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

[CJ Scaminaci]

Hey,

As a matter of fact this exact problem happened to me. Only a few of my 
applications would launch mostly incapacitating the machine. To fix 
this, run the upgrade to 10.2.5 if you don't have it just find it on 
Apple's website. I just ran it over my original 10.2.5 installation and 
the machine was none the wiser. I believe this is caused by a corrupt 
file deep in the system that is practically impossible to replace so 
doing this fixed my computer good as new. Don't forget your permissions 
fix at the end ;-)


CJ

On Monday, April 21, 2003, at 10:23 AM, Steve O'Neill wrote:

> 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!