usernoted keeps crashing

Not a solution - but an addition.

I experienced this only after performing a TM restore of my 10.8.1 boot volume. Now there could be a corruption with that install as I had a HD crash a few days ago and restored with a TM backup. Perhaps the backup captured a corruption before the drive itself failed...

I'm having the same problem with usernoted.

I looked at Console and there are lots of crash reports.

And when I look at Activity Monitor 'usernoted' keeps appearing there approx. every 10 seconds for approx. 1 second and then disappears (crashes).

What made me look for this problem is that I was having a problem with simply dragging a file from one folder to another. The folder in the background didn't want to come to the foreground as it would usually do. And no matter how many times I let go of the file after knowing it should have moved... it didn't.

And filing a bug with Radar... yeah right...

And as far as filing Feedback... if you go to Apple's feedback page just try to find where you can file feedback for Mountain Lion...

So until the next update (i.e. 10.8.3) is released... we're probably stuck with this.

Boiling Ice... the plugin "Bark" was the problem.

After using "Find Any File" to root out every file that Bark had installed (since Bark's UNinstaller did not work for me)... I rebooted and 'usernoted' remained active without crashing.

Hopefully this will solve your problem as well.

And if you don't have Bark installed... you may want to delete Hiss or any other plugins for Growl... at least as a test.

What if you don't have Bark installed? I removed Growl completely and still getting the crash every ten seconds. Trying Safe Boot now and it's not doing it. Also, My 12GB of Ram is almost maxxed out? I may have to nuke and pave 10.8.2

See if your Console logs give you a clue.

Also check out Activity Monitor.

Try narrowing it down by removing apps from Notifications.

Thanks Ron, I closed all notifications, Deleted Growl, and was still getting the crash every 10 seconds. I left for home, with the warning on my desktop. Came in the next morning-the warning was still there. I closed it and nothing happened.It did not return 10 seconds later. Console didn't show the same warning-activity-etc.

I ran Onyx, including the "Delete hidded .DS files" and spotlight indexing-etc, The iMac is running faster than ever. The Notifications reset themselves and the "end of the workday" and worked fine the next day. going on my second day without any issues [knocks on wood]

I assume stopping, then re-starting notifications- was the trick?

Rob

Sounds like it.

Glad to hear it's working okay now for you.

Also,

tried to copy (command-C) the console and activity log for you- wouldn't let me. Which also raised a flag for me. Working now as well. Strange. I can live without Growl for the time being. (if that was the cause?) Thanks, Rob

I'm still using Growl 1.2.2 with OS X 10.8.2

I tried newer updates for Growl, but I had problems.

Glad I could help.

This post kinda helped! Odd thing happened for me though. I tried clicking "Uninstall" for Bark but it decided to reinstall Bark instead, and that actually fixed the problem. At least now I know the culprit is Bark. - Using the latest Bark and Growl.

Firstly a big thanx to all of you guys due to that it was all the posts here that guided me to find a solution But let's cut to the chase.

At first not only this message appeared but my whole mac crashed and couldn't login at all. After a whole recovery from Time Machine i ended up with this absolute annoyance (i don't think i was ever so frustrated in my whole life). Anyway after noumerous attempts and many hours of trying & reading, this is what actually worked for me.

Closed the banners from notification centre (didn't work) -> Reboot (didn't work) -> Uninstalled Bark (didn't work) -> Installed again Bark (didn't work) -> Uninstalled Growl -> Reboot Mac (didn't work) -> Uninstalled GrowlTunes & Hardware Growler -> Reboot Mac (didn't work) -> Removed the previous from Login at startup -> Reboot (didn't work) -> Clean installed Growl and bark (didn't work) -> Reboot (didn't work) -> Installed Onyx and performed a maintainance check -> Reboot (worked like a charm)

Hope this will help.

Thanks, Onyx worked for me too!

Thanks ΙΚΑΡΟΣ,

Onyx worked for me as well. In Onyx, I executed "Maintenancs->Rebuild->dyld's shared cache". After a reboot, usernoted has continued running without a crash for at least an hour now.

I can't understand what might have gone bad in the cache after a SafeBoot. But Apple's documentation does say that a SafeBoot will clear out the dyld cache. So that appears to be the culprit and solution.

Spencer