Garage band '08 just crashes

[Me1000]

So I installed iLife '08 and everything works except Garage band,
It was on my macbook (look in sig for specs) so it should work and everything.

When I open it up it has the "initializing" window, and it stays up for a minute or so until the whole application just crashes.

I tried to rerun the installer, but the only option I get is to install the instruments and loops, so I installed it.

Same thing happened.

What can I do?

Should I just drop the application in the trash and try to reinstall it that way?


EDIT: when I get the error message and I hit 'report' this is the error...

Date/Time: 2007-09-15 23:13:40.668 -0500
OS Version: 10.4.10 (Build 8R2218)
Report Version: 4

Command: GarageBand
Path: /Applications/GarageBand.app/Contents/MacOS/GarageBand
Parent: WindowServer [77]

Version: 4.0.0 (221)
Build Version: 6
Project Name: GarageBand_App
Source Version: 2210000

PID: 21889
Thread: 10

Exception: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (0x0001)
Codes: KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE (0x0002) at 0x00000000

Thread 0:
0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x90037b57 mach_wait_until + 7
1 libSystem.B.dylib 0x9003a222 usleep + 82
2 com.apple.audio.midi.CoreMIDI 0x969e8df2 Initialize(MIDIClient*) + 246
3 com.apple.audio.midi.CoreMIDI 0x969e8b7a CheckInitialization() + 112
4 com.apple.audio.midi.CoreMIDI 0x969ebf87 MIDIClientCreate + 19
5 com.apple.garageband 0x004ace59 0x1000 + 4898393
6 com.apple.garageband 0x0076ef38 0x1000 + 7790392
7 com.apple.garageband 0x0033c1cc 0x1000 + 3387852
8 com.apple.garageband 0x002535f7 0x1000 + 2434551
9 com.apple.garageband 0x00064e9d 0x1000 + 409245
10 com.apple.garageband 0x00064507 0x1000 + 406791
11 com.apple.Foundation 0x927ed17b _nsnote_callback + 230
12 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x908563e6 __CFXNotificationPost + 345
13 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x9084dbd1 _CFXNotificationPostNotification + 600
14 com.apple.Foundation 0x927e5724 -[NSNotificationCenter postNotificationNamebject:userInfo:] + 121
15 com.apple.Foundation 0x927ec6c9 -[NSNotificationCenter postNotificationNamebject:] + 55
16 com.apple.AppKit 0x9328d079 -[NSApplication finishLaunching] + 355
17 com.apple.AppKit 0x9328cc29 -[NSApplication run] + 78
18 com.apple.AppKit 0x93280d2f NSApplicationMain + 573
19 com.apple.garageband 0x0017a9b9 0x1000 + 1546681
20 com.apple.garageband 0x00003a52 0x1000 + 10834
21 com.apple.garageband 0x00003979 0x1000 + 10617

Thread 1:
0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x90009cd7 mach_msg_trap + 7
1 com.unsanity.ape 0xc0001cac __ape_agent + 307
2 libSystem.B.dylib 0x90024227 _pthread_body + 84

Thread 2:
0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x9003f6cf syscall_thread_switch + 7
1 com.apple.AppKit 0x9336a66e -[NSUIHeartBeat _heartBeatThread:] + 1399
2 com.apple.Foundation 0x927f52e0 forkThreadForFunction + 123
3 libSystem.B.dylib 0x90024227 _pthread_body + 84

Thread 3:
0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x90009cd7 mach_msg_trap + 7
1 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x9082d2b3 CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 2014
2 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x9082cace CFRunLoopRunInMode + 61
3 com.apple.audio.CoreAudio 0x9146941e HALRunLoop::OwnThread(void*) + 158
4 com.apple.audio.CoreAudio 0x91469239 CAPThread::Entry(CAPThread*) + 93
5 libSystem.B.dylib 0x90024227 _pthread_body + 84

Thread 4:
0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x900248c7 semaphore_wait_signal_trap + 7
1 com.apple.garageband 0x008729c4 0x1000 + 8853956
2 com.apple.garageband 0x00872a8b 0x1000 + 8854155
3 libSystem.B.dylib 0x90024227 _pthread_body + 84

