Submit Hint Search The Forums LinksStatsPollsHeadlinesRSS
14,000 hints and counting!

A fix for 'can't find the default KCHR resource' error System
Yesterday my keyboard suddenly stopped working in anything except for authentication dialogs and the Dock (Command-Tab, Exposé, etc.). I think System Preferences had crashed while I was opening it, but I can't be sure. Luckily I had a second account I use for emergencies such as this, and so I switched across to it. The keyboard worked fine in this account.

I then went through the troubleshooting steps of renaming the Preferences folder in my broken account (using sudo in Terminal) and logging back in, but that didn't fix the problem. Renaming the Library folder, and even trying the same on my home directory, didn't fix the problem. Searching on Google produced only one hit in German. When "translated" with Google, the match suggested that reinstalling the latest combo updater might do the trick. Luckily it did.

I'm posting the information here so that if anyone else who doesn't speak German has the problem, the solution might be easier to find. The other error message you can see in the console.log is TSMProcessRawKeyCode failed (-192). I'd love to know what the problem was, and how it could only affect a single user account and yet not be a setting inside that user's home directory.

[robg adds: I can't test or confirm this one; comments as to the possible cause and alternative fixes are welcomed!]
    •    
  • Currently 1.00 / 5
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
  (1 vote cast)
 
[5,671 views]  

A fix for 'can't find the default KCHR resource' error | 3 comments | Create New Account
Click here to return to the 'A fix for 'can't find the default KCHR resource' error' hint
The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. This site is not responsible for what they say.
A fix for 'can't find the default KCHR resource' error
Authored by: lincd0 on Jun 04, '07 09:34:31AM

I'm not sure what happened here, but if the problem didn't occur in your other user account, that means it was caused by something in the home directory of the first account. You should have checked to see which preference files had changed recently, or failing that, restored the whole Preferences folder from your most recent daily backup. You do back up all your data every day, of course.

Reinstalling system files wasn't necessary. Rebooting may have solved the problem.

[ Reply to This | # ]

I did rename my home directory...
Authored by: jtrott on Jun 04, '07 02:41:04PM

If you'd actually read the hint, you'd see I renamed my home directory. Rebooting was done after each renaming. So yes, it would appear to be something in the home directory, but no, it wasn't.



[ Reply to This | # ]
A fix for 'can't find the default KCHR resource' error
Authored by: rsmith6559 on Jun 09, '07 05:09:16PM

Two other places that user's info is held is ~/Library/Caches and /Library/Caches. In /Library/Caches things will be held with in files with the user's numeric userid in the name. Don't forget to check the com.apple.ATS folder too.

Roger



[ Reply to This | # ]