Limewire installs, but won't start :(
 

Hey all,

I just installed OSX Wednesday and have been trying to get limewire to run for two days now; really frustrated here ...

MyMac: G4 400 MHz , OS 10.2.8
While trying to install and run Limewire 3.6.14_

already downgraded to QT 6.3
Safe Boot & Repaired Permissions
Trashed previous failed installs of LW stuff, redownloaded (at least half a dozen times, for pete's sake)

Still, every time I try to start it, the friggin thing gives an instant of a bounce in the dock then quits. It positively refuses to start.

Someone mentioned something about "console logs" in another similar post, dunno if it'll help but here's mine ...

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Mac OS X Version 10.2.8 (Build 6R73)
2003-11-06 18:47:26.321 hdi_agent[395] <CFDictionary 0xc5a90 [0xa01303fc]>{type = immutable, count = 11, capacity = 11, pairs = (
0 : <CFString 0xc03d0 [0xa01303fc]>{contents = "auto-open-read-only-images"} = <CFNumber 0xc00e0 [0xa01303fc]>{value = +1, type = kCFNumberSInt32Type}
1 : <CFString 0xbfe50 [0xa01303fc]>{contents = "auto-reveal"} = <CFNumber 0xc00c0 [0xa01303fc]>{value = +1, type = kCFNumberSInt32Type}
4 : <CFString 0xbe6d0 [0xa01303fc]>{contents = "verify-checksum"} = <CFNumber 0xc01b0 [0xa01303fc]>{value = +1, type = kCFNumberSInt32Type}
5 : <CFString 0xc5310 [0xa01303fc]>{contents = "ignore-invalid-checksums"} = <CFNumber 0xc5030 [0xa01303fc]>{value = +0, type = kCFNumberSInt32Type}
6 : <CFString 0xb9130 [0xa01303fc]>{contents = "image-path"} = <CFString 0xc5960 [0xa01303fc]>{contents = "/Users/rconnor/Desktop/LimeWireOSX.dmg"}
7 : <CFString 0x88c30 [0xa01303fc]>{contents = "skip-remote-volume-checksums"} = <CFNumber 0xc16f0 [0xa01303fc]>{value = +1, type = kCFNumberSInt32Type}
9 : <CFString 0xc1e50 [0xa01303fc]>{contents = "worker-class"} = <CFString 0x88c60 [0xa01303fc]>{contents = "WorkerRemoteMountImage"}
10 : <CFString 0xc59a0 [0xa01303fc]>{contents = "auto-reveal-desktop-items"} = <CFNumber 0xc59d0 [0xa01303fc]>{value = +0, type = kCFNumberSInt32Type}
13 : <CFString 0xc59e0 [0xa01303fc]>{contents = "auto-open-read-write-images"} = <CFNumber 0xc5a10 [0xa01303fc]>{value = +0, type = kCFNumberSInt32Type}
14 : <CFString 0xc5a60 [0xa01303fc]>{contents = "enable-keychain"} = <CFNumber 0xc5a80 [0xa01303fc]>{value = +1, type = kCFNumberSInt32Type}
15 : <CFString 0xc5a20 [0xa01303fc]>{contents = "skip-locked-media-checksum"} = <CFNumber 0xc5a50 [0xa01303fc]>{value = +1, type = kCFNumberSInt32Type}
)}
Nov 6 18:47:27 Robins-Computer /sbin/autodiskmount[189]: disk2 hfs no no LimeWire [not mounted]

Nov 6 18:47:27 Robins-Computer /sbin/autodiskmount[189]: disk2 hfs no no LimeWire /Volumes/LimeWire

2003-11-06 18:47:39.592 Installer[407] Setting package as non OSInstall
Nov 6 18:47:47 Robins-Computer authexec: executing /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Installation.framework/Resources/runner

