on 08/01/05 12:55, Dennis B. Swaney at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I know that this list is for PowerBooks but I didn't get any response > on the iMac list, so I'm hoping that someone here might be able to > help. > > I came home Thursday night and went to check my mail, do some Quicken > stuff, and so forth. However, I have a MAJOR problem with my G4 iMac, > 10.3.7. Just about every third party program crashes on launch and > generates an error message that have the following in common: > something about a shared library error and the a string that looks > like this: "<...><CarbonLib><CFMPriv_QD><>" Where the ellipses (...) > are in the example, the text varies. The iMac worked fine Thursday > morning. > > Any ideas as to what is causing this? I've repaired permissions, ran > the cron scripts. I also tried it on a test admin account with the > same errors. My next idea was to re-run the 10.3.7 update, or, maybe > better, do an Archive & Install of 10.3 and then just update to 10.3.6
I would go on a wild guess by saying that some kind of library has became corrupted. If you could send me the crash log, I might be able to find out which one it is. Then, you could try a program called "Pacifist" which has the ability to extract files from an installer package and retrieve the faulty file from the OS X install CD. -Laurent. -- ============================================================================ Laurent Daudelin AIM/iChat: LaurentDaudelin <http://nemesys.dyndns.org> Logiciels Nemesys Software mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] fandango on core n.: [Unix/C hackers, from the Iberian dance] In C, a wild pointer that runs out of bounds, causing a core dump, or corrupts the malloc(3) arena in such a way as to cause mysterious failures later on, is sometimes said to have `done a fandango on core'. On low-end personal machines without an MMU (or Windows boxes, which have an MMU but use it incompetently), this can corrupt the OS itself, causing massive lossage. Other frenetic dances such as the cha-cha or the watusi, may be substituted. See aliasing bug, precedence lossage, smash the stack, memory leak, memory smash, overrun screw, core. -- G-Books is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-Books list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
