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burlcol · Sep 6, 2005, 11:19 AM

I have a dual 1.25 GHz PowerPC G4
I'm trying to open Photoshop CS and I get this error message:

The application "Photoshop" could not be launched because of a shared library error: ".<application><CarbonLib><CFMPriv_CarbonCore> <>"

This has also happened when trying to install the newest Macromedia Flash Player.

The application "Install Flash Player 7 OSX" could not be launched because of a shared library error: "7<BaseInstaller Carbon><CarbonLib><CFMPriv_CarbonCore><>"

What do I do?

thnx,
-B

burlcol · Sep 6, 2005, 11:22 AM

oh yeah and I'm running Tiger 10.4.1, and when trying to install the newest Tiger update I get this message:

"The Following disk images failed to mount:
MacOSX Update 10.4.2.dmg invalid checksum

confused,
-B

budster101 · Sep 6, 2005, 11:25 AM

Run Disk Utility, Repair Permissions

See if that helps. Get back with the result.

burlcol · Sep 6, 2005, 11:55 AM

I ran the disk utility and repaired premissions. After trying to open these apps and then restarting and trying again I still ran into the same problems.
any other suggestions?
thnx
-B

rjenkinson · Sep 6, 2005, 12:22 PM

1. reinstall photoshop
2. download the tiger update again

-r.

budster101 · Sep 6, 2005, 02:14 PM

What he said.

Barry · Sep 6, 2005, 07:56 PM

download the 10.4.2 conbo updater at
http://www.apple.com/support/downloa...1042combo.html

burlcol · Sep 7, 2005, 10:02 AM

Originally Posted by rjenkinson

1. reinstall photoshop
2. download the tiger update again

-r.

I don't think this is my issue it seems anything I do on this machine causes similar warnings. When I turned on my g4 today after startup I got this message:

The application "(null)" could not be launched because of a shared library error: ".<ATI Monitor><CarbonLib><CFMPriv_CarbonCore><>"

confused,
-B

rjenkinson · Sep 7, 2005, 10:33 AM

Originally Posted by burlcol

I don't think this is my issue it seems anything I do on this machine causes similar warnings.

then reinstall OS 10.4.2.

-r.

burlcol · Sep 7, 2005, 11:15 AM

I was trying to avoid that. Are these warnings that you or anyone has encountered or is re-installing just a quick fix that is told to anyone w/ a foreign problem

-B

rjenkinson · Sep 7, 2005, 11:51 AM

Originally Posted by burlcol

I was trying to avoid that. Are these warnings that you or anyone has encountered or is re-installing just a quick fix that is told to anyone w/ a foreign problem

-B

look, there's obviously something wrong with your CarbonLib and the problem isn't going to fix itself. you've already tried the easy fixes and they haven't worked.

either make a new account to see if it's your system or just your account that has the problem or try reinstalling the OS.

-r.

burlcol · Sep 7, 2005, 01:48 PM

What is a CarbonLib?

burlcol · Sep 7, 2005, 02:21 PM

....and what causes this to become corrupt?

burlcol · Sep 8, 2005, 10:00 AM

Judging by the silence I guess no one knows. Oh well thanks I guess.
-B

Barry · Sep 8, 2005, 10:14 AM

cocoa is the newest application environment for running "native" os X programs. In order to have some backward compatibility, so developers would not have to recode their apps, Apple provided developers with the oportunity to "carbonize" their apps, allowing them to run in os X. The Carbob Library (or carbonLib) is one of the librarys programer call upon to accomplish this. I beleive carbonlib 1.6 is the latest version of this library.
I don't know what causes it to be corrupted, but no software is perfect.

burlcol · Sep 8, 2005, 12:16 PM

Great, thanks for the response!
-B

Chuckit · Sep 8, 2005, 12:58 PM

As for what would cause CarbonLib to become corrupt — either disk corruption or an interruption in the middle of a system install or update, most likely.