Stupid Rosetta
I got a new Black MacBook (ooooh), and it works great. Every so often, though, when launching non-Universal apps, they'll crash on launch with:
EXC_BAD_ACCESS (0x0001) KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS (0x0001) at 0xffdff1e0 Thread 0 Crashed: 0 0xb8000000 + 504121 1 0xb8000000 + 586874 2 spin_lock_wrapper + 4852
[sigh] It's Rosetta of course, and the quick way to fix it is to go into the terminal and kill Rosetta: sudo killall translated. I don't like that, though. Apple, can you fix it?
Comments
Not with the information you provided, no. Include a full crash log. The part you provided is the native backtrace, which usually isn't very helpful.
Posted by: Eric Albert | July 16, 2006 11:18 PM
Grr... Darn, I'll have to wait until it dies again.
But when Rosetta's in this state, it dies no matter what PPC app I run.
Posted by: Avi | July 16, 2006 11:28 PM
Ah, yes, the joys of the native backtrace.
I haven't seen that much on our Intel iMac, luckily. What I am seeing is very weird: Looks like GetProcessInformation is failing sporadically, but only in our Quark XTensions under Rosetta. Be glad you're not mucking around in plugins anymore :-)
Wonder if Google will need to hire any janitors here in Ann Arbor. Then I'd have a chance...
Posted by: Sean Montgomery | July 17, 2006 9:39 AM
Welcome to the Ebony MacBook club! Are you constantly wiping fingerprints from its matte finish as I am?
Posted by: C Thompson | July 22, 2006 3:40 AM
[sigh] Yeah, I am. They have a supply of screen wipes at work, so I use those. Still a pain, but better than the staining some report with the white ones, eh?
Posted by: Avi | July 22, 2006 9:55 PM