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Mac OS X: SSH bus error

This morning I found this joyful message greeting me when I started working and tried to ssh to a remote server: Bus Error

Same thing even with verbose mode. The system log (/var/log/system.log) told me that a file containing the full dump of the error was created in my home directory. This is what it said

….(Some gibberish)

Date/Time: 2008-04-18 09:26:28.195 +0100
OS Version: Mac OS X 10.5.2 (9C7010)
Report Version: 6

Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGBUS)
Exception Codes: KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE at 0×0000000000001014
Crashed Thread: 0

… (More gibberish)

Ouch, kernel protection failure. I found all over Apple forum people whinging about it and posting their full dump without a definite answer. They all seemed to blame the last security update, which is really strange since it worked fine for me after I ran it.

The software causing the error was an additional module of “Audio Hijack Pro” called “Instant Hijack“. You can install it or uninstall it from from “Install Extras” inside the Audio Hijack menu.
Uninstalled it and everything started working again.

Audio Hijack people, get your game straight, don’t mess with my kernel unless you know what you’re doing!

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5 Responses to “Mac OS X: SSH bus error”

  1. breun Says:
    April 18, 2008 at 8:50 am

    You also could have just upgraded to the latest version of Instant Hijack. They fixed the problem on March 19: http://www.rogueamoeba.com/utm/2008/03/19/security-update-2008-002-compatibility-fix/

  2. Stefano Buliani Says:
    April 18, 2008 at 9:03 am

    Oh cool, I didn’t know that. Thanks for the tip!

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    May 9, 2008 at 6:56 pm

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  5. iPhowner Says:
    May 14, 2008 at 10:45 pm

    Thank you very much for your post, I’ve spent the last 3 hours of my life trying to understand why my SSH clients didn’t connect to my iPhone using OpenSSH…

    After the last ~/.ssh/ chmod I’ve found your post…!

    I just fogot I’ve installed that Audio Hijack plug-in yesterday…
    Working fine now I’ve uninstalled it :)

    Cheers :)

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