/Applications/LimeWire/LimeWire.app/Contents/MacOS/prelude: dirname: command not found
/Applications/LimeWire/LimeWire.app/Contents/MacOS/prelude: /LimeWire: No such file or directory
/Applications/LimeWire/LimeWire.app/Contents/MacOS/prelude: exec: /LimeWire: cannot execute: No such file or directory
/Applications/LimeWire/LimeWire.app/Contents/MacOS/prelude: dirname: command not found
/Applications/LimeWire/LimeWire.app/Contents/MacOS/prelude: /LimeWire: No such file or directory
/Applications/LimeWire/LimeWire.app/Contents/MacOS/prelude: exec: /LimeWire: cannot execute: No such file or directory
/Applications/LimeWire/LimeWire.app/Contents/MacOS/prelude: dirname: command not found
/Applications/LimeWire/LimeWire.app/Contents/MacOS/prelude: /LimeWire: No such file or directory
/Applications/LimeWire/LimeWire.app/Contents/MacOS/prelude: exec: /LimeWire: cannot execute: No such file or directory
/Applications/LimeWire/LimeWire.app/Contents/MacOS/prelude: dirname: command not found
/Applications/LimeWire/LimeWire.app/Contents/MacOS/prelude: /LimeWire: No such file or directory
/Applications/LimeWire/LimeWire.app/Contents/MacOS/prelude: exec: /LimeWire: cannot execute: No such file or directory
/Applications/LimeWire/LimeWire.app/Contents/MacOS/prelude: dirname: command not found
/Applications/LimeWire/LimeWire.app/Contents/MacOS/prelude: /LimeWire: No such file or directory
/Applications/LimeWire/LimeWire.app/Contents/MacOS/prelude: exec: /LimeWire: cannot execute: No such file or directory
2003-11-06 18:55:51.072 loginwindow[334] Could not find image named `bang'.




/Applications/LimeWire/LimeWire.app/Contents/MacOS/prelude: dirname: command not found
/Applications/LimeWire/LimeWire.app/Contents/MacOS/prelude: /LimeWire: No such file or directory
/Applications/LimeWire/LimeWire.app/Contents/MacOS/prelude: exec: /LimeWire: cannot execute: No such file or directory

Ernest: Could you please email me the crash logs (to be safe, delete the existing ones, try running LimeWire, and then email me the recreated one)? My address is sberlin@limepeer.com .

candyangel: Thank you for the detailed console logs, candyangel. If possible, could you run the installer again, but this time before closing it after it finishes, go to File -> Show Log, and save the output of the log to a file and then email me that file (or paste it here)?

Thanks,
Sam

Dear Sam,

Here ya go ...

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LimeWire Installation Log
Target Selection
_volumeAppeared: Adding volume G4 MacOS9 HD
_volumeAppeared: Adding volume G4 MacOSX HD
deactivate: removing all cells from _volumeMatrix
Selected volume "G4 MacOSX HD"
Mounted at: /
OpenFirmware: mac-io/ata-4@1f000/@1:9
Partition type: HFS+
Partition map: disk1s9
Partition: 9
Protocol: ATA
Media Type: Generic
Volume Size: 122930307072
Registered /Applications/LimeWire/LimeWire At Login.app.
Registered /Applications/LimeWire/LimeWire.app.
Cleaning up old LimeWire directory from old installer at //Applications/LimeWire.
Cleaning up a LimeWire.app if it was there.
Finding and deleting existing LimeWire alias on desktop.
Linking /Applications/LimeWire/LimeWire.app to /Users/rconnor/Desktop
Fixing Info.plist if 10.1
/Volumes/LimeWire/Install LimeWire.pkg/Contents/Resources/postflight: grep: command not found
/Volumes/LimeWire/Install LimeWire.pkg/Contents/Resources/postflight: grep: command not found
Fixing Info.plist if 10.3 and bad Java
/Volumes/LimeWire/Install LimeWire.pkg/Contents/Resources/postflight: grep: command not found
/Volumes/LimeWire/Install LimeWire.pkg/Contents/Resources/postflight: grep: command not found
Creating Alias.
/Volumes/LimeWire/Install LimeWire.pkg/Contents/Resources/postflight: osascript: command not found
2003-11-06 19:45:40.329 update_prebinding[493] Start of update_prebinding
Optimization: End analyzing installed packages
Optimization 5% completed
2003-11-06 19:45:40.560 update_prebinding[493] Update_prebinding done.
2003-11-06 19:45:40.563 update_prebinding[493] 0 files successfully prebound, 0 files unsuccessfully prebound.

