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Quartz Composer 4.6 Crash

I installed xcode 4.5.2 today in hopes of getting quartz composer 4.6 running on my macbook pro 2.8GHz Intel Core 2 duo with 4 GB of ram, unfortunatly the efforts were to no avail. I was previously running QC 3.1.2 before that and it is still running fine.

At first QC 4.6 would not open at all and I was geting the following error seen in the attached image. I followed previous posts that instructed to delete com.apple.QuartzComposer.editor.plist and Cahe.db. This allowed me to start accessing the application but not through selecting the template .qtz that are offered when starting a new file such as the second screen shot. I have to open a composition that I have created previously, this leads me to believe that it is not pointing towards the template .qtz at startup.

When I do open a previously made composition QC runs but will again crash when I try to access the patch library. also if I switch the preferences to start with the patch library open the QC will not make it to the the editor screen.

I was trying to get a crash report but the app seems to not be filing crash reports right now for some reason. I'll try to get it to generate one but maybe this is enough to turn on the lights for someone.

Quartz Composer-OTHER, Mac OS X (10.7.5), macbook pro 2.8GHz Intel Core 2 duo

Posted on Jan 15, 2013 7:39 PM

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Frank Caggiano

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Posted on Jan 16, 2013 8:56 AM

I have 4.6 running on two 10.8.2 systems with no problem. Is your profile accurate, are you running 10.7.5?

Have you tried making a new user account on your system and running from there? This will at least narrow it down to a system problem (fails in the new account also) or something in your environment (runs in new account).

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Frank Caggiano

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Jan 16, 2013 8:56 AM in response to bassmang5

I have 4.6 running on two 10.8.2 systems with no problem. Is your profile accurate, are you running 10.7.5?

bassmang5 Author

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Jan 16, 2013 9:44 AM in response to Frank Caggiano

Thanks Frank for your help. I am using Lion 10.7.5

In doing this I realized Kineme 3-d needed updated. My test user got an error that Kineme 3-d was crashing QC. After I updated that went away and I started having the same problems as in my primary user account.

When QC 4.6 starts and I click on the blank, screensaver or any other start template I get the info in the attached screenshot. If I open a past composition QC fails when trying and open the patch library see the beggining of an error report below.

Process: Quartz Composer [5038]

Path: /Applications/Quartz Composer 2.app/Contents/MacOS/Quartz Composer

Identifier: com.apple.QuartzComposer.editor

Version: 4.6 (148)

Build Info: QuartzComposerEditor-148000000000000~27

Code Type: X86-64 (Native)

Parent Process: launchd [168]

Date/Time: 2013-01-16 09:20:49.157 -0800

OS Version: Mac OS X 10.7.5 (11G63)

Report Version: 9

Sleep/Wake UUID: 046E535F-65DF-4BA2-9FA4-0F34C077A3C2

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

Exception Type: EXC_CRASH (SIGABRT)

Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000

Application Specific Information:

Uncaught exception "NSInvalidArgumentException": NSConcreteMutableAttributedString initWithString:attributes:: nil value

objc[5038]: garbage collection is OFF

*** Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSInvalidArgumentException', reason: 'NSConcreteMutableAttributedString initWithString:attributes:: nil value'

*** First throw call stack:

(

0 CoreFoundation 0x00007fff8ba73f56 __exceptionPreprocess + 198

1 libobjc.A.dylib 0x00007fff94fcad5e objc_exception_throw + 43

2 CoreFoundation 0x00007fff8ba73d8a +[NSException raise:format:arguments:] + 106

3 CoreFoundation 0x00007fff8ba73d14 +[NSException raise:format:] + 116

4 Foundation 0x00007fff911ba949 -[NSConcreteMutableAttributedString initWithString:attributes:] + 126

5 DevToolsKit 0x000000010e443e48 -[DTAssetView text] + 1018

6 DevToolsKit 0x000000010e44353b -[DTAssetView drawRect:] + 846

7 AppKit 0x00007fff918e42ce -[NSView _drawRect:clip:] + 3758

8 AppKit 0x00007fff9191149b -[NSView _recursiveDisplayAllDirtyWithLockFocus:visRect:] + 1583

9 AppKit 0x00007fff919118c7 -[NSView _recursiveDisplayAllDirtyWithLockFocus:visRect:] + 2651

10 AppKit 0x00007fff919118c7 -[NSView _recursiveDisplayAllDirtyWithLockFocus:visRect:] + 2651

11 AppKit 0x00007fff919118c7 -[NSView _recursiveDisplayAllDirtyWithLockFocus:visRect:] + 2651

12 AppKit 0x00007fff919118c7 -[NSView _recursiveDisplayAllDirtyWithLockFocus:visRect:] + 2651

13 AppKit 0x00007fff919118c7 -[NSView _recursiveDisplayAllDirtyWithLockFocus:visRect:] + 2651

14 AppKit 0x00007fff919118c7 -[NSView _recursiveDisplayAllDirtyWithLockFocus:visRect:] + 2651

15 AppKit 0x00007fff919118c7 -[NSView _recursiveDisplayAllDirtyWithLockFocus:visRect:] + 2651

16 AppKit

Jan 16, 2013 6:22 PM in response to bassmang5

I'm not much with crash reports but if this is a system wide problem have you tried re-installing Quartz Composer?

I'd also search to see if 4.6 is compatible with Lion, see is anyone else is having problems. As I wrote I'm using Mountain Lion.

Finally I don;t know if you are aware of it but there is a Quartz Composer mailing list run by Apple at https://lists.apple.com/mailman/listinfo/quartzcomposer-dev

might be worth a shot to post there to see if anyone is knows of a problem.

regards

Etra2

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Jan 24, 2013 9:28 AM in response to bassmang5

Had a similar problem after updating to ML, wouldn't let Messages, Quartz, or Photo Booth startup or wouldn't show effects. What worked was going into the system>lib>Graphics folder and removing what I think was Kineme file called Backdrops.plugin. Restart and everything is working again. You might also have this in another Library if it's not in the system.

Nov 20, 2015 6:52 AM in response to bassmang5

I installed Quartz Composer 4.6.1. on my MacBookPro OSX 10.8.5 with 2.6 GHz Intel Core i7.

After clicking the Quartz Composer's icon, I immediately get the message 'Quartz Composer quit unexpectedly".

Any suggestions for solving the problem?

Cheers, Paul

Quartz Composer 4.6 Crash