Wednesday, September 25, 2002

The stability of my desktop Mac has increased significantly since upgrading to Jaguar. It's been up for almost 7 days as I write this, which would have been a veritable record in 10.1.x. While not a crasher, there's one odd problem that's occurred twice so far. It happens like this: coreservicesd dies. From the crash logs, the invariant part of the stack is LSPlugin_server / _XRegister / _LS_server_Register / _LSReceiveRegistration / _LSReceiveBundleRegistration. This makes sense that the crash is coming from LaunchServices, as at least this time, it crashed while I was copying an application. OS X does not restart coreservicesd, so weird stuff starts happening, such as icons disappearing. I attempt to manually restart coreservicesd (bad idea?) At some point a few minutes later, almost every open application quits unexpectedly. Dragging stops working, even intra-application. Cocoa apps print "CoreDragCreate error: -900", Carbon apps just don't work at all. pbs is working fine as inter-application copy and paste are unaffected. Neither logging out and back in, killing and restarting coreservicesd and lsregister, or anything else I can discover short of restarting fixes the problem. Has anyone else seen this? I wish I could replicate it so I could file a bug report. 1:34:45 AM | reply []