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What the heck is a NDSPCShowServer?

Found this on my computer and it gives me a crash notice but when I click ok it won't shut down. Have to reboot. did a search spotlight and don't see it. Any help would be appreciated on how to get rid of it. Last program I downloaded was Angry Birds Space.


I am on an intel iMac with 10.6.8

iMac 24, Mac OS X (10.6.7)

Posted on Mar 22, 2012 12:42 PM

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Sep 14, 2017 12:34 AM in response to pineaire

For me, NDSPCShowServer came with a TV app I installed on my system - Tata Sky (a DTH cable TV provider) here in India. It gave this frustrating allow incoming connections popup every few hours.

Option 1:

Ask the service provider who had built that app in the first place for a solution.

Option 2:

Caution: Follow the below steps only if you understand what you're doing, at your own risk.


  1. To locate it on your disk, go to System Preferences > Security and Privacy > Firewall > Firewall Options.
  2. Scroll down the list of applications until you find NDSPCShowServer.** whatever your app's name is.
  3. Right click on the app name and choose "Show in Finder" option.
  4. It will then open the file location in the finder.
  5. You can now delete this app folder or move it to a different location for closer inspection and examining if moving/removing it is causing any trouble with the existing applications.


Cheers!

Feb 19, 2017 7:22 AM in response to tablack

Sir, Try to unhide the library from the user by launching the terminal application after launching the terminal write this code then press enter defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles YES

then press enter after this Hold the Option key then right click on the Finder icon in the dock and click Relaunch

now you can see all hidden folders now go to library and find the NDSPCShow and delete that now you can Unhide the folders by putting this command in terminal

defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles NO

and press enter now and relaunch the finder. thanks

Mar 27, 2012 7:23 AM in response to pineaire

Ok it happened again. Here is some of crash log? I found it in my library and there is a uninstall, can I delete it and get rid of the problem? The crash report comes up and repeats so I have to restart computer to make it stop.

I cannot find any information on what it does? Any help would be appreciated.



Process: NDSPCShowServer [1648]
Path: /Users/xxxxxx/Library/NDSPCShowServer/NDSPCShowServer.bundle/Contents/MacOS/NDSP CShowServer
Identifier: NDSPCShowServer
Version: ??? (???)
Code Type: X86 (Native)

Parent Process: PCShowServerPMWrapper [249]


Date/Time: 2012-03-22 14:14:06.774 -0500
OS Version: Mac OS X 10.6.8 (10K549)

Report Version: 6


Interval Since Last Report: 5 sec
Crashes Since Last Report: 1

Per-App Crashes Since Last Report: 1

Anonymous UUID: 11F22724-68F2-4FA3-890A-30EC8BAB3904


Exception Type: EXC_CRASH (SIGABRT)

Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000

Crashed Thread: 0 Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread


Application Specific Information:

abort() called


Thread 0 Crashed: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread

0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x98712c5a __kill + 10
1 libSystem.B.dylib 0x98712c4c kill$UNIX2003 + 32
2 libSystem.B.dylib 0x987a55a5 raise + 26
3 libSystem.B.dylib 0x987bb6e4 abort + 93
4 libstdc++.6.dylib 0x98477fda __gnu_cxx::__verbose_terminate_handler() + 433
5 libstdc++.6.dylib 0x9847617a __cxxabiv1::__terminate(void (*)()) + 10
6 libstdc++.6.dylib 0x984761ba __cxxabiv1::__unexpected(void (*)()) + 0
7 libstdc++.6.dylib 0x984762b8 __gxx_exception_cleanup(_Unwind_Reason_Code, _Unwind_Exception*) + 0
8 libCatalogDll.dylib 0x006619c4 plex::Catalog::Catalog() + 118852
9 libCatalogDll.dylib 0x00661d8e plex::Catalog::Catalog() + 119822
10 libCatalogDll.dylib 0x00662ef2 plex::Catalog::Catalog() + 124274
11 libCatalogDll.dylib 0x00643879 0x641000 + 10361
12 dyld 0x8fe0ed6d ImageLoaderMachO::doModInitFunctions(ImageLoader::LinkContext const&) + 235
13 dyld 0x8fe0d31e ImageLoader::recursiveInitialization(ImageLoader::LinkContext const&, unsigned int) + 246
14 dyld 0x8fe0d2c2 ImageLoader::recursiveInitialization(ImageLoader::LinkContext const&, unsigned int) + 154
15 dyld 0x8fe0d2c2 ImageLoader::recursiveInitialization(ImageLoader::LinkContext const&, unsigned int) + 154
16 dyld 0x8fe0d3d1 ImageLoader::runInitializers(ImageLoader::LinkContext const&) + 61
17 dyld 0x8fe024a9 dyld::initializeMainExecutable() + 134
18 dyld 0x8fe07950 dyld::_main(macho_header const*, unsigned long, int, char const**, char const**, char const**) + 4189
19 dyld 0x8fe018b1 dyldbootstrap::start(macho_header const*, int, char const**, long) + 779
20 dyld 0x8fe01057 _dyld_start + 39


Thread 0 crashed with X86 Thread State (32-bit):

eax: 0x00000000 ebx: 0x987bb693 ecx: 0xbfffd1dc edx: 0x98712c5a

edi: 0xa0afeb30 esi: 0x0077e720 ebp: 0xbfffd1f8 esp: 0xbfffd1dc

ss: 0x0000001f efl: 0x00000282 eip: 0x98712c5a cs: 0x00000007

ds: 0x0000001f es: 0x0000001f fs: 0x00000000 gs: 0x00000037

cr2: 0xa0b0d0c0

Mar 27, 2012 11:01 AM in response to pineaire

It is not installed by default in 10.6 or 10.7 so you can try to put the folder in your trash, restart and see if everything works (especially the applications not installed by default).

And if it's in your User folder like the crash log mentioned, then it was installed by an application.

If everything works you can empty the trash.

You don't risk anything with your system.

May 2, 2012 6:04 PM in response to Phinias

UPDATE: The uninstaller ("uninstall.command") didn't work for me. However, after doing a little more seaching I found a couple mentions of this same issue on a handful of other boards. The threads were all in Spanish, but thanks to Google Translate I was able to figure out what they were talking about -- and then track down all of the associated files that need to be removed by hand.


As soon as I moved the following 5 files to the trash, the Console errors stopped:


user > Library > Internet Plugins > PlayerPlugin.bundle

user > Library > LaunchAgents > com.nds.pcshow.plist

user > Library > LaunchAgents > com.nds.pcshow.uninstall.plist

user > Library > NDSPCShowServer > NDSPCShowServer.bundle

user > Library > NDSPCShowServer > uninstall.command


Hopefully this helps someone.


(By the way, while I was browsing a DirecTV forum last night looking for answers, I saw at least a dozen reports from Mac users who couldn't get the video player to work. Looks like DirecTV may have rushed it out the door. And of course there's no support / documentation for it anywhere on their site.)

What the heck is a NDSPCShowServer?

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