[def]

Hi, I am having keychain problems. In particular, when I try to run keychain access, it crashes. Applications like safari and explorer also crash when I guess it tries to access the keychain filies.

I've tried moving my keychain file to a different name in a different director as well as creating a blank keychain file and each failed to solve the problem.

I am also unable to download programs from safari or explorer since the problem occured. The last download before the probelm was the upgraded to java 1.4.1 and I'm unsure if it is related.

Attached is the crash log from keychain access (and I've include the first few lines of the log from the Safari crash). Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. (I've tried keychain first aid and it dies as well with Verification terminated unexpectedly)

TIA
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Date/Time: 2003-09-11 23:24:35 +0800
OS Version: 10.2.6 (Build 6L60)
Host: XXX.local.

Command: Keychain Access
PID: 473

Exception: EXC_BAD_INSTRUCTION (0x0002)
Code[0]: 0x00000002Code[1]: 0x92c0e128

Thread 0 Crashed:
_#0 0x92c0e128 in SecKeychainListGetCount
_#1 0x921e4b3c in +[NSKeychain getCount]
_#2 0x00017bf4 in 0x17bf4
_#3 0x00004a9c in 0x4a9c
_#4 0x00004e4c in 0x4e4c
_#5 0x0000a4e4 in 0xa4e4
_#6 0x00007940 in 0x7940
_#7 0x00009da8 in 0x9da8
_#8 0x00009b30 in 0x9b30
_#9 0x97dfab58 in _nsNotificationCenterCallBack
_#10 0x901684d0 in _postNotification
_#11 0x90165be4 in _CFNotificationCenterPostLocalNotification
_#12 0x00013b0c in 0x13b0c
_#13 0x9318a720 in -[NSApplication _sendFinishLaunchingNotification]
_#14 0x93161624 in _requiredAEEventHandler
_#15 0x91b56570 in _Z20aeDispatchAppleEventPK6AEDescPS_mPh
_#16 0x91b590cc in _Z25dispatchEventAndSendReplyPK6AEDescPS_
_#17 0x91b56478 in aeProcessAppleEvent
_#18 0x96a83778 in AEProcessAppleEvent
_#19 0x9308e0a8 in _DPSNextEvent
_#20 0x930a0158 in -[NSApplication nextEventMatchingMask:untilDate:inMode:dequeue:]
_#21 0x930b1d88 in -[NSApplication run]
_#22 0x9315fc58 in NSApplicationMain
_#23 0x00004638 in 0x4638
_#24 0x000044b8 in 0x44b8

Thread 1:
_#0 0x90073c08 in mach_msg_trap
_#1 0x90005ed0 in mach_msg
_#2 0xc0009528 in __ape_internal
_#3 0xc0001368 in __ape_agent
_#4 0x90020c88 in _pthread_body

PPC Thread State:
__srr0: 0x92c0e128 srr1: 0x0208f030 vrsave: 0x00000000
___xer: 0x00000000 lr: 0x921e4b3c ctr: 0x92c0e11c mq: 0x00000000
____r0: 0x921e4b3c r1: 0xbfffe9a0 r2: 0x00000000 r3: 0xa21e29a4
____r4: 0x00024854 r5: 0x00000000 r6: 0xbfffe3c4 r7: 0x00005632
____r8: 0x000000f9 r9: 0x00030000 r10: 0x01e24754 r11: 0x821e0187
___r12: 0x92c0e11c r13: 0x00000000 r14: 0x00000000 r15: 0x00000000
___r16: 0x4b4303b4 r17: 0x00000000 r18: 0x00000002 r19: 0x00000000
___r20: 0x000af510 r21: 0x0d9a1072 r22: 0xa3075950 r23: 0xbffff170
___r24: 0xa3075950 r25: 0x000303b4 r26: 0x01e23fd0 r27: 0x9068d728
___r28: 0x01e240e0 r29: 0x000303b4 r30: 0x000303b4 r31: 0x000307a4
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mmand: Safari
PID: 703

Exception: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (0x0001)
Codes: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS (0x0001) at 0x8084366c

Thread 0 Crashed:
_#0 0x9068ba50 in objc_msgSend
_#1 0x901475a8 in CFDictionaryGetValueIfPresent
_#2 0x969a6300 in _ZN14MenuElementRow13GetDataInDictEPK10__CFStringm PmmS3_Pv
_#3 0x969a2738 in _ZN14MenuElementRow7GetD

[Diggory Laycock]

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107234

[def]

I tried first aid and it exits with "verification terminated unexpectedly"

[def]

Originally posted by def:
I tried first aid and it exits with "verification terminated unexpectedly"

any other suggestions? would removing the keychain access program an installing a new one create any problems? TIA

[Big-C]

Well, I'm not all that convinced that this will help, but I'll throw out a suggestion.

Boot with the apple-s (single user mode) and run fsck -y. If you get errors, the disk check will try to fix them. If you see errors, run fsck -y again & again (unless it's the same error being reported). Then boot and try to run the keychain program again.

I know this is a long shot, but some of the older machines in my lab have been fixed with this procedure when applications wouldn't run (unexpectedly quit).

Good luck.