Hello everybody,
As a preamble, please excuse my English if I make too many mistakes, I am not a native speaker.
I have a sincere problem running "Mellel", a word processing program by Redlex (www.redlers.com). Everytime I start the program, it immediately crashes completely. Yet, up to yesterday, it worked flawlessly. Since then, I do not recount installing updates of any kind or altering anything else that I could make out to be possibly relevant. In the log, the reason given as the exception type is "EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGBUS)". Google gave about 13.800 hits, so it seems to be a common problem with failing to access memory of any kind. Yet, my attempts to solve it myself have been entirely unsuccessful.
For any help I would be very thankful and I don't know what more to do on my own! What exactly is the problem? How can I repair it? Since I expect many of you to possess the ability to understand it - this is the first part of the crash log (if it isn't enough, please just tell me and I'll provide for the entire log as an attachment, but it is too long for one forum post):
Many thanks in advance! This forum obviously seems to think that the log is funny, since it's converting some of it to smileys...
As a preamble, please excuse my English if I make too many mistakes, I am not a native speaker.
I have a sincere problem running "Mellel", a word processing program by Redlex (www.redlers.com). Everytime I start the program, it immediately crashes completely. Yet, up to yesterday, it worked flawlessly. Since then, I do not recount installing updates of any kind or altering anything else that I could make out to be possibly relevant. In the log, the reason given as the exception type is "EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGBUS)". Google gave about 13.800 hits, so it seems to be a common problem with failing to access memory of any kind. Yet, my attempts to solve it myself have been entirely unsuccessful.
For any help I would be very thankful and I don't know what more to do on my own! What exactly is the problem? How can I repair it? Since I expect many of you to possess the ability to understand it - this is the first part of the crash log (if it isn't enough, please just tell me and I'll provide for the entire log as an attachment, but it is too long for one forum post):
Process: Mellel [321]
Path: /Applications/Mellel.app/Contents/MacOS/Mellel
Identifier: com.redlex.mellel
Version: 2.5 (2.5 (build b29))
Code Type: X86 (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [85]
Date/Time: 2010-11-24 19:52:16.856 +0100
OS Version: Mac OS X 10.6.5 (10H574)
Report Version: 6
Interval Since Last Report: 2367 sec
Crashes Since Last Report: 10
Per-App Interval Since Last Report: 4 sec
Per-App Crashes Since Last Report: 10
Anonymous UUID: 522815B5-2C7D-4FEF-828C-5A3E5912BC51
Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGBUS)
Exception Codes: KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE at 0x000000000000004c
Crashed Thread: 0 Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
Thread 0 Crashed: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
0 com.redlex.mellel 0x00181814 -[ERStyleSetManager loadStyleSets] + 404
1 com.redlex.mellel 0x0018108c +[ERStyleSetManager sharedManager] + 172
2 com.redlex.mellel 0x001e8b79 -[ERRegexEditor initWithFrame:] + 185
3 com.apple.AppKit 0x9359094c -[NSCustomView nibInstantiate] + 576
4 com.apple.AppKit 0x934d5a49 -[NSIBObjectData instantiateObject:] + 253
5 com.apple.AppKit 0x934d4d4e -[NSIBObjectData nibInstantiateWithOwner:topLevelObjects:] + 336
6 com.apple.AppKit 0x934d31f4 loadNib + 257
7 com.apple.AppKit 0x934d2848 +[NSBundle(NSNibLoading) _loadNibFile:nameTable:withZone
8 com.apple.AppKit 0x934d24fe +[NSBundle(NSNibLoading) loadNibFile:externalNameTable:withZone:] + 158
9 com.apple.AppKit 0x934d2449 +[NSBundle(NSNibLoading) loadNibNamed
10 com.redlex.mellel 0x001f68b2 -[ERNewFindPanel ensureNibLoaded] + 66
11 com.redlex.mellel 0x001f661b -[ERNewFindPanel setOptionsToDefault] + 27
12 com.redlex.mellel 0x001f6809 -[ERNewFindPanel awakeFromNib] + 201
13 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x926749b4 -[NSSet makeObjectsPerformSelector:] + 196
14 com.apple.AppKit 0x934d521c -[NSIBObjectData nibInstantiateWithOwner:topLevelObjects:] + 1566
15 com.apple.AppKit 0x934d31f4 loadNib + 257
16 com.apple.AppKit 0x934d2848 +[NSBundle(NSNibLoading) _loadNibFile:nameTable:withZone
17 com.apple.AppKit 0x934d24fe +[NSBundle(NSNibLoading) loadNibFile:externalNameTable:withZone:] + 158
18 com.apple.AppKit 0x934d2449 +[NSBundle(NSNibLoading) loadNibNamed
19 com.apple.AppKit 0x934cf24d NSApplicationMain + 434
20 com.redlex.mellel 0x00002852 _start + 216
21 com.redlex.mellel 0x00002779 start + 41
Thread 1: Dispatch queue: com.apple.libdispatch-manager
0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x94d49982 kevent + 10
1 libSystem.B.dylib 0x94d4a09c _dispatch_mgr_invoke + 215
2 libSystem.B.dylib 0x94d49559 _dispatch_queue_invoke + 163
3 libSystem.B.dylib 0x94d492fe _dispatch_worker_thread2 + 240
4 libSystem.B.dylib 0x94d48d81 _pthread_wqthread + 390
5 libSystem.B.dylib 0x94d48bc6 start_wqthread + 30
Thread 2:
0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x94d48a12 __workq_kernreturn + 10
1 libSystem.B.dylib 0x94d48fa8 _pthread_wqthread + 941
2 libSystem.B.dylib 0x94d48bc6 start_wqthread + 30
Thread 0 crashed with X86 Thread State (32-bit):
eax: 0x012236a0 ebx: 0x00000000 ecx: 0x93cb31ac edx: 0x00000000
edi: 0x01225640 esi: 0x012258f0 ebp: 0xbffff398 esp: 0xbffff350
ss: 0x0000001f efl: 0x00010246 eip: 0x00181814 cs: 0x00000017
ds: 0x0000001f es: 0x0000001f fs: 0x00000000 gs: 0x00000037
cr2: 0x0000004c
Many thanks in advance! This forum obviously seems to think that the log is funny, since it's converting some of it to smileys...