[SOLUTION] aMSN freezes on startup

[m3lyc]

Hi, recently bought a Powermac G5, and because I had experience with aMSN on Linux and onsider it to be a good alternative to the official MSN as it supports PLUS! and webcam etc, I decided to install it. It has been working fine for the past few days, but today it started freezing on startup/login, as I have it set to automatically log me in when aMSN starts. Just freezes, sits there doing nothing with the login bar stuck. Its annoying, I like aMSN and not be able to log in is getting up my nose. I have tried uninstalling and re-installing, re starting multiple times, installed the dev version. Nothing has worked, it still freezes. I do not have this problem with any other program so it must be specific to aMSN. Many thanks in advance.

[m3lyc]

SOLVED! If you have this problem, simply run the following command in terminal, works great again now .

Code:

sudo update_dyld_shared_cache -force

[kakaroto]

Hi, welcome to the forums,
thanks for showing us this trick! Hopefully it will help many other users!
I wonder why it happens though and how I could force it to be ran at installation...

[jaypee]

my terminal always tells me

update_dyld_shared_cache failed: you must be root to run this tool

WTF ?

[kakaroto]

that's why he said to type 'sudo' before it.

[jaypee]

of course i did...still freezes tho.

[kakaroto]

you must be root to run this tool

If you put 'sudo' it wouldn't say you need to be root since 'sudo' makes you run the command as root

[dozer90]

Just downloaded aMSN 0.98.3 and now I have this exact problem. tried running that code (sudo update_dyld_shared_cache -force) in Terminal, it appears to do nothing, here is my result:

Last login: Mon Jul 20 10:25:34 on console
liams-macbook:~ Liam$ sudo update_dyld_shared_cache -force
liams-macbook:~ Liam$

aMSN still freezes after that.
Strangely enough, when I run aMSN with a different account, there is no problem.

[alexandernst]

You could try to delete your account (click on "Forget my account") and create it again 

[murch]

Yeah same thing here! If i try to login with another account, it works at the 1st attempt. (already tried the sudo command to no avail)