[tigas]

I've been having a problem with some Cocoa apps, namely Renamer4Mac and PathFinder. The Crash Report is always very similar, mentioning AppKit /NSImage or NSView, and then into CoreGraphics where it crashes either with semaphore or memcopy.

These programs work correctly if I login with another account. I've already cleaned all the preferences I deemed safe to touch and all caches, but it's not enough.

Does anybody have an idea of what's happening? When I tried Onyx the main window just became transparent, it was there but I couldn't see it.

[smeger]

Post the section of the crash log that includes the "thread crashed".

[tigas]

One kind of crash is

Exception: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (0x0001)
Codes: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS (0x0001) at 0x0dc34230

Thread 0 Crashed:
0 <<00000000>> 0xffff87f4 __memcpy + 84 (cpu_capabilities.h:189)
1 com.apple.CoreGraphics 0x903dcf98 CGBlt_copyBytes + 4012
2 com.apple.CoreGraphics 0x903d37a4 ARGB32_image + 616
3 libRIP.A.dylib 0x94672388 ripd_Mark + 324
4 libRIP.A.dylib 0x94674d14 ripl_BltImage + 908
5 libRIP.A.dylib 0x94674788 ripc_RenderImage + 256
6 libRIP.A.dylib 0x9467318c ripc_DrawImage + 3532
7 com.apple.CoreGraphics 0x903d0100 CGContextDelegateDrawImage + 76
8 com.apple.CoreGraphics 0x903d0068 CGContextDrawImage + 340
9 com.apple.AppKit 0x936d5990 -[NSCGImageRep _drawFromRect:toRect:operation:alpha:compositing:f lipped:ignoreContext:] + 752
10 com.apple.AppKit 0x936d4a84 -[NSImage _composite:delta:fromRect:toPoint:] + 1164
11 com.apple.AppKit 0x936d45e4 -[NSImage compositeToPoint:fromRect:operation:] + 64
12 com.apple.AppKit 0x936d458c -[NSImage compositeToPoint:operation:] + 168
13 com.apple.AppKit 0x9376c89c -[NSViewRectCache restore] + 552
14 com.apple.AppKit 0x9376bb74 -[NSTextView drawInsertionPointInRect:color:turnedOn:] + 604
15 com.apple.AppKit 0x9375d46c -[NSTextView(NSPrivate) _blinkCaret:] + 584
16 com.apple.AppKit 0x9375f218 _blinkCaretTimerAction + 60
17 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x90770aec __CFRunLoopDoTimer + 184
18 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x9075d464 __CFRunLoopRun + 1680
19 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x9075ca18 CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 268
20 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x9318e1e0 RunCurrentEventLoopInMode + 264
21 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x9318d874 ReceiveNextEventCommon + 380
22 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x9318d6e0 BlockUntilNextEventMatchingListInMode + 96
23 com.apple.AppKit 0x9368c104 _DPSNextEvent + 384
24 com.apple.AppKit 0x9368bdc8 -[NSApplication nextEventMatchingMask:untilDate:inMode:dequeue:] + 116
25 com.apple.AppKit 0x9368830c -[NSApplication run] + 472
26 com.apple.AppKit 0x93778e68 NSApplicationMain + 452
27 com.power4mac.renamer4mac 0x00007d18 _start + 392 (crt.c:267)
28 dyld 0x8fe01048 _dyld_start + 60

the other kind is more like this:

Exception: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (0x0001)
Codes: KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE (0x0002) at 0x00000008

(...)

