Adium 0.8

ukwilky · Post by **ukwilky** » Fri May 06, 2005 9:09 am

Since upgrading Adium 0.8 my Powerbook G4, continually crashes on boot up it took hours to get in and remove Adium from the system. I have had no previous problems with Adium versions and since removing my MAC is stable.

Is anyone else having this problem, is there a fix as I am going to downgrade. FYI, I am fairly new to MAC's

Son of a Preacher Man · Fri May 06, 2005 12:51 pm

What's a MAC?

Did you have Adium set to run at startup or something?

Adam Iser · Post by **Adam Iser** » Fri May 06, 2005 3:03 pm

Nothing Adium can do should be able to crash your machine completely. Adium can crash (which you can fix by force quitting it with apple-option-esc), but the entire operating system should not crash.

If it does, the issues is usually a corrupt OS X install, problematic hard-drive data, or a hardware failure such as a bad stick of ram.

ukwilky · Post by **ukwilky** » Sat May 07, 2005 11:20 am

Son of a Preacher Man wrote:What's a MAC?

Did you have Adium set to run at startup or something?

Yeah, it was to run at startup, it would either freeze the machine or cause lines of code to go across the screen, since removing Adium v0.8 everything is fine and the issues only started happening after installing this version

ukwilky · Post by **ukwilky** » Sat May 07, 2005 11:24 am

Adam Iser wrote:Nothing Adium can do should be able to crash your machine completely. Adium can crash (which you can fix by force quitting it with apple-option-esc), but the entire operating system should not crash.

If it does, the issues is usually a corrupt OS X install, problematic hard-drive data, or a hardware failure such as a bad stick of ram.

Thanks for the info, I wasn't able to force quit due to the machine freezing on boot up as Adium was setup to run on startup. I have checked the hard disk and there are no errors and since being able to remove the lastest version, my machine is now stable again, the issues only started after installing the latest version. I will try and install from scratch to see if it is ok

Son of a Preacher Man · Sun May 08, 2005 9:45 am

Bizarre.

For future reference, if you hold down Shift after login/as your desktop appears, you can prevent startup items from happening.

ukwilky · Post by **ukwilky** » Sun May 08, 2005 3:06 pm

Son of a Preacher Man wrote:Bizarre.

For future reference, if you hold down Shift after login/as your desktop appears, you can prevent startup items from happening.

Thanks for the tip, have reinstalled and everything seems to be stable, thanks for all your help