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:
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 18:04:12.527 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!