[TxMt] Re: Unable to start TextMate after installing security updates

[Eberhard W Lisse]

Install 10.15.1

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On 31 Oct 2019, 14:29 +0200, Mojca Miklavec <mojca at macports.org>, wrote:
> Hello,
>
> After installing the latest security update on macOS 10.13 I no longer
> seem to be able to launch TextMate.
>
> When I try to open it, a number of windows get opened in the launchpad
> (those that were "hidden"), but before opening all other windows
> finishes, the program crashes (crash log is in attachment).
>
> Does anyone have any idea how I could do any of the following:
> - find the contents of unsaved snippets
> - potentially "purge" the open windows and at least try to see if I
> can start TM in a clean fashion.
>
> The only "useful" information I see in the crash log is:
>
> Application Specific Information:
> old selected document ‘nil’, new selected document ‘Portfile’
>
> I most definitely had a lot of files called "Portfile" opened when
> TextMate still worked, but I don't know where 'nil' comes into play.
> The rest looks the same as the garbage I get when mixing libc++ and
> libstdc++, but it's probably completely unrelated anyway.
>
> Thank you very much,
> Mojca
>
> PS: A bit of background information, in case it is relevant in any way
> (probably not).
>
> I usually had quite some windows open, very often using TextMate as a
> "random notes, TODO lists, temporary copy-and-paste snippets which I
> get from somewhere and plan to use later, ...", a bunch of documents I
> had opened might no longer exist after the system reboot (I put a lot
> of stuff under /tmp/), a lot of them were never saved, but were
> automatically reopened every time when I rebooted the system (which
> has worked very reliably ever since Lion), ...
>
> Mac has been nagging me to install security updates for quite a while,
> and I kept pushing "remind me again tomorrow", until I finally did it,
> but ever since I wasn't able to fire up TextMate again, and this is
> one of my top programs I use. I'm still on 10.13, I did download both
> 10.14 and 10.15, but never decided to actually upgrade. Curious
> enough, during the last security update the computer suddenly notified
> me that it failed to upgrade the OS (gosh, I never asked my mac to do
> even do that, but at least I'm happy that it didn't do an automatic
> upgrade). I don't know if any of that has anything to do with
> TextMate, but I would be grateful for any advice or hint about
> proceeding.
>
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