My OSX applications do not respond. Only after restarting the computter at last 3 times they would work. Especially Safari and Mail and Text edit don't work well. I already repaired disk permissions but since the latets update of Panther my disk utility application keeps on crashing too. What can I do? I am not very keen on renstalling the whple system from scratch since I have just done this about 6 weeks ago.
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OSX Applications keep on crashing
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How about:
What are the detailed specs of your system? Install anything new recently, software or hardware? Where do you keep your machine set up? Any spills, bumps, drops, knocks, shocks, surges, etc?
What does the console say? You can find it in /Applications/Utilities/. Use it to check both the console.log, the system.log, and the crash logs listed under the ~/Library/CrashReporter/ group when you click the 'Logs' button.
Is your machine a single user setup? Can you create a new user and see what happens when you log in as the new user?
What are the detailed specs of your system? Install anything new recently, software or hardware? Where do you keep your machine set up? Any spills, bumps, drops, knocks, shocks, surges, etc?
What does the console say? You can find it in /Applications/Utilities/. Use it to check both the console.log, the system.log, and the crash logs listed under the ~/Library/CrashReporter/ group when you click the 'Logs' button.
Is your machine a single user setup? Can you create a new user and see what happens when you log in as the new user?
hmmm.... to me it sounds like one of these two things:
1. have you installed any RAM in it recently? Bad RAM is commonly the problem.
Another thing you can try that might help is zapping the PRAM. To do this, restart and hold down Apple-P-R until you hear the Mac startup sound four times.
1. have you installed any RAM in it recently? Bad RAM is commonly the problem.
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2. Your OS X installation is corrupted. In this case try reinstalling Panther.Another thing you can try that might help is zapping the PRAM. To do this, restart and hold down Apple-P-R until you hear the Mac startup sound four times.
Here's another possibility:iindigo said:
3. Your PMU (power management unit) settings are corrupted. If this is the case the PMU needs to be reset. I know that PowerBook and iBook PMUs can be reset through software (look on the Apple site); iMac and PowerMac PMUs can only be reset by opening the computer (I had the representatives at my local Apple Store do this for me); I'm not sure which group the eMac falls in.
I've got the latest update of Panther. I had Norton Utilities installed which made some problems. after removing it from my computer it at least runs again.ElectricSheep said:
the crash repoprts always say EXC_BAD_ACCESS (0x0001)
Codes: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS (0x0001) at 0xf4fdf525
. Unfortunately I do not know much about operating systems...
I have also got an external firewire drive which i heard can cause problems. anyway when it's not plugged in it doesn't make any change.
here some more reports. I hope you can help me i really don't understand what this is about:
kernel: ATY,Rage128P2ks: vram [96000000:01000000]
Apr 11 11:18:35 localhost SystemStarter: The "HasShadow" window property is obsolete. Use CGSSetWindowShadowAndRimParameters(cid, wid, 0.0,0.0, 0,0, CGSNoShadowStyle) to turn off the window shadow instead. Set a break-point on CGSLogMessage to find out where this property is set.
localhost syslogd: /dev/console: Input/output error
localhost init: kernel security level changed from 0 to 1
localhost SystemStarter: File Deletion Tracking (179) did not complete successfully.
localhost SystemStarter: Norton Volume Assist (178) did not complete successfully.
localhost loginwindow[192]: Sent launch request message to DirectoryService mach_init port
localhost kernel: disk1s10: I/O error.
localhost SystemStarter: - execution of Startup script failed
The above is pretty much standard for the MacOS X startup procedure. Not too much to worry about there.
This, however, might be some cause for concern:
It sounds like even though you think you removed Norton Utilities, it still has some components installed. File Deletion Tracking and Norton Volume Assist are launched at boot time from scripts located in the /Library/StartupItems folder. Inside this folder are subfolders which contain scripts and information files which the SystemStarter uses to load services at boot time. Nothing in this folder is absolutely essential to the system, all of those startup scripts are located in /System/Library/StartupItems, and are separated for good reason. You can just delete any startup items you find in /Library/StartupItems that you feel you do not need. You should probably remove File Deletion Tracking and Norton Volume Assist to begin with.
The line localhost kernel: disk1s10: I/O error. also has me thinking. That could just be a generic error associated with the failure to run the Norton Startup items, but it could be more insidious. Open up a terminal window (you can find Terminal.app in the Utilities folders inside the Applications folder at the top level of your startup disk). At the prompt that appears in the terminal window, type the following:
df -k
and hit enter. You should see something that looks like this:
Code:
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/disk0s9 39066000 14625180 24184820 38% /
devfs 93 93 0 100% /dev
fdesc 1 1 0 100% /dev
<volfs> 512 512 0 100% /.vol
automount -nsl [335] 0 0 0 100% /Network
automount -fstab [338] 0 0 0 100% /automount/Servers
automount -static [338] 0 0 0 100% /automount/static
afp_0TT6CG0TShSm0TQ51e0Sv5Qp-1.2d000003 156159792 66816612 89343180 43% /Volumes/esheepLooking at the Filesystem column of the output, find /dev/disk1s10 and look to see what the corrosponding entry under the Mounted on column is. I'd be interested in knowing this.
Remember to avoid installing anything called "Norton" on your Mac. They usually do more harm than good.