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Hung Finder (sort of)

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pokeyjoe

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Apr 15, 2009
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I have a late 2009 Mac Mini running 10.6.2 with an occasional odd problem. I'll go up to the menu bar at the top and discover that its not the appropriate menu bar for the application I'm in. I might be in Safari (responsive in the window), but it says "Finder" in the menu bar - or Quicktime or some other open app. I can cycle through the windows without a problem, but the menu bar doesn't change. Then all of a sudden, everything is fine.

Anyone have a clue as to what's going on?
 
Yes, I have repaired permissions. I booted off the install disc and ran the repair as well. I have also run all the usual Unix scripts (daily, weekly, etc) to no avail.
 
Is 10.6.3 out or is this a dev build? If it's a dev build then isn't it a bug?
 
pokeyjoe said:
I have a late 2009 Mac Mini running 10.6.3 ...

Anyone have a clue as to what's going on?
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It can be one of only two things:
1. You're violating your NDA by discussing a prerelease in public.
2. You have an unauthorized copy of the 10.6.3 prerelease.

Well, there is a third possibility:
3. It's not 10.6.3 at all, only a typo.

If you do have an authorized prerelease of 10.6.3, your course of action should be obvious: file a bug-report with Apple.
 
Do you have any haxies, input managers, hardware drivers, or other weirdness installed?

Have you made any alterations or modifications at all to the as-installed system? For example, I have Wacom tablet drivers added to my machine.

Have you tried Safe Boot?
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1564

Have you tried (or considered) reinstalling the OS?
 
chown33 said:
Do you have any haxies, input managers, hardware drivers, or other weirdness installed?

Have you made any alterations or modifications at all to the as-installed system? For example, I have Wacom tablet drivers added to my machine.

Have you tried Safe Boot?
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1564

Have you tried (or considered) reinstalling the OS?
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Nothing weird. I tried the Safe Boot, which caused problems of its own. I lost video, or so I thought. I had to boot on the install disk again (with no video), put it to sleep, wake it up, then run disk utility. I think I'm back where I was.

The OS install is recent. I guess I can run it again. What a PITA.

After some additional research, I think the issue might be with Rosetta (Quicken uses it). Its an emulation so maybe thats the cause. Dunno.
 
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