Frank S Bradley

Q: OSX Mavericks System Preference Pane Not Working

I am having an issues with the Systems Preference Pane.  Actions like that provide access to a secondary panel are not appearing.

 

For example the Advanced button on the network pane does nothing.

 

On the Itnernet Accounts panel the Delete accounts action does nothing.  Nor does the display details of an account.

 

The above are just some of the panes that are not operational, I can produce a detailed list of all items that do not operate.

 

Everything worked without issues before the upgrade to Mavericks yesturday morning.

 

 

Any ideas?

 

 

Frank

MacBook Pro, OS X Mavericks (10.9)

Posted on Oct 25, 2013 1:27 PM

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  • by arcing,

    arcing arcing Nov 9, 2013 4:33 PM in response to luke_aus
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    Nov 9, 2013 4:33 PM in response to luke_aus

    That did it for me to. Thank you luke_aus!

  • by foulgernz,

    foulgernz foulgernz Nov 9, 2013 6:42 PM in response to macmark2
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    Nov 9, 2013 6:42 PM in response to macmark2

    Ive had exactly the same problem and have gone the "remove all preferences to preferences.old and remove the loginitems plist" and I have found in my case that it is definitely NOT a preference or a login item but it IS specific to my user account.  I have created a maintenece user account and also logged in as root and my preference panes behave properly in thos accounts.  What I have done is turn invisible files on and over the course of two days eliminated preferences and invisible files left over from installs as far back as 2004 and my Mac Pro E2008 has sped up very considerably.  I have also used Mavericks Cache cleaner very extensively and repaired everything in site, reset ACLs etc etc.  The problem still remains.  I dont want to create a new user because my Mac is part of a network and its pretty well tuned  to suit that.  I have noticed that I can reset, say, the network preference logged in as another user and the chages "stick" when I log back in as myself.  In particular but not necessarily all, The security and privacy preference pane wont respond to <advanced>, neither can I change some of the options.  In Network preferences, <advanced> and <+> do not work and I cant edit locations.  I'm hoping that by applying 10.9.1 combo when it comes out by months end, will resolve the problem.  I've really looked in every little nook and cranny to no avail.  If anyone else gets a fix I'd be grateful to hear.  Thanks

     

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  • by Drew Reece,

    Drew Reece Drew Reece Nov 9, 2013 6:44 PM in response to foulgernz
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    Nov 9, 2013 6:44 PM in response to foulgernz

    Looks like you missed this post by luke_aus

    https://discussions.apple.com/message/23727047#23727047

     

    See if that has any effect.

  • by foulgernz,

    foulgernz foulgernz Nov 9, 2013 7:12 PM in response to cetsk
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    Nov 9, 2013 7:12 PM in response to cetsk

    Tried that in my situation but all it did was make it impossible to set up new locations from scratched.  Renamed.bak files back to .plist after trashing the new ones, restarted and back to "normal"  Good try though.

  • by Drew Reece,

    Drew Reece Drew Reece Nov 9, 2013 7:15 PM in response to foulgernz
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    Nov 9, 2013 7:15 PM in response to foulgernz

    Sorry I failed to link to the correct post.

     

    To be clearer …

     

    luke_aus wrote:

     

    I ran the following commands one at a time in terminal and its all working again:

         defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSUseLeopardWindowValues YES

         defaults write com.apple.Safari NSUseLeopardWindowValues NO

         killall SystemUIServer

     

  • by foulgernz,

    foulgernz foulgernz Nov 9, 2013 7:30 PM in response to luke_aus
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    Nov 9, 2013 7:30 PM in response to luke_aus

    Nice excercise in terminal - appreciated - but it didn't work for me. 

