Re: [growl-discuss] Growl installer problems

[Peter Hosey]

On Aug 15, 2010, at 02:37:51, Dewdman42 wrote:
> I get a message that it can't find the default application for opening Growl.prefpane.

What happens if you double-click on the prefpane in the Finder?

[Dewdman42]

Double clicking on it opens it in system preferences just as you would
expect it to.

I meant to say earlier, when I said that I right clicked on it and
tried to specify it again as the default app that it "didn't work". I
meant it worked to do that, but it didn't fix the next attempt to
complete a growl install.

All that being said, growl seems to be working...so whatever it did
was enough to get it working, but of course I am not 100% convinced it
was a complete install since the installer did not complete.

And now of course I'm a bit paranoid that something in my system is
broken but I have no idea what.

[Dewdman42]

ok strange. I have it working now, but who knows why. Here is what I
did.

- I used a tool called unpkg to just extract the clean prefpane file
out of the installer.

- I removed the old prefpane by right clicking it from within System
prefs.

- I double clicked on the extracted prefPane, which asked me if I want
to install it. I chose for all users and confirmed.

- It installed but crashed the system prefs in the process somehow.
(I sent the report to Apple, but forgot to save it). Actually sitting
here now I am not sure if it crashed when I installed it or removed it
again.

- After that I ran the normal Growl installer and now its working
perfectly. I can uninstall and reinstall at will with no error.

Conclusion: Somehow installing the prefPane manually must have flushed
something out that is now not getting in the way. I really don't have
any other explanation. I wish I had the saved system prefs crash log,
but its gone, unless its here on my system somewhere. If you think it
is and you want it, let me know.

[Peter Hosey]

On Aug 15, 2010, at 10:45:01, Dewdman42 wrote:
> I wish I had the saved system prefs crash log, but its gone, unless its here on my system somewhere.

You'll find it in the Console application.

[Steve Schow]

I will look for that. Been doing some backup and restore, so it might be
gone now unfortunately but if I can find it I will, just in case the segv or
whatever it was was due to growl.

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[Dewdman42]

Unfortunately the logs are gone. I've been doing a lot of backup/
restore today. Can't replicate the problem anymore either.