preview.app crashes

[gcu]

I have TIGER 10.4.1 and ever since was installed the preview.app crashes.
I have no idea how to solve the problem.

I can´t even open the preview.app by itself. The error says:


2005-06-22 23:04:08 -0500

Link (dyld) error:

bad local relocation length

Any ideas? heard 10.4.2 is comming up
😱

 

[mkrishnan]

Try forcing an update of prebindings -- dyld is the daemon that handles library binding. To do this, in Terminal, type:

sudo update_prebinding -root / -force -debug

And reboot immediately after it completes. To be safe, you might also repair permissions right before updating prebinding (either with disk utility or by sudo diskutil repairpermissions / in Terminal). The specific reason is that it's possible, in principle, for an otherwise feasible prebinding to fail because of permissions issues....

 

[norz]

sudo update_prebinding -root / -force -debug

And reboot immediately after it completes.

Had the same error with Google Chrome 12.x on Mac OS 10.5.8, and this solution worked for me, thanks! 🙂

(This is an old thread, but still relevant imho.)