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AlbanianGenome · Jan 8, 2005, 07:08 PM

Has anyone ever seen this message, it has happened to me twice when I logout, it pops up, I can hit ok on the message and then log back in. I have no idea what it means though, defintely up the programmer alley for sure. Here it is....

Internal Error

*** -[NSCFArray objectAtIndex:]: index (-1) beyond bounds (1)

There she is, anyone know what the devil is trying to communicate to me?

Chuckit · Jan 8, 2005, 07:55 PM

Do you have any background programs running?

And do you mean it appears on the login screen, or that it appears when you press "Log Out"?

CharlesS · Jan 8, 2005, 08:32 PM

That's an exception. Nothing satanic about it.

It would help to know what app the message is coming from...

AlbanianGenome · Jan 8, 2005, 08:43 PM

appears after I log out, right when the login screen reappears

Diggory Laycock · Jan 8, 2005, 08:45 PM

It's a bug. It's an application is asking for an object in an array (a list of objects) that does not exist.

You don't need to worry about it - but you might want to notify the author of the app = you can find which app it was by looking at the part before the colon.

AlbanianGenome · Jan 8, 2005, 09:25 PM

weird, thanks for the help

Millennium · Jan 9, 2005, 08:59 AM

That's definitely an application bug, and it's definitely coming from a Cocoa app. I can't say exactly what is causing the error, but the most likely situation is that it's going backwards through a list of something, but not stopping at the beginning (remember, it's going backwards) for some reason. When it tries to go past the beginning, it runs into problems, and that's when this message would be printed.

Without more information I can't even really say who to send the bug report to; this might be an Apple thing, but it might not. Try logging out without having any apps running; does the error still show up? If not, then we can try and narrow this down to a specific app. If it still happens, though, then we've got our work cut out for us.

You say that you see it right when you log in again; I don't know if LoginWindow.app (which is the app you use to log in) is Cocoa or not, but do you by any chance have it showing the list of users, where you click on one and then type in its password? If so, how many users are in that list?

Diggory Laycock · Jan 9, 2005, 09:11 AM

It's probably some code that says 'get me the item in the array whose index is x' where x is equal to the selected row of a tableView.

When there is no row selected then -(int)selectedRow returns -1

Can you post what is logged in the console before and after the error?

Angus_D · Jan 9, 2005, 10:15 AM

Originally posted by Millennium:
I don't know if LoginWindow.app (which is the app you use to log in) is Cocoa or not

Code:
gonzales:~ finlay$ otool -L /System/Library/CoreServices/loginwindow.app/Contents/MacOS/loginwindow 
...
        /System/Library/Frameworks/Cocoa.framework/Versions/A/Cocoa (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 9.0.0)
...
gonzales:~ finlay$

AlbanianGenome · Jan 9, 2005, 05:59 PM

just one user that I log in with and its me, I click on my user, type my password in and thats it, but like i said again, this pops up before the login screen, seconds before, I click ok on it and login. Who knows whats going on here, not me, but I guess as long as its not hurting anything I shouldnt worry too much.

HOMBRESINIESTRO · Jan 10, 2005, 01:06 AM

You know, the whole Macintosh platform seems to be satanic, according to Mr. Paley:

http://apfelwiki.de/wiki/Main/RichardPaley

(it's a German site, but the only one I found that still has the text (in English!).)

Chuckit · Jan 10, 2005, 01:50 AM

Originally posted by HOMBRESINIESTRO:
(it's a German site, but the only one I found that still has the text (in English!).)

This page appears to have the original, full text.

HOMBRESINIESTRO · Jan 10, 2005, 04:17 AM

Originally posted by Chuckit:
This page appears to have the original, full text.

hhm. I get redirected to www.web1000.com. :-/

lenox · Jan 10, 2005, 09:09 AM

I get the same error in my loginwindow as well! It only seems to happen when I accidentally click something that's not clickable in or near the login window.

I thought it started when I installed an alarm clock daemon for iTunes, but now I am not so sure...

Chuckit · Jan 10, 2005, 12:50 PM

Originally posted by HOMBRESINIESTRO:
hhm. I get redirected to www.web1000.com. :-/

It works both at home and at work for me. They must have a ban on your ISP or something.

AlbanianGenome · Jan 10, 2005, 03:40 PM

thanks for the input guys, much appreciated

olePigeon · Jan 10, 2005, 06:25 PM

Originally posted by CharlesS:
That's an exception. Nothing satanic about it.

It would help to know what app the message is coming from...

Hell.