[fdeblauwe]

Without me actually noticing any ill effect, "loginwindow" (whatever exactly that is, but it is part of OS X, right?) keeps on crashing because I keep on stumbling across this crash report window asking me to send it to Apple. I'm not sure but it could be that it only happens when my screen saver (a default, included module, nothing fancy) is active. I haven't seen anything wrong with my eMac otherwise but it keeps on happening and it's starting to worry me. I have in the meantime restarted my Mac a couple of times, run some maintenance (permissions, binding) too. If this loginwindow has something to do with what it says, well, I haven't had any trouble logging in after a restart either. I'm using OS 10.3.9 (build 7W98). Does anybody have a clue as to what's going on here?

[fdeblauwe]

Actually, it seems I've been able to observe an effect after all: drag and drop doesn't work any more at least in one app; also when I select the item I wish to drag and drop, it gets grayed only, not the normal green highlight. Hmmm.

[fdeblauwe]

And there is more: I logged out and logged back in, now the drag-and-drop feature is working again. By the way the highlighted is still gray so maybe that's normal after all.

[Dog Like Nature]

Very infrequently under 10.4.2, my loginwindow will hang, and the only way out is to force quit it. Seems to be triggered by hitting the power button, or trying to FUS to a different account.

[fdeblauwe]

This is the crash log:


Host Name: xxxxxxxxxxx-eMac.local
Date/Time: 2005-08-02 18:29:00 -0500
OS Version: 10.3.9 (Build 7W98)
Report Version: 2

Command: loginwindow
Path: /System/Library/CoreServices/loginwindow.app/Contents/MacOS/loginwindow
Version: ??? (???)
PID: 1221
Thread: 0

Exception: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (0x0001)
Codes: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS (0x0001) at 0xa69421fb

Thread 0 Crashed:
0 libobjc.A.dylib 0x908311f4 objc_msgSend + 0x14
1 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x9024cb6c __CFMachPortDidFork + 0x100
2 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x901ed8a4 __CFMachPortHash + 0x34
3 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x901c6598 __CFSetFindBuckets1 + 0x78
4 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x901d7df8 CFSetContainsValue + 0xcc
5 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x901ebf84 CFRunLoopRemoveSource + 0x70
6 com.apple.audio.CoreAudio 0x90706714 _ZN10HALRunLoop12RemoveSourceEP17__CFRunLoopSource + 0xac
7 com.apple.audio.CoreAudio 0x90709e9c AudioHardwareRemoveRunLoopSource + 0x90
8 com.apple.audio.CoreAudio 0x90728f54 _ZN17HPTelemetryServer8TeardownEv + 0x20
9 com.apple.audio.CoreAudio 0x9072e60c _ZN9IOADevice8TeardownEv + 0xf4
10 com.apple.audio.CoreAudio 0x90736cf4 _ZN9IOAPlugIn12DeviceIsDeadEP9IOADevice + 0x234
11 com.apple.audio.CoreAudio 0x9073618c _ZN9IOAPlugIn8TeardownEv + 0x3c
12 com.apple.audio.CoreAudio 0x90724f70 _Z16HPPlugInTeardownPP28AudioHardwarePlugInInterfa ce + 0x28
13 com.apple.audio.CoreAudio 0x9070eaec _ZN22HALPlugInDeviceFactory8TeardownEv + 0x30
14 com.apple.audio.CoreAudio 0x907065d8 _ZN9HALSystem15TeardownDevicesEv + 0x28
15 com.apple.audio.CoreAudio 0x907064a4 _ZN9HALSystem13AtExitHandlerEv + 0xa8
16 com.apple.audio.CoreAudio 0x9070639c _ZN9HALAtExit13AtExitHandlerEv + 0x6c
17 libSystem.B.dylib 0x9002ce38 exit + 0x58
18 com.apple.loginwindow 0x00024640 0x1000 + 0x23640
19 com.apple.loginwindow 0x000243d4 0x1000 + 0x233d4
20 com.apple.loginwindow 0x0002421c 0x1000 + 0x2321c
21 com.apple.Foundation 0x90a23a4c __NSFireTimer + 0x68
22 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x901c45f8 __CFRunLoopDoTimer + 0xf4
23 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x901c1958 __CFRunLoopRun + 0x5c8
24 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x901c5e6c CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 0x148
25 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x92885f60 RunCurrentEventLoopInMode + 0xac
26 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x9288c6c8 ReceiveNextEventCommon + 0x17c
27 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x928ae6a0 BlockUntilNextEventMatchingListInMode + 0x60
28 com.apple.AppKit 0x92e826dc _DPSNextEvent + 0x180
29 com.apple.AppKit 0x92e9915c -[NSApplication nextEventMatchingMask:untilDate:inMode:dequeue:] + 0x74
30 com.apple.AppKit 0x92ead4dc -[NSApplication run] + 0x21c
31 com.apple.loginwindow 0x0000db54 0x1000 + 0xcb54
32 com.apple.loginwindow 0x0000a65c 0x1000 + 0x965c
33 com.apple.loginwindow 0x0000a4d0 0x1000 + 0x94d0

PPC Thread State:
srr0: 0x908311f4 srr1: 0x0200d030 vrsave: 0x00000000
cr: 0x44022282 xer: 0x20000007 lr: 0x9024cb6c ctr: 0x908311e0
r0: 0x9024cb6c r1: 0xbfffdec0 r2: 0x00000000 r3: 0x0046e820
r4: 0x9087f528 r5: 0x00000069 r6: 0xa083047c r7: 0x902645f8
r8: 0x00002523 r9: 0x9087f532 r10: 0x00000000 r11: 0x44022282
r12: 0xa69421fb r13: 0x00000000 r14: 0x00000000 r15: 0x00000001
r16: 0x00000001 r17: 0x00000000 r18: 0xa01c13a8 r19: 0x00000000
r20: 0x0000770f r21: 0x00000000 r22: 0x00417740 r23: 0xbfffe220
r24: 0x004442a0 r25: 0xa01bca74 r26: 0xa01cca74 r27: 0x004176c0
r28: 0xbfffdf00 r29: 0x00000010 r30: 0xbfffdf68 r31: 0x9024ca74

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[capuchin]

Trash ~/Library/Preferences/loginwindow.plist - works for me everytime.

[Catfish_Man]

Do you have any audio-related devices plugged in? It looks like it's crashing in CoreAudio's hardware abstraction layer.

[fdeblauwe]

I have an iPod plugged in and 2 external speakers.

[fdeblauwe]

I immediately took Capuchin's advice and so far there has been no reoccurrence of the issue---knock on wood! Let's hope that was the simple solution to this weird problem. Thanks!