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Author Topic: MC crashing immediately [SOLVED] (Mojave and less than latest MC24)  (Read 6189 times)

Mike Foran

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I was over at my Brother's, attempting to install MC on his Mac. Upon launch, MC would flash a window for about 1/100th of a second and then crash. I'm at a loss as to why but I copied the crash dump. It is in the attached file. Any ideas as to what's going on here?
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soucalcole

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Re: MC crashing immediately
« Reply #1 on: January 10, 2019, 02:06:57 pm »

Running a Mac with Mohave (current update), JRiver 23; when I try to install I get the flash on the screen and error msg ". . .  quit unexpectedly".  I've tried deleting all JRiver files, restarting the computer and trying again - several times.  The link provided in reply to this original question is no longer valid apparently - tho' I am registered user, tells me it is not available or not available to me.

Apparently there is a known solution posted under the 24 thread but if so, I can't find it via the provided link.

thanks, first lines of the error  message follow:


Process:               Media Center 23 [578]
Path:                  /private/var/folders/*/Media Center 23.app/Contents/MacOS/Media Center 23
Identifier:            com.jriver.MediaCenter23
Version:               23.0.103 (230104)
Code Type:             X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process:        ? [1]
Responsible:           Media Center 23 [578]
User ID:               501

Date/Time:             2019-01-10 11:35:59.320 -0800
OS Version:            Mac OS X 10.14.2 (18C54)
Report Version:        12
Anonymous UUID:        D5E128EF-153B-ADDB-7CAD-E03AD6C1EF9C


Time Awake Since Boot: 850 seconds

System Integrity Protection: enabled

Notes:                 Translocated Process

Crashed Thread:        0  Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread

Exception Type:        EXC_CRASH (SIGABRT)
Exception Codes:       0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000
Exception Note:        EXC_CORPSE_NOTIFY

Application Specific Information:
Assertion failed: (_eventPort != NULL), function -[SPMediaKeyTap startWatchingMediaKeys], file /Users/jriver/Desktop/Development/ThirdParty/SPMediaKeyTap/SPMediaKeyTap.m, line 76.
 
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Re: MC crashing immediately
« Reply #2 on: January 10, 2019, 02:29:03 pm »

Give me a few minutes to boot into my Mac partition and I'll post a tutorial.
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Re: MC crashing immediately
« Reply #3 on: January 10, 2019, 02:42:22 pm »

Open Mac's System Preferences. From there go to Security & Privacy > Privacy tab.

Click on Accessibility, then press the lock button on the bottom left, input your password when prompted to unlock the settings.

Finally (once you unlock it and can make changes) make sure your Media Center 23 app is checked. Like this example with Media Center 24...



That *should* do it.
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Re: MC crashing immediately
« Reply #4 on: January 16, 2019, 12:22:10 pm »

You Da Man!
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soucalcole

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Re: MC crashing immediately
« Reply #5 on: January 17, 2019, 11:40:01 am »

Thank you very much - solved the problem!
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Re: MC crashing immediately {SOLVED] (Mojave and less than latest MC24)
« Reply #6 on: January 31, 2019, 08:43:16 am »

My MC24 (now up to .74) crashes immediately whenever I try to do anything other than look at, search, or play my files. For example, clicking on Tag in the Action window always results in an immediate app quit. Report log as attached (the system report and also MC log), but I had previously updated my Privacy/Accessibility settings as per the instructions here (screenshot attached). Turns out that earlier versions of MC24, and even MC23, which used to run just fine now have the same bug. Using an iMac late 2012 running 10.14.3 (but was happening on earlier versions of 10.14 too). Any suggestions?
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Re: MC crashing immediately {SOLVED] (Mojave and less than latest MC24)
« Reply #7 on: February 18, 2019, 04:01:39 pm »

I have the same issue with the spontaneous ejection of MC24. I cannot see MC24 in the Privacy tab as shown by Awesome Donkey.
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Re: MC crashing immediately {SOLVED] (Mojave and less than latest MC24)
« Reply #8 on: February 19, 2019, 03:51:29 am »

Make sure you're using the latest build of MC24, 24.0.75.
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Re: MC crashing immediately {SOLVED] (Mojave and less than latest MC24)
« Reply #9 on: February 19, 2019, 05:06:37 am »

I checked and it is the correct build. It's really frustrating.
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Re: MC crashing immediately {SOLVED] (Mojave and less than latest MC24)
« Reply #10 on: February 19, 2019, 05:15:47 am »

Try disabling auto-import and see if the crashing stops. If it does stop crashing, then you've likely got bad files.
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Re: MC crashing immediately [SOLVED] (Mojave and less than latest MC24)
« Reply #11 on: February 21, 2019, 05:24:09 am »

Thanks I'll give it a try. However, the same files work fine for M23.
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Re: MC crashing immediately [SOLVED] (Mojave and less than latest MC24)
« Reply #12 on: February 21, 2019, 03:12:32 pm »

jlyness seems to have at least one m4a file (AAC audio) that MC is puking on.  I would recommend turning off auto import there too.

For philperry:  Recent versions of MC24 have changed something about AAC importing.  It seems to be more sensitive now to AAC files as there have been a good number of people reporting crashes.  At least 2 (maybe more?) recent versions of MC have addressed this as the JRiver team finds more AAC files that are crashing systems.  I think they are fixing the problems as they are reported.  If indeed your system is crashing because of unusual AAC (m4a) files, that would be good to know so JRiver can look at one of these files and hopefully fix the source of the crash.

Or you may have an entirely different problem.  Turning off auto import will help narrow this down.

Brian.
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Re: MC crashing immediately [SOLVED] (Mojave and less than latest MC24)
« Reply #13 on: February 21, 2019, 03:26:17 pm »

Apple made some changes to tagging that caused these problems.
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Re: MC crashing immediately [SOLVED] (Mojave and less than latest MC24)
« Reply #14 on: February 27, 2019, 06:14:22 am »

Turning off auto-import has not helped. I've actually used it to import many files, without difficulty, so I'm not surprised that turning it off didn't help.

jlyness seems to have at least one m4a file (AAC audio) that MC is puking on.  I would recommend turning off auto import there too.

For philperry:  Recent versions of MC24 have changed something about AAC importing.  It seems to be more sensitive now to AAC files as there have been a good number of people reporting crashes.  At least 2 (maybe more?) recent versions of MC have addressed this as the JRiver team finds more AAC files that are crashing systems.  I think they are fixing the problems as they are reported.  If indeed your system is crashing because of unusual AAC (m4a) files, that would be good to know so JRiver can look at one of these files and hopefully fix the source of the crash.

Or you may have an entirely different problem.  Turning off auto import will help narrow this down.

Brian.
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