Apps won't launch |
April, 08, 2003 11:31 AM |
Tony.Scaminaci |
Started having troubles with my 9500 running 10.2.4 over the weekend. It refuses to launch a few apps (e.g. Disk Utility, Retrospect,...). The icons bounce a few times, then stop bouncing and nothing happens. Other applications launch fine. Ran Techtoool Pro on the volume under OS 9 but no problems were found. Also ran repair volume and permissions while booted from 10.2 installer CD. None of these things helped. I'd like to restore the last backup to a new clean volume but Retrospect won't run. Tried running it remotely, but the flood of data being restored locked up my Airport base station. Anybody have any ideas why just a few apps are affected? Thanks, Tony |
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RE: Apps won't launch |
April, 11, 2003 10:20 AM |
insightinmind |
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I had a smiliar problem once, and it cleared up since I was reinstalling OS X 10.2.4 for another reason. Could it be that running applications while booting up from OS 9.1, when this OS 9.1 is also the Classic OS, that this application "disconnectedness" occurs in X? I've seen a suggestion that you have a seperate OS 9.1 to be used for booting up in, which is completely seperate from the OS 9.1 used ONLY for Classic mode from X. Any comments? |
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RE: Apps won't launch |
April, 11, 2003 9:18 AM |
Tony.Scaminaci |
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Well, the logs showed random crashes and some traceback info, but nothing that pointed to specific dll's. So, I brute-forced a solution by reinstalling the combo 10.2.4 updater. That solved all the problems so it's obvious that some portion of the OS was corrupted or missing. Will never know what really happened. Thanks for the pointers. I'll add these to my set of troubleshooting tools. Tony |
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RE: Apps won't launch |
April, 08, 2003 7:18 PM |
tempest |
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Check out /var/log/system.log for any clues. You can also try "dmesg" as root/sudo. My guess is a dynamically linked shared library is either missing or corrupt. Use the otool -L command to list what libraries are missing or corrupt per program. They should have execute permission for owner, group, and world. |
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