[dazuma]

I've finally had this start biting me. Been looking for discussions on it (on non-apple-controlled forums), but so far in vain so I thought I'd start one here.

The symptom is that periodically (maybe once every few minutes, depending on how much activity I'm putting the machine through, though it also seems to vary from person to person), the console informs me that fix_prebinding has crashed. It doesn't SEEM to have any terminal ill-effects (at least in my case), but since I don't know from where fix_prebinding is being executed, I can't know for certain. The crash report involves minor variations on the below:

Date/Time: 2003-01-03 15:52:22 -0800
OS Version: 10.2.3 (Build 6G30)
Host: [EDITED OUT FOR SECURITY]

Command: fix_prebinding
PID: 593

Exception: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (0x0001)
Codes: KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE (0x0002) at 0x000001c1

Thread 0 Crashed:
#0 0x000152a4 in 0x152a4
#1 0x0000c3d8 in 0xc3d8
#2 0x0000c0ec in 0xc0ec
#3 0x0000b3ac in 0xb3ac
#4 0x00007b20 in 0x7b20
#5 0x00004250 in 0x4250
#6 0x0000290c in 0x290c
#7 0x00002414 in 0x2414
#8 0x00002a2c in 0x2a2c
#9 0x90031c44 in mach_msg_server
#10 0x00002c40 in 0x2c40
#11 0x00002f48 in 0x2f48
#12 0x00002188 in 0x2188
#13 0x00002008 in 0x2008

PPC Thread State:
srr0: 0x000152a4 srr1: 0x0200d030 vrsave: 0x00000000
xer: 0x20000000 lr: 0x00015254 ctr: 0x90000f00 mq: 0x00000000
r0: 0x000018d8 r1: 0xbffff430 r2: 0x00000000 r3: 0x00192814
r4: 0x00000003 r5: 0x00000001 r6: 0x000001c0 r7: 0x00032230
r8: 0x00001770 r9: 0x00000001 r10: 0x00032230 r11: 0x0016f508
r12: 0x90000f00 r13: 0x000321b8 r14: 0x00032234 r15: 0x00000045
r16: 0x00001860 r17: 0x0000260c r18: 0x00190310 r19: 0x00000070
r20: 0x00032234 r21: 0x000321b8 r22: 0x00192404 r23: 0x00000032
r24: 0x00032230 r25: 0x00305290 r26: 0x00032234 r27: 0x001927e4
r28: 0x00000035 r29: 0x00032230 r30: 0x00001770 r31: 0x00014914

There seems to be a little bit of knowledge and experiences being thrown around on the discussion pages of Apple's support site (go to http://discussions.info.apple.com and search for "fix_prebinding"), but so far no one there seems to have come up with a consistent workaround. So far, it seems to be limited to 10.2.3, and the obvious attempt to fix it (manually updating all the prebinding) doesn't appear to work in most cases.

Anyone here seen this and have any information on it?

Daniel

[dazuma]

To add some more info into the public record... in my case, it started happening after a rather suspicious occurrence in which BBEdit (6.5.3) hung on me. I then tried to force-quit it, and it took two tries (I'm not sure what that means, exactly, but after the first try, the app name turned red in the force-quit window, but the app still seemed to be running. A second force-quit finally caused it to terminate.) However, subsequent attempts to launch BBEdit resulted in crashes (unfortunately, I failed to save the logs for those.) I then rebooted. After the reboot, BBEdit launched fine, but I started to see this fix_prebinding crash.

I have tried manually updating the prebinding with no success. There is also the possibility that, in my case, the crashes are related to my BBEdit installation. I have not tried reinstalling BBEdit yet (I suppose that's next in line to try.) However, from reading posts on Apple's discussion board, it seems that the crashes may be "associated" with other application installations for other people, so I seriously doubt it's a BBEdit-specific bug.

Daniel

[Atef's Carcase]

I have read that this is not necessary with 10.2.

[Catfish_Man]

Originally posted by Atef's Carcase:
I have read that this is not necessary with 10.2.

It's unnecessary because it does it automatically. If it's broken, the the autoprebinding will be broken to (afaik).

[dazuma]

I won't pretend to fully understand the prebinding process and who decides when it runs, but as far as I can tell, this fix_prebinding thing that's crashing IS 10.2's auto-prebinding.

Daniel