HWMonitor admin login only?

[SuzyCreamcheese]

Hey there,

I have a hackintosh that runs MacOS Mojave on a 256GB SSD, with admin account, and my main personal account is on a separate HDD. I've installed FakeSMC, all the plugins and HWMonitor with MultiBeast.

HWMonitor opens and runs fine within my admin account (SSD), but is unresponsive when using my main account (HDD). It's installed on the SSD with all my other apps, which of course work without problem.

Any ideas why HWMonitor won't open for me in one account, but works in another?



My system specs are as follows:

OS X Mojave
iMac 14,2
Gigabyte GA-Z87MX-D3H
Haswell i5 4670 3.4GHz
16 GB 1333 MHz DDR3 memory (I forget which brand)
EVGA GTX 760 2GB
120GB SSD (MacOS + admin)
2TB HDD (home folder)
ASUS USB-BT400 Bluetooth (mouse and audio)
Dual screen 2008 23" Apple displays



Thanks!

 

[mntbighker]

Yep, same problem.

 

[jaymonkey]

HWMonitor opens and runs fine within my admin account (SSD), but is unresponsive when using my main account (HDD). It's installed on the SSD with all my other apps, which of course work without problem.

@SuzyCreamcheese,

I think HWMonitor runs a helper process that needs to be run with admin privileges.

Try giving your Personal Account Admin privileges and see if that helps, check "Allow user to administer this computer" in System Preferences -> Users & Groups.

Cheers
Jay

 

[the-bard]

hi,
@SuzyCreamcheese
@mntbighker


had the same issue, looking around in the konsole i found a hint:

Crashed Thread:        0

Exception Type:        EXC_CRASH (SIGABRT)
Exception Codes:       0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000
Exception Note:        EXC_CORPSE_NOTIFY

Termination Reason:    DYLD, [0x1] Library missing

Application Specific Information:
dyld: launch, loading dependent libraries

Dyld Error Message:
  Library not loaded: @executable_path/../Frameworks/Growl.framework/Versions/A/Growl
  Referenced from: /Applications/HWMonitor.app/Contents/MacOS/HWMonitor
  Reason: no suitable image found.  Did find:
    /Applications/HWMonitor.app/Contents/MacOS/../Frameworks/Growl.framework/Versions/A/Growl: stat() failed with errno=13
    /Applications/HWMonitor.app/Contents/MacOS/../Frameworks/Growl.framework/Versions/A/Growl: stat() failed with errno=13

this crash is caused by a user:group issue.
do a:

sudo chown -R YourUsername:YourGroup /Applications/HWMonitor.app

and all is fine for the user logged in right now, the other one is apparently blocked out due to the different user:group.
maybe the sticky bit helps?

best from vienna,
ralph