Thread 5:
0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x900248c7 semaphore_wait_signal_trap + 7
1 com.apple.garageband 0x008729c4 0x1000 + 8853956
2 com.apple.garageband 0x00872a8b 0x1000 + 8854155
3 libSystem.B.dylib 0x90024227 _pthread_body + 84

Thread 6:
0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x90047dd7 semaphore_timedwait_signal_trap + 7
1 com.apple.audio.CoreAudio 0x9147665c CAGuard::WaitFor(unsigned long long) + 212
2 com.apple.audio.CoreAudio 0x9147657e CAGuard::WaitUntil(unsigned long long) + 66
3 com.apple.audio.CoreAudio 0x91474efa HP_IOThread::WorkLoop() + 690
4 com.apple.audio.CoreAudio 0x91474c43 HP_IOThread::ThreadEntry(HP_IOThread*) + 17
5 com.apple.audio.CoreAudio 0x91469239 CAPThread::Entry(CAPThread*) + 93
6 libSystem.B.dylib 0x90024227 _pthread_body + 84

Thread 7:
0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x90047dd7 semaphore_timedwait_signal_trap + 7
1 com.apple.audio.CoreAudio 0x9147665c CAGuard::WaitFor(unsigned long long) + 212
2 com.apple.audio.CoreAudio 0x9147657e CAGuard::WaitUntil(unsigned long long) + 66
3 com.apple.audio.CoreAudio 0x91474efa HP_IOThread::WorkLoop() + 690
4 com.apple.audio.CoreAudio 0x91474c43 HP_IOThread::ThreadEntry(HP_IOThread*) + 17
5 com.apple.audio.CoreAudio 0x91469239 CAPThread::Entry(CAPThread*) + 93
6 libSystem.B.dylib 0x90024227 _pthread_body + 84

Thread 8:
0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x9002493f semaphore_wait_trap + 7
1 com.apple.garageband 0x00494a5f 0x1000 + 4799071
2 libSystem.B.dylib 0x90024227 _pthread_body + 84

Thread 9:
0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x9002493f semaphore_wait_trap + 7
1 com.apple.garageband 0x00494984 0x1000 + 4798852
2 libSystem.B.dylib 0x90024227 _pthread_body + 84

Thread 10 Crashed:
0 com.apple.garageband 0x00002805 0x1000 + 6149
1 libSystem.B.dylib 0x90024227 _pthread_body + 84

Thread 10 crashed with X86 Thread State (32-bit):
eax: 0x00000000 ebx: 0x90ce8d48 ecx: 0xa0c7ed64 edx: 0x00000000
edi: 0x00002804 esi: 0x013ae742 ebp: 0xb061df38 esp: 0xb061ded8
ss: 0x0000001f efl: 0x00010246 eip: 0x00002805 cs: 0x00000017
ds: 0x0000001f es: 0x0000001f fs: 0x00000000 gs: 0x00000037
...

it was longer (like 4 times as long), but I got rid of the part that i dont think was really important

 

[Me1000]

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[norayork]

Crashing

The same thing is happening to me -- I just installed ilife 08 on my MacBook Pro 15" Intel Core Duo -- and garage band just crashes away -- I have no idea what to do.
Help?

 

[geoffjburch]

Garage band '08 just crashes

Hi all,

I've been having the same problems in 10.5 and 10.4.10. I don't know if this is an ultimate fix or not, but for grins this morning, I tried removing my /Users/username/Library/Caches/GarageBand folder, and it appears to be much less crash-prone.

I also found this page to have some helpful hints:

http://www.macosxtips.co.uk/index_files/5-ways-to-speed-up-garageband.html

Hope that helps.

 

[mrlunch]

I have a brand new 20" iMac 24 running Leopard when I click on GarageBand '08 a dialog box appears saying "Initializing..." and I have to do a force quit. Any suggestions on what I can do to get this working?

 

[gmbelly]

garage crash

hi, i have a new imac 20inch, and everytime i play in the window where you can add a music track, from my keystation, it crashes and i lose what i have done...any ideas?

 

[pilotError]

For those of you who got stuck at initializing...

I went and deleted the /Users/myusername/Library/Caches/GarageBand...

directory.

I then went and deleted the 2 files from

/Users/myusername/Library/Preferences/com.apple.garageband.plist and
/Users/myusername/Library/Preferences/com.apple.garageband.cs

GarageBand then started without issue.