Very weird bug, crashes mac os x. (Recipe found)

[Andre Garzia]

Sarah,

the script doesn't matter. If you try a simple hello world  
application the same thing happens. I've got a recipe, it's related  
to the engine that is used to run the script. If you pick the engine  
from inside the Standalone bundle (G4 here, so I've picked the engine  
for PowerPC) then it all runs fine till the point of exiting the  
script, then it all fails, all applications quit, all volumes are  
ejected, not a chance to act.

I've just discovered it here by loosing all my work now. I was doing  
a 19gb backup restore here for my macbook is at the repair shop for  
analysis and trying to work out my contracts when I again, lost all  
the work because due to an engine malfunction in a script as silly as  
this one:

#!./Standalone -ui
on startup
get URL "file:tips.txt"
put "Content-Type: text/plain" & cr & cr
put any line of it
do format("tell application \"Finder\"\nactivate\ndisplay dialog  
\"hello\"\nend tell") as "applescript"	
put the result && the alternatelanguages && version()
end startup

the whole thing exploded!!! this is a major major major thing for me.

Andre


On Jan 16, 2007, at 12:49 AM, Sarah Reichelt wrote:

>> I am invoking a script from the command line in MacOS X. It executes
>> fine till the end. Then I can briefly see some malloc() errors before
>> the whole screen goes blue and everything reboots, all apps close, no
>> saving whatsoever. No way to replicate this bug. The script is dead
>> simple. The error is unavoidable. Code is inside a try/catch block
>> and yet it fails just in time for quit.
>>
>
> What is the script Andre? And does it work OK from Terminal?
>
> I haven't had this happen, but maybe if you post the script, someone
> might come up with an idea.
>
> Cheers,
> Sarah
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