Re: Panther / AU components on startup
Re: Panther / AU components on startup
- Subject: Re: Panther / AU components on startup
- From: "Angus F. Hewlett" <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 13:43:16 +0000
I'm not on any of those lists but I'll go track them down.
Surely, though, it's bad design that a malfunctioning AU Component could
cause the entire OS to fail to boot, requiring a reinstall?
My guess is that either some dependency of the VST plugins is not yet
loaded and ready at OS-boot time, or they are trying to display an alert or
dialog box but the system's UI resources can't be accessed at that time.
Regards,
Angus.
At 01:27 PM 10/26/2003 -0800, William Stewart wrote:
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Angus
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I don't know actually - the ComponentManager is part of Carbon, I'd
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suggest asking this question on one of the carbon lists.
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Bill
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On 26/10/2003, at 11:01 AM, Angus F. Hewlett wrote:
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> Hi all,
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> Question:- is Panther doing some kind of scan of AU component binaries
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> startup? I have a user complaining that when certain VST-AU wraps are
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> present on the system (only certain VST plugins though, most are fine)
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> the
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> computer is locking up with the pinwheel at the login screen. User
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> same system is/was fine with 10.2.8.
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> Anyone got any ideas what could cause that? For example, are there some
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> functions that the VST plug might try to call which are not available
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> the machine is at the login screen? If Panther is scanning the AUs,
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> which
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> functions is it calling? Is there a way of detecting this scan process
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> and
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> loading only minimal functionality for the plugin if it's detected?
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> Regards,
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> Angus.
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