LabVIEW 8.2 Quits Unexpectedly when launching on Mac OS X 10.9.4

[sthoran]

LabVIEW 8.2 had been working with my MacBook Pro.  However, since upgrading to OS X 10.9.4, it no longer launches successfully. I have tried reinstalling LabVIEW.  However, LabVIEW never completes the inital start-up.  Here is the beginning of the crash message:

Process: LabVIEW [756]
Path: /Applications/National Instruments/*/LabVIEW.app/Contents/MacOS/LabVIEW
Identifier: com.ni.labview
Version: 8.2 (8.2)
Code Type: X86 (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [176]
Responsible: LabVIEW [756]
User ID: 501

Date/Time: 2014-07-20 10:50:39.422 -0400
OS Version: Mac OS X 10.9.4 (13E28)
Report Version: 11
Anonymous UUID: 2E840009-1E1C-33A1-4F52-F753554D1A6C

Sleep/Wake UUID: 52518E76-21B1-4CB9-B83A-A4BFD75F8178

Crashed Thread: 0 Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread

Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV)
Exception Codes: EXC_I386_GPFLT

Thread 0 Crashed:: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
0 libsystem_c.dylib 0x9aee991c _vsnprintf + 51
1 libsystem_c.dylib 0x9aee9cc5 vsnprintf_l + 61
2 libsystem_c.dylib 0x9aedb2bc snprintf + 80
3 com.ni.labview 0x0119466c void (anonymous namespace)::_ToDebugStream<unsigned long>(DebugStream&, char const*, unsigned long const&) + 52
4 com.ni.labview 0x00e49dc6 ToDebugStream(DebugStream&, unsigned long) + 32
5 com.ni.labview 0x005d76d9 EventOracle::DestroyQueueObject(unsigned long, long) + 89
6 com.ni.labview 0x005ce66c EventNodeRTInit + 728
7 ??? 0x02fbe269 0 + 50061929

[mikeporter]

V8.2 is rather elderly. Are you sure it is still supported? Did anything unusual happen during the OS update process?

Mike...

[sthoran]

As far as I can tell, noting out of the ordinary happened during installation of the O/S upgrade.  V. 8.2 was working well under the previous O/S version and there were no errors or warnings during the re-installation after the problem occurred.

[Air_Frantz]

 It is possible that the Preferences file has been corrupted. Try deleting the preferences file. 

1. Browse to [Home]/Library/Preferences where [Home] is your home directory. 
2. Delete the LabVIEW.app 8.2 Preferences file 
3. Restart LabVIEW.

Restarting LabVIEW will automatically generate the preferences file with the default settings.

[sthoran]

Thanks for the suggestion but there is no LabVIEW preferences file in the indicated folder on my Mac.  I even did a deletion of the current installation and a complete re-install and the same problem recurrs.  It happens after the "initializing plug-ins" step appears on the splash screen.

Steve

[johnsold]

According to this document LV 8.2 was barely compatible with OS X 10.4 and 10.5.

I suspect that you have reached somehwat beyond the place where LV 8.2 can be used on the Mac. I have run it on OS X 10.8.5, but very little. It was already installed under an older OS version, so I do not know if the installer would run. I presume you have worked around Apple's "security" against software not found at the App Store.

Here is a link for finding the preferences file.

Lynn

[sthoran]

I did remove the file but it made no difference.

[sthoran]

I also tried using the "control open" sequence for opening the application and that made no difference.