Markus Tripp’s Weblog

Last week I installed the update from Apple that installed QuickTime 7.2 and iTunes 7.3.1. After that some of my PowerPC based applications (e.g. Microsoft Office, Photoshop CS2, Dreamweaver 8 ) did not start anymore. I clicked the programs on the dock, they flickered 2 or 3 times and nothing happened. The system.log in the console showed me the following error message:

Jul 19 08:24:35 markus-tripps-computer kernel[0]:
    shared_region: 0x40d1cec:
    lsf_map: RO mapping #0 not in segmentshared region:
    0x40d1cec: 4 mappings  base_offset=0xff0b000
Jul 19 08:24:35 markus-tripps-computer kernel[0]:
   shared region: 0x40d1cec:
   #0: addr=0x70000000, size=0x17000,
   file_offset=0x2d000, prot=(5,5)
...

It took me a while to find the problem. In my case it seams to be a combination of

• QuickTime 7.2 update
• Installed Java SE 6.0 Release 1 DP6
• PowerPC based application like Dreamweaver 8

that caused the problem.

The solution to this problem I found at http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1039074&start=135&tstart=0.

Short description what I did:

• De-install JavaSE6Release1.pkg
• De-install JavaForMacOSX10.4Release5.pkg
• Run update_prebinding as root user
• Install JavaForMacOSX10.4Release5.pkg
• Install JavaSE6Release1.pkg

At the Apple support page “bigman13″ (who posted the solution there) describes the steps as follows:

Steps to Fix:
> su Administrator
> cd /Library/Receipts/JavaSE6Release1.pkg/Contents
> lsbom -s -f Archive.bom > /tmp/files

Edit /tmp/files replace all " " with " "
   and all "./" with "rm /"
> sudo bash /tmp/files
> rm -r /Library/receipts/JavaSE6Release1.pkg
> sudo update_prebinding

I removed /Library/Receipts/JavaForMacOSX10.4Release5.pkg
and installed it again.
(To have the links from A, Current etc.)

On the one hand it is quite annoying to search for such problems, and it took me some hours, on the other hand it helps me to understand MacOSX a bit better, as I use it only for 2 weeks now

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