Hi Eric, On the mac you have why not upgrade to Yosemite 10.10 and see if the upgrade corrects things,
It's also a better os than mountain goat. -----Original Message----- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Eric Oyen Sent: Wednesday, 12 July 2017 8:49 AM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: some random crashing with voiceover 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. You can reach mark at: > macvisionaries+modera...@googlegroups.com and your owner is Cara Quinn - you > can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- 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. You can reach mark at: macvisionaries+modera...@googlegroups.com and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- 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. You can reach mark at: macvisionaries+modera...@googlegroups.com and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
