Thought I'd share the issues I have experienced so far with Lion.
1.) When I shutdown the computer if I uncheck the option "Reopen windows when logging back in" the computer takes a very long time to shutdown and simply reboots instead of shutting down. I can reproduce this behavior all the time. I have also experienced several times a severe error during shutdown where I get the black screen with a message in various languages (this only happened I believe whenever I did not have the mentioned option checked during shutdown).
2.) Prior to installing Lion I had over 250GB free which included a 100GB+ VMWARE virtual machine. I have removed the 100GB+ virtual machine and I now still have less than 100GB free. I cannot account for over 200GB of free space that I should have. I have even download an application that interprets hard disk space and I cannot figure out what has happened to all the space. I also notice when I delete something that is over a GB in size and then look at disk space available, the available disk space is not accounting for the extra space that I just freed up.
3.) After installing Lion I could no longer open either of my two vmware fusion virtual machines. I ended up damaging one virtual machine trying to get it working so I just deleted it. My other virtual machine works but there appears to be serious issues with Lion and vmware fusion. For example if I shutdown my computer, turn it back on and open vmware and then open my vm, it will take about 15 minutes or longer for the virtual machine to resume from suspend! During this process the hour glass shows constantly under the virtual machine but I am able to run other applications on the MAC fine while I wait. Also as soon as I start to load the vm I notice a ton of free space disappears from the hard drive (like 40GB+). The size of my vm is 40 GB and the size of the actual folder that holds the vm is around 45GB. Once the vm successfully loads (after the huge delay) the space taken returns to the drive. If I don't shutdown the computer but simply put it to sleep I am able to resume the vm very quickly or normally. Actually I just noticed that if I close the VMWARE application and then later open it again (without shutting down or rebooting the computer) I also experience the long delay in resuming my VM.
Just noticed another VMWARE issue, if my VM is open but left unused for some time and I return to use it, I get the hour glass and it becomes non-response and un-useable and eventually it just suspends itself and gives me this error "Cannot find a valid peer process to connect to". Now when I click "ok" on the error I then get "Internal error, an uncaught exception was raised" and usually I click on crash and send in the report. Now I have to manually kill the "vmware-vmx" process" and then I can open vmware again and startup the vm. Eventually the vm loads but acts as if windows was not properly shutdown, I select to start normally and the vm is fine again. I never had any issue with my vm's under Leopard and they always loaded very quickly.
4.) I use gmail. For some reason the new version of Safari in Lion keeps disconnecting me constantly from Safari. I have to keep login constantly.
5.) In FireFox the Sling Player plugin no longer works. I believe this has to do with the sling media web site that somehow detects the OS being used and then just refuses to load the plugin. The good thing is that I still have the old Sling Player application and surprisingly it works fine with the Lion.
My machine specs: 8GB RAM, 2.66 i7, 500GB 7200RPM 32MB CACHE 4GB Solid State Memory Seagate Hard Drive, 64 Bit Kernel (always running 64 bit even before Lion install). I upgraded to Lion from Leopard 10.6.7 Build 10J860 64 Bit Kernel.
-Mike
1.) When I shutdown the computer if I uncheck the option "Reopen windows when logging back in" the computer takes a very long time to shutdown and simply reboots instead of shutting down. I can reproduce this behavior all the time. I have also experienced several times a severe error during shutdown where I get the black screen with a message in various languages (this only happened I believe whenever I did not have the mentioned option checked during shutdown).
2.) Prior to installing Lion I had over 250GB free which included a 100GB+ VMWARE virtual machine. I have removed the 100GB+ virtual machine and I now still have less than 100GB free. I cannot account for over 200GB of free space that I should have. I have even download an application that interprets hard disk space and I cannot figure out what has happened to all the space. I also notice when I delete something that is over a GB in size and then look at disk space available, the available disk space is not accounting for the extra space that I just freed up.
3.) After installing Lion I could no longer open either of my two vmware fusion virtual machines. I ended up damaging one virtual machine trying to get it working so I just deleted it. My other virtual machine works but there appears to be serious issues with Lion and vmware fusion. For example if I shutdown my computer, turn it back on and open vmware and then open my vm, it will take about 15 minutes or longer for the virtual machine to resume from suspend! During this process the hour glass shows constantly under the virtual machine but I am able to run other applications on the MAC fine while I wait. Also as soon as I start to load the vm I notice a ton of free space disappears from the hard drive (like 40GB+). The size of my vm is 40 GB and the size of the actual folder that holds the vm is around 45GB. Once the vm successfully loads (after the huge delay) the space taken returns to the drive. If I don't shutdown the computer but simply put it to sleep I am able to resume the vm very quickly or normally. Actually I just noticed that if I close the VMWARE application and then later open it again (without shutting down or rebooting the computer) I also experience the long delay in resuming my VM.
Just noticed another VMWARE issue, if my VM is open but left unused for some time and I return to use it, I get the hour glass and it becomes non-response and un-useable and eventually it just suspends itself and gives me this error "Cannot find a valid peer process to connect to". Now when I click "ok" on the error I then get "Internal error, an uncaught exception was raised" and usually I click on crash and send in the report. Now I have to manually kill the "vmware-vmx" process" and then I can open vmware again and startup the vm. Eventually the vm loads but acts as if windows was not properly shutdown, I select to start normally and the vm is fine again. I never had any issue with my vm's under Leopard and they always loaded very quickly.
4.) I use gmail. For some reason the new version of Safari in Lion keeps disconnecting me constantly from Safari. I have to keep login constantly.
5.) In FireFox the Sling Player plugin no longer works. I believe this has to do with the sling media web site that somehow detects the OS being used and then just refuses to load the plugin. The good thing is that I still have the old Sling Player application and surprisingly it works fine with the Lion.
My machine specs: 8GB RAM, 2.66 i7, 500GB 7200RPM 32MB CACHE 4GB Solid State Memory Seagate Hard Drive, 64 Bit Kernel (always running 64 bit even before Lion install). I upgraded to Lion from Leopard 10.6.7 Build 10J860 64 Bit Kernel.
-Mike
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