XCodes mysterious death

April 1, 2009 6:09 AM

Why has XCode suddenly completely stopped working? Reinstallation has done nothing. It seemed to be working one day and then the next not at all, with no obvious changes to my system that I can think of.

I am using XCode 3.0 on a unibody macbook, 10.5.6. XCode seemed to suddenly stop working about a month ago, giving me this error when I type open blahblah.java in the shell:

LSOpenFromURLSpec() failed with error -10810 for the file /Users/lukeo05/blah/blahblah.java

and when I try and open XCode graphically, either with a file or just the app by itself, I get a 'This program has quit unexpectedly' error as it starts to load up, then nothing. The details of this error have this line which may be useful out of everything it says:

Application Specific Information:
objc[8690]: '/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/DebugSymbols.framework/Versions/A/DebugSymbols' was not compiled with -fobjc-gc or -fobjc-gc-only, but the application requires GC
objc[8690]: *** GC capability of application and some libraries did not match

I have tried reinstalling XCode, and the problem persists, so I was wondering if anyone has experienced this before and any ideas what might be the issue.

posted by lukeo05 to computers & internet (3 comments total)

Did you recently install the Safari 4 Beta? If so, that's probably you're problem. You'll just need to update XCode to 3.1.2.

http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2627
posted by PantsOfSCIENCE at 6:28 AM on April 1

*your* problem. Crap.

Linkified: http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2627
posted by PantsOfSCIENCE at 6:29 AM on April 1

Ah! I did install the beta, that is almost certainly the issue it seems. I remember posting on reddit when I installed it wondering if it would have any system wide effects because it updated the rendering engine used across OSX or something like that!

Thanks!
posted by lukeo05 at 6:37 AM on April 1