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usernoted keeps crashing

I've notice that "ReportCrash" is running all the time on Activity Monitor. Reading System.log it turns out that usernoted keeps relaunching and crashing. I've rebooted in recovery mode, fixed permissions and repair disk but still nothing fixed.


I've tried to find out what causes the issue, any idea on how to help?


I have also noticed that clearing Notifications from Notification Center takes about 5 to 7 seconds to clear; which indicate something is wrong but I can't figure out what's causing the crash.


I have a MBP 15" Early 2011 with Mountain Lion 10.8.1

MacBook Pro, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.1), 15" Early 2011

Posted on Sep 9, 2012 11:44 PM

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Sep 23, 2012 10:13 AM in response to Boiling Ice

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.

Sep 23, 2012 10:49 AM in response to Boiling Ice

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.

Nov 5, 2012 6:29 AM in response to RonL

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

Mar 16, 2013 12:55 PM in response to Boiling Ice

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.

May 15, 2013 11:04 AM in response to ΙΚΑΡΟΣ

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

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