OSX: my Console reports errors on starting FireFox, fix needed?
Please help me understand the flagged lines in the Console Log? when I launched FireFox 51.0.1 on this URL: https://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?query=
following is excerpt from the Console of:( hardware details: OSX El Capitan; Ver: 10.11.6; iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, late 2015;):
Console log with flag: ( -> ):
1/31/17 12:32:10.000 syslogd[45]: ASL Sender Statistics
-> 1/31/17 12:32:10.268 WindowServer[165]: Untrusted client (pid=1311) attempted to set debug options. -> 1/31/17 12:32:10.433 firefox[1311]: WARNING: The Gestalt selector gestaltSystemVersion is returning 10.9.6 instead of 10.11.6. This is not a bug in Gestalt -- it is a documented limitation. Use NSProcessInfo's operatingSystemVersion property to get correct system version number.
Call location:
1/31/17 12:32:10.433 firefox[1311]: 0 CarbonCore 0x00007fff8c8f86df ___Gestalt_SystemVersion_block_invoke + 113
1/31/17 12:32:10.433 firefox[1311]: 1 libdispatch.dylib 0x00007fff96b4a40b _dispatch_client_callout + 8
1/31/17 12:32:10.433 firefox[1311]: 2 libdispatch.dylib 0x00007fff96b4a303 dispatch_once_f + 67
1/31/17 12:32:10.433 firefox[1311]: 3 CarbonCore 0x00007fff8c884fbc _Gestalt_SystemVersion + 987
1/31/17 12:32:10.433 firefox[1311]: 4 CarbonCore 0x00007fff8c8847d0 Gestalt + 139
1/31/17 12:32:10.433 firefox[1311]: 5 XUL 0x0000000111f76230 vpx_reset_mmx_state + 662603
-> 1/31/17 12:32:10.996 lsd[268]: LaunchServices: Could not store lsd-identifiers file at /private/var/db/lsd/com.apple.lsdschemes.plist -> 1/31/17 12:32:11.278 WindowServer[165]: Untrusted client (pid=1313) attempted to set debug options. -> 1/31/17 12:32:11.320 plugin-container[1313]: WARNING: The Gestalt selector gestaltSystemVersion is returning 10.9.6 instead of 10.11.6. This is not a bug in Gestalt -- it is a documented limitation. Use NSProcessInfo's operatingSystemVersion property to get correct system version number.
Call location:
1/31/17 12:32:11.320 plugin-container[1313]: 0 CarbonCore 0x00007fff8c8f86df ___Gestalt_SystemVersion_block_invoke + 113
1/31/17 12:32:11.320 plugin-container[1313]: 1 libdispatch.dylib 0x00007fff96b4a40b _dispatch_client_callout + 8
1/31/17 12:32:11.320 plugin-container[1313]: 2 libdispatch.dylib 0x00007fff96b4a303 dispatch_once_f + 67
1/31/17 12:32:11.320 plugin-container[1313]: 3 CarbonCore 0x00007fff8c884fbc _Gestalt_SystemVersion + 987
1/31/17 12:32:11.320 plugin-container[1313]: 4 CarbonCore 0x00007fff8c8847d0 Gestalt + 139
1/31/17 12:32:11.320 plugin-container[1313]: 5 XUL 0x000000010ac6f230 vpx_reset_mmx_state + 662603
Very many thanks for very kind help….
Alle Antworten (2)
Gestalt appears to be a special system API that can be used to get information from the OS.
This API has been deprecated since OS X 10.8 and it shouldn't be a surprise that it isn't working properly in current OS X versions.
- Bug 772179 - 'Gestalt' is deprecated in Mac OS X 10.8
Gestalt is deprecated since Mac OS X 10.8.
See:
is it Apple's or Firefox's code problem; and wouldn't it need fixing?