Softly Killing

A few of my apps have started to not start. They are launched and their icon appears for a split second in the dock before fading away. No error message. I don't recall making any major change, nothing irregular. Here's a non-comprehensive list of broken apps in case you see something they have in common. Eg, no Adobe software works but all Apple software does.

Adobe Creative Suite
VNCViewer
NXClient
Folding@Home
Fugu
TextForge
Tomato Torrent
BitTorrent
Google Earth

What does work

All Apple software
Firefox
Skype
Opera
Transmission
Quick Silver

Ephilei said:

A few of my apps have started to not start. They are launched and their icon appears for a split second in the dock before fading away. No error message. I don't recall making any major change, nothing irregular. Here's a non-comprehensive list of broken apps in case you see something they have in common. Eg, no Adobe software works but all Apple software does.

Adobe Creative Suite
VNCViewer
NXClient
Folding@Home
Fugu
TextForge
Tomato Torrent
BitTorrent
Google Earth

What does work

All Apple software
Firefox
Skype
Opera
Transmission
Quick Silver

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er... looks like all the Universal apps are working and the PPC specific apps are not... as a first glance. Are you have an Intel or PPC CPU? Your sig says MacBook so I assume Intel. Is this a Rosetta problem?

Yes! They are all PPC apps. How do I run them with Rosetta? I know you're supposed to set it in the info window, but I don't see the checkbox. That might just be part of the problem. The console output is, for Folding@home for example,

dyld: Library not loaded: /System/Library/Frameworks/OpenGL.framework/Versions/A/OpenGL
Referenced from: /Applications/Productivity/[email protected]/Contents/MacOS/Folding@home
Reason: no suitable image found. Did find:
/System/Library/Frameworks/OpenGL.framework/Versions/A/OpenGL: mach-o, but wrong architecture
/System/Library/Frameworks/OpenGL.framework/Versions/A/OpenGL: mach-o, but wrong architecture

Ephilei said:

Yes! They are all PPC apps. How do I run them with Rosetta? I know you're supposed to set it in the info window, but I don't see the checkbox. That might just be part of the problem.

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I am at work now and cannot visualise how to do this. I'll reply later unless someone sorts it before then.