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Adding new Standard user causes coreservicesd crash?

A new one for me. Last night I tried adding a new "Standard" user through System Preferences->Accounts. After authenticating to unlock things, I clicked '+' and added the user. Things went away, beach balls spun, lah-de-dah, my cursor returned to normal. Then I closed the Accounts window.

My system was effectively frozen, and had to be power-cycled. The first thing that popped up after reboot was a kernel Panic log, headed by the dreaded ""mapping_remove: hw remmap failed - pmap" message, but what I saw from Console was long before that happened coreservicesd had crashed causing "hundreds" of I-know-you-are-but-what-am-I "coreservicesd is running an unsupported version, 0 ( we are 10500000 ), so we cannot talk to it." errors.

This was (and so far is) repeatable. I've tried repairing permissions. I've deleted /Library/Caches/*, /System/Library/Caches/* and /System/Library/Extensions.mkext from single-user mode (and then rebooted, of course). I've even reinstalled Apple iLife Support 9.0.3, which a google thread suggested solved a similar-sounding System Preferences problem. I've hunted for corrupt Preference files with the latest version of Cocktail. Hmm, I'm running out of ideas here. Any suggestions?

Oh yes, the new account does get added before all the fun starts.

PowerBook5,8, Mac OS X (10.5.8)

Posted on Aug 16, 2009 6:37 AM

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Aug 16, 2009 10:32 AM in response to Richard Outerbridge

Here are the relevent lines from one of the coreservicesd crash reports. They are always the same.

This seems to have started happening after installing 10.5.8, if that makes any difference 😉

( .... )

Exception Type: EXC BADACCESS (SIGBUS)
Exception Codes: KERN PROTECTIONFAILURE at 0x0000000000000005
Crashed Thread: 0

Thread 0 Crashed:
0 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x926e60cc CFHash + 36
1 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x926b7ae0 __CFDictionaryFindBuckets1b + 116
2 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x926b8568 CFDictionaryGetValue + 248
3 ...ple.CoreServices.OSServices 0x934daabc SFLSharePointsEntry::UpdateNameProperties(OpaqueSFLItemRef*, __CFDictionary const*, __CFArray const*) + 52
4 ...ple.CoreServices.OSServices 0x934dc910 SFLSharePointsEntry::AddNewItemFromPrefs(unsigned long, __CFDictionary const*, OpaqueISImageRef*, unsigned long, __CFDictionary const**, unsigned long*, unsigned long*, short*, unsigned long*) + 1228
5 ...ple.CoreServices.OSServices 0x934e2720 Server AddNewItemWithPropertiesrpc + 232
6 ...ple.CoreServices.OSServices 0x934e6794 XAddNewItemWithPropertiesrpc + 432
7 ...ple.CoreServices.OSServices 0x93499a10 SFLServer_server + 172
8 ...ple.CoreServices.CarbonCore 0x90d59cf8 scHandleMessage(mach msg_headert*, int ( )(machmsg_headert, mach msg_headert*), unsigned long*, unsigned char*) + 140
9 ...ple.CoreServices.CarbonCore 0x90d5af4c SCServerSession::handleMessage(mach msg_headert*) + 424
10 ...ple.CoreServices.CarbonCore 0x90d59c10 serverCallback(_CFMachPort*, void*, long, void*) + 364
11 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x926c1268 __CFMachPortPerform + 180
12 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x926e3630 CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 2480
13 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x926e3c1c CFRunLoopRun + 60
14 ...ple.CoreServices.CarbonCore 0x90d5977c _CoreServicesServerMain + 580
15 coreservicesd 0x00001f24 0x1000 + 3876

Thread 1:
( .... and so on)

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