Steam crashes after login on 10.5.8

[cooper6581]

Hey All,

 

As this is my first post, let me preface it by thanking the community here for all of the hard work put in to making OSx86 what it is today.

 

I have two different machines, both installed with iDeneb 10.5.8 lite addition, on both of them, everything is working perfectly using the vanilla kernel, but I can't get steam to run. Here is the crash:

 

http://pastebin.com/qbydhL6a

 

Has anyone experienced something similar?

[Barefists]

I'm experiencing a crash in steam startup as well, but I'm not sure if it is the same error.

 

The error says that breakpad_inspector has closed unexpectedly. After the error occurs, Steam stops responding and force quiting it takes quite some time (about a minute or two). I had this crash on two completely different systems running iDeneb 1.6 (10.5.8):

 

System 1: Pentium 4 3GHz Prescott, Intel 875p chipset, x1600 agp 256mb (9.5.0 VooDoo)

System 2: AMD Athlon 64 X2, Via K8M800 chipset, HD3850 agp 512mb (9.8.0 Qoopz)

 

Hope this informations helps in solving this mystery. Cheers.

[Madada7]

Anyone? i have this problem also

[kpitstupidsimple]

Same boat. 10.6.4 Vanilla kernel w/ /Extra and Chameleon 2.0RC4. Worked on first load, downloaded my game, had to hard reboot with steam open, now it crashes after login. When I delete the app and empty the trash it says it can't be completed because "ipcserver" is in use. kill'd it, reinstalled it, still crashes.

 

I want mah CS:S!

[Madada7]

can we confirm that this only happens with hackintoshes?

[ShadowsOfSilver]

I'm running iATKOS v5i (10.5.5) and it works fine, except loading the game itself.

[Madada7]

cmon everyone! is this a bug valve will fix, or do we have to find a fix ourselves?

[MadBonsai]

Solution is very simple

 

Go to Steam.app/Contents/MacOS/osx32 and delete breakpad_inspector. Keep this folder open and move out from screen center.

Launch Steam. If app is downloading updated, look to this folder - Steam could download breakpad_inspector again. Delete this file immediately and Steam should launch properly.

 

If this method not works, try... it again. For me it worked at the second try.

[Gringo Vermelho]

Nice trick, thanks. My P4 10.5.8 hack has the same issue, On the vanilla 10.6.4 Core 2 Duo hack Steams works fine.

 

Once I get it to a bootable state again (went a little crazy experimenting with nvidia drivers) I'll try this and report back.

[Madada7]

ok, i want to touch up on what bonsai said about how to fix it,

What I did, was,

1.went to /applications/steam.app/contents/MacOS/osx32, and delete breakpad_inspector,

2.then launch steam, it will say checking for updates, and then will download an update and install itself, and will open steam's login window,

3.as soon as it finishes the update, go back to /applications/steam.app/contents/MacOS/osx32, and delete breakpad_inspector again, then you can log on.

4.then close steam completely, and repeat steps 2 and 3 untill steam gives up updating and reinstalling breakpad_inspector. then it will work normally from then on. (i had to repeat this 3 times)

 

if this method is to complicated, I have made a shell that does all this automatically, just say if you want me to upload it

[sobakus]

ok, i want to touch up on what bonsai said about how to fix it,

What I did, was,

1.went to /applications/steam.app/contents/MacOS/osx32, and delete breakpad_inspector,

2.then launch steam, it will say checking for updates, and then will download an update and install itself, and will open steam's login window,

3.as soon as it finishes the update, go back to /applications/steam.app/contents/MacOS/osx32, and delete breakpad_inspector again, then you can log on.

4.then close steam completely, and repeat steps 2 and 3 untill steam gives up updating and reinstalling breakpad_inspector. then it will work normally from then on. (i had to repeat this 3 times)

 

if this method is to complicated, I have made a shell that does all this automatically, just say if you want me to upload it

 

Ive been using this solution for some days, but I end up deleting breakpad_inspector every time I start steam, so

here is a nicer solution.

 

The idea is to leave the file as is, so steam doesnt auto update all the time, but avoid it to be run. For this in linux/bsd systems you can disable the execute flag of the file, so the system wont even try to start it. For this you just start the MacOS terminal (in the utilities folder) and paste this command as is:

 

chmod a-x /Applications/Steam.app/Contents/MacOS/osx32/breakpad_inspector

 

and press enter. This way the file is not executable anymore.

 

This command assumes you have the steam.app file installed inside the main applications folder.

 

As valve will, sooner or later, update the steam client for fixes and stuff, just run the command again and you are done.

 

Now steam works perfect in my AMD based h*ckintosh