Apple Menu items do not work

[swiftaw]

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]

Have you restarted the machine? Trashed the Finder preference file?

 

[Mitthrawnuruodo]

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]

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]

control-eject prompts the menu to restart, shutdown, etc. try that.

*make sure you press and hold control-eject.

 

[Mitthrawnuruodo]

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]

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]

why not press and hold power to turn it off? and then turn it back on?

 

[Mitthrawnuruodo]

pressing the power button (no matter how briefly) just puts it to sleep

Why? 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]

You can restart from the System Preferences if you like. It's in the Startup Disk pane.

 

[swiftaw]

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]

Haha! Okay, good one mate.