application launching failures

[Aron S. Spencer]

If the apps you are having trouble launching are PowerPPC (Not Intel  
or Universal), open the Terminal and type:

sudo killall translated

then enter your password when prompted. This should solve your problem.

On Dec 19, 2006, at 12:37 PM, Bart Silverstrim wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Here's an odd problem that seems to have started up in the past  
> week or so.
>
> I have a MacBook, black, running 10.4.8 on an intel 2GHz core duo,  
> 1 gig 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM, this is the spec as it came from Apple, no  
> upgrades or alterations to the hardware since it came in.
>
> I'll have a series of applications open.  At the moment, that would  
> be Mail, some Finder windows, Adium, Overflow, SSH Tunnel Manager,  
> and SMARTReporter.  I also had iTunes running at the time, but shut  
> it down when the behavior appears.  Connected to the laptop: a USB  
> mouse and firewire iPod, network cable, power cable, headphones.
>
> Then I will go to start, in this case, iTerm.  It started up but  
> wouldn't bring up a bash prompt, as if new processes cannot be  
> spawned.  Apple-T brings up a new tab, but it's labeled "shell",  
> and never finishes bringing up the shell prompt.
>
> If I clicked on FireFox, it bounces for a long time in the Dock,  
> then just sits there without the black arrowtip under it.  Again,  
> as if OS X cannot spawn new processes.
>
> This happened yesterday when I had a second monitor hooked up.  I  
> disconnected it, doesn't help.  I ran the disk utility from the  
> installer disc and had it verify and repair permissions, then  
> verify the hard disk.  I had it repair permissions, but the disk  
> verified fine.  SMARTReporter still says there is nothing wrong  
> according to the drive.
>
> Logs, I can't check at the moment, because it's unable to launch  
> anything that will let me view the logs.  It's suffering from this  
> problem *now*, as I am typing this.
>
> Has anyone seen or heard of this type of behavior?  Nothing new  
> will launch, and I will have to restart it in order to get  
> functionality back (although I'm first going to try logging out; as  
> I recall, it wouldn't shut down last time I told it to shut down,  
> and will have to hard-shutdown the MacBook anyway.)
>
> Help?  Tips?  Advice?
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Aron S. Spencer
Union, NJ 07083