OS X :: Applications Wont Open - Keeps Crashing?
Nov 17, 2009
Macbook w OSX 10.5.8
Over the weekend I had some trouble.
It started with Firefox crashing repeatedly. Each time I tried to reopen it it would crash as soon as a webpage began to load.
I attempted a restart and the problem persisted.
After a couple restarts, the whole OS crashed. First time I saw the message telling me to hold the power button for a restart and then the OS wouldn't load. Each time the machine tried to startup it would freeze and the screen would display some strange terminal-looking text.
I did a reinstall using the OSX CD and immediately updated after everything was working again. Also ran disk repair and it told me everything was fine.
Today everything seemed fine and applications opened perfectly, until I tried opening a PDF I downloaded. The PDF wouldnt open and I realized none of my apps were opening.
When I click on anything it just jumps for a sec or two and stops. This isnt just one app, but all of them. Havent tried a restart yet bc Im fearful I wont be able to open FF once/if I get going again.
Could this be a hard drive problem, even though disk check says everything is OK? I tried the reinstall and that didn't seem to work...
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Error Signature:
Exception: EXC_BAD_ACCESS
Date/Time: 2010-09-27 21:45:42 -0400
Application Name: Microsoft Excel
Application Bundle ID: com.microsoft.Excel
Application Signature: XCEL
Application Version: 12.2.6.100708
Crashed Module Name: libobjc.A.dylib...............
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Microsoft Error Reporting log version: 2.0
Exception: EXC_BAD_ACCESS
Date/Time: 2009-04-20 23:11:30 -0400
Application Name: Microsoft Excel
Application Bundle ID: com.microsoft.Excel
Application Signature: XCEL
Application Version: 12.1.7.090302
Crashed Module Name: libobjc.A.dylib
Crashed Module Version: unknown
Crashed Module Offset: 0x0001568c............
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