Twhirl launch and shutdown problems [OSX]

[This was originally reported on Trac system, and also to info@twhirl.org.]

Hi-

Twhirl is a very nice twitter client, but I've been having some significant problems.

I had it working find with 0.7.5, but on trying to upgrade to 0.8 (Mac Pro, OSX 10.5.2) things seem to have gone haywire. Now I can install but the application just sits in the dock with nothing happening. Worse, this state of affairs seems to have corrupted my whole machine: I can't launch any new applications at all! When I try to shutdown the machine just gets into an endlessly cycling state (which luckily I can stop with the power button and then a reboot is OK).

So -- help!

What's strange is I have it working fine on other accounts on the same machine (and another OSX 10.5.2 machine) so it's something specific to this setup.

Any ideas?

Andrew

I’m frustrated, sad

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Marco Kaiser, Employee, replied on May 12, 2008 10:49

Hi Andrew,

thanks for your report. twhirl shouldn't be able to cause these problems on your machine, as it lives in a controlled environment, created by the Adobe AIR runtime.

Have you tried un- and re-installing twhirl and/or the Adobe AIR runtime? Do you get any error messages or reports that twhirl has crashed?

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