Burbruee Posted June 9, 2008 Share Posted June 9, 2008 Hello, My favorite client to use for MSN service is aMSN, because it supports webcam, offline messages, custom smileys, and more. However, It does not want to work on my osx86 install, figured I'd ask here (official forums for aMSN Mac is down at the moment) and hope that another aMSN user could help me out. So, I've tried downloading and installing the official 0.97 version from amsn-project.net, I've also tried the 0.98 betas with the same result: After installation as I try to launch aMSN I see it pop up in my dock and the menu changes to "aMSN" for maybe one or two seconds, then it disappears. Thanks. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/109703-amsn-wont-start-on-zephy-1052/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burbruee Posted July 4, 2008 Author Share Posted July 4, 2008 Am I the only one here wanting to use aMSN? I'm currently using Messenger for Mac V7 and it lacks many important functions for me that aMSN has. But it won't start on my osx86. EDIT: Started aMSN from a terminal window and here is the error output: c-db1ee253:MacOS burbruee$ ./aMSN 2008-07-04 16:46:41.041 aMSN[1209:10b] _CFGetHostUUIDString: unable to determine UUID for host. Error: 35 Error in startup script: invalid command name "::macWindowStyle::setBrushed" while executing "::macWindowStyle::setBrushed $window" (procedure "toplevel" line 3) invoked from within "toplevel $window" (procedure "::pluginslog::draw" line 5) invoked from within "::pluginslog::draw" invoked from within "if { $initialize_amsn == 1 } { ::pluginslog::draw }" (file "pluginslog.tcl" line 210) invoked from within "source pluginslog.tcl" ("uplevel" body line 28) invoked from within "uplevel \#0 { # amsncore.tcl is already loaded but we'll re-source it here in case we manually do reload_files source amsncore.tcl source audio.tc..." (procedure "reload_files" line 2) invoked from within "reload_files" (file "/Applications/aMSN.app/Contents/Resources/Scripts/amsn" line 276) invoked from within "source [file join $program_dir amsn]" (file "/Applications/aMSN.app/Contents/Resources/Scripts/AppMain.tcl" line 20) c-db1ee253:MacOS burbruee$ Is this aMSN related or an osx86 issue? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/109703-amsn-wont-start-on-zephy-1052/#findComment-807048 Share on other sites More sharing options...
krissdogg krissdogg Posted July 21, 2008 Share Posted July 21, 2008 hello I have same problem on kalyway 10.5.2 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/109703-amsn-wont-start-on-zephy-1052/#findComment-827589 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burbruee Posted July 21, 2008 Author Share Posted July 21, 2008 And I still haven't been able to solve this. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/109703-amsn-wont-start-on-zephy-1052/#findComment-827712 Share on other sites More sharing options...
pritthish Posted July 23, 2008 Share Posted July 23, 2008 Ive had this problem for the last two months... basically what i do when this happens is overwrite aMSN.app with a newly downloaded copy of it... and voila! it works again Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/109703-amsn-wont-start-on-zephy-1052/#findComment-830308 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyberbkk Posted August 24, 2008 Share Posted August 24, 2008 I had the same problem and overwriting the .app alone did not fix it for me, after searching a bit and trying a view things, this worked for me. 1. Remove the old amsn.app from applications 2. Delete the folder Home/Library/Application Support/aMSN 3. Install it again That solved the problem for me, its not a problem with the .app actually (it did work on other user profiles on my mac) but with the settings in your personal profile cheers cyberbkk Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/109703-amsn-wont-start-on-zephy-1052/#findComment-866942 Share on other sites More sharing options...
JumpForJesus Posted April 13, 2009 Share Posted April 13, 2009 I had the same problem and overwriting the .app alone did not fix it for me, after searching a bit and trying a view things, this worked for me. 1. Remove the old amsn.app from applications 2. Delete the folder Home/Library/Application Support/aMSN 3. Install it again That solved the problem for me, its not a problem with the .app actually (it did work on other user profiles on my mac) but with the settings in your personal profile cheers cyberbkk Another solution is installing the latest voodoo kernel. I searched on sooo many websites for well over 3 hours on how to fix my aMSN, as it wouldn't open from the dock. You can download the latest kernel here: http://code.google.com/p/xnu-dev/ Just thought I'd help people out as I got this working -Mitch Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/109703-amsn-wont-start-on-zephy-1052/#findComment-1131156 Share on other sites More sharing options...
hoollabaloo Posted October 7, 2009 Share Posted October 7, 2009 Does anybody solved this problem? I have the same issue but I cannot install Voodoo Kernel because I have an Intel Processor! What can I do to make aMSN work? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/109703-amsn-wont-start-on-zephy-1052/#findComment-1292276 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burbruee Posted October 7, 2009 Author Share Posted October 7, 2009 Does anybody solved this problem? I have the same issue but I cannot install Voodoo Kernel because I have an Intel Processor!What can I do to make aMSN work? On XxX 10.5.6, aMSN worked out of the box for me. Not sure which kernel I installed. I just know it was AMD compatible. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/109703-amsn-wont-start-on-zephy-1052/#findComment-1292392 Share on other sites More sharing options...
hoollabaloo Posted October 8, 2009 Share Posted October 8, 2009 I have vanilla kernel and leopard 10.5.8 on a P5W DH DELUXE mobo Does anyone have any solution? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/109703-amsn-wont-start-on-zephy-1052/#findComment-1293920 Share on other sites More sharing options...
quake Posted October 18, 2009 Share Posted October 18, 2009 I had the same problem and overwriting the .app alone did not fix it for me, after searching a bit and trying a view things, this worked for me. 1. Remove the old amsn.app from applications 2. Delete the folder Home/Library/Application Support/aMSN 3. Install it again That solved the problem for me, its not a problem with the .app actually (it did work on other user profiles on my mac) but with the settings in your personal profile cheers cyberbkk My installation of amsn did not write a "Home/Library/Application Support/aMSN" folder. Any other suggetsions. Tried to different versions of it. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/109703-amsn-wont-start-on-zephy-1052/#findComment-1302475 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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