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Safari dead, arrrrghhh!!!
- Thread starter MBX
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Well, this is getting tough.
How about this:
1) Start the Activity Monitor application (in Utilities).
2) Start Safari.
3) In Activity Monitor, type Safari into the Search/Filter box in the upper-right corner of the main window.
4) Highlight Safari in the list of processes.
5) Click Sample Process and post the results here.
Here we go, i took this sample as the beach ball was spinning and showed "not responding" in activity monitor, let me know if you can read anything out of it:
Sampling process 13404 for 3 seconds with 1 millisecond of run time between samples
Sampling completed, processing symbols...
Analysis of sampling Safari (pid 13404) every 1 millisecond
Call graph:
2823 Thread_272558 DispatchQueue_1: com.apple.main-thread (serial)
2823 0x100001a28
2823 NSApplicationMain
2823 -[NSApplication run]
2823 0x10000ba00
2823 -[NSApplication nextEventMatchingMask:untilDate:inMode:dequeue:]
2823 _DPSNextEvent
2823 BlockUntilNextEventMatchingListInMode
2823 ReceiveNextEventCommon
2823 RunCurrentEventLoopInMode
2823 CFRunLoopRunSpecific
2823 __CFRunLoopRun
2823 __NSFireDelayedPerform
2823 0x100035514
2823 0x100036508
2823 -[SafariSyndication updateBookmarks:andSubscriptions:]
2823 -[BookmarkedFeedsManager refreshFromSynBookmarks:subscribedBookmarks:]
2823 -[BookmarkedFeedsManager _doRefresh]
2823 -[PSClient removeFeed:]
2823 -[PSFeed _remove]
2823 PubSub::IPCClient::deleteSubscription(PubSub::SubscriptionCore*)
2823 ipc_subscription_delete
2823 mach_msg
2823 mach_msg_trap
2823 Thread_272563: JavaScriptCore: FastMalloc scavenger
2823 thread_start
2823 _pthread_start
2823 WTF::TCMalloc_PageHeap::runScavengerThread(void*)
2823 WTF::TCMalloc_PageHeap::scavengerThread()
2823 _pthread_cond_wait
2823 __semwait_signal
2823 Thread_272564 DispatchQueue_2: com.apple.libdispatch-manager (serial)
2823 start_wqthread
2823 _pthread_wqthread
2823 _dispatch_worker_thread2
2823 _dispatch_queue_invoke
2823 _dispatch_mgr_invoke
2823 kevent
2823 Thread_272572: WebCore: IconDatabase
2823 thread_start
2823 _pthread_start
2823 WebCore::IconDatabase::iconDatabaseSyncThread()
2823 WebCore::IconDatabase::syncThreadMainLoop()
2823 _pthread_cond_wait
2823 __semwait_signal
2823 Thread_272580: Safari: SafeBrowsingManager
2823 thread_start
2823 _pthread_start
2823 0x100025303
2823 0x100025373
2823 CFRunLoopRunSpecific
2823 __CFRunLoopRun
2823 mach_msg
2823 mach_msg_trap
2823 Thread_272581
2823 thread_start
2823 _pthread_start
2823 __NSThread__main__
2823 +[NSURLConnection(NSURLConnectionReallyInternal) _resourceLoadLoop:]
2823 CFRunLoopRunSpecific
2823 __CFRunLoopRun
2823 mach_msg
2823 mach_msg_trap
2823 Thread_272590
2823 thread_start
2823 _pthread_start
2823 __CFSocketManager
2823 select$DARWIN_EXTSN
2823 Thread_273404
2823 start_wqthread
2823 _pthread_wqthread
2823 __workq_kernreturn
Total number in stack (recursive counted multiple, when >=5):
5 _pthread_start
5 thread_start
Sort by top of stack, same collapsed (when >= 5):
mach_msg_trap 8469
__semwait_signal 5646
__workq_kernreturn 2823
kevent 2823
select$DARWIN_EXTSN 2823
Sample analysis of process 13404 written to file /dev/stdout
That's the problem, I don't know what that process is, but in comparing to a normally running Safari session, everything was the same until that, and yours seemed to end up taking a wildly divergent path than a normal one.
I tried Googling for it and there's nothing I saw specifically pertaining to it, but in every thread I found it, there were failures of an app involved.
You said you deleted the plists, and reinstalled the app itself; did you do both simultaneously? Delete everything Safari-related, restart, reinstall is what I'm thinking. At this point it can't hurt if you haven't done it in the "big sweep" method.
Delete everything Safari-related, restart, reinstall is what I'm thinking. At this point it can't hurt if you haven't done it in the "big sweep" method.
Or, perhaps try something a bit less dramatic first.
1) Quit Safari.
2) Move the Library/Safari folder in your home folder to the Desktop.
3) Move any Safari-related plist files from Library/Preferences in your home folder to the Desktop.
4) Restart your computer.
5) Try Safari again.
Yes, but perhaps not in that sequence. It can't hurt to try again. Seems like one of those plist files must be corrupted.
Yes i tried all of those things. Still isn't working.
At this point I believe Apple just doesn't want us to remove the built in news RSS-bookmarks.
I really can't believe this. But thanks to everybody, i'm giving up for now and unfortunately have to use the other browser until maybe one day Safari comes back from the dead.
At this point I believe Apple just doesn't want us to remove the built in news RSS-bookmarks.
I really can't believe this. But thanks to everybody, i'm giving up for now and unfortunately have to use the other browser until maybe one day Safari comes back from the dead.