macOS Terminal error in Snow Leopard

[martynmc7]

Hi guys,

Every time I write the 'say hello' command into Terminal in 10.6.1 it comes up with the following error:

"Error loading /Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/HAL/Hear.plugin/Contents/MacOS/Hear: dlopen(/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/HAL/Hear.plugin/Contents/MacOS/Hear, 262): no suitable image found. Did find:
/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/HAL/Hear.plugin/Contents/MacOS/Hear: no matching architecture in universal wrapper
2009-09-17 00:02:42.667 say[2967:903] Cannot find function pointer MyCFPlugInFactory for factory 8368FFAB-0147-4692-97ED-4D50A2483C6C in CFBundle/CFPlugIn 0x100153330 </Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/HAL/Hear.plugin> (bundle, not loaded)"

The command does execute, so on the face of it it works, I just wanted to know whether I have any corrupt files I need to sort out and what's causing this error.

 

[chown33]

You have an audio plugin,

/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/HAL/Hear.plugin

that doesn't seem to contain code for the architecture you're running. I'm going to guess you have an Intel-based Mac of some kind, and it's 64-bit capable.

The Hear.plugin is probably something you installed, or something that was installed as part of some other component you installed. I'm guessing this is so because I don't see a Hear.plugin on my Core 2 Duo Mac mini (not the 2009 model). However, it could be part of some builtin component, depending on what Mac model you have.

You can confirm the architectures in the Hear.plugin using this command-line:

file /Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/HAL/Hear.plugin/Contents/MacOS/Hear

If you can't make sense of the output, copy and paste it in a reply.

 

[martynmc7]

Oh right, I didn't even realise I'd installed anything of the such. I'll do some research and see if this is part of anything I use regularly, if not I'll delete it.

Thanks for the reply

 

[chown33]

I did the obvious thing, Google hear.plugin, and it appears to be this product:

http://www.joesoft.com/products/hear.php

There are posts on other forums about it crashing Skype.

http://forum.skype.com/index.php?showtopic=175691

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=7416555&#7416555

I suggest googling it yourself and reading what comes up.

A common troubleshooting technique is to paste a line or so of text from the error message into google search terms. If anyone else has posted or replied on any other forum, and they often do, then it will find the other replies.