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10.4: Fix Compressor background process error
Authored by: betzelelgalut on Sep 16, '09 01:21:36PM

i am currently running lepord on a dual proc ppc g5.
the version of compressor i am running is compressor 2.

here is the error message i am getting

from compressor it says
"cannot submit batch - unable to connect to background process"

after looking around on my system and on the net i found that the issue is related to a break with "mqueued"
i brought up a bash shell and ran the following:

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Last login: Wed Sep 16 14:34:07 on ttys000
Audio-mac:~ betzelelgalut$ sudo /Library/StartupItems/Qmaster/Qmaster start
Password:
Starting Qmaster services
Audio-mac:~ betzelelgalut$ The process has forked and you cannot use this CoreFoundation functionality safely. You MUST exec().
Break on __THE_PROCESS_HAS_FORKED_AND_YOU_CANNOT_USE_THIS_COREFOUNDATION_FUNCTIONALITY___YOU_MUST_EXEC__() to debug.
The process has forked and you cannot use this CoreFoundation functionality safely. You MUST exec().
qmasterd: terminated due to signal().
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does any one know if the issue with mqueued, is a incompatibility issue with lepord? or is there an update that could be hanging the process?
i ran this app flawlessly on tiger for over a year, and have just started using it again recently on lepord.
when the issue first appeared compressor would not come up, but would post a window for me to input the serial key , which it kept rejecting.


so far the T.S. steps i have taken are :

1) complete reinstall of the OS, and final cut pro package
2) after reinstall compressor would come up, but had the "cannot connect" issue and shows in the cluster tab "none available"
3) i removed all the preference files for compressor and Qmaster and Qadmin, i also removed the apps themselves as directed on the apple web site.
4) i reinstalled compressor, qmaster, and qadmin again.
5) still get same error message as shown above.
6) i tried a free prog called compressor_repair, it still did not resolve the issue.
7) found another document on line that talks about deleting and stripping out all the lib files, pref files, and such - but did not want to go through that and corrupt my OS as this is a fresh install.
8) tried doing the moving of the startup file folder as recommended in this article, but found that there is no folders in that directory.

has anyone else had any luck with this? are there any other documented solutions that anyone else has come across?
will i need to upgrade to a more recent version of final cut to fix this issue? or would down grading to tiger be better?
thanks for any input...



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