Showing posts with label crash. Show all posts
Showing posts with label crash. Show all posts

Saturday, August 7, 2010

iPhoto crashing Hackintosh

iPhoto frequently crashes the computer, bringing up the shutdown dialog but then it just crashes within a second or two, shutting down. Could be that the temperature is rising too high, and self-protection cuts in.

Installed CoolBookController again to monitor temperature.

Opened it up. Cleaned out loads of dust, and it runs about 20C cooler now.

Sunday, August 16, 2009

Recovering Safari crash at startup

Found that Safari wasn't starting up after one of the annoying crashes I have had lately. Google turned up an article that proposed deleting a whole host of files. In the end I just had to delete com.apple.Safari.plist from ~/Library/Preferences/ and it came back to life. The file did look like it had non-ascii garbage at the front before it was deleted, but the fresh version didn't (though it had some at the end).

Had to reset home page, plus settings like opening up browser pages in a new tab, fill in usernames and passwords when known, in Safari->Preferences.