Re: Mathematica 4.0.1 Front End crashes my Mac
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- Subject: [mg20159] Re: Mathematica 4.0.1 Front End crashes my Mac
- From: "Gary L. Gray" <gray at engr.psu.edu>
- Date: Sat, 2 Oct 1999 03:05:13 -0400
- Organization: Penn State University-Engineering Science & Mechanics
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In article <7ssge2$bm2 at smc.vnet.net>, Andrew Cunningham <andrewc at vasci.com> wrote: > I'm running a stable OS 8.6 system. After starting and then quitting the > Front-End (4.0.1), my Mac will crash as soon as I click on any menu bar > ( say, of the finder). MacsBug shows I am in _InitProcMenu. This is 100% > reproducible and I don't even have to do anything in the front end - > just start and quit. I then have to reboot my Mac. Interestingly every > app crashes during the reboot process. No other app causes problems like > this. > Has anyone else seen something similar? > > Andrew Cunningham > Vibro-Acoustic Sciences > andrewc at vasci.com Do you have a Palm PDA and do you have the Palm Desktop installed? I had a similar problem when I first installed 4. Removing the "Instant Palm Desktop" extension solved the problem. I confirmed with Wolfram that this is a known problem. Good luck, -- Gary L. Gray Engineering Science & Mechanics Assistant Professor Penn State University mailto:gray at engr.psu.edu (814) 863-1778 http://www.esm.psu.edu/HTMLs/Faculty/GGray.html