Adium crashes a whole lot now...

Lundmark · Post by **Lundmark** » Sat Feb 26, 2005 2:22 am

Hi,

Adium X 0.77 crashes all the time on my PowerBook G4 1,5 GHz under OS 10.3.8. I can't find any logs to look at though. Where are they?

I can't see a pattern in the crashes. It just seems to happen sporadically, but slightly more often when receiving files. Adium often crashes when I'm idle.

If I could find the log file, I'd probably be able to paste some useful info here.

FredAkbar · Post by **FredAkbar** » Sat Feb 26, 2005 3:10 am

Look in ~/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/.

So the Adium Crash Reporter doesn't come up when you crash?

TheSilverFox06 · Post by **TheSilverFox06** » Sat Feb 26, 2005 4:36 am

Also, you could try trashing com.adiumX.adiumX.plist located in ~/Library/Preferences, and see if that helps. It has fixed a few weird bugs for me in the past.

FredAkbar · Post by **FredAkbar** » Sat Feb 26, 2005 5:19 am

Maybe instead of trashing it just move it somewhere else. Although with that particular plist it isn't too important to be able to restore it later (unlike things like Accounts.plist for example), corrupted plists can sometimes be of use to the devs.

zaudragon · Post by **zaudragon** » Sat Feb 26, 2005 6:18 am

Yeah, that file is pointless

dchoby98 · Post by **dchoby98** » Sat Feb 26, 2005 6:40 am

It actually is created automatically by the OS, to store window positions that we want to be saved for us. It can be corrupt, but it's unlikely to solve too much.

zaudragon · Post by **zaudragon** » Sat Feb 26, 2005 6:45 am

dchoby98 wrote:It actually is created automatically by the OS, to store window positions that we want to be saved for us. It can be corrupt, but it's unlikely to solve too much.

I found that it contains more.

It stores the fonts for each Message View.
It stores plugin names.
It stores if you updated passwords.
It stores what version last did __.

And more…

TheSilverFox06 · Post by **TheSilverFox06** » Sat Feb 26, 2005 2:42 pm

Trashing it sure did a good job of solving my wonky message view problem after running a broken revision of .8 svn.

MBHockey · Post by **MBHockey** » Sun Feb 27, 2005 10:14 pm

Yeah but Fred's idea is less drastic, since moving it temporarily to the desktop has the same effect with a lesser consequence than trashing it. And if it turns out not to be the culprit, you simply move it back and don't have to redo any settings.

Fred, nice avatar btw.

viper7189 · Post by **viper7189** » Tue Mar 08, 2005 5:05 pm

and now adium crashes 10 times a day.. it was rock solid on the quicksilver.. i don't get it, the only thing i can think of is that i only have 512 megs of ram on the g5.. another gig is in the mail so we shall see if that has any effect.. the 733 had a gig..

it is quite annoying! and the thing that really pisses me off is that my roommate has a g5 imac, same os and everything and it is stable.

weird.

dchoby98 · Post by **dchoby98** » Wed Mar 09, 2005 3:52 am

Are you sending crash reports? Under what email or IM name?

viper7189 · Post by **viper7189** » Wed Mar 09, 2005 7:14 am

is my screen name

lda1@bryant.edu is my email addy

cheers.

Adam Iser · Post by **Adam Iser** » Wed Mar 09, 2005 7:24 am

One of your scripts is causing it to crash.

Lundmark · Post by **Lundmark** » Wed Mar 09, 2005 7:28 am

I'd just like to know if Adium Extras can contribute to make the client more unstable.

Arenzera · Post by **Arenzera** » Wed Mar 09, 2005 12:04 pm

The plug ins can make Adium unstable.

Kiel :-)

viper7189 · Post by **viper7189** » Wed Mar 09, 2005 12:48 pm

do you think it is best to uninstall all scripts and then install them one by one until the crashes begin again?

Post by **evands** » Wed Mar 09, 2005 1:35 pm

Some systems will crash if any script is in profile/away message... doesn't seem to matter what script. We're still working on it.

Lundmark · Post by **Lundmark** » Thu Mar 10, 2005 7:54 am

An easy way of removing add-ons would be great. For example, a list in the menu of items that have been installed separately.

cocoaforge

Adium crashes a whole lot now...

Adium crashes a whole lot now...

switched from 733 quicksilver to dual processor g5

viper7189

there is no way of telling which one is there?