On Apr 25, 2011, at 14:56 , Christiaan Hofman wrote:
>
> On Apr 23, 2011, at 5:49, Justin C. Walker wrote:
>
>> Hi, all,
>>
>> This is something I've just seen recently, perhaps since installing 10.6.7:
>> at some point after a boot and after using Skim at least once, Skim appears
>> to stop working, in that it will no longer launch when I double-click/open
>> either doc or app, via Finder, or by using 'open' on the command-line.
>>
>> Skim does not show up on the dock, in the CMD-TAB display, or in a 'ps', and
>> there don't seem to be any log entries related to this. It does, however,
>> show up in the "Force-Quit" list (CMD-OPTION-ESC). I assume this is looking
>> at a database of some sort, rather than looking at the kernel's list of
>> running processes [not showing up in a 'ps' list tells me that there is no
>> "skim" process hanging around, even in the late stages of shutdown/exit].
>>
>> Anyone seen this? Have a clue of any sort?
>>
>> I'm checking here before bugging Apple about this.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Justin
>
> I haven't seen anything like this. Perhaps your launch services database is
> corrupted. Try running the following line in Terminal:
>
> /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework/Versions/A/Support/lsregister
> -kill -r -all local,user,system
Thanks, Christian,
I'll file this under "to do"; I don't want to screw around with the system
until I have a better handle on why this happens in the first place. FWIW, I
have also seen the problem with Preview. It's just not easy to provoke.
Justin
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