Limewire 4.9.11 will NOT open
 

my Limewire 4.9.11 app will not open at all for some reason. i double click on the app in my Mac HD and it seems like it's about to open, but then it doesn't. same thing when i click on the icon in my dock. i'm running Mac OSX 10.3.9, and i've already installed the Java 1.4.2 updater. i've also tried trashing all of my Limewire files and completely reinstalling Limewire, with no success. and i've also already repaired permissions on my HD.

any suggestions? thanks.

Open the Console (/Applications/Utilities), click the Clear button, double click LimeWire and tell me what Console is saying...

i CLEARED the console and then double clicked limewire, and the console remained empty/cleared. should it be showing some kind of activity? or not?

Yes, it should show the cause why LimeWire doesn't start. Check if console.log is selected...

nothing in console.log. but i am getting some error messages in the system.log window.

error:


===== Sat Jul 30 2005 ===== 13:13:15 US/Pacific =====
Jul 30 13:13:29 localhost crashdump: Unable to determine CPSProcessSerNum pid: 541 name: LimeWire
Jul 30 13:13:29 localhost crashdump: Started writing crash report to: /Users/tmborden/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/LimeWire.crash.log
Jul 30 13:13:29 localhost crashdump: Finished writing crash report to: /Users/tmborden/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/LimeWire.crash.log


does that make sense?

Jup, makes sense but it means nothing good.

OK, lets see what the crash log says...

Expand ~/Library/Logs (press the gray triangle), expand CrashReporter and select LimeWire.crash.log.

Press the Clear button in the Toolbar and double click LimeWire and post the output of the Console.

there's actually no limewire.crash.log file in that folder (see attached). i assume that's not good either?

tmborden, you have to go to LimeWire.crash.log by navigating directories "IN" the console. Click on the "Logs" icon to show the directories, I'll show my screeny.

thanks for clarifying that. i've now got a huge crash report for limewire. it's too long to show entirely in a screen grab, but the first 20-30 lines are below (for some reason, this forum wouldn't allow me to attach the screen grab b/c it was too large). does this script offer any insight?

thanks for all your help.

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===== Sun Jul 31 2005 ===== 10:34:32 US/Pacific =====
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Host Name: Tom-Bordens-Computer.local
Date/Time: 2005-07-31 10:34:43 -0700
OS Version: 10.3.9 (Build 7W98)
Report Version: 2

Command: LimeWire
Path: /Applications/LimeWire/LimeWire.app/Contents/MacOS/LimeWire
Version: ??? (???)
PID: 650
Thread: 1

Exception: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (0x0001)
Codes: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS (0x0001) at 0xa7531d54

Thread 0:
0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x90007878 mach_msg_trap + 0x8
1 libSystem.B.dylib 0x900073f8 mach_msg + 0x38
2 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x901c16e0 __CFRunLoopRun + 0x350
3 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x901c5e6c CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 0x148
4 ...ple.JavaApplicationLauncher 0x850318b4 _Z11startupJavaiiPPKcPK14__CFDictionary14BuilderVe rsionS0_S1_ + 0x128
5 com.limegroup.gnutella 0x000025e8 0x1000 + 0x15e8
6 com.limegroup.gnutella 0x00001fc8 0x1000 + 0xfc8
7 com.limegroup.gnutella 0x00001df8 0x1000 + 0xdf8

Thread

thanks for clarifying that. i've now got a huge crash report for limewire. it's too long to show entirely in a screen grab, but the first 20-30 lines are below (for some reason, this forum wouldn't allow me to attach the screen grab b/c it was too large). does this script offer any insight?

thanks for all your help.

=====

===== Sun Jul 31 2005 ===== 10:34:32 US/Pacific =====
**********

Host Name: Tom-Bordens-Computer.local
Date/Time: 2005-07-31 10:34:43 -0700
OS Version: 10.3.9 (Build 7W98)
Report Version: 2

Command: LimeWire
Path: /Applications/LimeWire/LimeWire.app/Contents/MacOS/LimeWire
Version: ??? (???)
PID: 650
Thread: 1

Exception: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (0x0001)
Codes: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS (0x0001) at 0xa7531d54

Thread 0:
0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x90007878 mach_msg_trap + 0x8
1 libSystem.B.dylib 0x900073f8 mach_msg + 0x38
2 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x901c16e0 __CFRunLoopRun + 0x350
3 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x901c5e6c CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 0x148
4 ...ple.JavaApplicationLauncher 0x850318b4 _Z11startupJavaiiPPKcPK14__CFDictionary14BuilderVe rsionS0_S1_ + 0x128
5 com.limegroup.gnutella 0x000025e8 0x1000 + 0x15e8
6 com.limegroup.gnutella 0x00001fc8 0x1000 + 0xfc8
7 com.limegroup.gnutella 0x00001df8 0x1000 + 0xdf8

