[Adium-devl] Adium crashing - cause found!

[Evan Schoenberg]

That's the last straw.  The SystemVersionCheck mini-application,  
which launches Adium.real and allows us to have a nice pretty warning  
to 10.3.8 and below users that this new version of Adium doesn't  
support their operating system, is simply going to be removed.  We've  
been debating its merits for a while, and that seals the deal.

I'm cc'ing the dev list where we've been discussing other problems  
with SystemVersionCheck... 'cause I'm too lazy to write a second  
email about it :)

-Evan

On Aug 16, 2006, at 4:59 PM, Gareth Potter wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Right, further to your e-mail, I've been doing some digging. We  
> spoke briefly about this before, and I said to you then that it  
> generates no logs, etc. I have various (all PowerPC) machines here  
> - from a 300MHz Japanese Bondi Blue iBook (Mac OS X 10.4.7) to a  
> PowerBook G4 12" 1.5GHz (Mac OS X Server 10.4.7 - don't ask). This  
> behaviour is reproducible on all these machines, independent of the  
> two preferences files (Adium proper and Adium Crash Reporter),  
> Application Support/Adium 2.0's existence/contents and Caches/ 
> Adium's existence/contents. Totally bizarre.
>
> I have good news!
>
> Try this.
>
> In Terminal, go to /Applications/Adium.app/Contents/MacOS and load  
> Adium, i.e. ./Adium. If your computer is configured as is mine  
> (i.e. Japanese is the primary language in System Preferences), it  
> returns to the prompt immediately - i.e. it dies in exactly the  
> same way as when the Dock icon is clicked. Nothing in system.log or  
> console.log, nothing to stdout - just a completely silent fail.
>
> Now run Adium.real, i.e. ./Adium.real. It runs fine! Of course,  
> it's not properly usable, because launching an application thus  
> doesn't register it properly, so no menu bars, etc. But I can  
> confirm that it is running in Japanese - a control-click on a  
> contact will bring up Japanese-translated context menus. I have  
> checked with Simplified and Traditional Chinese and the situation  
> is exactly the same.
>
> If you untick Japanese from the Get Info panel and run ./Adium, it  
> runs fine, because, of course, this is what is invoked when the  
> application is loaded normally.
>
> Why the MacOS directory is arranged thus is beyond me (I am sure  
> you have your reasons, Evan :D), as are the reasons for it wreaking  
> such havoc, but all I can say is that at least on Chinese and  
> Japanese systems, it's a no go!
>
> Hope this helps; if you need any more info, just let me know.
>
> G

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