Re: [growl-discuss] Crashes whenever I (un)plug external monitor from my 2010 MBP.

[Chris Forsythe]

Have you reported this to us before?

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On Wednesday, September 19, 2012 at 10:54 PM, Christian Miller wrote:

I was hoping 2.0 would fix this issue. Whenever I plug or unplug the external monitor from my 2010 17" MacBook Pro, Growl crashes & I need to restart it. Any workarounds I might be able to try?

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[Daniel Siemer]

I tested this as widely as I could under the new system (which is
quite different internally from the old one) and had no issues with
either my display port attached monitor or the airdisplay app on my
ipad. During beta we did have an issue come up for someone with a
display link USB display. I am afraid we were unable to work around
the issue for 2.0, as we could never pin it to anything in our code
(the crash did not reference our code directly at all), and only
removing the kext would fix it for him. Note that this issue would
persist for the user even if he hadn't using the display link adapter
since rebooting do to the kext loading anyways.

On Sep 19, 11:06 pm, Chris Forsythe <ch...@growl.info> wrote:
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> > I was hoping 2.0 would fix this issue. Whenever I plug or unplug the external monitor from my 2010 17" MacBook Pro, Growl crashes & I need to restart it. Any workarounds I might be able to try?
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[Christian Miller]

No, I hadn't.

[Christian Miller]

I have a mini display port to DVI adapter that plugs into an external Asus VH242H 24" monitor.

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[Daniel Siemer]

Are you by any chance using an app called Bartender? We have seen some
evidence to indicate that there may be a conflict caused by it.

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[Christian Miller]

On Monday, September 24, 2012 8:25:28 AM UTC-4, Daniel Siemer wrote:

Are you by any chance using an app called Bartender? We have seen some
evidence to indicate that there may be a conflict caused by it.

I am! I love Bartender. 

[Daniel Siemer]

Could you see if this crash continues to happen without bartender
running? We will be looking to fix this if possible for a future
release, but for now we mainly firming up that Bartender is the
cause.

[Thierry Di Lenarda]

Daniel,

I reported in another thread exactly the same issue a few months before 2.0 went out for release (Just after WWDC '12). Not only the plug / unplug of my Mini display port from my MacBook Pro (a mid-2010, just like Christian Miller), but a bunch of apps crash Growl as well, including Aperture 3 and few others (I lost count, Growl crashes 10-15 times / day).

I just quit Bartender, checked that Growl was running, and launched Aperture. Guess what ?

Growl didn't crash !! 1st time in months !!

I will launch Bartender again to write down the names of the apps that make Growl crash and will then launch them without Bartender on. 

I will check tomorrow morning if plugging my 27" Cinema display will make Growl crash with Baretender closed. If not, you found the problem.

Congrats, it's a huge step forward to fix this issue. I started to believe that my system was unstable, but my only crashes in the last few months are Growl and Growl only (Hardware Growler works like a charm)

That's a pity as I love Bartender, I can have lots of Menu items on my MacBook Pro

Who do you think will have to fix the bug ?

Cheers,

[Daniel Siemer]

I do occaisionally miss error reports, this is why we encourage people
to create bug reports at http://code.google.com/p/growl/issues/list,
Im much less likely to miss them there.

However, I have spent the last half hour trying to reproduce this with
a variety of combinations related to Growl, displays, and bartender,
and have yet to make Growl crash. It looks like we are going you guys
to do more testing to help us figure out what is going on here so we
can reproduce it.

I have filed this as http://code.google.com/p/growl/issues/detail?id=530

On Sep 24, 1:07 pm, Thierry Di Lenarda <thierry.dilena...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Daniel,
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> I reported in another thread exactly the same issue a few months before 2.0
> went out for release (Just after WWDC '12). Not only the plug / unplug of
> my Mini display port from my MacBook Pro (a mid-2010, just like Christian
> Miller), but a bunch of apps crash Growl as well, including Aperture 3 and
> few others (I lost count, Growl crashes 10-15 times / day).
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> I just quit Bartender, checked that Growl was running, and launched
> Aperture. Guess what ?
> Growl didn't crash !! 1st time in months !!
> I will launch Bartender again to write down the names of the apps that make
> Growl crash and will then launch them without Bartender on.
>
> I will check tomorrow morning if plugging my 27" Cinema display will make
> Growl crash with Baretender closed. If not, you found the problem.
> Congrats, it's a huge step forward to fix this issue. I started to believe
> that my system was unstable, but my only crashes in the last few months are
> Growl and Growl only (Hardware Growler works like a charm)
> That's a pity as I love Bartender, I can have lots of Menu items on my
> MacBook Pro
>

> <https://www.evernote.com/shard/s2/sh/6c8eb853-fd8c-4abd-bcf1-8925143d...>

[Christian Miller]

I can confirm that Growl did NOT crash when I un/plugged my external monitor while Bartender was NOT running.

[Thierry Di Lenarda]

That's perfect. If you want crash reports, I just put the last one. There are 2 line clearly indicating Bartender (only "non-Apple" related, except Growl itself)

[Thierry Di Lenarda]

I reported the bug to the Bartender developer, Ben Surtees, he confirmed me back that he'll look into it !

That's good news.

[Thierry Di Lenarda]

Exactly the same behavior : Crahes with Bartender ON when plugging + unplugging. No crash with Bartender OFF.