Mac – Running second Google Drive Crashes constantly on OSX Mavericks

I have been trying to get a second instance of Google Drive to run under another user on my MBP running Mavericks.

I have been following the instructions here http://truongtx.me/2013/06/30/macos-using-multiple-google-drive-accounts-at-the-same-time/ .

Each time I try to run the new instance using sudo su user -c "/Applications/Google\ Drive.app/Contents/MacOS/Google\ Drive" I get the following erors:

/Applications/Google Drive.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python2.7/lib-dynload
2014-05-09 14:30:15.593 Google Drive[97308:c07] GsyncAppDeletegate.py : Finder debug level logs : False
2014-05-09 14:30:15.876 Google Drive[97308:c07] CoreText performance note: Client called CTFontCreateWithName() using name ".Lucida Grande UI" and got font with PostScript name ".LucidaGrandeUI". For best performance, only use PostScript names when calling this API.
2014-05-09 14:30:15.877 Google Drive[97308:c07] CoreText performance note: Set a breakpoint on CTFontLogSuboptimalRequest to debug.
2014-05-09 14:30:15.973 Google Drive[97308:c07] CoreText performance note: Client called CTFontCreateWithName() using name "Open Sans" and got font with PostScript name "OpenSans-Light". For best performance, only use PostScript names when calling this API.

I run a MacPorts' based Python version:

which python
/opt/local/bin/python

and the version is

python --version
Python 2.7.6

Installing MacPorts Python 3.4 and selecting it using sudo port select --set python python34 has no effect as Google Drive seems to run its own Python package

Full crash report can be found here , but here is the header:

    Process:         Google Drive [30284]
    Path:            /Applications/Google Drive.app/Contents/MacOS/Google Drive
    Identifier:      Google Drive
    Version:         1.15 (1.15.6556.8063)
    Code Type:       X86 (Native)
    Parent Process:  su [30283]
    Responsible:     Terminal [63738]
    User ID:         508

    Date/Time:       2014-06-16 19:27:36.320 +0300
    OS Version:      Mac OS X 10.9.3 (13D65)
    Report Version:  11
    Anonymous UUID:  5F4A3A72-1448-6EBD-1C39-DDA29A092B8B

    Sleep/Wake UUID: 79EE99BE-CBF8-4D70-B4AC-9BB9E85E45F9

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

    Exception Type:  EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV)

Indicates a memory issues. See Apple Dev Docs here.

    Exception Codes: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at 0x000000001c2ad000

This is caused by the thread accessing unmapped memory. It may be triggered by either a data access or an instruction fetch; the Thread State section describes how to tell the difference (see link to Apple Developer information earlier) .

        VM Regions Near 0x1c2ad000:
            MALLOC_LARGE           0000000008c6f000-0000000008ce9000 [  488K] rw-/rwx SM=PRV  
        --> 
            __TEXT                 000000008fe3b000-000000008fe6e000 [  204K] r-x/rwx SM=COW  /usr/lib/dyld

Thread 0 Crashed:: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
0   org.python.python               0x0044b5fa PyObject_Malloc + 90
1   org.python.python               0x0045690f PyString_FromString + 127
2   org.python.python               0x00445573 PyDict_GetItemString + 19

    Thread 0 crashed with X86 Thread State (32-bit):
      eax: 0x1c2ad000  ebx: 0x006c8724  ecx: 0x081c2000  edx: 0x00525240
      edi: 0x00000018  esi: 0x0044b5ae  ebp: 0xbfffa778  esp: 0xbfffa750
       ss: 0x00000023  efl: 0x00010207  eip: 0x0044b5fa   cs: 0x0000001b
       ds: 0x00000023   es: 0x00000023   fs: 0x00000000   gs: 0x0000000f
      cr2: 0x1c2ad000

eip is the program counter at the time that the exception occurred. That is, it's the address of the instruction that caused the exception. For most non-memory access exceptions (for example, EXC_ARITHMETIC/EXC_I386_DIV caused by an integer division by zero), this is the key value.

It seems to be related to one Python thread – eip 0x0044b5fa PyObject_Malloc- and a similar Python bug was mentioned here. PyObject_Malloc is a Python object allocator.

    Logical CPU:     1
    Error Code:      0x00000004
    Trap Number:     14

Does anybody here know how I can get passed this crash and Python errors and make the second Google Drive start up? It tries but crashes all the time and I really would love to make two drives run on my Mac.