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swiftaw
May 15, 2007, 05:52 AM
I have a weird problem. Everything seems to be fine except that items in the apple menu do not work. I click on About this Mac, nothing happens, I click on Force Quit, nothing happens, I click on sleep, nothing happens, and so on.

Any thoughts. I have tried restarting Finder and Dock, to no avail.


mad jew
May 15, 2007, 05:55 AM
Have you restarted the machine? Trashed the Finder preference file? :)
Mitthrawnuruodo
May 15, 2007, 05:55 AM
Reboot...

You could of course restarting the SystemUIServer process (and getting rid of its preference files), but a restart would be the first thing I'd try. Edit: Just like the mad man said... :)
swiftaw
May 15, 2007, 05:56 AM
How can I restart when the apple menu doesn't work?

Other than holding the power button, how can I get the computer to shutdown?
siurpeeman
May 15, 2007, 05:58 AM
control-eject prompts the menu to restart, shutdown, etc. try that.

*make sure you press and hold control-eject.
Mitthrawnuruodo
May 15, 2007, 05:59 AM
Other than holding the power button, how can I get the computer to shutdown?Just press the Power button (and release it ;)), and choose Restart (or Shutdown) the Shutdown window.
swiftaw
May 15, 2007, 06:00 AM
control-eject prompts the menu to restart, shutdown, etc. try that.

*make sure you press and hold control-eject.

Nope

Just press the Power button (and release it ;)), and choose Restart (or Shutdown) the Shutsown window.

pressing the power button (no matter how briefly) just puts it to sleep
siurpeeman
May 15, 2007, 06:02 AM
why not press and hold power to turn it off? and then turn it back on?
Mitthrawnuruodo
May 15, 2007, 06:05 AM
pressing the power button (no matter how briefly) just puts it to sleepWhy? Are we speaking about a power button or a keay on the keyboard now?

And, have you been messing with the system in any way? Haxies? Themes? Etc?

Anyhow: As a last resort just press and hold the power button to force a shutdown. It seems it's way overdue.
mad jew
May 15, 2007, 06:06 AM
You can restart from the System Preferences if you like. It's in the Startup Disk pane. :)
swiftaw
May 15, 2007, 06:08 AM
You can restart from the System Preferences if you like. It's in the Startup Disk pane. :)

Thanks, in the end I did a hard restart using the power button and that seems to have fixed it.
mad jew
May 15, 2007, 06:10 AM
Haha! Okay, good one mate. :)