Thread 1 Crashed:
0 libjvm.dylib 0x936b33f8 JVM_Timeout + 0x1018
1 libjvm.dylib 0x936bab04 JVM_DoPrivileged + 0x2ea4
2 libjvm.dylib 0x936c7220 JVM_MonitorNotifyAll + 0xf50
3 libjvm.dylib 0x93674d14 JVM_GetClassAccessFlags + 0xab4
4 libjvm.dylib 0x93677544 JVM_MonitorWait + 0x1da4
5 libjvm.dylib 0x936772bc JVM_MonitorWait + 0x1b1c
6 libjvm.dylib 0x9373345c JVM_GetClassDeclaredFields + 0x161c
7 libjvm.dylib 0x93762d70 JVM_GetInterfaceVersion + 0x15330
8 libjvm.dylib 0x9375daa8 JVM_GetInterfaceVersion + 0x10068
9 libjvm.dylib 0x9375d5dc JVM_GetInterfaceVersion + 0xfb9c

Well that's a Java crash, not much can be done beside Apple Java guys FINALLY getting Java right. I have lots of those Java crashes. Sometimes I wish Sun would have done the Java port onto os x... Well maybe it'll be fixed in the next Java update.

Have you tried reinstalling Java 1.4.2 update 2? Because 10.3.9 did broke Java on some machines. http://www.apple.com/support/downloa...update142.html

Bonne chance

i already installed 1.4.2 version 2. any other suggestions?

thanks.

Installed: yes. But did you reinstall? That's what you need to do.

coincidentally enough, or maybe not, Apple just this morning released a new Java update (1.0) for OSX 10.3.9. i installed it and now limewire works. maybe they were getting some flack about problems with 10.3.9 and Java.

hummm this update is from 04/21/05... we are end of july. http://www.apple.com/support/downloa...acosx1039.html

You are certainly living in the past... Did you know that 10.4.2 is available :D

hmm. that's strange because the Apple Software Update only this morning brought that Java update up as available. not sure why it would have waited until now.

i know we're up to 10.4.2, but i'm not a huge fan of constant upgrades. particularly when they cost me. i wait until there's a reason that i need to upgrade before spending any money.

Not meaning to be rude...
 

Hey Guys but I have the same problem. My Limewire isn't working. I was just wondering if you came to a solution to get it working again???

Thanks a lot.

~Percalex~

mine is now working again, thanks to the latest Apple Java update 1.0. software updater should automatically bring it up.

Mac OS X version
 

IT is absolutely ridiculous for you to imply that users of OS X need to upgrade to 10.4.2 to correct blatant errors in the JAVA implementation for 10.3.9 . There are many computer users such as myself that prefer to use our machines to get work done rather than as a platform for experimenting with bleeding edge code. I currently work with over a dozen music applications on my Mac and have no desire whatsoever to upgrade to 10.4.2 so that I can re-purchase broken sotware or spend hours applying patches or hunting for new drivers or even getting used to new "features", or even doing without because the small company that made it is gone. Apple released "Panther" and sold it to the public as a finished product that they should stand by, not abandon for the next thing and leave 20 to 30 percent of their customers wondering what happened. This sort of behavior reminds me of another software manufacturer that is notorious for the sloppiest code on the planet. I also find the attitude that computer users need to have the latest versions of software to be disproprtionatly supportive of the software manufacturers and (also the computer manufacturers) and a burden on computer users. If the software is seriously lacking, or flawed when it is sold, the consumer is essentially a beta tester for the manufacturer; this is unnacceptable. It is the job of the software manufacturer to convince me of the necessity of spending MY time upgrading their software. How so many people have been brainwashed into this mindless upgrading is beyond me. As for this issue with Limewire, I still don't have a working copy of Limewire on my machine because I made the terrible assumption based on history that Apple only provides patches that improve the quality of their software; seeing as how this has now been proved wrong, I have already turned off the auto-updating portion of software update and I will treat these suggested upgrades the same way I treat Microsoft's upgrades - with a VERY large grain of salt.

I'm guessing you're using Panther, right? Yeah I feel a little similar about "some" of the things you said. And why should we have to pay for Tiger or Leopard.

But getting to the point of your problem, Take et voilà's suggestion about the "offline" Java 1.4.2 update 2 installer. It seems to generally do the job of fixing this Java saga. http://www.apple.com/downloads/macos...update142.html If it doesn't let you install it, then remove the Java142_update2.pkg file from the receipts folder; Receipts folder sample image After that, repair permissions by rebooting whilst holding down SHIFT key until you see the Safe Booting message. Then after fully started up, Open Disk Utility from the Utilities folder & Repair permissions. Then reboot normally & try LW then.

BTW I recently (some days ago) upgraded to Tiger & installed Java 1.5, & on "my" system, LW seems to behave much better with it than Java 1.4.2 did in Panther. LW behaves faster & has yet to crash after a few days of heavy use. (I have large no. of incomplete & shares.) VM & ram is very consistent.

Java Update 2
 

Thanks for the post. Even after throwing the reciept away, the installer still refused to continue. I gave up and bought a newer version (4.10.5) of Limewire Pro and it works now. That really dissapointed me ( you could tell from the rant ) as the one I had (so it was a year or so old - I didn't care ) worked fine until Apple updated whatever they updated. Thanks again for offering help so readily.