  • by foulgernz,

    foulgernz foulgernz Nov 9, 2013 9:17 PM in response to luke_aus
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    Nov 9, 2013 9:17 PM in response to luke_aus

    Well, it didn't fix my problem BUT I DID DISCOVER ETRECHECK!  I found launchdaemons that had been running for years on apps that I have'nt used in years (possibly decades).  So I cleaned out all the old sh1t and now my Mac Pro Early 2008 is working at lightning speed.  Thanks to this (unsolved) fault, I have spent a couple of days really digging out the old potatoes with the result that I have a superfast computer that still has the system preferences fault - lol BUT I am happy!

  • by luke_aus,

    luke_aus luke_aus Nov 9, 2013 9:21 PM in response to foulgernz
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    Nov 9, 2013 9:21 PM in response to foulgernz

    foulgernz

     

    try adding one more line - run all these in terminal

         defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSUseLeopardWindowValues YES

         defaults write com.apple.Safari NSUseLeopardWindowValues NO

         defaults write com.apple.screencapture disable-shadow -bool false

         killall SystemUIServer

  • by Drew Reece,

    Drew Reece Drew Reece Nov 9, 2013 9:28 PM in response to foulgernz
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    Nov 9, 2013 9:28 PM in response to foulgernz

    Hehe, EtreCheck is neat.

    Post the report here if you want more feedback.

     

    Sorry luke_aus, I mangled your fix

  • by luke_aus,

    luke_aus luke_aus Nov 9, 2013 10:13 PM in response to Drew Reece
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    Nov 9, 2013 10:13 PM in response to Drew Reece

    not your fault Drew - I didn't have that line in the initial fix

     

    It also stands to reason that if you are running Shadowkiller or Nocturne or something similiar to remove shadows from OSX you should remove these first, then run the lines above

  • by AlexMacinsky,

    AlexMacinsky AlexMacinsky Nov 9, 2013 11:07 PM in response to luke_aus
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    Nov 9, 2013 11:07 PM in response to luke_aus

    It worked, now I can open the secondary dialog boxes.  But...

     

    This line:  defaults write com.apple.Safari NSUseLeopardWindowValues NO

     

    disables shadows in Safari,  so every new window you open in Safari has no shadow on the window under it, and the edges blned into the one below it. 

     

    I did this:  defaults write com.apple.Safari NSUseLeopardWindowValues YES

     

    And Safar shadows were restored.

     

    Thanks for the help. 

  • by luke_aus,

    luke_aus luke_aus Nov 9, 2013 11:39 PM in response to AlexMacinsky
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    Nov 9, 2013 11:39 PM in response to AlexMacinsky

    Thanks Alex - I never use Safari so I didn't notice

     

    so the fix should read:

         defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSUseLeopardWindowValues YES

         defaults write com.apple.Safari NSUseLeopardWindowValues YES

         defaults write com.apple.screencapture disable-shadow -bool false

         killall SystemUIServer

  • by nemo11,

    nemo11 nemo11 Nov 10, 2013 3:59 AM in response to luke_aus
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    Nov 10, 2013 3:59 AM in response to luke_aus

    Thanks a lot!

     

    1. That hint worked for me, too.

     

    2. Also the apple mail shadow problem (mentioned earlier) is gone, too :-)

     

    Cheers!

     


  • by macmark2,

    macmark2 macmark2 Nov 10, 2013 5:30 AM in response to luke_aus
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    Nov 10, 2013 5:30 AM in response to luke_aus

    This solved the issue for the iWork applications as well.   No more white boxes around the toolbar headings.

  • by glenfant,

    glenfant glenfant Nov 10, 2013 6:42 AM in response to cetsk
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    Nov 10, 2013 6:42 AM in response to cetsk

    Hi,

     

    I just posted a similar issue : https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5544980

     

    Some buttons in other control panels (Time Machine and Security and Privacy) have no effect and similar trace are found in my system log following the clicks :

     

    The key info in that log seems to be :

     

    unable to convert NSNamedColorSpace System controlColor to (your video profile) colorspace' with backtrace

     

    After reading your issue; I noticed that I have exactly the same problem. Did you find a fix ?

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