Aperture 2.1.4 Crashing after Snow Leopard Upgrade

Hi All

Upgraded to Snow Leopard today and then shortly after a successful upgrade, also upgraded Aperture to 2.1.4 via software update.

It now crashes almost immediately after launch giving the output below. It would seem that the "library not loaded" part would be the cause.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Will

http://www.photoswarm.com

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Process: Aperture [480]
Path: /Applications/Aperture.app/Contents/MacOS/Aperture
Identifier: com.apple.Aperture
Version: ??? (???)
Build Info: Aperture-908252102~1
Code Type: X86 (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [109]

Date/Time: 2009-08-29 12:16:22.858 +0100
OS Version: Mac OS X 10.6 (10A432)
Report Version: 6

Interval Since Last Report: 1097 sec
Crashes Since Last Report: 10
Per-App Crashes Since Last Report: 9
Anonymous UUID: 4BE3DE5F-30C8-4D24-899D-E882EF506AB6

Exception Type: EXC_BREAKPOINT (SIGTRAP)
Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000002, 0x0000000000000000
Crashed Thread: 0

*Dyld Error Message:*
*Library not loaded: /Library/Frameworks/PluginManager.framework/Versions/B/PluginManager*
*Referenced from: /Applications/Aperture.app/Contents/MacOS/Aperture*
*Reason: image not found*

Model: MacBookPro3,1, BootROM MBP31.0070.B07, 2 processors, Intel Core 2 Duo, 2.6 GHz, 2 GB, SMC 1.16f11
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT, GeForce 8600M GT, PCIe, 256 MB
Memory Module: global_name
AirPort: spairport wireless_card_type_airportextreme (0x168C, 0x87), Atheros 5416: 2.0.19.4
Bluetooth: Version 2.2.0f18, 2 service, 0 devices, 1 incoming serial ports
Network Service: AirPort, AirPort, en1
PCI Card: pci168c,24, sppci_othernetwork, PCI Slot 5
Serial ATA Device: Hitachi HTS542525K9SA00, 232.89 GB
Parallel ATA Device: MATSHITADVD-R UJ-857E
USB Device: Built-in iSight, 0x05ac (Apple Inc.), 0x8502, 0xfd400000
USB Device: Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad, 0x05ac (Apple Inc.), 0x021b, 0x5d200000
USB Device: IR Receiver, 0x05ac (Apple Inc.), 0x8242, 0x5d100000
USB Device: Bluetooth USB Host Controller, 0x05ac (Apple Inc.), 0x8205, 0x1a100000

Macbook Pro - 2.6Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo, Mac OS X (10.5.6), http://www.photoswarm.com

Posted on Aug 29, 2009 4:26 AM

41 replies

Sep 11, 2009 5:36 AM in response to MacTechSteve

MacTechSteve to the rescue! Following on MacTechSteve's "ariel issue" I had a second look in FontBook. Ariel was not shown as being a duplicate (had already resolved those). Looking inside the Ariel font entry in the font book, there were duplicates of each ariel type. I used fontbook to show the source file in the finder. The versio in the /library/fonts/ folder was updated with SL. The version in /user/library/fonts/ was from 1994! Likewise also found a courier from 1997.

I deleted the ariel font file from the finder (move to trash) and it's corresponding type package instantly disappeared from FontBook (which I had open in the background).

Without restarting, I tried Aperture/Nik CEP3 and voila - instant open. Sure is significantly faster with SL.

Thanks MacTechSteve. I'll be updating my Nik support ticket too.

Hagen

Sep 12, 2009 6:32 AM in response to MacTechSteve

(UPDATE: An alternative fix: Your Snow Leopard install may of installed the updated Arial font with out removing the old outdated Arial font. When you use Font Book check within the Arial listing to see if some styles (regular, bold, italic, etc.) are duplicate. Select one of the dups and press "command i" for info. You want to keep the current fonts and styles (version 5.00) and remove the old.)

Aik Bo

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Sep 29, 2009 1:27 PM in response to MacTechSteve

THANKS your help was the trick. NIK software now works fine.

Aik

ScuseMe

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Sep 29, 2009 5:09 PM in response to MainEvent

Many thanks from me.

I found several other common fonts that had older versions (Courier New, Trebuchet, etc.); I deleted them too.

Mike

Oct 22, 2009 1:45 AM in response to MainEvent

I am having problems exporting versions of just certain files within one project (albeit a huge one!) There is no problem exporting the master, but any version export causing aperture to crash with a database kern error message. I have tried clean reinstalling Aperture - running off an old Aperture database (that never exhibited this problem before) Rebuilding the library, all the solutions mentioned on this thread, but to no avail. At the moment it is beginning to look at though I will have to export the 12k originals as their original CR2 files and reimport them (but then I will lose all my retouching!!!! So it is not an ideal scenario..)
Do any of you smart folks have any bright ideas?
Many thanks

bupayne

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Oct 23, 2009 11:45 AM in response to MainEvent

I Had this problem after installing the SL upgrade to my Macbook Pro

Aperture immediately crashes on launch.

Reinstalling Aperture _does not work_

The fix for me was restoring a copy of copy "/Library/Frameworks/Plugin.manager---" from a time machine backup done before SL install to /Library/Frameworks

Now Aperture works fine again

man thats a serious but in the SN upgrade installer

Nov 4, 2009 11:01 AM in response to bupayne

Same problem as all the rest. Copying the "/Library/Frameworks/Plugin.manager---" from one of my computers (unaffected by this) to the other did the job.

emjayen

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Dec 8, 2009 8:17 AM in response to MainEvent

I've been able to fix this by downloading the trial version of Aperture 2.1.4 from Apple, mounting the DMG, and then running this command from Terminal:

open "/Volumes/Aperture Trial 2.1.4/Packages/PluginManager.pkg"

Jan 27, 2010 1:18 PM in response to emjayen

I think my story with Aperture 2.1.4 might be of interest to you:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=10974763

Regards and good luck.

Mar 18, 2010 5:41 PM in response to maximalideal

I am having this problem (plugin manager library not loaded) but with a fresh install of Aperture 3.0 on a new iMac i5.

As per the suggestions in this thread, I manually installed Plugin Manager v.1.7.3 [(here)|http://support.apple.com/kb/DL98] but I am still getting the error message (albeit slightly different now!...

Library not loaded: /Library/Frameworks/PluginManager.framework/Versions/B/PluginManager
Referenced from: /Applications/Aperture.app/Contents/MacOS/Aperture
Reason: no suitable image found. Did find:
/Library/Frameworks/PluginManager.framework/Versions/B/PluginManager: no matching architecture in universal wrapper
/Library/Frameworks/PluginManager.framework/Versions/B/PluginManager: no matching architecture in universal wrapper

Mar 31, 2010 11:11 AM in response to pyrrho

Time machine restore of this folder did the trick for me too. A real pain that Apple did this!

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