Sam, if it helps here's the "Show Files" log ...

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Listing files for LimeWire
./Applications/LimeWire/COPYING
./Applications/LimeWire/LimeWire At Login.app/Contents/Info.plist
./Applications/LimeWire/LimeWire At Login.app/Contents/MacOS/loginStartup
./Applications/LimeWire/LimeWire At Login.app/Contents/PkgInfo
./Applications/LimeWire/LimeWire At Login.app/Contents/Resources/LoginStartup.icns
./Applications/LimeWire/LimeWire.app/Contents/Info.plist
./Applications/LimeWire/LimeWire.app/Contents/MacOS/LimeWire
./Applications/LimeWire/LimeWire.app/Contents/MacOS/prelude
./Applications/LimeWire/LimeWire.app/Contents/PkgInfo
./Applications/LimeWire/LimeWire.app/Contents/Resources/Dutch.lproj/OldJavaAlert.strings
./Applications/LimeWire/LimeWire.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/OldJavaAlert.strings
./Applications/LimeWire/LimeWire.app/Contents/Resources/French.lproj/OldJavaAlert.strings
./Applications/LimeWire/LimeWire.app/Contents/Resources/German.lproj/OldJavaAlert.strings
./Applications/LimeWire/LimeWire.app/Contents/Resources/Italian.lproj/OldJavaAlert.strings
./Applications/LimeWire/LimeWire.app/Contents/Resources/Japanese.lproj/OldJavaAlert.strings
./Applications/LimeWire/LimeWire.app/Contents/Resources/Java/LimeWire.jar
./Applications/LimeWire/LimeWire.app/Contents/Resources/Java/MessagesBundles.jar
./Applications/LimeWire/LimeWire.app/Contents/Resources/Java/collections.jar
./Applications/LimeWire/LimeWire.app/Contents/Resources/Java/data.ser
./Applications/LimeWire/LimeWire.app/Contents/Resources/Java/iTunes.scpt
./Applications/LimeWire/LimeWire.app/Contents/Resources/Java/jl011.jar
./Applications/LimeWire/LimeWire.app/Contents/Resources/Java/libGURL.jnilib
./Applications/LimeWire/LimeWire.app/Contents/Resources/Java/libOpenScripting.jnilib
./Applications/LimeWire/LimeWire.app/Contents/Resources/Java/libSystemUtilities.jnilib
./Applications/LimeWire/LimeWire.app/Contents/Resources/Java/logicrypto.jar
./Applications/LimeWire/LimeWire.app/Contents/Resources/Java/themes.jar
./Applications/LimeWire/LimeWire.app/Contents/Resources/Java/update.ver
./Applications/LimeWire/LimeWire.app/Contents/Resources/Java/xerces.jar
./Applications/LimeWire/LimeWire.app/Contents/Resources/Java/xml.war
./Applications/LimeWire/LimeWire.app/Contents/Resources/LimeWire.icns
./Applications/LimeWire/LimeWire.app/Contents/Resources/Spanish.lproj/OldJavaAlert.strings
./Applications/LimeWire/LimeWire.app/Contents/Resources/da.lproj/OldJavaAlert.strings
./Applications/LimeWire/LimeWire.app/Contents/Resources/fi.lproj/OldJavaAlert.strings
./Applications/LimeWire/LimeWire.app/Contents/Resources/ko.lproj/OldJavaAlert.strings
./Applications/LimeWire/LimeWire.app/Contents/Resources/no.lproj/OldJavaAlert.strings
./Applications/LimeWire/LimeWire.app/Contents/Resources/pmf.icns
./Applications/LimeWire/LimeWire.app/Contents/Resources/pt.lproj/OldJavaAlert.strings
./Applications/LimeWire/LimeWire.app/Contents/Resources/sv.lproj/OldJavaAlert.strings
./Applications/LimeWire/LimeWire.app/Contents/Resources/zh_CN.lproj/OldJavaAlert.strings
./Applications/LimeWire/LimeWire.app/Contents/Resources/zh_TW.lproj/OldJavaAlert.strings
./Applications/LimeWire/SOURCE

