AKcrab,

I do the fsck -y in single user mode, and the repair permission several times a day...

thks...:)

The aliases are normal and the content looks normal too.

What puzzles me, however, is the code you posted:
Does anyone know what "Framework/AddressBook/ABAddressBook.m" refers to? I can't find this anywhere on my system (using either Finder or Locate).

Several times a day? Don't waste your time. There's no real need to do this until after an Apple update via Software Updater or the old fashioned way (via self download & install).

yellow,

I understand that.
But at this time it is part of my constant troubleshooting proces.

thks :)

Have you tried creating another (admin) user account to see whether the problem is system wide rather than related to something in your normal user account?

djn1

Sorry, I didnot respond right away, but I am working abroad now and the access to the internet is not always possible. :eek:

I created another account as you suggested and whoops... The addressbook opened without any difficulties. :p:p:p

Great.. Never thought about that... Gives me hope again... See if things change in course of time...

thks:)

New User worked, but didn't fix Safari crash-o-rama
 

I've been vexed by the Safari and AddressBook crashes at launch on 2 different machines: an older 267 G3 and a newer 700 G4.

Creating a new admin user enabled Safari and Address Book not to crash, but when I logged in as other users, the problem was Still There.

I've read this entire thread, and tried everything here . . . except the full reinstall.

I found this suggestion elsewhere on the web, and fixing the permissions for Application Support for one user solved the problem for all.

(I found this solution by feeding snips of the crashlog entry into Google.)

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the following Crashlog entry:

2003-08-01 14:01:56.692 Mail[593] ABAddressBook could not aquireLock:
writeLock error No such file or directory:
'Framework/AddressBook/ABAddressBook.m' line: 1396
2003-08-01 14:01:56.692 Mail[593] -[ABAddressBook
_initDefaultContactManager] Can't _acquireLock
Framework/AddressBook/ABAddressBook.m:1403

It seems Safari requires Address Book. I've looked at the Knowledge Base with no success. Reinstall 10.2 from CD, zap PRAM, drag working copies of Mail and Address Book, with their plists on the Dual, used TechTool 3.09, Drive 10, Norton SystemWorks for X, and no fix.

I experienced the same problem with Address Book, Mail, iCal, and any other program that references the OS-X address book. It turned out to be a privilege/ownership problem in which, somehow, a directory under my /Users/username/Library had been changed to have "root" ownership.

The following commands from the terminal window fixed the problem for me:

cd /Users/username/Library
sudo chown username:group "Application Support"
cd "Application Support"
sudo chown username:group AddressBook
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You are a bunch of Pretty Smart Guys, so I probably missed the part higher in this thread about checking permissions, but, I must say, finding this tip solved all my problems. (I think the original post was by Jeffrey Paduan.)

because APE loads into every application's space, any crash log will refererence APE whether it was responsible for the crash or not.

i use APE with no noticeable problems, but acknowledge it certainly can create problems.

and mervTormel: why do you have APE references if you don't have APE installed? am i missing something?

hmm, coulda sworn i had a vanilla install with __ape refs in a crash log. now, can't find it.

so, i thought that __ape isn't necessarily unsanity's APE.

This might clarify issues slightly (taken from Unsatity's website):