[selowitch]

http://www.maryland.gov/

Seems to work for other browsers, though. Tsk, tsk. Faulty JavaScript sniffer, perhaps? Shame on them for not making their site accessible.

[zunipus]

Originally Posted by selowitch 

http://www.maryland.gov/

Seems to work for other browsers, though. Tsk, tsk. Faulty JavaScript sniffer, perhaps? Shame on them for not making their site accessible.

Hmm. I am not having any evident trouble in Safari v3.0.4 on 10.4.11, MacBook with 3 GB RAM. Could you please verify as well as provide your setup? What trouble did you into on the site?

Certainly Maryland has had plenty of problems regarding technology. Their horrific experiences with Diebold voting machines are now legendary. And certainly Microsoft have ruined the continuity and reliability of Internet coding by throwing their rubbishware into the mix via IE, JScript, non-standards-compliant-pseudo HTML and FrontPage. But taking a quick look over Maryland's web code I don't see any glaring oddities.

[Judge_Fire]

Just got a server error from their 'Plumtree'(?) portal software.

[subego]

Task 'Unknown' Failed on Startup

Task #0 (unknown or undefined)
error: General Failure
Recommendation Summary
failure FATAL: Startup halted.
recommendation Unknown or undefined error.
exception Unknown To enable the details of this specific error message to be viewable on remote machines, please create a system environment variable named PT_REMOTE_ERR and set it to 'true'.


PowerBook G4
10.4.11
3.0.4

[voodoo]

A bunch of errors.

iMac intel, OS 10.5.1, Safari 3.0.4

[Mastrap]

Apart from one spacer.gif not found everything loads fine here.

iMac intel, OS 10.5.1, Safari 3.0.4

[Andrew Stephens]

checks fine for me in FF but falls over in Safari.

FATAL: Startup halted.
recommendation Unknown or undefined error.
exception Unknown To enable the details of this specific error message to be viewable on remote machines, please create a system environment variable named PT_REMOTE_ERR and set it to 'true'.

[andi*pandi]

works ok safari 2 and firefox 2... and I clicked around a bit.

[selowitch]

Well, let's see ... I'm on Safari 3.0.4, Intel, Mac OS X 10.5.1, and it doesn't work for me. Camino/Firefox seem fine. Odd. I don't think I have any weird plugins installed or anything. What could be going on, I wonder?

[Atheist]

Intel, OS 10.4.11, Safari 3.0.4 fails with "Task 'Unknown' Failed on Startup". FF 2.0.0.12 works fine.

[Cold Warrior]

Same error. OS 10.5.1, Safari 3.0.4 w/ SafariBlock.

[phantomdragonz]

fails for me... except when I change the user agent to MSIE 6.0 (or anything else under the debug menu) it loads just fine!

-Zach

[gradient]

Task 'Unknown' Failed on Startup

Task #0 (unknown or undefined)
error: General Failure
Recommendation Summary
failure FATAL: Startup halted.
recommendation Unknown or undefined error.
exception Unknown To enable the details of this specific error message to be viewable on remote machines, please create a system environment variable named PT_REMOTE_ERR and set it to 'true'.

[iMan G5]

Task 'Unknown' Failed on Startup

Task #0 (unknown or undefined)
error: General Failure
Recommendation Summary
failure FATAL: Startup halted.
recommendation Unknown or undefined error.
exception Unknown To enable the details of this specific error message to be viewable on remote machines, please create a system environment variable named PT_REMOTE_ERR and set it to 'true'.
iMac G5 10.5.1 Latest safari.

[Oisín]

Mac Pro, 10.4.11, Safari 3.0.4 (523.12.2).

Oddness.

[zunipus]

Interesting. Still working here. Well, let's use me as a sort of 'control' for experimentation. Here are details about my setup:

Safari 3.0.4 on 10.4.11. I do not have the debugger activated in Safari, so the browser is not set to mask itself as anything but Safari.

Safari plug-ins as listed from within Safari, all up-to-date:
- QuickTime Plug-in 7.4.1 - (I'll list my QT components below)
- JoostPlugin
- Adobe Acrobat and Reader Plug-in
- RealPlayer Plugin
- iPhotoPhotocast
- Quartz Composer Plug-In
- Verified Download Plugin
- VLC Multimedia Plugin
- Shockwave Flash
- MoveNetworks Quantum Media Player
- DivX Content Upload Plug-in
- Flip4Mac Windows Media Plugin 2.2
- Flip4Mac Windows Media Web Plugin 2.2
- DivX Browser Plug-In
- Java Plug-in for Cocoa
- Coupons Inc Bricks Safari Plugin

My installed QuickTime Components:
- AC3MovieImport v1.7.6
- AppleIntermediateCodec v1.2
- AppleMPEG2Codec 1.0 (UB version)
- AviImporter-r7 (Intel) v1.0
- CFHCCompressor v1.4.0.43
- CFHDDecomrpessor v1.4.0.43
- DivX Decoder v6.6.0
- DivX Encoder v6.6.0
- EVO v1.3
- Flip4Mac WMV Advanced v2.2.0.49
- Flip4Mac WMV Export v2.2.0.49
- Flip4Mac WMV Import v2.2.0.49
- FLV v2,1,0,494 (don't blame me for the commas!)
- MTM v1.3
- Perian v1.1 (just released!)
- Save as AVI v1.2
- TSCC v0.1
- x264Codec v1.1
- XviD_Codec 1.0 alpha

Other factors: I am big on trashing my cache files on a regular basis. I use AppleJack for this purpose. It works while in Single-User Mode at startup. and virtual memory files I also use it to do minor repairs on my boot volume, including permissions.

I'd be happy to provide other information anyone may consider relevant. Just reply here and I'll get a notification.

: - Derek

[Cold Warrior]

Well if changing the user agent to MSIE6 works, then it sounds like just a user agent sniffer being stupid.

[selowitch]

Originally Posted by Cold Warrior 

Well if changing the user agent to MSIE6 works, then it sounds like just a user agent sniffer being stupid.

I concur.

[macroy]

Rockville eh? Good luck

My home town... sort of.

Oh, and it seems to be working fine for me (10.5.2 / Safari 3.0.4) - but it looks like you guys already figured out the issue.

[TailsToo]

Seems to be fine on 10.5.2 MacBook Pro.

That reminds me - I need to renew my car registration.

[Thorzdad]

Works fine in Safari 1.3.2