Spotlight/Googleupdate error during in startup

Question

Hi,
I'm hoping someone can suggest some help here.
I have an iMac running 10.5 and until recently it has been running perfectly fine
However when I have gone to boot it up today it gets as far as the blue background screen and then I get an error message saying GoogleSoftwareUpdateAgent quit unexpectedly.
Mac OS X wand other applications were not affected.
I'm given the options to ignore, report or relaunch however none of the buttons actually work when clicked. I also get a similar message for spotlight.
I've tried booting into safe mode and get the same after log in.
Also I've tried using my OS disks to retore/repair my installation but when the console loads I get a message saying that it cant be installed.
Does anyone have any suggestions?
Cheers
Andy

Answer 1

Hello all,
I am having the same problem. Whether I set my max heap settings as high as 2GB or as low as 256MB, I get the following error:
An unrecoverable stack overflow has occurred.
[Thr 1872] JLaunchIAbortJava: abort hook is called
[Thr 1872]
ERROR => The Java VM aborted unexpectedly.
Please see SAP Note 943602 , section 'Java VM crashes'
for additional information and trouble shooting.
[Thr 1872] JLaunchCloseProgram: good bye (exitcode = -2)
We have attempted (via configtool) to apply memory settings in note 723908 and have experimented with other settings discussed in SDN forums with no success. Any help is appreciated and max points will be awarded!
Blessed Regards,
Derrick Day