For a while now, when I start Address Book on my Powerbook (
10.4.11),
it has hung during startup. Its window never appears. When I use the
Activity Monitor, and click on the Sample thingy for Address Book, it
shows me a stack of function calls that ends with:
...
290 -[ABUIController setupAsPeoplePicker:]
290 +[ABAddressBook sharedAddressBook]
290 +[ABAddressBook nts_CreateSharedAddressBook]
290 +[ABAddressBook nts_SharedAddressBook]
290 -[ABAddressBook nts_InitDefaultContactManager]
290 ABAcquireFileLock
290 __ABNewAcquireFileLock
290 open
290 open
This seems to be saying that it has hit a deadlock of some sort, though
of course I have no idea what any but those last two calls really do, so
I'm just guessing.
Searching through this list's archive doesn't seem to turn up anything,
and googling for obvious combinations of keywords is uninformative.