1:01 AMWednesday, 25 September 2002
The stability of my desktop Mac has increased significantly since upgrading to Jaguar. It's been up for almost 7 days as I write this, which would have been a veritable record in 10.1.x. While not a crasher, there's one odd problem that's occurred twice so far. It happens like this:
- coreservicesd dies. From the crash logs, the invariant part of the stack is LSPlugin_server / _XRegister / _LS_server_Register / _LSReceiveRegistration / _LSReceiveBundleRegistration. This makes sense that the crash is coming from LaunchServices, as at least this time, it crashed while I was copying an application.
- OS X does not restart coreservicesd, so weird stuff starts happening, such as icons disappearing.
- I attempt to manually restart coreservicesd (bad idea?)
- At some point a few minutes later, almost every open application quits unexpectedly.
- Dragging stops working, even intra-application. Cocoa apps print “CoreDragCreate error: -900”, Carbon apps just don't work at all. pbs is working fine as inter-application copy and paste are unaffected.
- Neither logging out and back in, killing and restarting coreservicesd and lsregister, or anything else I can discover short of restarting fixes the problem.
Has anyone else seen this? I wish I could replicate it so I could file a bug report.
Tuesday, 24 September 2002
Aiee, it's nice to see people trying out OS X, but this article by Moshe Bar has so many blatant errors in it I don't know where to start. You'd think a programmer would know better than to review something they'd obviously hardly used. Of course, there's no place to comment on the page.
Friday, 20 September 2002
Seven of us #uiuc.testers went to the Beef House in Covington, Indiana for dinner tonight.
Needless to say we were rather stuffed afterwards, and attempted to change our nicknames to
reflect it. It didn't exactly have the desired results, however.
22:43 UncleJed is now known as JedFull
22:43 @Fun-Boy> yes.
22:44 @gracie> ww = wrongwendy :-D
22:44 @Wendy> Actually, I did http://www.iprh.uiuc.edu
22:44 You're now known as saStuffed
22:44 @Fun-Boy> i have photoshop 7.
22:44 Sam is now known as SamFull
22:44 SamFull is now known as SamPAcked
22:44 @RealCmdr> sabi: I'll probably pull out Photoshop, Illustrator, Font
Folio, and my Wacom tablet. :-)
22:44 ~ superman set +o t-10000 on #uiuc.test
22:44 SamPAcked is now known as SamPacked
22:44 ! SamPacked was kicked from #uiuc.test by CmdrKuehn (Niq flood (3 nicks
in 6secs of 30secs))
22:44 + SamPacked [~atlan\@dan0329.urh.uiuc.edu] joined #uiuc.test
22:44 ! SamPacked was kicked from #uiuc.test by MellieMel (Niq flood (3 nicks
in 6secs of 30secs))
22:44 + SamPacked [~atlan\@dan0329.urh.uiuc.edu] joined #uiuc.test
22:44 ! SamPacked was kicked from #uiuc.test by JedFull (Niq flood (3 nicks in
6secs of 30secs))
22:44 ~ saStuffed set -o MellieMel on #uiuc.test
22:44 @saStuffed> ROFL
22:44 + SamPacked [~atlan\@dan0329.urh.uiuc.edu] joined #uiuc.test
22:44 ~ TrollBoT set +o SamPacked on #uiuc.test
22:44 @t-10000> HAHAA
22:44 ~ saStuffed set -oo CmdrKuehn JedFull on #uiuc.test
Thursday, 19 September 2002
Why do people write Mac OS X installers which destroy symbolic links? I just installed two applications and went two for two: the RsyncX installer (which uses Apple's installer) broke my /usr/local symlink, and the StuffIt Expander 7 installer broke my /Library/Frameworks symlink.
On the good side, StuffIt Expander 7 finally supports long filenames. It's only taken Aladdin three years to do so. Congratulations!
