OS Bug: Crashes with new Stuffit CM 11.0 on Mac Pros (fixed in 10.4.8)

[guido]

PF immediately crashes when trying to use a contextual menu that has the new stuffit CM 11.0 inside.
Sad for this, because I use it a lot ...

My system:
Mac OS X 10.4.7 (8K1079)
Mac Pro
Dual-Core Intel Xeon
2.66 GHz
7 GB RAM

[grotsasha]

oh... :(

Thanks for letting us know. Can you attach a crash log here? Can you also try to reproduce it from a clean user account?

[guido]

I just switched from my 2.66 to a 3.0 Mac Pro running Mac OS X 10.4.7 (8K1124) and it seems that the problem does not exist there ...
So maybe it only occurs on the build 8K1079.

[grotsasha]

Oh, ok, it means it has nothing to do with Stuffit 11. It is this famous crash on Mac Pros. The build 8K1079 appears to have a weird runtime issue, which was corrected in build 8K1124. Look at this post (http://www.cocoatech.com/weblog/archives/2006/09/07/000175.php) for details.

[guido]

BUT: the unusual crash happened though I already have removed all the plugins from the folder Path Finder.app/Contents/Frameworks/StuffitCore.framework/Versions/A/Plug-Ins/.
AND: the crash happend NOT while starting up PathFinder but while trying to access the contextual menu.

[grotsasha]

Ah, ok. Can you attach a crash log here? I'll forward it to Stuffit developer.

[Heimdall]

Running PF under Rosetta resolves the context menu crash.

[.::| M |::.]

I removed both the Stuffit.framework and StuffitCore.framework and it fixed it. I may not had to remove both, but it pulled Stuffit from the Finder's contextual menu, so problem solved.

Path Finder.app/Contents/Frameworks/StuffitCore.framework
Path Finder.app/Contents/Frameworks/Stuffit.framework

[Heimdall]

10.4.8 seems to resolve all the crashers that I've found. Running PF under 10.4.8 with StuffIt 11 fully native, no crashes.

[grotsasha]

Thanks for confirming this, hopefully 10.4.8 will bring all Macs to the same build version of the OS, instead of three different ones.