"This should never happen" happened. A lot, actually.

[Fuzzy-wan]

Waaaaa! (Add blubbering sounds here.)

Wondering why my MacBook Pro had stopped making sound (a tale for another day), I went into the Console and found nothing but "Growl: This should never happen". Every five seconds there would be hundreds of these, even when I paused Growl. I had to exit Growl altogether to make it stop. ("Gaaa! Make it stop, make it stop!")

I just started Growl again, and so far it's quiet. (Too quiet, since I still haven't figure out where my sound went.) I'll keep an eye on it in case the impossible happens again, but is there anything else I can do to investigate?

Growl 1.3, OS 10.7.1.

[Christopher Forsythe]

Growl doesn't really deal with your sound at all. It may however be worth looking into typical troubleshooting like repairing permissions. I know on my wife's macbook pro in 10.6.x she has the airport card go missing, and a repair permissions+restart typically resolves it. Maybe something like that is also happening for you.

Chris

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[Fuzzy-wan]

Yeah, I'm pretty sure the sound problem wasn't related to Growl, though it's possible they had a common source.

No sign of new Growl messages in Console since 9:00, so I think I can sleep soundly tonight. 

(Incidentally, I found a solution to my sound problem here: http://hintsforums.macworld.com/showpost.php?p=564649&postcount=16. Sudo kill for the win, and no reboot required. I like that.)

[Peter Hosey]

On Oct 10, 2011, at 18:18:23, Fuzzy-wan wrote:
> … I went into the Console and found nothing but "Growl: This should never happen". Every five seconds there would be hundreds of these, even when I paused Growl. I had to exit Growl altogether to make it stop. ("Gaaa! Make it stop, make it stop!")
>
> I just started Growl again, and so far it's quiet. … I'll keep an eye on it in case the impossible happens again, but is there anything else I can do to investigate?

What display (or displays) do you have set for use in Growl's preferences?

[Fuzzy-wan]

I'm using Smoke for all apps. (Every once in a while I toy with the
others, but Smoke always seems to be <goldilocks>just right</
goldilocks>.)

[Peter Hosey]

On Oct 11, 2011, at 09:43:12, Fuzzy-wan wrote:
> I'm using Smoke for all apps. (Every once in a while I toy with the others, but Smoke always seems to be <goldilocks>just right</
> goldilocks>.)

Was the occasion of the “should never happen” messages one of the times you had toyed with a different display?

[Fuzzy-wan]

Not just then, no.

But thinking about it, I hadn’t restarted the system since I installed
1.3, which happened to occasion another round of toying. So I went
looking for the archived system logs, and found that the Console
messages start 3 minutes after installation, give or take a few
seconds. That was a week ago.

It is conceivable that I started my toying within three minutes of
installation, but there's no way to know for sure.