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Is anyone else's Mac constantly freezing with 10.4.7?

I have the same problem; it seems it is due to the "launchd"/"launchctl". please refer to the following posts.

http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?
story=20060724160221972

Mac OS X 10.4.7 Special Report: Stalls when launching, restarting network services
Mac OS X 10.4.7 exhibits an issue where the error: "Workaround Bonjour: Unknown error: 0" when attempting to access certain network services through the launchctl process.

Depending on where this problem is encountered, you may not see an error message but instead receive the spinning beach-ball progress indicator for an inordinately long time, after which network services are properly launched.

The bug is especially noticeable when turning on or off network daemons like POP, IMAP, Bonjour and open-source mail utilities like Fetchmail.

According to a blog posting by Bernard Teo, the error occurs every time a call to /bin/launchctl is made, "no matter which services are launched. And it affects both PPC and Intel Macs updated to (Mac OS X) 10.4.7."

Again, network services accessed by launchctl will still work correctly, but the user may notice a long pause when re-loading said services.

While we are attempting to locate a fix for this issue, note that you should simply wait out a spinning beach-ball that occurs when launching or restarting certain network services under Mac OS X 10.4.7 as they will properly launch. Do not immediately attempt a force quit or other process kill.
 
mad jew said:
Hopeless32, do you have any theme changers or Dock modifiers installed? :)
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No, sure don't.

Since yesterday, I've tried making it so my dock is always visible. I hate it, but I've only frozen once today (using computer about 4 hours).
 
junker said:
Have you added any new (or cheap) RAM recently?


Cheap or ill-seated RAM is a notorious freeze ingredient.
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Are you calling my RAM bad? I have a 512MB SO-DIMM that I bought for $39.97 from a site, it has a life-time warranty as well. It runs better with it than it has ever before. But I do have to agree with the first poster. 10.4.7, doesn' seem too quick, it almost seems like its being bogged down - Activity Monitor and Terminal top doesn't show any dead threads using up lots of memory or CPU speed, but 10.4.7 just doesn't feel snappy like 10.4 and 10.4.3 did.
 
junker said:
Have you added any new (or cheap) RAM recently?


Cheap or ill-seated RAM is a notorious freeze ingredient.
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No ... I'll try creating the new user account. Can't you just trash preferences files like os9? :confused:
 
Hopeless32 said:
No ... I'll try creating the new user account. Can't you just trash preferences files like os9? :confused:
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You can, but it may not work as well as creating a new fresh user. Ya know, I think that may be what I need to do to get my Comp speedy. Whoever suggested that, that's right, sometimes you get so bogged down with pref. files and all that that your user runs slow, not the computer.
 
You can trash preference files if you like but creating a new account is a sneaky way of checking whether trashing them would help, without the hassle of actually removing them. :)
 
mad jew said:
You can trash preference files if you like but creating a new account is a sneaky way of checking whether trashing them would help, without the hassle of actually removing them. :)
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Or put them in a new or diff. folder.
 
True, true, but sometimes it's just easier to make that new account. Most good Mac users should have two accounts anyway since it's safer to run from a non-admin account. Having said that, I run straight from my admin account so I'm really being quite hypocritical. :cool:
 
mad jew said:
True, true, but sometimes it's just easier to make that new account. Most good Mac users should have two accounts anyway since it's safer to run from a non-admin account. Having said that, I run straight from my admin account so I'm really being quite hypocritical. :cool:
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I run from my admin account, bc I'm always doing something with diff software or that.

BTW I can't stand the blue theme, I have it on again, it's just not as good as the graphite.
 
I hope they fix this bug...

I seriously doubt that I am the only one who has found this (and reported it a few times).

If you do not have a screen with a greater width than 1440 px, then you will need to do some stretching...

If you open finder, stretch wide across your screen.
After you get past a width of 1470, the search box will stay locked rather than moving with the resizing window...

See the image below...
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I have been waiting since 10.4.0 for this fix, still not resolved. I hope that it is fixed in Leopard. Sure, it is not a major issue, but it sure looks bad... unfinished.
 
I find that a LOT of applications are now crashing randomly. The message I get is the standard OS X crash dialog with "BAD_ACCESS", which to me sounds like a memory problem. The Apple diagnostics gave my MBP a clean bill of health (which of couse means jack) and I've also given my RAM a thorough testing with memtest. I've got 1GB RAM pre-installed by Apple.

This only appeared to be happening since 10.4.7.
 
Fixing 10.4.7

I had problems with the 10.4.7 as well, so I ran OnyX (http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/11582) and ran everythinbg in the cleaning section, and executed everything in the maintanince section except Optimization and Reset Links between folders and Reset documents and Display of folders content. Restart and Vola, problems gone! Hope this works!:D

If your still not sure which options to select, look at the following 2 pictures, and you'll get what I mean:
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