Anyone having problems with ichat after lion install?

Hi,

The Plug-ins for iChat 4 and 5 are in the app itself.

That is to say highlight the App in the Applications Folders and then Right/Control Click it

In the Menu select Show Package Contents.

Open the Contents folder.

As iChat 6 allows Plug-ins as Add-ons then also check Hard Drive/Library/Application Support (you may have to chose Apple here.

I don'tr have Lion yet and I am suggesting likley places.

7:08 PM Monday; July 25, 2011

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After reading this I opened up FaceTime and switched it off. Now iChat seems to be working just fine.

Hello all,

Thank you for all your responses, however I've tried them all and still stuck not being able to access iChat. Any other ideas? This is the message I get:

Process: iChat [1227]

Path: /Applications/Communication/iChat.app/Contents/MacOS/iChat

Identifier: com.apple.iChat

Version: 5.0.3 (745)

Build Info: iChat-7450300~8

Code Type: X86-64 (Native)

Parent Process: launchd [204]

Date/Time: 2011-07-26 22:42:08.380 -0400

OS Version: Mac OS X 10.7 (11A511)

Report Version: 9

Interval Since Last Report: 243812 sec

Crashes Since Last Report: 45

Per-App Crashes Since Last Report: 19

Anonymous UUID: B5FC2BE7-30FB-4BAB-AB8D-C64AE25BFA06

Crashed Thread: 0

Exception Type: EXC_BREAKPOINT (SIGTRAP)

Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000002, 0x0000000000000000

Application Specific Information:

dyld: launch, loading dependent libraries

Dyld Error Message:

Library not loaded: /System/Library/Frameworks/IMCore.framework/Frameworks/IMUtils.framework/Versio ns/A/IMUtils

Referenced from: /Applications/Communication/iChat.app/Contents/MacOS/iChat

Reason: image not found

Binary Images:

0x100000000 - 0x100281ff7 com.apple.iChat (5.0.3 - 745) <513A76F0-9437-4158-5679-21AF3205DEE7> /

Well for one I'm using Version 6 of iChat so maybe ugrading to that will help?

On a further note. I now find that sometimes I can't log in to FaceTime either. So there is definitely a bug in there somewhere.

Seanus,

I stay on top of my updates, so I'm not sure why I wouldn't be using 6. I am just clicking the button that's in the ribbon at the bottom. Is that not the right program? Why would I have 2 versions of iChat?

Not sure mate.

Is iChat even included in Lion now? Maybe it's just a left over from an older OS?

I certainly haven't been using iChat for a while and it was only in the last week that I started again.

(Final Cut Video Sharing) before that I hadn't touched it since 2009.

Hi,

As Seanus says you have iChat 5 on a Lion Install.

iChat has matched the OS level since IChat 3 (iChat Updates are in the OS Update (or Uppgrade in this case) )

Check your Application Folder has not got two iChats.
If you previously moved iChat from the Applications Folder (Into a sub Folder or similar) then Right CLick the current DOCK icon for iChat and shose "Show in Finder" to find out where it is.

The Current icon can be dragged from the DOCK (and let go for little puff of smoke animation)

The proper App can then be dragged to the DOCK which will recreate the Icon in the DOCK and the Proper link to the right app.

If you do not have two versions of iChat re-run the Lion Install.

8:14 PM Wednesday; July 27, 2011

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 MacBookPro 2Gb( 10.6.8)
 Mac OS X (10.6.8),
"Limit the Logs to the Bits above Binary Images."  No, Seriously

I've had tons of trouble with iChat. I've got it to where it logs into all my different accounts, but I'm having color and effects issues. The new effects Just DON"T WORK. The work fine in Photobooth.

I deleted Chax, 3ivx, and iGlasses. I don't have any other plugins installed.

Sometimes my color is fine, next time it's very red.

I also switched it to 64 bit mode and it crashes as soon as I choose any effect.

Oh, sigh!

Hi,

The com.apple.ichat.plist will still be holding pointers to iGlasses and Chax

In the Finder go to the Go Menu > Go to Foler

Enter ~/Library/Preferences.

Find the mentioned .plist and drag it to the Trash

Restart iChat if Open (this will rewrite the .plist from defaults)

You will need to reset all the iChat Preferences you changed from Defaults.

Font Choice and Colour of Text.
Colour of IM Background (Balloons or other)

Any Chat Window background

Incoming Overrides.

Saved Transcripts and options

Anything in the General section.

Saved Status Messages will need to be recreated.

(only your accounts are unaffected).

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7:56 PM Friday; July 29, 2011

Please, if posting Logs, do not post any Log info after the line "Binary Images for iChat"

 G4/1GhzDual MDD (Leopard 10.5.8)
 MacBookPro 2Gb( 10.6.8)
 Mac OS X (10.6.8),
"Limit the Logs to the Bits above Binary Images."  No, Seriously

Thanks Uls! I've tried removing all my "login at startup options," as well as trashing all my iChat-associated prefs to no avail. But going into iChat's "get info" and UNcheckling the "32 bit" box seems to have done the trick! Whew!!!

Me too. Mac pro xeon 2.66 3gb ram. Ichat always hangs when i launch it either from dock or launchpad. LAME.

Hi,

Tom Fletcher had a specific issue caused by having Chax installed.

Is this what you have ?

Have you Uninstalled it ?

If so you may also have to delete the com.apple.ichat.plist so ichat is not still looking for Chax.

7:52 PM Sunday; July 31, 2011

Please, if posting Logs, do not post any Log info after the line "Binary Images for iChat"

 G4/1GhzDual MDD (Leopard 10.5.8)
 MacBookPro 2Gb( 10.6.8)
 Mac OS X (10.6.8),
"Limit the Logs to the Bits above Binary Images."  No, Seriously

I just tried this procedure step by step but it didn't work for me. Right after I upgraded to Lion even though I successfully sign on whenever I try to chat with anyone or do anything else with iChat it crashes. I don't see the icon neither in my Command+Tab nor Force Quit so I can't get into the settings since I can't access the menu neither. Has anyone found a fix for this problem yet? I have all the latest updates.

Goint into Applications->iChat's Get Info and unchecking 32 bit fixed my iChat problem also.

it will rarely connect. when it does connect, it'll show that all my contacts are available AND it can show several different status's at the same time. the dropdown in the menu bar will have one, the app will have a different one in the iChat window and the app's Accounts dropdown in the iChat menu will be diffwerent from each of those.

also, one will show i'm connected when i'm obviously not. all happened after thge update to Lion