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

[Steve O'Neill]

I've run the preferences killer, seemed like a good idea; thanks Brian. 
  The problem persists.  Now I guess I'll try this suggestion.  I was 
avoiding it because I used Apple's SW Update to get 10.2.5 and it was 85 
MB or so; with DSL it only took 5 hours.

Unless you know offhand where the updates get saved?

Funny about permissions fix - I never did that the first time, and it 
didn't seem to be a problem.


CJ Scaminaci wrote:
> 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!
> 
> 
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