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White Screen in Leopard
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cgc
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Dec 4, 2007, 09:50 PM
 
I have Leopard 10.5.1 installed on my MacPro and when I use some programs I get a completely white screen with a menu bar. The application does not open and is stuck. I also get this when I close Ghost Recon...white screen but it clears within 10 seconds.

Here's a message in the Console log when I try to run Dockless:
12/4/07 7:42:09 PM Dockless[1385] Path (null) given to -[NSWorkspace iconForFile:] is not a full path.
12/4/07 7:42:09 PM Dockless[1385] Path (null) given to -[NSWorkspace iconForFile:] is not a full path.
12/4/07 7:42:09 PM Dockless[1385] Path (null) given to -[NSWorkspace iconForFile:] is not a full path.
12/4/07 7:42:09 PM Dockless[1385] Path (null) given to -[NSWorkspace iconForFile:] is not a full path.
12/4/07 7:42:09 PM Dockless[1385] _NSReadThemeImageFromRsrc - unknown theme version 768
12/4/07 7:42:09 PM Dockless[1385] _NSReadThemeImageFromRsrc - unknown theme version 768
12/4/07 7:42:09 PM Dockless[1385] _NSReadThemeImageFromRsrc - unknown theme version 768
12/4/07 7:42:09 PM Dockless[1385] _NSReadThemeImageFromRsrc - unknown theme version 768
12/4/07 7:42:09 PM Dockless[1385] _NSReadThemeImageFromRsrc - unknown theme version 768
12/4/07 7:42:09 PM Dockless[1385] _NSReadThemeImageFromRsrc - unknown theme version 768
12/4/07 7:42:09 PM Dockless[1385] _NSReadThemeImageFromRsrc - unknown theme version 768
12/4/07 7:42:09 PM Dockless[1385] _NSReadThemeImageFromRsrc - unknown theme version 768
12/4/07 7:42:09 PM Dockless[1385] _NSReadThemeImageFromRsrc - unknown theme version 768
12/4/07 7:42:09 PM Dockless[1385] _NSReadThemeImageFromRsrc - unknown theme version 768
12/4/07 7:42:09 PM Dockless[1385] _NSReadThemeImageFromRsrc - unknown theme version 768
12/4/07 7:42:09 PM Dockless[1385] _NSReadThemeImageFromRsrc - unknown theme version 768
12/4/07 7:42:09 PM Dockless[1385] _NSReadThemeImageFromRsrc - unknown theme version 768
12/4/07 7:42:09 PM Dockless[1385] _NSReadThemeImageFromRsrc - unknown theme version 768
12/4/07 7:42:09 PM Dockless[1385] _NSReadThemeImageFromRsrc - unknown theme version 768
12/4/07 7:42:09 PM Dockless[1385] _NSReadThemeImageFromRsrc - unknown theme version 768
12/4/07 7:42:09 PM Dockless[1385] _NSReadThemeImageFromRsrc - unknown theme version 768
12/4/07 7:42:09 PM Dockless[1385] _NSReadThemeImageFromRsrc - unknown theme version 768
12/4/07 7:42:09 PM Dockless[1385] _NSReadThemeImageFromRsrc - unknown theme version 768
12/4/07 7:42:09 PM Dockless[1385] _NSReadThemeImageFromRsrc - unknown theme version 768
12/4/07 7:42:09 PM Dockless[1385] _NSReadThemeImageFromRsrc - unknown theme version 768
12/4/07 7:42:09 PM Dockless[1385] _NSReadThemeImageFromRsrc - unknown theme version 768
12/4/07 7:42:09 PM Dockless[1385] _NSReadThemeImageFromRsrc - unknown theme version 768
12/4/07 7:42:10 PM com.apple.launchd[135] ([0x0-0xf20f2].com.heat.dockless[1385]) Exited: Terminated
12/4/07 7:42:23 PM Dockless[1391] _NSReadThemeImageFromplutEntry - failed to read 'plut' with resource ID 386
12/4/07 7:42:23 PM Dockless[1391] _NSReadThemeImageFromRsrc - unknown theme version 768
12/4/07 7:42:23 PM Dockless[1391] _NSReadThemeImageFromRsrc - unknown theme version 768
12/4/07 7:42:23 PM Dockless[1391] _NSReadThemeImageFromRsrc - unknown theme version 768
Any ideas, probably self-explanatory, right? Thanks a lot!
(Last edited by cgc; Dec 4, 2007 at 10:01 PM. )
     
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Dec 4, 2007, 10:59 PM
 
Dockless was never even updated for 10.4... Get rid of that crap.
     
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Dec 5, 2007, 10:13 AM
 
Originally Posted by AKcrab View Post
Dockless was never even updated for 10.4... Get rid of that crap.
Maybe I should have said that quite a few other (modern Leopard-ready) applications do the same thing. Dockless may have been a bad example.
     
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Dec 5, 2007, 08:07 PM
 
Seems a reinstall of Leopard fixed my problems. Dockless works as well
     
   
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