Screen Saver Engine
A colleague has a problem whereby he can't access any of his open Apps through launchpad without the ScreenSaver activating. There is a Screen Saver Engine Icon in his dock. Anyone got any ideas how he can stop is screen saver activating?
Thanks in advance.
There is a Screen Saver Engine Icon in his dock.
It doesn't belong in the Dock. Remove it.
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All,
I've been battling this problem for several versions of Mac OS X, Aperture and iPhoto.
No matter which screen saver I use, if I display photos from my Aperture or iPhoto library, many of the pictures do not display. I see blank spaces where there should be photos, like this:
Notice the big black spots? Those are "photos."
I've done all the troubleshooting I can, but cannot find any pattern for photos which do or don't display. No difference in file format, ACLs, extended attributes, folder permissions, RGB profiles... nothing is consistent.
What I do find, however, is a log that fills up with these messages when the screen saver engine starts up (even if only in System Preferences):
2/1/15 5:26:46.618 PM System Preferences[1577]: Slide provider has no slide player nor layer at the end of prerender
Occasionally, this:
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but mostly the former.
Rebuilding the library hasn't done anything. No sense in suggesting that I use Disk Utility to repair permissions, either. (Remember, that doesn't affect anything in home folders.) I even tried deleting the prefs file for the screen saver engine. No dice.
Suggestions, anyone?
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Can you access the Library in other apps? For instance, in the Open Dialogue:
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Hey Smart Apples,
My iTunes Artwork screen saver is not working. After reboot, then selecting iTunes Artwork in System Preferences, just a black screen appears in the preview, as well as when pressing Test, and when allowing the screen saver to start on it's own. The error message in Console says...
11-10-13 2:13:18.304 AM [0x0-0x4f04f].com.apple.systempreferences: System Preferences(540,0x7fff77286960) malloc: auto malloc[540]: attempted to remove unregistered weak referrer 0x102021a10
11-10-13 2:13:18.305 AM [0x0-0x4f04f].com.apple.systempreferences: System Preferences(540,0x7fff77286960) malloc: auto malloc[540]: attempted to remove unregistered weak referrer 0x102021a60
also...
11-10-13 3:31:38.722 AM [0x0-0x65065].com.apple.ScreenSaver.Engine: ScreenSaverEngine(727,0x7fff77286960) malloc: auto malloc[727]: attempted to remove unregistered weak referrer 0x109eac410
11-10-13 3:31:38.723 AM [0x0-0x65065].com.apple.ScreenSaver.Engine: ScreenSaverEngine(727,0x7fff77286960) malloc: auto malloc[727]: attempted to remove unregistered weak referrer 0x109eac460
The memory address location at the end of each line is different everytime I preview the screen saver.
I've tried...
deleting ~/Library/Preferences/ByHost/com.apple.screensaver.* files
making sure each album has a cover in iTunes
running Get Album Artwork in iTunes
recreating symbolic link ~/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music -> ~/Public/iTunes Music/
... but doesn't help.
All other screen savers work... my usual is Flurry, and it works too, but gives invalid framebuffer operation under Console.
Nothing running/checked under Sharing.
Activity Monitor:
0 kernel_task root 1.5 66 355.9 MB Intel (64 bit) 124.7 MB
1 launchd root 0.0 3 1.6 MB Intel (64 bit) 38.7 MB
41 mds root 0.0 4 104.4 MB Intel (64 bit) 260.8 MB
93 WindowServer _windowserver 9.0 5 81.5 MB Intel (64 bit) 31.6 MB
26 coreservicesd root 0.0 4 26.8 MB Intel (64 bit) 37.3 MB
44 loginwindow [userhandle] 0.0 2 22.7 MB Intel (64 bit) 19.2 MB
152 com.apple.dock.extra [userhandle] 0.0 2 12.0 MB Intel (64 bit) 32.2 MB
19 opendirectoryd root 0.0 8 8.3 MB Intel (64 bit) 25.3 MB
192 applepushserviced root 0.0 4 7.1 MB Intel (64 bit) 29.9 MB
11 UserEventAgent root 0.0 4 6.8 MB Intel (64 bit) 41.7 MB
23 securityd root 0.0 4 6.6 MB Intel (64 bit) 32.9 MB
57 socketfilterfw root 0.0 3 6.3 MB Intel (64 bit) 31.7 MB
60 lsd root 0.0 3 5.9 MB Intel 32.8 MB
15 fseventsd root 0.0 29 5.3 MB Intel (64 bit) 45.9 MB
14 configd root 0.0 7 5.2 MB Intel (64 bit) 27.1 MB
144 coreaudiod _coreaudiod 0.0 3 5.2 MB Intel (64 bit) 32.6 MB
239 aosnotifyd root 0.0 2 4.6 MB Intel (64 bit) 28.2 MB
552 VDCAssistant root 0.0 4 4.6 MB Intel (64 bit) 30.2 MB
607 xpchelper [userhandle] 0.0 2 4.4 MB Intel (64 bit) 29.6 MB
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33 special_file_handler root 0.0 3 2.3 MB Intel (64 bit) 21.1 MB
28 ntpd root 0.0 1 2.0 MB Intel (64 bit) 18.6 MB
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94 CVMServer root 0.0 1 1.6 MB Intel (64 bit) 21.8 MB
17 distnoted root 0.0 2 1.6 MB Intel (64 bit) 21.1 MB
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Environment: Mac OS X (10.7.2), Macbook Pro (late 2008)So it turned out that the cause of the problem wasn't as complicated as I thought...
I had a few songs that were not added to the iTunes library, instead referenced from other locations on my hard drive.
Specifically, if you bring up the Get Info window of a song, under Summary > Where, it may show a different path than your usual iTunes Media folder location, set under Preferences.
E.g. Where: ~/Desktop/downloaded_song.mp3
I guess, this happens when you drag a song into your iTunes instead of adding it to the library, and apparently, causes problems with the Artwork Screen Saver.
Solution:
To correct it,
For those songs, go to File > Add to Library...
Then find and select the song file.
That's all I had to do to get the screen saver working... All your songs have to be added to your iTunes Library.
I think my brother was messing around with my playlist... I hope Apple nails a better way to lock-unlock/secure OS X soon (proximity sensor, biometric 3D face recognition, unique voice recognition, soul recognition, etc.).
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