Same problem for two weeks!
7on said:
SystemUIServer (Hung)
This is what I get when I look at the activity monitor. Why might you ask? Because my MenuExtras are freezing. I am using only Apple Menu Extras, BT, Modem, Displays, Airport, Battery, time, and keychain. Could someone shed light on this?
10.3.2
I have had the same problem for two weeks, and it is driving me insane. My problems seemed to have begun after I applied several updates identified by my software update preference. These were Airport 3.3. Bluetooth 1.5, iSync 1.4, and the 02-23-2004 security update. Even though I installed these one at a time, repairing permissions between installs, I have learned a lesson to only apply one update a day, to more easily identify culprits to problems.
I have no third party icons in my right side menu bar. I have tried multiple troubleshooting fixes over the past two weeks, including downgrading to Airport 3.2. I have trashed preference files, emptied caches, run DiskWarrior multiple times, repaired permissions, reinstalled the above updates from individual installers I downloaded from Apple, you name it, and I've probably tried it. I have avoided wiping my disk and reinstalling the OS and everything from scratch, but that may have to be my final resort.
At this point, I slightly suspect Bluetooth, but the problem recurs even with Bluetooth off, or even if I remove it from the menu bar. I highly suspect the security update, and know no way to downgrade or remove it. I installed 10.3.3 yesterday, hoping for the best, but it did not solve the issue.
I have searched the Apple discussion boards, MacFixit, this site, and any other Mac discussion board I could think of, all to no avail. Maybe it is a hardware issue? I even reset my PMU switch.
The problem occurs at random, which makes it more difficult to troubleshoot. I may only go an hour, or a day before my SystemUIServer hangs. Besides seeing this in the Activity Monitor, I will know it is hung when I move my curser to the right side menu bar and get the spinning beach ball. Soon after, the finder will eventually crash, and I will have to do a hard shutdown. I do seem to notice that I can make the problem occur more easily by using fast user switching, although this is not necessary to have an eventual hang.
HELP!!!
