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Appelsap

macrumors member
Original poster
Feb 28, 2008
64
0
Hello,

When i try to select an standard Apple screen saver in my preference panel it crashes. I can select screen savers that i imported myself.

Anyone got some ideas what might causing this?

i got this crash report.

Code:
Process:         System Preferences [72656]
Path:            /Applications/System Preferences.app/Contents/MacOS/System Preferences
Identifier:      com.apple.systempreferences
Version:         5.2 (5.2)
Build Info:      SystemPrefsApp-1510800~2
Code Type:       X86 (Native)
Parent Process:  launchd [161]

Date/Time:       2009-01-20 09:53:31.610 +0100
OS Version:      Mac OS X 10.5.6 (9G55)
Report Version:  6

Exception Type:  EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGBUS)
Exception Codes: KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE at 0x000000000000008c
Crashed Thread:  0

Application Specific Information:
|DesktopPicture|mainViewDidLoad
|ScreenSaver|running|Arabesque

Thread 0 Crashed:
0   com.apple.JavaScriptCore      	0x93498272 KJS::Heap::registerThread() + 18
1   com.apple.JavaScriptCore      	0x93490778 JSContextGetGlobalObject + 24
2   ...QuartzComposer.ExtraPatches	0x18cd4ab1 0x18cc8000 + 51889
3   ...QuartzComposer.ExtraPatches	0x18ccd96f 0x18cc8000 + 22895
4   com.apple.QuartzComposer      	0x96cfdd6b -[GFList applyFunction:context:] + 113
5   com.apple.QuartzComposer      	0x96d1286a -[GFNode applyFunctionOnInputPorts:context:] + 122
6   ...QuartzComposer.ExtraPatches	0x18cd0bb4 0x18cc8000 + 35764
7   com.apple.QuartzComposer      	0x96d00dec -[QCProgrammablePatch recompileSourceOfType:] + 174
8   ...QuartzComposer.ExtraPatches	0x18cd006e 0x18cc8000 + 32878
9   com.apple.QuartzComposer      	0x96d0d99f -[QCPatch(Private) _setup:state:] + 437
10  com.apple.QuartzComposer      	0x96d0dbc7 -[QCPatch(Private) _setup:state:] + 989
11  com.apple.QuartzComposer      	0x96d0dbc7 -[QCPatch(Private) _setup:state:] + 989
12  com.apple.QuartzComposer      	0x96d0dbc7 -[QCPatch(Private) _setup:state:] + 989
13  com.apple.QuartzComposer      	0x96d0dbc7 -[QCPatch(Private) _setup:state:] + 989
14  com.apple.QuartzComposer      	0x96d0d44d -[QCContext startRenderingPatch:options:] + 406
15  com.apple.QuartzComposer      	0x96d0d28e -[QCGraphicsContext startRenderingPatch:options:] + 71
16  com.apple.QuartzComposer      	0x96d0d1f1 -[QCOpenGLContext startRenderingPatch:options:] + 71
17  ....screensaver.QuartzComposer	0x16b9a3ca 0x16b95000 + 21450
18  ...pscreeneffect.screeneffects	0x190e9723 0x190e2000 + 30499
19  com.apple.Foundation          	0x901ebe1a _nsnote_callback + 106
20  com.apple.CoreFoundation      	0x91fbc8da __CFXNotificationPost + 362
21  com.apple.CoreFoundation      	0x91fbcbb3 _CFXNotificationPostNotification + 179
22  com.apple.Foundation          	0x901e9080 -[NSNotificationCenter postNotificationName:object:userInfo:] + 128
23  com.apple.Foundation          	0x901f28c8 -[NSNotificationCenter postNotificationName:object:] + 56
24  com.apple.AppKit              	0x939c7e09 -[NSTableView _enableSelectionPostingAndPost] + 561
25  com.apple.AppKit              	0x93a01290 -[NSTableView mouseDown:] + 6867
26  com.apple.AppKit              	0x93a1168d -[NSOutlineView mouseDown:] + 611
27  com.apple.AppKit              	0x939b81a3 -[NSWindow sendEvent:] + 5381
28  com.apple.AppKit              	0x93984d49 -[NSApplication sendEvent:] + 2941
29  com.apple.systempreferences   	0x00008010 0x1000 + 28688
30  com.apple.AppKit              	0x938e269f -[NSApplication run] + 847
31  com.apple.AppKit              	0x938af8a4 NSApplicationMain + 574
32  com.apple.systempreferences   	0x00009ba2 0x1000 + 35746
 

Mashiach

macrumors regular
Mar 5, 2008
144
0
In a House Near the Sea
try trashing

com.apple.systempreferences.plist

found in users/<username>/library/preferences.

Copy it to another directory first just in case it breaks something so you can put it back again.
 
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