S.D. always fails with Mac OS 10.4.8

[RadarOnPaws]

I'm not sure if I'm having the same problem or not, but lately SD will not run scheduled backups without crashing. It just crashes and closes sometime during the backup, the "last run" indicator on the backup schedule is blank, and no log is produced which makes knowing what happened impossible.

I can run backups manually just fine. I've checked disk permissions, etc. I really haven't changed anything on my system and yet SD no longer wants to cooperate.

I have no issues with any of my other apps crashing.

[dnanian]

There's really no difference between a scheduled and a regular backup, RadarOnPaws... but what you've likely changed on your system is updating to 10.4.8, which has a bug in it that's causing us to crash...

[RadarOnPaws]

Originally Posted by dnanian

There's really no difference between a scheduled and a regular backup, RadarOnPaws... but what you've likely changed on your system is updating to 10.4.8, which has a bug in it that's causing us to crash...

I updated to 10.4.8 long before this started... and why aren't any of my other apps affected by this? If this is an OS X problem, you'd expect crashes of other apps, especially ones I run all the time for a long period of time. They all make graphics calls.

Can I email you the crash logs for the last two SD crashes (it shows both types of errors I am getting)? I am getting Exec_Bad_Instruction and Exec_Bad_Access failures.

[dnanian]

Please feel free to mail the logs.

This affects SD! more because we're running a progress bar and a panel with a button for a long period of time, while extensive disk access is happening... this seems to aggravate the situation. But SD! itself hasn't changed either, not since July or so... and this problem started with 10.4.8.

If you roll back to 10.4.7, I guarantee the problem won't occur...

[RadarOnPaws]

Just as a follow up, I emailed my logs to Dave and he confirmed the issue is the graphics one he notified Apple of...

Thanks.

[RadarOnPaws]

Follow up again, I switched my screen saver back to one of the OS X standard issue ones and have not had the problem since.

Could be coincidence though as I think when SD launches the screen saver goes off anyway.

[Vince-from fr]

Well, as I see this thread is dying, I have a little question : is SuperDuper usable on Intel based Mac with 10.4.8 or should we wait for 10.4.9 ?
Isn't it possible to use other graphic objects that don't crash SD in a 2.14 version ?
Happy new year to everybody...

[davecc]

Originally Posted by dnanian

Please feel free to mail the logs.

This affects SD! more because we're running a progress bar and a panel with a button for a long period of time, while extensive disk access is happening... this seems to aggravate the situation. But SD! itself hasn't changed either, not since July or so... and this problem started with 10.4.8.

If you roll back to 10.4.7, I guarantee the problem won't occur...

Hi Dave,

How are you? I am expecting my new intel 2.66 MacPro today and hope that it comes with 10.4.7 installed. I depend on SuperDuper at least twice a week and hope that Apple fixes this bug real soon.

Kindest Regards,
David

[dnanian]

You and me both, David.

[davecc]

Originally Posted by dnanian

You and me both, David.

Hi Dave,

My new Intel MacPro 2.66 came with 10.4.7 installed. Lucky me.

The dealer I got the Mac from said that all new Intel Macs that he orderd for his customers recently came with 10.4.7 installed and wondered why not 10.4.8. Maybe there is real problem with 10.4.8

I'll try it out tomorrow and promptly report my findings to you.

Regards,
David