Things have been going well with my MacBook (thanks for all the IM help, Britt) until yesterday. The pattern that’s emerging brings back the feelings of dread so familiar from my many years of Windows use.

First my terminal window stopped working. When it starts up, it shows me the following message:

Last login: Fri Jul 6 19:46:14 on ttyp1
Welcome to Darwin!
macdavid:~ david$
/System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/A/Resources/MacOS/JavaApplicationStub; exit
[JavaAppLauncher Error] CFBundleCopyResourceURL() failed loading MRJApp.properties file
[JavaAppLauncher Error] CFBundleCopyResourceURL() failed while getting Resource/Java directory
[LaunchRunner Error] No main class specified
[JavaAppLauncher Error] CallStaticVoidMethod() threw an exception
Exception in thread “main” java.lang.NullPointerException
at apple.launcher.LaunchRunner.run(LaunchRunner.java:85)
at apple.launcher.LaunchRunner.callMain(LaunchRunner.java:50)
at apple.launcher.JavaApplicationLauncher.main(JavaApplicationLauncher.java:61)
logout
[Process completed]

Then the built-in Web server stopped working. When I try to restart it using System Preferences > Sharing, it hangs.

This morning, Smultron has started crashing whenever I try to save a file. I lost a bunch of work, which is just damn depressing,

At least with Windows, I have enough experience to know how to try to fix it. With OS X, I’ve installed third party replacements for the terminal and Web server, but I fear I’m facing cascading system failures. Or is that just a Windows-based reaction?

In any case, I’m not enjoying this feeling of helplessness:( [Tags: macintosh macbook whines ]

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