Re: First weirdness with OSX
- From: Madwen <invalid@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2006 09:53:11 -0600
In article <nobody-DBDEBD.19461011032006@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
John Rethorst <nobody@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
After two years on various flavors of X, now on 10.4.5: everything
has run smoothly until today when, in various apps windows wouldn't
redraw and menus wouldn't pull (menu title showed as selected, but no
menu appeared).
Logged out and in, no help. Restarted, no help. Used disk utility to
verify disk and repair permissions, no help. So I turned it off for a
few hours, and now it's fine.
On OS < 10, turning the machine off for 5 or 10 minutes would fix it
when a restart would not. I didn't know X ever needed it.
I get something like that every now and then too but it's quite rare; I
can go for months w/o it happening. It's almost like I'm stuck in tar
where everything slows down so much. As far as I can tell, it seems to
occur while I am user the browser (I mostly use Firefox these days) but
I can't be sure of the correlation because it happens so rarely.
Logging out and clearing the Firefox cache usually resolves iI but it
just happened the other day and I had to shut down for a bit--- logging
out did not work. After flushing out the RAM chips and a restart,
everything was right as rain again. Usually, the only time I shut down
is for system updates, power outages and bad storms.
You might want to use Disk Warrior to build a new directory and perform
other repairs.
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