Mail and Safari crash on opening in OSX10.6.8

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Still running 10.6.8 on one iMac. Today both Mail and Safari crash immediately on opening and have done nothing I am aware of to change anything on this machine recently.

Any suggestions?

This is part of the crash report for Mail:

Process: Mail [388]
Path: /Applications/Mail.app/Contents/MacOS/Mail
Identifier: com.apple.mail
Version: 4.6 (1085)
Build Info: Mail-10850000~1
Code Type: X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [145]

Date/Time: 2015-05-29 15:53:00.103 +0800
OS Version: Mac OS X 10.6.8 (10K549)
Report Version: 6

Interval Since Last Report: 285738 sec
Crashes Since Last Report: -200
Per-App Interval Since Last Report: 5695721 sec
Per-App Crashes Since Last Report: 1
Anonymous UUID: 42A1EA30-70E6-4E48-8E49-B02D0D8CB678

Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV)
Exception Codes: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at 0x000000000686b000
Crashed Thread: 6


Thread 6 Crashed:
0 com.apple.security 0x00000001018871e0 0x10161b000 + 2540000

Thread 6 crashed with X86 Thread State (64-bit):
rax: 0x000000000686b000 rbx: 0x0000000000000000 rcx: 0x000000010eff8000 rdx: 0x000000010edff000
rdi: 0x000000010eff8000 rsi: 0x000000010edff000 rbp: 0x000000010eff9ff4 rsp: 0x000000010eff9f5c
r8: 0x0000000000000000 r9: 0x0000000000000000 r10: 0x0000000000000000 r11: 0x0000000000000000
r12: 0x0000000000000000 r13: 0x0000000000000000 r14: 0x0000000000000000 r15: 0x0000000000000000
rip: 0x00000001018871e0 rfl: 0x0000000000010246 cr2:


And for Safari:

Process: Safari [362]
Path: /Applications/Safari.app/Contents/MacOS/Safari
Identifier: com.apple.Safari
Version: 5.1.10 (6534.59.10)
Build Info: WebBrowser-75345910~1
Code Type: X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [145]

Date/Time: 2015-05-29 15:40:31.694 +0800
OS Version: Mac OS X 10.6.8 (10K549)
Report Version: 6

Interval Since Last Report: 284991 sec
Crashes Since Last Report: -201
Per-App Interval Since Last Report: 5007345 sec
Per-App Crashes Since Last Report: 2
Anonymous UUID: 42A1EA30-70E6-4E48-8E49-B02D0D8CB678

Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV)
Exception Codes: 0x000000000000000d, 0x0000000000000000
Crashed Thread: 6


Thread 6 Crashed:
0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x0000000100c79fc1 dyld_stub_binder + 45

Thread 6 crashed with X86 Thread State (64-bit):
rax: 0x0000000000000000 rbx: 0x0000000000000000 rcx: 0x0000000000000000 rdx: 0x000000010a7e9000
rdi: 0x0000000000000000 rsi: 0x000000010a7e9000 rbp: 0x000000010a7e3f3c rsp: 0x000000010a7e3e7c
r8: 0x0000000002055000 r9: 0x0000000000000000 r10: 0x0000000000000000 r11: 0x0000000101b04010
r12: 0x0000000000000000 r13: 0x0000000000000000 r14: 0x0000000000000000 r15: 0x0000000000000000
rip: 0x0000000100c79fc1 rfl: 0x0000000000010202 cr2: 0x00000001018871e0
 

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Still running 10.6.8 on one iMac. Today both Mail and Safari crash immediately on opening and have done nothing I am aware of to change anything on this machine recently.

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Both crashes show "bad access". This might indicate a problem with the hard drive that's in the iMac. Boot with your Snow Leopard DVD and run Disk Utility from the disk to verify the hard drive. Correct any errors that show up.
 
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http://www.mac-forums.com/forums/os-x-operating-system/325101-mail-safari-crash-openi

Thank you, chscag, for your response.

I did as you advised. No problems with the drive on testing. Also ran the Apple hardware testing and that did not show anything.

Also, the same thing happens with the other account on this iMac and Firefox also crashes on opening. Other applications seem to run fine.

Not sure where to go from here...
 
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With both accounts playing up would still plump for chscg's advice on the hard drive. Once upon a time one would have DiskWarrior to run over a sick drive, but at the current price cheaper just to buy a new hard drive. Not the easiest job alas in an iMac. No offence, with Snow Leopard being so old, is the computer also getting on?

You do have everything backed up to an external drive?
 
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Well, it couldn't hurt to create a third account on the chance that both of the current ones are corrupted in the same way. ???
 
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Thanks for the responses.

It seems more likely that it is a disk issue. I ran the disk utility and the hardware testing and they showed no problem but now the machine will not start up at all from it's drive.

Yes, it is a relatively old machine, late 2009 iMac and was really just running Snow Leopard for one particular bit of accounting software that hasn't kept up. Unfortunately, I need to access it again to get the information to move to a more up to date system.
 
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An update:

Reset access permissions etc via reset password in terminal using another startup (had to do that for something else recently so thought I would give it a go) and now the machine has restarted Snow Leopard and Mail and Safari no longer crash. Lost all of my old Mail somehow so now have to restore that.

Plan now to change that software and update this machine the same as all my others.

Thanks all for your help.
 

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