system preferences freezes all the time

[nunes013]

whenever i try to remove something like growl or hyperdock from the other section of the system preferences pane, system preferences freezes. it has done this since whenever i first installed snow leopard on my computer. is this a snow leopard bug that apple has never fixed or should i try a system restore from the 10.6 disks.

 

[LPZ]

whenever i try to remove something like growl or hyperdock from the other section of the system preferences pane, system preferences freezes. it has done this since whenever i first installed snow leopard on my computer. is this a snow leopard bug that apple has never fixed or should i try a system restore from the 10.6 disks.

I'd first quit System Preferences, move

~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.systempreferences.plist

to your Desktop and then try System Preferences again. (Here ~ denotes your Home folder.)

 

[nunes013]

the same thing happens. its right after i type in my password to make the change the beach ball comes up and i right click system preferences at the bottom and it says not responding

 

[LPZ]

the same thing happens. its right after i type in my password to make the change the beach ball comes up and i right click system preferences at the bottom and it says not responding

OK. I wonder if it's related to permissions. Please open Terminal (in Utilities) and copy and paste the following into the Terminal window:

ls -l /Library/PreferencePanes

Press return and post the output.

 

[nunes013]

Apple Qmaster.prefPane
Fan Control.prefPane
Flip4Mac WMV.prefPane
Growl.prefPane
M-Audio ProKeys Sono 61.prefPane
TechTool Protection.prefPane
VersionCueCS4.prefPane

 

[LPZ]

Apple Qmaster.prefPane
Fan Control.prefPane
Flip4Mac WMV.prefPane
Growl.prefPane
M-Audio ProKeys Sono 61.prefPane
TechTool Protection.prefPane
VersionCueCS4.prefPane

Need to see the output of the command I posted, in order to check ownership and permissions on these files.

 

[nunes013]

sorry wrong code


total 0
drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Sep 16 07:12 Apple Qmaster.prefPane
drwxr-xr-x 3 ericnunes wheel 102 Oct 27 2007 Fan Control.prefPane
drwxrwxr-x 3 root admin 102 Sep 28 2009 Flip4Mac WMV.prefPane
drwxrwxr-x 3 root wheel 102 Sep 28 2009 Growl.prefPane
drwxr-xr-x 3 root admin 102 Apr 10 2008 M-Audio ProKeys Sono 61.prefPane
drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Sep 5 01:41 TechTool Protection.prefPane
drwxrwxr-x 3 root wheel 102 Apr 17 2010 VersionCueCS4.prefPane

 

[LPZ]

drwxr-xr-x 3 ericnunes wheel 102 Oct 27 2007 Fan Control.prefPane

My guess is this should be owned by root.

Enter the following in Terminal and press return. Supply your password when it is requested.

sudo chown -R root /Library/PreferencePanes/Fan*

Then restart System Prefs and see if the problem still occurs.

 

[nunes013]

yea, same problem

EDIT: i was able to remove one thing but everything else freezes it

 

[LPZ]

yea, same problem

Well, that Fan Control pane seems quit old, and it wasn't installed correctly. What happens if you close Sys Prefs, temporarily move Fan Control.prefPane to your desktop and then restart Sys Prefs. Any better?

 

[nunes013]

i got hyperdock to go away, but everything else stays. i actually want fan control. i want to get rid of growl and cs4 cues

 

[LPZ]

i got hyperdock to go away, but everything else stays. i actually want fan control. i want to get rid of growl and cs4 cues

Well, I don't think Fan Control is compatible with OS X 10.6. See http://www.lobotomo.com/products/index.html

No 10.6 compatible symbol for Fan Control. (Does it work at all to control fans?)

Move it temporarily to your Desktop and see if System Prefs behaves correctly again.

 

[nunes013]

i followed their uninstall options and rebooted the computer, fan control is gone but still all the others freeze, i can manually get rid by going into library/preferencepanes and moving each to the trash

fan control does work on 10.6 even if nots compatible, i use it for large cpu tasks like handbrake which run the cpu to almost 100%

 

[LPZ]

i followed their uninstall options and rebooted the computer, fan control is gone but still all the others freeze, i can manually get rid by going into library/preferencepanes and moving each to the trash

fan control does work on 10.6 even if nots compatible, i use it for large cpu tasks like handbrake which run the cpu to almost 100%

Not sure what to suggest. I'd probably uninstall all those preference panes and then reinstall the ones I want. I'd also be sure to repair permissions.

 

[nunes013]

ok, ill do that later, thanks for all your time and help!!!!

 

[wizardofwet]

drwxr-xr-x 3 ericnunes wheel 102 Oct 27 2007 Fan Control.prefPane

My guess is this should be owned by root.

Enter the following in Terminal and press return. Supply your password when it is requested.

sudo chown -R root /Library/PreferencePanes/Fan*

Then restart System Prefs and see if the problem still occurs.

I was wondering if you can help me too, I'm having the same problem but when i entered the previous code this popped up

drwxrwxr-x 3 root wheel 102 Nov 4 2011 Flash Player.prefPane

I tried sudo chown -R root /Library/PreferencePanes/Fan* and a warning message came up, i'm guessing it removes flash player from my mac or something so i decided to ask you