Activity Monitor crashes, library not loaded

Question

Model: PowerMac11,2, BootROM 5.2.7f1, 4 processors, PowerPC G5 (1.1), 2.5 GHz, 16 GB
Process:         Activity Monitor [5375]
Path: /Applications/Utilities/Activity Monitor.app/Contents/MacOS/Activity Monitor
Identifier:      com.apple.ActivityMonitor
Version:         10.5 (???)
Build Info:      ActivityMonitor-1180000~134
Code Type:       PPC (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [87]
Interval Since Last Report:          503 sec
Crashes Since Last Report:           1
Per-App Interval Since Last Report:  0 sec
Per-App Crashes Since Last Report:   1
Date/Time:       2012-01-12 15:01:27.402 -0800
OS Version:      Mac OS X 10.5.8 (9L30)
Report Version: 6
Anonymous UUID: D3609792-DF3E-46C1-AEAA-4BF81A998107
Exception Type: EXC_BREAKPOINT (SIGTRAP)
Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000001, 0x000000008fe0105c
Crashed Thread: 0
Dyld Error Message:
  Library not loaded: /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/GraphKit.framework/Versions/A/GraphKit
  Referenced from: /Applications/Utilities/Activity Monitor.app/Contents/MacOS/Activity Monitor
  Reason: no suitable image found. 
Did find: /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/GraphKit.framework/Versions/A/GraphKit: mmap() error 22 at address=0x4D5C6000, size=0x0000673C segment=__LINKEDIT in Segment::map() mapping /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/GraphKit.framework/Versions/A/GraphKit
Changed permissions on file: CodeResources to 755 and got same result!
Before:
[PowerPC-G5-Quad:GraphKit.framework/Versions/A] jar% pwd
/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/GraphKit.framework/Versions/A
[PowerPC-G5-Quad:GraphKit.framework/Versions/A] jar% ls -al
total 304
drwxr-xr-x  4 root  wheel     136 Oct 15  2009 .
drwxr-xr-x  4 root  wheel     136 Apr 30  2009 ..
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    1500 Sep 23  2007 CodeResources
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  148052 Oct 17  2008 GraphKit
After:
PowerPC-G5-Quad:GraphKit.framework/Versions/A] jar% ls -al
total 304
drwxr-xr-x  4 root  wheel     136 Oct 15  2009 .
drwxr-xr-x  4 root  wheel     136 Apr 30  2009 ..
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel    1500 Sep 23  2007 CodeResources
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  148052 Oct 17  2008 GraphKit
I am having problems with this machine, power supply, fan cooling or ?? and need to monitor CPU activity as I increase activity
on the CPU's.  Activity Monitor v 1.5 (54), Tiger v10.4.11, works as expected.  Just the problem with Leopard 10.5.8.
Thanks,
John

Answer 1

Sounds like maybe the graphic card and/or heat.
Get Temperature Monitor to see if it's heat related...
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/12381/temperature-monitor
iStat Menus...
http://bjango.com/mac/istatmenus/
And/or iStat Pro...
http://www.islayer.com/apps/istatpro/
If you have any temps in the 70°C/160°F range, that's likely it.
10.5 uses the Graphic card alot more.
One way to test is to Safe Boot from the HD, (holding Shift key down at bootup), run Disk Utility in Applications>Utilities, then highlight your drive, click on Repair Permissions, Test for problem in Safe Mode...
PS. Safe boot may stay on the gray radian for a long time, let it go, it's trying to repair the Hard Drive
Reboot, test again.
If it only does it in Regular Boot, then it could be some hardware problem like Video card, (Quartz is turned off in Safe Mode), or Airport, or 3rd party add-on, Check System Preferences>Accounts>Login Items window to see if it or something relevant is listed.
Check the System Preferences>Other Row, for 3rd party Pref Panes.
Also look in these if they exist, some are invisible...
/private/var/run/StartupItems
/Library/StartupItems
/System/Library/StartupItems
/System/Library/LaunchDaemons
/Library/LaunchDaemons