what's this? "SystemUIServer (Hung)"

[Dafke]

lately i've noticed there's an app hung in my Activity Monitor pretty often:



anybody knows what it means?

 

[mad jew]

Is your main language English? I remember Panther having some issues with Eastern European languages and the menu bar (which is SystemUIServer AFAIK). Also, do you have an iPod plugged in at the time?

 

[Daveway]

IIRC that is your menu bar. I remember it hanging when after ipods are ejected in some osx versions.

what os are you running?

 

[mad jew]

IIRC that is your menu bar.

That's correct. I've seen iSync, iPods and BlueTooth cause these issues, mainly in Panther.

 

[Dafke]

My main language is Dutch, and i'm running 10.3.9

edit: i plug in my iPod once in a while, to sync my adress book and iCal, i plug it in my pc to connect with iTunes.

 

[mad jew]

What's in your menu bar?

 

[Dafke]

What's in your menu bar?

sorry, what do you mean?

 

[mad jew]

Okay, what's in the top right hand corner with the clock? Do you have some menus there?

 

[Dafke]

Okay, what's in the top right hand corner with the clock? Do you have some menus there?

this is all, everything else is hided

 

[mad jew]

Well, I'm suspecting it's the AirPort menu but before we remove com.apple.airport.menuextra.plist, maybe open a file named SystemUIServer.crash.log and tell us what you see.

 

[Dafke]

Well, I'm suspecting it's the AirPort menu but before we remove com.apple.airport.menuextra.plist, maybe open a file named SystemUIServer.crash.log and tell us what you see.

okay, i'm awake again

i'm afraid i don't have a file named SystemUIServer.crash.log
neither do i have com.apple.airport.menuextra.plist

when i search for "menuextra" i get the following results:
com.apple.menuextra.battery.plist
com.apple.modemmenuextra.plist
com.apple.vpnmenuextra.plist