Shared Library Manager PPC

[Petalbear]

The above extension is really causing me some grief at the moment! I can't enable it, everytime I do my ibook crashes on start-up. All other extensions are enabled ok. As a consequence I can't open any programs, my beloved mac is powerless! When I try to open programs it flashes up the "OTUtilityLib" warning. Does anybody know a miraculous cure? I'll love you forever!  

[kelly]

Hi Petalbear.

Don't really know.

Found this.

"I was using the extension "Shared Library Manager PPC", but I also needed "Shared Library Manager". Apparently, it is needed for OT's MacTCP emulation."

http://bumppo.net/lists/macperl/1997/12/msg00394.html

What machine and OS?

Save the Love for your Family.

More.

Mac OS 8: Internet Applications Require Certain Extensions

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=22192

Macintosh: Which Shared Library Manager?

"There are 2 extensions in my Extensions folder: the Shared Library Manager and the Shared Library Manager PPC. Does my computer require both files to function correctly, or can I remove one of them?"

" Many programs, extensions, and libraries, both by Apple and by other companies, rely on these extensions, and will not function if they are absent."

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=18176

[Petalbear]

Thanks for the suggestions. It's an ibook (not the new one, about 3 yrs old) running OS 9.2.2. I'm going to copy the extension from another mac and replace the corrupt one, hopefully that should work. Odd though, my airport settings have disappeared

[tacit]

QUOTE(Petalbear @ Jul 18 2003, 12:12 PM)

I'm going to copy the extension from another mac and replace the corrupt one, hopefully that should work.

There is a 99.9% chance your Shared library manager is NOT corrupt. The problem is somewhere else.

The Shared Library Manager loads special kinds of extensions called "shared libraries." If you turn off Shared Library Manager, none of the shared libraries on your computer will load.

Let us say you have a bunch of shared libraries. Let's say one of them is corrupt and crashes your computer.

You disable Shared Library Manager. Your computer does not crash. So you think, "Aha! Shared Library Manager is bad!"

But it is not. the problem is not Shared Library Manager. The problem is a different shared library. Disabling Shared Library Manager "solves" the crash because disabling Shared Library Manager also disables all your shared libraries.

You may find that reinstalling Shared Library Manager does not solve your problem. You will have to figure out which shared library is causing the crash.

[Petalbear]

Thanks Tacit, you're right - it didn't work    

I've tried switching off various other extensions in case of conflicts but no luck. I know it must have something to do with TCP/IP and remote access because I was trying to install an ISP when it happened, together with the airport software disappearing.

Think I might have to restore the OS