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djbell
11-16-2010, 10:07 PM
Howdy all,

I'm in Keychain hell this week. Basically, I seem to be able to save data into Keychain, but the data never comes out. Mobileme, iCal, Safari, Mail, and everything else I try cannot fill in passwords for any form, though their entries appear in Keychain Access. Furthermore, the Access Control issue described for people with AMD related Mail.app problems doesn't help me, because I can't seem to modify that setting. It doesn't give an error, the setting is just untoggled the next time I check it. What's even weirder is viewing the list of passwords in the Autofill section of Safari works!

I'm running 10.6.4 in VMWare 7.2 on AMD (Phenom 2) hardware. I've got the 10.4 legacy kernel, whatever it's called. I have patched the cpuids, which I needed to do for AppleScript to work, and I think that's what ultimately killed the Keychain. I've also nstalled the 10.6.4 AMD dynd and libraries. I'm getting a lot of CODE SIGNING errors in the console, but otherwise it's very clean.

In fact, I set up the VM twice from a certain point, and both times, I needed to patch the CPUIDs, and somewhere between patching them or dynd, the Keychain just stops working. Of course, I tried the usual suspects: Keychain First Aid, repairing disk permissions, cleaning up any other solvable console message I see.

Could someone please point me in the right direction? My eyes are killing me trying to find a solution, and I'm pretty much desperate for some help from a human being.

Thanks.

djbell
11-17-2010, 07:45 PM
I decided to delete my VM disk and go back to before I patched all the binaries, and do each patch one at a time. Apparently, what broke it was an AMD-specific 10.6.4 dynd patcher I downloaded. It seemed like a good idea at the time I suppose.

I was able to run the binary patches using Marvin's AMD tool, so now most of things I was having trouble with are now all fine: AppleScript, logging in/out, Keychain (Mail doesn't even require tweaking, oddly enough). The console is amazingly quiet, with minor complaints that are either normal for osx86 or running in VMWare.

Sorry to jump the gun on posting about this, but I hope this helps someone else in the future.