Terminal slow to launch (Continued from Classic forum)

[Wilsonium]

Because I'm not worthy and/or I'm an idiot... I started this thread in the MAC CLASSIC SYSTEM & SOFTWARE forum...

My problem is this... My terminal app is taking a long time to load... painfully long. I've tried all sorts of things from updating my prebinding to stopping all non-critical processes... However, it still takes 3 minutes to load on average. Even when logged on as root, it takes a long while. I'd appreciate any feedback or suggestions.

Cheers
Don

[blb]

Have you installed any fonts, especially Postscript fonts?

[nkuvu]

For anyone who hasn't looked at the other thread (if Wilsonium hasn't deleted it) take a gander. There's other stuff goin' on.

[Wilsonium]

Howdy...

Again, thanks for all the feedback. Disk usage is at around 50%, very few fonts and I'm on a G4 TiPB with 512 MB RAM. I've not installed anything that's not for OS X (no compiled unix apps). I've done everything that's been suggested and the only problem has been a crash during an update_prebinding (bus error). I'm slowly coming out of my denial and accepting the fact that there's a deeper problem and will need to wipe and reinstall. Thanks for all your assistance.

Cheers
Don

[nkuvu]

The update_prebinding error looked to me like it was indicative of a more major problem, as I mentioned in the other thread. Sorry I didn't grab the information from that thread to repost here.

testuser, have you ever heard of update_prebinding crashing with a bus error?

[blb]

So what did happen to the original thread?

Anyway, about that update_prebinding bus error, if memory serves, it looked like strlen() was passed a null pointer; the problem is, all the calls prior to strlen() had no debug info (as update_prebinding has been stripped of them), so figuring out what called strlen() would be quite difficult.

[Wilsonium]

Sorry about deleting the other thread...

After I reset the pram I decided to sudo update_prebinding -root / again and the error reported by the console is below.... it doesn't actually crash the terminal but exits the sudo command with a bus error, also included below if it helps. Keep in mind that the only complex thing installed on my system is WebObjects but was installed only recently and long after the terminal decided to take it's time. Just a note though... after the first update_prebinding my system over all seemed to perk up just a bit but not much. Terminal was the only app that I noticed taking a long time to launch.

From the console...
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Date/Time: 2002-05-24 23:20:59 -0700
OS Version: 10.1.4 (Build 5Q125)

Command: update_prebinding
PID: 407

Exception: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (0x0001)
Codes: KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE (0x0002) at 0x00000000

Thread 0:
#0 0x70000a50 in strlen
#1 0x00017ff4 in 0x17ff4
#2 0x000196a8 in 0x196a8
#3 0x0001258c in 0x1258c
#4 0x000057f4 in 0x57f4
#5 0x00007414 in 0x7414
#6 0x00003050 in 0x3050
#7 0x00002e90 in 0x2e90


PPC Thread State:
srr0: 0x70000a50 srr1: 0x0000f030 vrsave: 0x00000000
xer: 0x00000020 lr: 0x00017ff4 ctr: 0x70000a40 mq: 0x00000000
r0: 0x00017ff4 r1: 0xbffff990 r2: 0xbffff100 r3: 0x00000000
r4: 0x00000020 r5: 0x736f7572 r6: 0x6365732f r7: 0x47657374
r8: 0x616c7454 r9: 0x00000000 r10: 0x00000000 r11: 0x000273e4
r12: 0x70000a40 r13: 0x00000000 r14: 0x00000036 r15: 0x00061c90
r16: 0x00000001 r17: 0x80160fa8 r18: 0x000619d8 r19: 0x00001b07
r20: 0x00000000 r21: 0x0000001c r22: 0x70004234 r23: 0x700042c8
r24: 0x7016b0dc r25: 0x006bac3c r26: 0x8081ab5c r27: 0xc0d89c00
r28: 0x00000000 r29: 0xbfffef00 r30: 0x0d9ac800 r31: 0x00000001

Last lines from terminal...

/usr/bin/update_prebinding: object: /usr/bin/mkservdb malformed object (unknown load command 9)
previous message occurred when prebinding /usr/bin/mkservdb
/usr/bin/update_prebinding: for architecture ppc object: /Library/Receipts/SecurityUpdate10-19-01.pkg/Contents/Resources/GestaltTool malformed object (unknown load command 54)
Bus error

[blb]

These are interesting:

Originally posted by Wilsonium
...
/usr/bin/update_prebinding: object: /usr/bin/mkservdb malformed object (unknown load command 9)
previous message occurred when prebinding /usr/bin/mkservdb
/usr/bin/update_prebinding: for architecture ppc object: /Library/Receipts/SecurityUpdate10-19-01.pkg/Contents/Resources/GestaltTool malformed object (unknown load command 54)
Bus error

What do you get from

file /usr/bin/mkservdb
ls -l /usr/bin/mkservdb
file /Library/Receipts/SecurityUpdate10-19-01.pkg/Contents/Resources/GestaltTool
ls -l /Library/Receipts/SecurityUpdate10-19-01.pkg/Contents/Resources/GestaltTool

Also, when doing the update_prebinding, is there any more useful information when adding the -verbose flag?