upgraded to 2.6.4 - pref pane is 32-bit all of a sudden

[tessus]

I've just upgraded to 2.6.4 from 2.6.2 and now I get the following message:

To use the “FUSE for OS X (OSXFUSE)” preferences pane, System Preferences must quit and reopen.

It seems that the preference pane is now 32-bit instead of 64-bit. Any ideas?

[bfleischer]

The official preference pane binary contains 64-bit code:

Architectures in the fat file:            
/Library/PreferencePanes/OSXFUSE.prefPane/Contents/MacOS/OSXFUSE are: ppc7400 ppc64 i386 x86_64

Have you tried uninstalling the preference pane and reinstalling it?

[tessus]

No, but I'll try that in a sec. My point is that I updated it via the pref pane, which was 64-bit and after the upgrade it was 32-bit.

I'll let you know the result in a bit.

[tessus]

I've un-intalled the pref pane and re-installed http://sourceforge.net/projects/osxfuse/files/osxfuse-2.6.4/osxfuse-2.6.4.dmg/download

Same problem as before. As soon as I click on it, it wants to restart the System Preferences in 32-bit mode.

[bfleischer]

Could you please run the following command in Terminal to check the preference pane binary?

lipo -info /Library/PreferencePanes/OSXFUSE.prefPane/Contents/MacOS/OSXFUSE

I'm not able to reproduce the issue. I removed osxfuse completely, installed version 2.6.2 and performed the update to version 2.6.4 using the preference pane. I'm not getting any error message.

After performing a clean install of the 2.6.4 preference pane I'm not seeing any error when opening it.

Could you check in Activity Monitor that System Settings is running in 64-bit mode before opening the osxfuse preference pane and then switches to 32-bit mode?

[tessus]

Just tried the following:

lipo OSXFUSE -thin x86_64 -output OSXFUSE.n
mv OSXFUSE.n OSXFUSE

Then I got the following:

You can’t open FUSE for OS X (OSXFUSE) preferences because it doesn’t work on an Intel-based Mac.

[tessus]

[bfleischer]

This is very strange. Which Mac model are you using? Are you running Mavericks?

[tessus]

Nope, please don't start screaming, I'm still using 10.6.8. The model is a late 2008 Aluminum.
But now I am confused. I've just re-installed 2.6.2 (w/o un-installing 2.6.4 first) and it still wants to restart in 32-bit mode. This doesn't make any sense. Either it always did that and I never realized it, or 2.6.4 did something that is persistent.

[bfleischer]

I can reproduce the issue on 10.6.8. All works well with the 2.6.2 preference pane. Once I update to version 2.6.4 I'm getting the "System Preferences must quit and reopen" message, too.

The only change between 2.6.2 and 2.6.4 is related to Objective-C garbage collection. Garbage collection support has been disabled in 2.6.4 due to Xcode 5.1 no longer supporting it.

https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/userexperience/Conceptual/PreferencePanes/Articles/UpdatingPreferencePanes.html states:

 For 64-bit preference panes, garbage collection is a required feature ...

Even though being obviously outdated, this explains the issue. I think it should be possible to re-enable garbage collection support for Xcode < 5.1 builds.

[tessus]

Thanks for looking into this. I guess it's really time to upgrade and get new HW as well.

[bfleischer]

The issue should be fixed in commit osxfuse/prefpane@3096f3a. The fix will be in the next osxfuse release. Thanks for reporting the issue.