On 27 Mar 2011, at 14:49, Mattias Larsson wrote: > I'm having some difficulty getting Growl working. > > 1. It started with mer downloading a style, called Nucleic. Can be > found here: http://designmoo.com/resource/nucleic-growl-theme/ > > 2. I installed by double-clicking on the two styles (dark and light) > and it all worked successfully, so i clicked through to the settings > or what the next step prompted me about. The System Preferences > crashed right away and gave me an error. (Though it didn't reference > anything to growl so I didn't save it. I can probably reproduce it if > you want to take a look at it.) > > 3. I then restarted the System Preferences and clicked on Growl, it > said "Läser in Growl..." (which translated means "Loading Growl...") > at the top of the window. It kept on loading for 10 minutes before i > gave up and uninstalled growl via the uninstall script from the > Growl-1.2.1.dmg which was successful and i double-checked in the > PreferencePanes directory both in my home folder and from my main > (what is it called? the one it boots from..) hard drive. It was gone, > I also emptied the garbage can. > > 4. I then went trough the installation process from the > Growl-1.2.1.dmg and I got the "installation successful" window. But > System preferences crashed right away after that. And left me with > what looked like the same error as when I installed that style. It did > not reference anywhere to growl. > I could still not open the preference pane for Growl, it's just trying > to load Growl.. > > I then went through step 3. and 4. again a couple of times but the > same pattern occurred and I have now let it "load" Growl for the last > 50 minutes, but no progress. I have also tried to restart the computer > but no difference. > > I have saved the error logs (filtered on "growl") from the console app > and uploaded them here: http://cl.ly/2E1o3q2y3G1w0R3z1u3o > Don't know if it helps you but it might tell you more then it did to > me.. > > I'm using Mac OS X 10.6.7. > > I have tried to explain this as thorough as I can, but if you need > more information or need me to try something, just tell me what to do. > I'm out of solutions except re-installing the OS, but that seems like > a lot of pain.. > > Thanks in advance! > -Mattias Larsson
It is possible the custom styles are causing the crash. To check, we can try to load Growl with and without them. They are stored in the Library/Application Support/Growl/Plugins folder (either your home folder, or hard rive root). Just move them out of that folder, and try opening Growl in System Preferences. If it works, then you know it's one of the things you moved out. Try adding them in one-by-one and checking you can open the Growl Prefs each time; then you will know which one is causing the problem. Once you know, you should probably contact the developer of that plugin, and let them know it's broken. Hopefully they will be able to fix it for you. :) Let us know how you get on! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Growl Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/growldiscuss?hl=en.