Thread 4 Crashed:
0 com.apple.CoreGraphics 0x903c3ec8 CGAccessSessionRewind + 12
1 com.apple.CoreGraphics 0x903c40dc CGAccessSessionRelease + 28
2 com.apple.CoreGraphics 0x903d4d88 CGSImageDataUnlock + 40
3 libRIP.A.dylib 0x94673198 ripc_DrawImage + 3544
4 com.apple.CoreGraphics 0x903d0100 CGContextDelegateDrawImage + 76
5 com.apple.CoreGraphics 0x903d0068 CGContextDrawImage + 340
6 com.apple.AppKit 0x936d5990 -[NSCGImageRep _drawFromRect:toRect:operation:alpha:compositing:f lipped:ignoreContext:] + 752
7 com.apple.AppKit 0x936d4a84 -[NSImage _composite:delta:fromRect:toPoint:] + 1164
8 com.apple.AppKit 0x936d45e4 -[NSImage compositeToPoint:fromRect:operation:] + 64
9 com.apple.AppKit 0x936d458c -[NSImage compositeToPoint:operation:] + 168
10 com.apple.AppKit 0x9376c89c -[NSViewRectCache restore] + 552
11 com.apple.AppKit 0x9376bb74 -[NSTextView drawInsertionPointInRect:color:turnedOn:] + 604
12 com.apple.AppKit 0x9375d46c -[NSTextView(NSPrivate) _blinkCaret:] + 584
13 com.apple.AppKit 0x9374f518 -[NSTextView(NSSharing) updateInsertionPointStateAndRestartTimer:] + 616
14 com.apple.AppKit 0x93751c30 -[NSTextView(NSSharing) setSelectedRanges:affinity:stillSelecting:] + 1648
15 com.apple.AppKit 0x93757f50 syncTextWithTextView + 692
16 com.apple.AppKit 0x936a967c -[NSActionCell setObjectValue:] + 348
17 com.apple.AppKit 0x936a9294 -[NSCell setStringValue:] + 120
18 com.apple.AppKit 0x936bce88 -[NSActionCell stringValue] + 100
19 com.power4mac.renamer4mac 0x00010d40 -[InsertOverwriteRenamer newNameFor:atIndex:] + 260 (crt.c:355)
20 com.power4mac.renamer4mac 0x0000b8e0 -[AppController updateNewNameThread:] + 792 (crt.c:355)
21 com.apple.Foundation 0x928e66d4 forkThreadForFunction + 108
22 libSystem.B.dylib 0x9002b200 _pthread_body + 96

Thanks for any assistance, these have me stumped.

[smeger]

Have you tried to hack the image used to draw the blinking caret in a text field? Have you set your machine to use a scaled display? Have you hacked your machine to use Quartz Extreme to the Extreme Max?

[tigas]

Originally Posted by smeger

Have you tried to hack the image used to draw the blinking caret in a text field? Have you set your machine to use a scaled display? Have you hacked your machine to use Quartz Extreme to the Extreme Max?

No, and I don't think I have ever known how to do it. What files control those things? I believe something broke when I updated to 10.4.4.

I'm running a Pismo with an ATi Rage Pro Mobility, I don't have Quartz Extreme.

[edit (big)]

I didn't know what to check, but googling for quartz extreme 2d Tiger eventually got me to a page in xlr8yourmac that described the old hack to enable QE in PCI Macs. So, after having found the long path to Configuration.plist of the CoreGraphics framework, I discovered that I had QE2D enabled, even though Quartz2DExtremeMinimumVRAM was 64MB but I have 8MB!!! I'm sure i didn't touch this, I'm not in the habit of toying with system files (now user files, that's another ballgame)

But this is what happened:

Animations behind window or menu panes pop through the menus, etc. I don't understand this, I haven't touched this file!

the .plist dump now is as follows

Code:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
	<key>AllowDisplayModesNotMarkedSafeSubstitutions</key>
	<true/>
	<key>EnableAbortOnError</key>
	<false/>
	<key>EnableErrorLogging</key>
	<true/>
	<key>EnableVMPurging</key>
	<true/>
	<key>ForceSessionDrawsVirtualFramebuffer</key>
	<false/>
	<key>GLCompositorConfiguration</key>
	<dict>
		<key>GLCompositorMinimumDisplayDepth</key>
		<integer>16</integer>
		<key>GLCompositorMinimumVRAM</key>
		<integer>16</integer>
		<key>GLCompositorRequiredClasses</key>
		<array>
			<string>IOAGPDevice</string>
		</array>
		<key>GLCompositorUseOnPortable</key>
		<false/>
		<key>tileHeight</key>
		<integer>256</integer>
		<key>tileWidth</key>
		<integer>256</integer>
	</dict>
	<key>Quartz2DExtremeConfiguration</key>
	<dict>
		<key>Quartz2DExtremeEnabled</key>
		<false/>
		<key>Quartz2DExtremeMinimumDRAM</key>
		<integer>512</integer>
		<key>Quartz2DExtremeMinimumVRAM</key>
		<integer>64</integer>
		<key>Quartz2DExtremeVendorDisabled</key>
		<array/>
	</dict>
	<key>SessionUsesVirtualFramebuffer</key>
	<true/>
</dict>
</plist>

Did I miss a setting that I should have corrected? What would be the correct preferences for disabling QE and QEGL completely?

