32bit applications NOT working in OSX 10.8.2

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32bit applications NOT working in OSX 10.8.2

Any 32 bit application I try to run in OSX 10.8.2 crashes.

64bit applications launch normally with no problems.

Sample of error message - which I get with ANY 32 bit application.

Process:	Google Chrome [390]
Path:	/Programs/Google Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google Chrome
Identifier:	com.google.Chrome
Version:	23.0.1271.101 (1271.101)
Code Type:	X86 (Native)

Parent Process: launchd [147]

User ID:

501

Date/Time:	2013-02-10 10:00:52.851 -0600
OS Version:	Mac OS X 10.8.2 (12C54)

Report Version: 10

Interval Since Last Report:	3461 sec
Crashes Since Last Report:	37

Per-App Interval Since Last Report: 257312 sec

Per-App Crashes Since Last Report: 5

Anonymous UUID:

5BB966E8-5957-D0C6-BB9E-765C6E524032

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

Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGBUS)

Exception Codes: 0x000000000000000a, 0x000000009c100e19

VM Regions Near 0x9c100e19:

__LINKEDIT	000000008ff50000-000000008ff63000 [ 76K] r--/rwx SM=COW /usr/lib/dyld
--> Submap	0000000090000000-00000000ac000000	r--/rwx machine-wide submap
mapped file	0000000090000000-0000000090007000 [ 28K] r-x/r-x SM=COW Object_id=3380a720

OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2)

Posted on Feb 10, 2013 8:04 AM

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Answer 1

den.thed

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Feb 10, 2013 8:33 AM in response to Solarflare79

I don't use Google Crome, but it looks like you need to either update Chrome or download the latest version from > Chrome Browser which is something like v24.0.1313.57

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Solarflare79 Author

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Feb 10, 2013 8:44 AM in response to den.thed

Shortly after I made my post, I was able to resolve the issue using information provided from the link below.

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4399845

For some reason, after rebooting in safe mode I was able to launch 32 bit applications again.

When looking into my issue I founda few articles with people reporting the same problem, except they were reporting the issue for specific applications. I noticed in all the posts I read that the one consistency was the code type being x86 (native) 32bit applications.

Figured I'd update this in case anyone else has been having similar issues.

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