Ok, this is a very strange problem. I don't know if these two issues are related entirely, but they both render my computer useless right now, so it's kinda important that I figure them out.
Just a few minutes ago, I realized that I was no longer able to type anything into the search box in Firefox. Thinking that it had simply frozen (Firefox locks up on me on occasion, I simply quit it and try again usually), I force quit it from the dock and restarted, with no luck. I tried again, with the same result. Thinking maybe a plugin had gone awry, I hit
-space to pull up spotlight, intending to open Activity Monitor to take a look. That's when I realized that Firefox wasn't the (only) issue. My keyboard no longer inputs any data into any application except when I am asked for my password, or when I log into another account. It's not hardware, because it does work fine for those purposes, and I'm using it right now in a new account I managed to get set up using copy and paste. However, restarting, repairing permissions, everything I can think of to solve the problem has failed.
While working on this, and this is what I'm not sure is related, I noticed that none of my menu extras loaded on login or restart, and the spotlight icon was flashing (visible then not visible again). I can't click on it, my airport, battery meter, volume, and clock don't show up at all, and I am able to quit two other programs that put their own icons up there on their own.
This is really weird, but could also be very bad for me if I don't get a chance to take this thing down to the Apple store before my class assignment is due this weekend. Any help would be great!
jW
Just a few minutes ago, I realized that I was no longer able to type anything into the search box in Firefox. Thinking that it had simply frozen (Firefox locks up on me on occasion, I simply quit it and try again usually), I force quit it from the dock and restarted, with no luck. I tried again, with the same result. Thinking maybe a plugin had gone awry, I hit
-space to pull up spotlight, intending to open Activity Monitor to take a look. That's when I realized that Firefox wasn't the (only) issue. My keyboard no longer inputs any data into any application except when I am asked for my password, or when I log into another account. It's not hardware, because it does work fine for those purposes, and I'm using it right now in a new account I managed to get set up using copy and paste. However, restarting, repairing permissions, everything I can think of to solve the problem has failed.While working on this, and this is what I'm not sure is related, I noticed that none of my menu extras loaded on login or restart, and the spotlight icon was flashing (visible then not visible again). I can't click on it, my airport, battery meter, volume, and clock don't show up at all, and I am able to quit two other programs that put their own icons up there on their own.
This is really weird, but could also be very bad for me if I don't get a chance to take this thing down to the Apple store before my class assignment is due this weekend. Any help would be great!
jW
