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.
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)