So, I’ve been using this sweet mouse for a few months, the Logitech MX Revolution. And I’ve been using TextMate for at least a year or two. Well, today, I was in my terminal window, and I wanted to open a few files in TextMate. So I typed my usual command:
steve$ mate app/views/ public/
Usually TextMate would open up real nicely, with the two folders app/view and public ready to go in a TextMate project. But no. Instead I got this lovely, sensical message:
2008-02-28 18:04:12.522 mate[484:10b] An uncaught exception was raised
2008-02-28 18:04:12.527 mate[484:10b] [NOTE: this exception originated in the server.]
*** Object does not implement or has different method signature
2008-02-28 18:04:12.528 mate[484:10b] *** Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSInvalidArgumentException', reason: '[NOTE: this exception originated in the server.]
*** Object does not implement or has different method signature'
2008-02-28 18:04:12.537 mate[484:10b] Stack: (
2512601675,
2423689467,
2512600433,
2438770118,
2438767977,
2512624298,
2512624402,
10507,
14446,
9754,
9525
)
Trace/BPT trap
Beautiful. That makes perfect sense.
After a bit of research at this thread, it appears that my Logitech Mouse’s software, the Logitech Control Center (v 2.4 at this time), interferes somehow with mate. LCCDaemon, I believe it’s called, is the culprit.
The Fix
Null. There is no fix. Either a) remove LCC, or b) don’t use mate. I still haven’t decided on this one… I use both like crazy. If anyone else has found a fix or an acceptable workaround, please please please let me know.
Kenny Saunders
2008.11.13
Did you ever find a work around? I’m having the same problem.
Steve
2008.11.13
No, haven’t found a solution yet. I’ve just stopped using the full power of the mouse; I spend way too much time in a shell to ignore mate.
A friend uses almost the same setup, with the mouse, but hasn’t received that error. He uses USBOverdrive. It doesn’t work for me, but it does work for him… worth a shot: [USB Overdrive](http://www.usboverdrive.com/ “”)
Steve
2008.11.13
So finally, I was able to get USBOverdrive to work for me. It took a bit of research, but it seems to be in good shape now.
Under my Apps > Utilities, there was an unistaller for LCC. I had removed all the Pref files manually, but I ran the installer, restarted, then USB Overdrive started working correctly. I guess it must have removed some files that I missed, maybe just some settings.
Works for me… I can assign anything I want to my Logitech mouse MX Revolution now! Whoohoo!
Matt
2008.11.13
Oh thank you, I was going crazy, trying to work this out!
Scott
2008.11.13
I don’t know how many hours you just saved me. Thank goodness your site is one of the first hits with that error message. I just installed LCC over the weekend but would have not connected to two. Thank you!!!
Clint
2008.11.13
I just updated my LCC drivers to 2.6.0 (very recently released) and am glad to say that the mate command is working again, along with a bunch of Growl notifications. Hopefully some others will benefit from this update as well.
erfon
2009.02.12
I’m getting the exact same error. I used to have LCC installed but haven’t in quite a while. I ran the uninstaller again just in case but it said nothing was installed either. I even checked for any running LCC processes but didn’t see any… I’m still getting that error, it’s annoying!
Steve
2009.02.12
@erfon – I was pretty sure that removing all LCC stuff took care of it. I did notice, though, that an update for Textmate was released; I installed it just the other day. Maybe try applying the TM update, see if that helps.
James Strachan
2009.05.18
Awesome – huge thanks! I’d never have guessed it was LCC breaking TextMate!
I found updating LCC to the latest version (2.6) fixed this too!
F_D
2010.08.21
This problem had been stumping me for months. Thanks for posting about this—and thanks to the folks in the comments that pointed out that the conflict is resolved when upgrading LCC to 2.6.