Re: Fatal system error

[dempson@atlantis.actrix.gen.nz (David Empson)]

In article <4n5or8$bnd@news.vanderbilt.edu>,
John Lesher <lesherjt@vuse.vanderbilt.edu> wrote:
> 
> 	What is Fatal System Error 512?  I just got this weird behavior,
> tried to quit the Finder and it gave me this error.

Whew!  It took a little hunting, but I found it.  From TN.IIGS.024:

DESK MANAGER--FIXAPPLEMENU CAN DIE WITH ERROR $0512
 
Fatal system error $0512 comes from FixAppleMenu (in the Desk
Manager).  It means that one of your installed New Desk Accessories
does not have a well-formed menu title string.  In particular, the
required backslash (\) character was not found (make sure bit seven is
off).

> 	The weird behavior was:  I just finished using Balloon, closed
> the window, and the icons were not being redrawn.  Usually, to solve
> weird problems, I quit to the previous application, then relaunch the
> Finder.  But when I quit the Finder, it crashed.

A rather odd place for this error to occur.  FixAppleMenu is called
when a desktop application is starting up, and is not usually called
at any other time.  Perhaps Finder calls it again when rebuilding the
menus in some way associated with Finder Extensions.

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David Empson
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