Syoma1

Q: CRASH! 'Show Keyboard $ Character viewers in menu bar'

When selecting a 'flag' in menu bar, the language, of the source down below all the time i had an option to open character viewer. Today this button disappeared. When going to System preferences - Keyboard - 'Show Keyboard $ Character viewers in menu bar' and pushing on empty box the system preferences window crashes. Repeatedly all the time. and instead of names of menu appeared 'Show (null)'. Rebooting, restarting, sleeping mode reboot, and safe modes did result in the same issue! SOLVE IT PLEASE APPLE.

Also i have my macbook pro retina the top notch model which after upgrade to Yosemite from Mavericks started to 'eat' RAM a LOT. After a few hours of work, total freezing of all application. Only restart solves the issue, which was NOT PRESENT on Mavericks. It is that the top notch laptop for 2K euros does have really bad issues.

Macbook Retina 13' Late 2013

Yosemite 10.10.1

Screen Shot 2015-01-24 at 00.26.18.png

MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Yosemite (10.10.1), null

Posted on Jan 23, 2015 3:29 PM

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Q: CRASH! 'Show Keyboard $ Character viewers in menu bar'

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  • by OGELTHORPE,

    OGELTHORPE OGELTHORPE Jan 23, 2015 3:57 PM in response to Syoma1
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    Jan 23, 2015 3:57 PM in response to Syoma1

    Perhaps deleting the System Preference plist may solve that problem:

     

    https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-4301

     

    Syoma1 wrote:

     

     

    Also i have my macbook pro retina the top notch model which after upgrade to Yosemite from Mavericks started to 'eat' RAM a LOT.

    What do you mean by 'eating' a lot of RAM?

     

    http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201464

     

    What is the RAM 'pressure'?  Green, yellow or red?

     

    Ciao.

  • by Linc Davis,

    Linc Davis Linc Davis Jan 23, 2015 3:58 PM in response to Syoma1
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    Jan 23, 2015 3:58 PM in response to Syoma1

    Launch the Console application in any of the following ways:

    ☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)

    ☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.

    ☞ Open LaunchPad and start typing the name.

    The title of the Console window should be All Messages. If it isn't, select

              SYSTEM LOG QUERIES ▹ All Messages

    from the log list on the left. If you don't see that list, select

              View ▹ Show Log List

    from the menu bar at the top of the screen.

    Click the Clear Display icon in the toolbar. Then take an action that isn't working the way you expect. Select any messages that appear in the Console window. Copy them to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C. Paste into a reply to this message by pressing command-V.

    The log contains a vast amount of information, almost all of which is irrelevant to solving any particular problem. When posting a log extract, be selective. A few dozen lines are almost always more than enough.

    Please don't indiscriminately dump thousands of lines from the log into this discussion.

    Please don't post screenshots of log messages—post the text.

    Some private information, such as your name or email address, may appear in the log. Anonymize before posting.

  • by Syoma1,

    Syoma1 Syoma1 Jan 23, 2015 6:29 PM in response to OGELTHORPE
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    Jan 23, 2015 6:29 PM in response to OGELTHORPE

    Did not help trashing plst

  • by Syoma1,

    Syoma1 Syoma1 Jan 23, 2015 6:33 PM in response to Linc Davis
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    Jan 23, 2015 6:33 PM in response to Linc Davis

    I have created another account and it doesn't have this problem.

     

    these are the messages from crashing of system settings:

    24/01/15 03:22:29,978 SystemUIServer[202]: TIM: Could not get kTSMInputSourcePropertyBundleID property. [source=<TSMInputSource 0x608000626520> Palette Input Method: **No Bundle ID**]

     

    24/01/15 03:22:57,684 com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.systempreferences.109656[410]) Service exited due to signal: Segmentation fault: 11

     

    24/01/15 03:22:57,734 ReportCrash[416]: Saved crash report for System Preferences[410] version 14.0 (14.0) to /Users/[name]/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/System Preferences_2015-01-24-032257_[name]-MacBook-Pro.crash

    so i guess this is the main from report:

    Application Specific Information:

    com.apple.preference.keyboard v.14.0 (Keyboard)

    objc[410]: GC: forcing GC OFF because OBJC_DISABLE_GC is set

  • by Linc Davis,

    Linc Davis Linc Davis Jan 23, 2015 7:42 PM in response to Syoma1
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    Jan 23, 2015 7:42 PM in response to Syoma1

    Back up all data before proceeding.

    Triple-click anywhere in the line below on this page to select it:

    ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.HIToolbox.plist

    Right-click or control-click the line and select

              Services Reveal in Finder (or just Reveal)

    from the contextual menu.* A folder should open with an item selected. Move the selected item to the Trash. Log out or restart the computer and test.

    *If you don't see the contextual menu item, copy the selected text to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination  command-C. In the Finder, select

              Go Go to Folder...

    from the menu bar and paste into the box that opens by pressing command-V. You won't see what you pasted because a line break is included. Press return.

  • by Syoma1,

    Syoma1 Syoma1 Jan 23, 2015 8:04 PM in response to Linc Davis
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    Jan 23, 2015 8:04 PM in response to Linc Davis

    First of all, Thank you for your help!

    Unfortunately it did not help

  • by Linc Davis,

    Linc Davis Linc Davis Jan 23, 2015 8:24 PM in response to Syoma1
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    Jan 23, 2015 8:24 PM in response to Syoma1

    Did you log out or restart?

  • by Syoma1,

    Syoma1 Syoma1 Jan 23, 2015 8:33 PM in response to Linc Davis
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    Jan 23, 2015 8:33 PM in response to Linc Davis

    I restarted it... By the way the previously deleted files com.apple.HIToolbox.plist and the other two with 'character view' are no more present in that folder

  • by Linc Davis,

    Linc Davis Linc Davis Jan 23, 2015 8:37 PM in response to Syoma1
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    Jan 23, 2015 8:37 PM in response to Syoma1

    Problems such as yours are sometimes caused by files that should belong to you but are locked or have wrong permissions. This procedure will check for such files. It makes no changes and therefore is not, in itself, a solution.

    First, empty the Trash, if possible.

    Triple-click anywhere in the line below on this page to select it, then copy the selected text to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C:

    find ~ $TMPDIR.. \( -flags +sappnd,schg,uappnd,uchg -o ! -user $UID -o ! -perm -600 \) 2>&- | wc -l | pbcopy

    Launch the built-in Terminal application in any of the following ways:

    ☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)

    ☞ In the Finder, select Go Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.

    ☞ Open LaunchPad and start typing the name.

    Paste into the Terminal window by pressing command-V. The command may take a noticeable amount of time to run.

    Wait for a new line ending in a dollar sign ($) to appear.

    The output of the command will be a number. It's automatically copied to the Clipboard. Please paste it into a reply.

    The Terminal window doesn't show the output. Please don't copy anything from there.

  • by Syoma1,

    Syoma1 Syoma1 Jan 23, 2015 9:57 PM in response to Linc Davis
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    Jan 23, 2015 9:57 PM in response to Linc Davis

        1069

  • by Syoma1,

    Syoma1 Syoma1 Jan 23, 2015 10:55 PM in response to Linc Davis
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    Jan 23, 2015 10:55 PM in response to Linc Davis

    The problem is solved by reinstalling yosemitee again. Thank you