[Adium-devl] Fwd: [Adium-feedback] I hate my Mac Mini PowerPC

[Mark Janssen]

It could be magically caused by some corrupt memory. A memory test is
probably a good idea, especially since there seems to be no other
reported case of this issue.

On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 2:15 PM, Evan Schoenberg <evan.s at dreskin.net> wrote:
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> On Apr 13, 2008, at 11:52 PM, Peter Hosey wrote:
> Check out this sample. I'm floored.
>
> Um. Wow.
>
> For ease of discussion, here's the only use of setenv(), which is indeed in
> adiumPurpleCoreUiInit():
>
>
>  const char *preferredLocale = [[[[NSBundle
> bundleForClass:[SLPurpleCocoaAdapter class]] preferredLocalizations]
> objectAtIndex:0] UTF8String];
>  //We should be able to just do setlocale()... but it always returns NULL,
> which indicates failure
>  /* setlocale(LC_MESSAGES, preferredLocale); */
>
>  //So we'll set the environment variable for this process, which does work
>  setenv("LC_ALL", preferredLocale, /* overwrite? */ 1);
>  setenv("LC_MESSAGES", preferredLocale, /* overwrite? */ 1);
>
> I have no idea how setenv() could hang.
>
> -Evan
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>
> Begin forwarded message:
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> From: David Soto Padín <spacecadetdavsot at gmail.com>
> Date: April 13, 2008 18:14:34
> To: feedback at adiumx.com
> Subject: Re: [Adium-feedback] I hate my Mac Mini PowerPC
> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.919.2)
>
>
> On Apr 13, 2008, at 9:01 PM, Peter Hosey wrote:
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>
> On Apr 13, 2008, at 17:44:20, David Soto Padín wrote:
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> Here's what happens when I start up Adium.
>
> 1. Open Adium (everything seems fine)
>
> 2. Click connect to [my account]
>
> 3. Total program crash (well it does throw in a nice shiny flashy spinning
> beach ball)
>
>
>
> Please take a sample of Adium while it is hung and send it to us.
>
>
>
>  http://adiumx.com/faq/Sampling
>
> Sample of MSN messenger signing in and then beachball.<Sample of
> Adium(MSN).txt>
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>
>
> Other variations of this attempt include uninstalling and reinstalling
> Adium. Erasing my hard drive (!).
>
>
>
> Neither one of those is at all likely to fix the problem. They're not worth
> trying unless we say otherwise.
>
>
> The hard drive thing was only in consequence to my Mac Mini itself failing
> and the Apple representative gave the hard drive a clean sweep. It runs much
> faster now!
>
>
> Go to Adium > Preferences > Accounts > Activating accounts *crash*
>
> Reopen Adium > account successfully activated, try to activate a different
> account  *crash* [Repeat]
>
>
>
> What service (AIM, MSN, Yahoo!, GTalk, Jabber, …) are you using?
>
>
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> More importantly, which services fail?
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> MSN, Yahoo!, AIM and GTalk all fail. (sadly)
>
> Thanks for responding so soon.
>
> D@\/$ot
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