LimeWire unexpectedly quits every night

[davidbaker999]

I leave LimeWire running overnight on my G3 iMac, 10.2 with a stable broadband connection. Nothing else running. Energy saver turns the screen off after 1 min. In the morning it has always "unexpectedly quit". Any ideas.?

David

[stief]

If those crashes are not caused by your processor going to sleep (I set mine to never, and just allow the display to turn off), those crashes are probably logged in a file called LimeWire.crash.log . You can view it in the Console or just drag it onto TextEdit to look at it's contents. Chances are you'll see something like

Exception: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (0x0001)
Codes: KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE (0x0002) at 0x00000038

which will tell you that it's a problem with Apple's Java Virtual Machine. Jens-Uwe Mager has already informed Apple of the problem and Apple has advised him it is fixed for Panther at least. For us now, the only voodoo I try is to shut my system down for 10 minutes to clear the memory, and on start-up make LW the first app to open
If you can't find a LimeWire.crash.log file, your Console in (Applications->Utilities) has a preference to "Enable Crash Reporting"

Cheers. Sorry if this isn't what you're asking

[davidbaker999]

Indeed. The Crash Reporter is logging errors like this (the latest one)

Date/Time: 2003-09-05 05:00:51 +0100
OS Version: 10.2.6 (Build 6L60)
Host: localhost

Command: LimeWire
PID: 1071

Exception: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (0x0001)
Codes: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS (0x0001) at 0x050d7000

though this means not a lot to me.

Will try the shut down for 10 mins Voodoo.

Many thanks for your help.

David

[stief]

the LW developers can read the logs: you can send them to bugs@limewire.com
I must admit I stopped sending logs that start with the "Exception: EXC_BAD_ACCESS"

It's also a good idea to have the bug reporter in the LW preference set to "Always send Immediately"

Search for posts by "jum" to know more--he understands those crashes. I'd be interested to know if the voodoo works easier than hopping backwards on one foot!

cheers