[tigas]

hang on, the other account crashed too; could have found out about that a bit sooner, would've saved me much mucking around with my preferences.

But really there must be something wrong with Quartz or other image components, because when I move dialogs around the highlighted button's text and sometimes the highlighted button itself keep disappearing from the dialog pane, showing the white below.

[tigas]

Now it's the Dock that crashes: no longer Cocoa, it's systemwide.

Exception: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (0x0001)
Codes: KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE (0x0002) at 0x00000010

Thread 0 Crashed:
0 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x932e9e38 AutoScrollMenu(OpaqueControlRef*, Point, unsigned char*) + 292
1 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x932e9c98 AutoScrollTimer(__EventLoopTimer*, void*) + 52
2 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x90770aec __CFRunLoopDoTimer + 184
3 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x9075d464 __CFRunLoopRun + 1680
4 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x9075ca18 CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 268
5 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x9076be78 CFRunLoopRun + 52
6 com.apple.dock 0x00002b10 0x1000 + 6928
7 com.apple.dock 0x00002590 0x1000 + 5520
8 com.apple.dock 0x000349b0 0x1000 + 211376

Thread 1:
0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x9005b918 clock_sleep_trap + 8
1 com.apple.dock 0x00007e40 0x1000 + 28224
2 libSystem.B.dylib 0x9002b200 _pthread_body + 96

Thread 2:
0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x9001f20c select + 12
1 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x9076f9a8 __CFSocketManager + 472
2 libSystem.B.dylib 0x9002b200 _pthread_body + 96

Thread 0 crashed with PPC Thread State 64:
srr0: 0x00000000932e9e38 srr1: 0x000000000000f030 vrsave: 0x0000000000000000
cr: 0x24028242 xer: 0x0000000000000005 lr: 0x00000000932e9e2c ctr: 0x000000009074ef54
r0: 0x00000000932e9e2c r1: 0x00000000bffff410 r2: 0x00000000ffffffff r3: 0x0000000000000000
r4: 0x00000000bffff470 r5: 0x00000000bffff2f0 r6: 0x0000000000000000 r7: 0x000000000035c0e0
r8: 0x000000005e4e3e2c r9: 0x0000000000000000 r10: 0x0000000000000012 r11: 0x00000000a1b1c1d3
r12: 0x000000009074ef54 r13: 0x0000000000000000 r14: 0x0000000000000000 r15: 0x0000000000000001
r16: 0x0000000000000000 r17: 0x0000000000000000 r18: 0x0000000000004a03 r19: 0x0000000000000000
r20: 0x000000000376f628 r21: 0x0000000035576e23 r22: 0x00000000bffff5a0 r23: 0x0000000000000000
r24: 0x0000000000344030 r25: 0x00000000bffff480 r26: 0x0000000000000000 r27: 0x0000000000000000
r28: 0x0000000000000000 r29: 0x00000000bffff470 r30: 0x000000000000822e r31: 0x00000000932e9d1c


I've just reinstalled Quicktime (downgrade to 7.0.1) and I'm about to reinstall 10.4.4 Combo. Failing that, I'm stuck. I've tried everything I know, and I'm a bit miffed that nobody apart from smeger could help me in this forum. But that's OK, maybe I was expecting too much.

[smeger]

I think you need to do an archive and install. You seem to have a pretty screwed up OS.

As a general rule, if the problems persist on a brand new account after a reboot, you've got big issues.

[tigas]

Originally Posted by smeger

I think you need to do an archive and install. You seem to have a pretty screwed up OS.

As a general rule, if the problems persist on a brand new account after a reboot, you've got big issues.

Thanks. I suspected as much. Console.log has lines and lines of kCGErrorIllegalArgument:CGSetWindowAlpha (and other CG operations) : Invalid Window. For example, that Dock.app crash above came out as "kCGetc: CGSetWindowBounds: NULL Window". It seems CoreGraphics is just losing track of windows after they go into the backing store.