Q: all applications quit unexpectedly within minutes of launch
I'm honestly at the end of my rope. I'm running a late 2011 mbp, and this problem started two days ago. Every application I open quits unexpectedly after launching if I do anything with it--for example, if I try to search in Finder or go too in-depth into folders, Finder will relaunch itself. Or if I try to type something into TextEdit, the spinning wheel comes up & then TextEdit quits, or if I try to load a webpage with Google Chrome then it will quit after a few minutes; sometimes it even causes the whole computer to freeze up & I have had to force restart several times. Same with virtually all other applications at this point other than Terminal. On top of that, everything is also extremely slow--it's gotten to the point where I can do virtually nothing on my computer. I booted up in Safe Mode & things worked more smoothly, so I'm suspecting that it has something to do with my account's preferences/bootup things, whatever those are. I've had a long-standing problem with Powerpoint involving this issue, but I don't use Powerpoint often so I didn't see fit to fix the issue, since I could just log into another user account to use it. Another problem that started really only yesterday was that I can no longer type in Chinese--when I type, the spinning wheel comes up for several seconds & then either nothing happens at all or just the English letters appear, which is also frustrating.
Things I've tried already:
Disk Utility - verified disk & it was fine, however when I was repairing permissions these stuck out to me:
Warning: SUID file “System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/MacOS/ARDAg ent” has been modified and will not be repaired.
Open error 1: “Operation not permitted” on System/Library/Perl/Extras/5.10/darwin-thread-multi-2level/auto/DBI/DBI.bundle
Entered the "syslog -k Sender kernel -k Message CReq 'Channel t|GPU D|I/O|n Cause: -' | tail | open -ef" command into Terminal, these were my results:
May 29 19:23:53 unknownb88d12351884 kernel[0] <Debug>: disk0s2: I/O error.
--- last message repeated 4 times ---
May 30 09:06:23 Olivias-MacBook-Pro-2 kernel[0] <Debug>: disk0s2: I/O error.
--- last message repeated 2 times ---
May 30 16:13:36 unknownb88d12351884 kernel[0] <Debug>: disk0s2: I/O error.
--- last message repeated 129 times ---
May 31 18:01:00 localhost kernel[0] <Debug>: disk0s2: I/O error.
--- last message repeated 2 times ---
May 31 18:03:43 unknownb88d12351884 kernel[0] <Debug>: disk0s2: I/O error.
--- last message repeated 67 times ---
I really don't know what to do at this point. I'm not sure if it's a hard drive/hardware problem, which is what a few internet searches have suggested. The slowness of the laptop is not due to it running low on storage, since I have at least 50gb free. I'm preparing for the worst-case scenario and buying an external hard drive to back up my laptop's contents within the week, but I'm really hoping it doesn't come to that. Does anyone have any idea about what I can do?
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.5)
Posted on May 31, 2014 9:19 PM
>>I'm preparing for the worst-case scenario and buying an external hard drive to back up my laptop's contents within the week, but I'm really hoping it doesn't come to that. Does anyone have any idea about what I can do?
Get that external & backup as soon as possible; your drive is failing.
Posted on Jun 1, 2014 8:51 AM