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Logic Pro X 10.2.1 Crashing on Startup . . . HELP!

Hi,

When I start logic it chrashes. What should I do to solve the problem?

Thanks

Process:	Logic Pro X [8601]
Path:	/Applications/Logic Pro X.app/Contents/MacOS/Logic Pro X
Identifier:	com.apple.logic10
Version:	10.2.1 (4302.18)
Build Info:	MALogic-4302018000000000~2
App Item ID:	……
App External ID:	……
Code Type:	X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process:	??? [1]
Responsible:	Logic Pro X [8601]
User ID:	501

Date/Time:	2016-01-28 18:28:51.851 +0100
OS Version:	Mac OS X 10.11.2 (15C50)
Report Version:	11
Anonymous UUID:	…..

Sleep/Wake UUID:

……

Time Awake Since Boot: 120000 seconds

Time Since Wake:

80000 seconds

System Integrity Protection: enabled

Crashed Thread:

0 Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread

Exception Type:	EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV)
Exception Codes:	KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at 0x0000000000000000
Exception Note:	EXC_CORPSE_NOTIFY

VM Regions Near 0:

-->

__TEXT

0000000101044000-00000001022c8000 [ 18.5M] r-x/rwx SM=COW /Applications/Logic Pro X.app/Contents/MacOS/Logic Pro X

Global Trace Buffer (reverse chronological seconds):

1873.257988 CFNetwork	0x00007fff8af32303 TCP Conn 0x7f9e8f0ef840 complete. fd: 13, err: 0
1873.258084 CFNetwork	0x00007fff8afc0b1d TCP Conn 0x7f9e8f0ef840 event 1. err: 0

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

0 libsystem_c.dylib

0x00007fff8b2ad152 strlen + 18

1 com.apple.music.apps.MAAlchemy 0x0000000106b85867 ZenDBBase::_sqlite3_exec(char const*, bool, int (*)(void*, int, char**, char**), void*) const + 535

2 com.apple.music.apps.MAAlchemy 0x0000000106b89787 ZenDBBase::addAttributeType(unsigned int, std::__1::basic_string<char, std::__1::char_traits<char>, std::__1::allocator<char> > const&, bool) + 87

3 com.apple.music.apps.MAAlchemy 0x0000000106aca9d4 AlchemySharedLib2::AlchemyPlugin::AlchemyPlugin(AlchemySharedLib2::AlchemyHostI nterface*) + 3636

4 com.apple.music.apps.MAAlchemy 0x0000000106d2aacf CamelAudioAU2::AlchemyPluginHostWrapper::createPlugin() + 47

5 com.apple.music.apps.MAAlchemy 0x0000000106aa797f CamelAudioAU2::AlchemyPluginAU::AlchemyPluginAU() + 271

6 com.apple.music.apps.MAAlchemy 0x0000000106aa784c CreateA2Instance + 28

7 com.apple.music.apps.MAAudioEngine 0x00000001045c3c07 CMAAEAlchemy::CMAAEAlchemy() + 375

8 com.apple.music.apps.MAAudioEngine 0x00000001045c38fc NewAlchemyPlugIn() + 28

9 com.apple.music.apps.MAAudioEngine 0x000000010459628b MD::GetProtoPlug(short) + 123

10 com.apple.logic10	0x00000001011ed34f 0x101044000 + 1741647
11 com.apple.logic10	0x00000001011511ef 0x101044000 + 1102319
12 com.apple.logic10	0x0000000101152aa2 0x101044000 + 1108642
13 com.apple.logic10	0x00000001014a8f39 0x101044000 + 4607801
14 com.apple.logic10	0x0000000101298e0e 0x101044000 + 2444814
15 com.apple.logic10	0x00000001016b93b2 0x101044000 + 6771634
16 com.apple.logic10	0x00000001016b0eaa 0x101044000 + 6737578
17 com.apple.CoreFoundation	0x00007fff8c83970c __CFNOTIFICATIONCENTER_IS_CALLING_OUT_TO_AN_OBSERVER__ + 12
18 com.apple.CoreFoundation	0x00007fff8c83967f ___CFXRegistrationPost_block_invoke + 63
19 com.apple.CoreFoundation	0x00007fff8c838d47 _CFXRegistrationPost + 407
20 com.apple.CoreFoundation	0x00007fff8c838ab2 ___CFXNotificationPost_block_invoke + 50
21 com.apple.CoreFoundation	0x00007fff8c832d42 -[_CFXNotificationRegistrar find:object:observer:enumerator:] + 1922
22 com.apple.CoreFoundation	0x00007fff8c721145 _CFXNotificationPost + 693
23 com.apple.Foundation	0x00007fff8cec0921 -[NSNotificationCenter postNotificationName:object:userInfo:] + 66
24 com.apple.AppKit	0x00007fff995b765d -[NSApplication _postDidFinishNotification] + 297
25 com.apple.AppKit	0x00007fff995b73d3 -[NSApplication _sendFinishLaunchingNotification] + 203
26 com.apple.AppKit	0x00007fff995b488d -[NSApplication(NSAppleEventHandling) _handleAEOpenEvent:] + 557
27 com.apple.AppKit	0x00007fff995b4337 -[NSApplication(NSAppleEventHandling) _handleCoreEvent:withReplyEvent:] + 250
28 com.apple.Foundation	0x00007fff8cef2861 -[NSAppleEventManager dispatchRawAppleEvent:withRawReply:handlerRefCon:] + 290
29 com.apple.Foundation	0x00007fff8cef26db _NSAppleEventManagerGenericHandler + 102
30 com.apple.AE	0x00007fff93fd2231 aeDispatchAppleEvent(AEDesc const, AEDesc, unsigned int, unsigned char*) + 531
31 com.apple.AE	0x00007fff93fd1fb8 dispatchEventAndSendReply(AEDesc const, AEDesc) + 31
32 com.apple.AE	0x00007fff93fd1ed4 aeProcessAppleEvent + 288
33 com.apple.HIToolbox	0x00007fff8e43baf9 AEProcessAppleEvent + 55
34 com.apple.AppKit	0x00007fff995ae588 _DPSNextEvent + 2245
35 com.apple.AppKit	0x00007fff9997a943 -[NSApplication _nextEventMatchingEventMask:untilDate:inMode:dequeue:] + 454
36 com.apple.AppKit	0x00007fff995a3fc8 -[NSApplication run] + 682
37 com.apple.AppKit	0x00007fff99526520 NSApplicationMain + 1176
38 com.apple.logic10	0x00000001016834ce 0x101044000 + 6550734
39 libdyld.dylib	0x00007fff945135ad start + 1

MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2012), OS X El Capitan (10.11.2)

Posted on Jan 28, 2016 9:42 AM

35 replies

Feb 1, 2016 7:52 AM in response to mperor

My internal harddrive is 500 gb big. 20 gb is now free. My external is 2 TB, and 500 gb free.

In order for OS X to work properly and have the 'breathing space' it needs to do so you should always keep at least 20-30 percent of the system drive free.. You have a tiny amount of free space left on your system drive so that can reduce the overall performance of OS X and therefore Logic too..

Why should I turn off Time Machine?

I typically turn off Time Machine when I am working in Logic so the system drive etc... isn't being constantly accessed by Time Machine which can reduce overall performance. I turn Time machine back on when I am not working in Logic

Why should I turn of Avast? Always assumed that its good to have an antivirus!

Personal Opinion: Most of these 'run in the background' Anti virus apps on the Mac are a waste of time and resources... and certainly place loads on system resources that you don't want when using Logic or any other DAW. Try using the excellent Malwarebytes freeware Malware app to check for Malware every so often (It doesn't run in the background, and so only uses resources when you actually run it..)

https://www.malwarebytes.org/antimalware/mac/

Feb 1, 2016 7:54 AM in response to mperor

mperor wrote:

Problem solved! I'm gonna write down later today what I had to do to solve it.

Another questions, how do I Download Additional Content, without downloading everything?

Thanks

Use the Sound Library Manager.... to select/deselect what you wish to download or not...

Logic's Menu bar > Logic Pro X > Sound Library > Open Sound Library Manager...

Problem solved! I'm gonna write down later today what I had to do to solve it.

I, for one... will be really interested to hear what was the root cause of your issues... so please update us when you can.

mperor Author

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Feb 14, 2016 11:45 AM in response to The Art Of Sound

There we go. I'm sorry for my absence, but here comes the solution.

For some reason the problem is related to Alchemy, which is stated in the "error report".

First i tried to delete logic, and then reinstall it. THIS DIDN'T WORK. I suspect it is because the different logic files (not your project files) are still in the system.

So what i suspect is the solution is the following.

1, I deleted logic again, and all the files related to it (except your project fils, and your saved settings). Then i reinstalled in.

2, Navigate to Macintosh HD ->Users -> "your user"->Music->Audio Music Apps. I deleted this entire map. It shouldn't be a problem since this map is a reflection of Macintosh HD ->Users -> "your user"-> Library -> Application Support ->Logic. So when you delete it, it will eventually be recreated!

After I did this Logic worked fine. Though I suspect that I didn't have to go through step 1 (deleting logic). It probably would have been sufficient to delete the Alchemy folder in Audio Music Apps.

Let me know if you have any questions. And thank you to everyone that helped me! 🙂

Feb 14, 2016 12:15 PM in response to mperor

Thanks mperor,

So it looks like it was indeed a permissions related issue as i first suspected.... that probably messed up your Audio Music Apps folder or maybe just prevented the Alchemy update from being correctly installed... or it became corrupted during the process.. and just removing and rebuilding the Alchemy folder would have probably sufficed as you suspect,..,

This is why creating a new user account and testing, is often the quickest way of identiftying such issues.. It's the 'quick and dirty' means of troubleshooting user account problems for sure🙂

Anyhow, again, thanks for letting us know.... and Im glad you are back up and running!

Nigel

mperor Author

Level 1

8 points

Feb 14, 2016 1:01 PM in response to The Art Of Sound

And thanks to you for your support Nigel.

I don't know why it happend now, but I've seen quite a lot of these issues coming up during the past week, so I suspect that it is related to an apple update.

One more thing regarding freeing memory space, I'm not sure if I will be able to free 20 % space, but I'll try to free at least 15. I have some Kontakt packages that I'm not always using. I usually use maybe 1/5 of them on a regular basis. Can i put the remaining 4/5 on a SD card, and still be able to tell Kontakt to look for files in both directions?

Best regards Philip Rosberg

Logic Pro X 10.2.1 Crashing on Startup . . . HELP!