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Corrupt Keychain entries can cause Safari crashes Web Browsers
My Safari 1.1.1 kept crashing when I wanted to access any secure website via the https protocol. Other user accounts on the same computer didn't experience that problem. After some digging, I discovered that if I removed my keychain file from ~/Library/Keychains, the problem disappeared -- meaning that the problem was in the keychain file. Eventually, by trial and error, I found the entry that caused Safari to crash, removed it, and all was back to normal again.

Caused me quite a headache to solve this so I thought submitting this to the other readers might save someone similar aggravations.
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Corrupt Keychain entries can cause Safari crashes
Authored by: mjohnson on Jan 27, '04 11:45:50AM

One of the nice features of 10.3 is that the Keychain Access utility has integrated the Keychain First Aid utility. One can find it under the Window menu to help keep keychains in good shape.



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RE: Corrupt Keychain entries can cause Safari crashes
Authored by: madia on Jan 29, '04 05:28:15PM

a corrupt keychain can not only cause safari to crash but any other app. that accesses it. my keychain was so damaged that it would only accept "allow once" access, if i'd "always allow" access to it, it'd immediately crash the application - happened to ichat, internet connect, safari, mail... etc.etc.

neither would it allow accessing items in the keychain app - it'd crash. what was left to do but getting rid of the keychain file in the library, setting up a new one and hoping i'd figure out all my passwords.



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