Ok, so I have an application, say iChat. In the middle of the chat, the colored circle of death (the Mac's version of the hour glass from ****) comes up. I go and force quit the application and indeed the application leaves the desktop, however, the little light is still lit under the iChat icon and I can't restart the **** application again. What gives???
+I go and force quit the application and indeed the application leaves the desktop, however, the little light is still lit under the iChat icon and I can't restart the
** application again. What gives???+
The Application, or parts of it, are still active.
When this happens either:
a) Use command-option-esc again and tell it to Force Quit again
or
b) Run Activity Monitor and find what Application process is still running, select it and Force Quit from there.
As a rule I'd not recommend using Force Quit unless absolutely essential, best to find what's causing the hangs in an application and fix them rather than making this a habit.
I have had all that and more. Could not restart from the menu, download software, shut down or force quit. Did hardware test, Memtest, PRAM reset, DIsk Warrior, Permissions, call the Apple support - nothing worked. I had just up the memory to 4g and no help.
I have an IMAC duo 2hz with Lacie mini hub HD on which TIme Machine runs, which was always running. Ran diskwarrior on the LaCie and it noted that it was pretty messy so I ran the disk warrior tools. On step 9 the screen darkened and got that ominous restart message - a kernal panic. The drive was now useless as it had not time machine directory. Unplugged the drive and turned off Time Machine, restarted, upgrades to 10.5.7 (again) and now everything works just fine, and even better with all that memory.
Connected the drive to my new MacPro, ran disk warrior and got the exact same kernal panic on step 9. Ran Disk Utility repair, took hours, and the directory was back. Ran DW again and it crashed again. Also, noticed that drive did not always start up and would chirp and not show up on the desktop. Tested the power supply and it's fine. The drive is bad - it always ran hot (1.5 years old) anyway.
Got a new drive for the TM and set it to run once a night.