Thanks for the speedy reply, candyangel.

They're very interesting logs. Somehow the default path for scripts on your computer has had "/usr/bin" removed from it. To fix this for LimeWire, go to your Applications folder, open the LimeWire folder, ctrl-click on LimeWire and choose 'Show Package Contents', open the Contents folder, open the MacOS folder, cntr-click on 'prelude', choose Open With -> Other, and scroll down on the right and choose 'TextEdit'.

In this file, underneath the first line that reads "#!/bin/sh", add a line that reads: "PATH=/usr/bin:$PATH" without the quotes.

So the first two lines of the file should read:
#!/bin/sh
PATH=/usr/bin:$PATH

Then save that file and try opening LimeWire again.

That should hopefully fix your problem. We'll make changes to our installers to ensure that this line is added to the scripts if necessary, although this probably won't make it in the 3.6 series.

Let me know how that works please.

Thanks,
Sam

Sam --

And thank you for the quick replies too!

I tried it, but no change - Limewire still opens for the barest of an instant, bounces once in the dock, then quits.

Somehow the default path for scripts on your computer has had "/usr/bin" removed from it.

Oh, that does NOT sound good. How could that have happened? What can I do about that?

~Candy

It didn't work? That's wierd. It looks like you might not even have the correct commands installed in the correct place. Frankly, I'm not positive how serious that is, but I imagine other things would fail too. How was OSX installed on your computer, by an upgrade or as a fresh installation? You might want to consider fixing your disk permissions using Disk Utility (under Applications, Utilities, Disk Utility).

If possible, could you open a terminal by going to Applications -> Utilities, and opening 'Terminal'? Then type the following commands at the terminal's prompt:

sh
echo $PATH
exit
cd /usr
ls
ls -1 bin | wc -l

If you could email the results to me ( sberlin@limepeer.com ) that'd be very useful.

Thanks,
Sam

The computer is a few years old. But this is a brand new, fresh outta the box Maxtor hard drive. It was installed Saturday night. For a starting OS, I installed 9.0.4. Upgraded to 9.1, 9.2.1, & 9.2.2. Also did the firmware, etc. upgrades.

Sunday Night I installed a copy of OSX 10.0.3, which was updated to 10.0.4 with software updater. The OS was from a borrowed CD that came with my friends iMac. I played around with 10.0.4 for a few days just to to kinda get used to it and see how I wanted my files organized, etc. while waiting for my copy of Jaguar to get here.

Wednesday night I installed 10.2 which upgraded to 10.2.8 with software updater. This was a 2 cd retail package thing in a white box.

Disk permissions were fixed this afternoon, but I'll run it again if you think it'll help.

Terminal log emailed to you. :)

~Candy

Hi

The Mac OS X 10.0.x Installer din't installed the BSD Subsystem by default. The user had to set the checkbox manually. So if you made an upgrade from 10.0.x to 10.2.x it is very likely that the BSD Subsystem wasn't installed either.

Does the following file exists on you Mac?

Your Mac OS X drive -> Library -> Receipts -> BSD.pkg

If not, insert the 1st Mac OS X disk and double click the following file.

Mac OS X Install Disc 1 -> System -> Installation -> Packages -> BSD.pkg

yay!
 

the bsd installation worked for me -- i was having the same issues as the other folks (one bounce in 10.2.8, etc.), but all is back to normal, running LW 3.6.14 just fine. thanks for the great info!!