ok. I was afraid of that. clearing out voiceover prefs while the client is still running can be a bit problematic. oh well, it's gotta be done anyway.
-eric On Jul 11, 2017, at 7:31 PM, Jonathan Cohn wrote: > I don't think the crash has anything to do with spotlight. > It sounds like the speech synthesizer controller might have crashed > (macintalk). > > I read the log as after the VO crash something was trying to check if there > were fixes for the crash and failed to be able to do the search. Perhaps > being an older OS, the DB for the crash reporter isn't available? > > I do remember an issue in that version of OS where a string of ha repeated > could crash things. > If you can't find consistency in a document that cause the crash, then > perhaps removing all preference files associated with VoiceOver might clear > things out. > > These are located in Library/references under your home directory > > You should also be able to find the crash files in your Library folder. > > > > Best wishes, > > Jonathan Cohn > > > >> On Jul 11, 2017, at 4:49 PM, Eric Oyen <eric.o...@icloud.com> wrote: >> >> btw, I checked and it does appear that spotlight is actually up and working, >> so I don't know why its being reported otherwise. >> >> -eric >> >> On Jul 11, 2017, at 1:45 PM, Eric Oyen wrote: >> >>> hello all, >>> >>> I have been seeing increasingly random crashes with voiceover on my old mac >>> system here over the last few months. It's an older whitebook using OS X >>> Lion (no I don't have anything newer here and couldn't afford it if I >>> wanted to). here are the relevant lines from console: >>> >>> 7/11/17 1:30:35.455 PM com.apple.VoiceOver: >>> /SourceCache/SpeechSynthesis_MacInTalk/SpeechSynthesis-4.0.74/Synthesizers/MacinTalk/Sources/MTFEPOSResolver.cp:2576: >>> failed assertion `selectedHomograph' >>> >>> >>> 7/11/17 1:30:39.118 PM ReportCrash: DebugSymbols was unable to start a >>> spotlight query: spotlight is not responding or disabled. >>> >>> >>> 7/11/17 1:30:53.013 PM com.apple.launchd.peruser.502: >>> (com.apple.VoiceOver[3654]) Job appears to have crashed: Abort trap: 6 >>> >>> 7/11/17 1:31:02.452 PM ReportCrash: Saved crash report for VoiceOver[3654] >>> version ??? (???) to >>> /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/VoiceOver_2017-07-11-133102_localhost.crash >>> >>> >>> >>> am I suffering from OS creep here? if so, I guess a reinstall is in order. >>> >>> thnx >>> >>> -eric >>> >>> -- >>> The following information is important for all members of the Mac >>> Visionaries list. >>> >>> If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if >>> you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners >>> or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. >>> >>> Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. 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