I'm running 10.6.4 on a MBP 2.2 Core 2 Duo that's almost three years old. I've got an admin account, but run day to day on a user account. As the machine has gotten older, it's become a giant pain in the ass, giving me all sorts of problems, occasional kernel panic, failure to wake up, running too hot, all sorts of things.
So recently, as an attempt to stabilize things, I created a new non-admin user account and sort of started over again. That helped. I've still gotten a seemingly random kernel panic, but performance is better and it's not running so hot as it was.
Two problems, though
1) After the kernel panic, Time Machine backups are stalling. TM analyzes the situation, starts backing up, but then almost immediately stalls, having only backed up a few bytes. The menu bar icon spins, but no progress is made. Why this is happening is not clear to me. I logged as admin and the same thing happened. The backup disk has plenty of free space, permissions seem fine. Why would this be?
2) I can no longer log in on my original user account. From the login screen, I enter the password, the screen flashes to light blue, then, after a couple seconds, returns to the login screen. This is not good, as I need to get onto that account sometimes. I've given the new user read/write permissions on some of the old user's protected folders. I need access to that data since it's where my work and other odds and ends are. Could that matter? I don't see why, but I'm not really a Unix guy.
So recently, as an attempt to stabilize things, I created a new non-admin user account and sort of started over again. That helped. I've still gotten a seemingly random kernel panic, but performance is better and it's not running so hot as it was.
Two problems, though
1) After the kernel panic, Time Machine backups are stalling. TM analyzes the situation, starts backing up, but then almost immediately stalls, having only backed up a few bytes. The menu bar icon spins, but no progress is made. Why this is happening is not clear to me. I logged as admin and the same thing happened. The backup disk has plenty of free space, permissions seem fine. Why would this be?
2) I can no longer log in on my original user account. From the login screen, I enter the password, the screen flashes to light blue, then, after a couple seconds, returns to the login screen. This is not good, as I need to get onto that account sometimes. I've given the new user read/write permissions on some of the old user's protected folders. I need access to that data since it's where my work and other odds and ends are. Could that matter? I don't see why, but I'm not really a Unix guy.