For some unknown reason, my color profiles are messed up in way that whenever an application (e.g. pixelmator, Preview, Xcode, etc.) tries loading Adobe RGB 1998 color profile (probably any other color profile too for that matter), that application will crash miserably.
I sent a report to apple, but so far have received nothing. What pixelmator support told me, is that for some reason "ColorSync Utility" won't show up Adobe RGB 1998 profile under "System" section, although AdobeRGB1998.icc file is in "/Library/ColorSync/Profiles/". Therefore applications that try loading it will fail to do so, resulting in a crash:
Thread 0 Crashed:: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
0 com.apple.CoreGraphics 0x00007fff8ffc25a2 color_space_create_adobe_rgb_1998 + 23
1 com.apple.CoreGraphics 0x00007fff9019abf1 CGColorSpaceCreateAdobeRGB1998 + 22
2 com.apple.CoreGraphics 0x00007fff8fddf6dd CGColorSpaceCreateWithName + 828
3 com.apple.AppKit 0x00007fff8b07b9a7 +[NSColorSpace specialColorSpaceWithID:] + 83
4 com.pixelmatorteam.pixelmator 0x0000000100089c7e 0x100000000 + 564350
5 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x00007fff8eeba47a _CFXNotificationPost + 2554
6 com.apple.Foundation 0x00007fff8ac5a846 -[NSNotificationCenter postNotificationName:object:userInfo:] + 64
7 com.apple.AppKit 0x00007fff8b0cb60d -[NSApplication _postDidFinishNotification] + 292
8 com.apple.AppKit 0x00007fff8b0cb346 -[NSApplication _sendFinishLaunchingNotification] + 216
9 com.apple.AppKit 0x00007fff8b0c8532 -[NSApplication(NSAppleEventHandling) _handleAEOpenEvent:] + 566
10 com.apple.AppKit 0x00007fff8b0c812c -[NSApplication(NSAppleEventHandling) _handleCoreEvent:withReplyEvent:] + 351
11 com.apple.Foundation 0x00007fff8ac7412b -[NSAppleEventManager dispatchRawAppleEvent:withRawReply:handlerRefCon:] + 308
12 com.apple.Foundation 0x00007fff8ac73f8d _NSAppleEventManagerGenericHandler + 106
13 com.apple.AE 0x00007fff8dfa6b48 aeDispatchAppleEvent(AEDesc const*, AEDesc*, unsigned int, unsigned char*) + 307
14 com.apple.AE 0x00007fff8dfa69a9 dispatchEventAndSendReply(AEDesc const*, AEDesc*) + 37
15 com.apple.AE 0x00007fff8dfa6869 aeProcessAppleEvent + 318
16 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x00007fff922028e9 AEProcessAppleEvent + 100
17 com.apple.AppKit 0x00007fff8b0c4916 _DPSNextEvent + 1456
18 com.apple.AppKit 0x00007fff8b0c3ed2 -[NSApplication nextEventMatchingMask:untilDate:inMode:dequeue:] + 128
19 com.apple.AppKit 0x00007fff8b0bb283 -[NSApplication run] + 517
20 com.apple.AppKit 0x00007fff8b05fcb6 NSApplicationMain + 869
21 com.pixelmatorteam.pixelmator 0x0000000100002854 0x100000000 + 10324
I am wondering if anyone else has had this, or a similar problem, and what is your suggested fix?
Best Answer
Eventually I had to fresh install Mac OS X to fix this.