quit

[Steve O'Neill]

Wow, thanks, I forgot to mention that.  You're right, other "users" can start 
iTunes just fine.  And I ran Disk Utility > Repair Permissions.


Brian Conner wrote:
> Steve,
> 
> First thing to try when things like this start happening is to create a new
> user with administrative privileges (System Preferences > Accounts), log out
> of your original user, and log in as the new user.
> 
> See if that fixes things, then write back for more info. There may be more
> than one problem involved.
> 
> 
> Brian Conner
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Power Macintosh G4 List [mailto:G4 at lists.themacintoshguy.com] On
> Behalf Of Steve O'Neill
> Sent: Monday, April 21, 2003 10:24 AM
> To: Power Macintosh G4 List
> Subject: [G4] Jaguar - many apps fail to start - unexpected quit
> 
> 
> Help!  I sure hope someone has some idea where to turn next.
> 
> For a LOT of applications, when I try to start them, I get an unexpected
> quit 
> error before they even get started.  The most of any app I see is
> Appleworks, 
> which shows its menu and a hollow toolbar, then quits.  Other apps, like
> iTunes, 
> iCal (i.e., apple), Digital Performer 4, Microsoft mouse system preferences 
> (third party), just quit before showing anything except maybe a splash
> screen. 
> The system profiler shows they always quit with a EXC_BAD_ACCESS, 
> KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS, in a routine called __CFFromUTF8 which is called from 
> __CFStringDecodeByteStream3.  At this point the stack traces differ.
> 
> This machine was shipped with OS9.2.2 and OSX 10.1.2; I just recently
> upgraded 
> to Jaguar 10.2.2, then 10.2.5.  It was beautiful!  Everything worked.
> 
> Then I noticed that my old install of DAVE 3.x (to talk to windoze machines)
> 
> wasn't removed by the installation (although it had appeared to be), so I
> ran 
> its uninstall.  I can't pin it down to this, but I still sometimes get "DAVE
> 
> sharing canceled quit" on a shutdown attempt (no big, just shutdown again)
> but 
> this is AFTER running its uninstaller.  I only mention this because it's an 
> anomaly; and suggests I might be in DLL hell a la windoze.
> 
> I can run a few programs (Peak 3.21 and Netscape for example), but basically
> 
> this machine is dead in the water!
> 
> 
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