10.6.3 Mouse keeps freezing and keyboard problems

Just to let running processes finish.
What does it do, obviously nothing as my system just froze again.

*I am seriously unimpressed with 10.6.3.*

I've turned Spaces off and it seems to be working at the moment. I'll post again if the keyboard freezes again.

Guys, I updated the flash player to new prerelease version and the problem is gone now. Here is the link. Hope it works:
http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html

There are 2 of us in our house with iMac's that are having this same problem since loading 10.6.3. There are 2 others in our house using Macbooks who are not having this problem. The iMacs freeze at intermittent times but 99 percent of the occurrences are when we on the internet, especially when in email or having gone from an email link to a website. I have used Safari and another browser, Opera, and they both freeze. One time I was in Word. Usually the keyboard and mouse just freeze with the pointer still movable, but I have also had a permanent spinning wheel and a complete black screen occur. I have emailed Apple but have not heard anything back from them.

Which version of Snow Leopard did all of these machines start with?

I experience the same problem, ie the mouse & Mac freezes with only solution involving shut-down. It happened after using Aperture 3, which I think caused the system to hang. Error reports were sent off each time, so maybe the bug will get fixed.

Found the fix for at least my described problem! Can't talk about it here because of NDA, but it is definately a 10.6.3 problem and all we have to do is wait a little more.

You get the idea.

MatthiasSt wrote:
Found the fix for at least my described problem! Can't talk about it here because of NDA, but it is definately a 10.6.3 problem and all we have to do is wait a little more.

You get the idea.

So I assuming what you are hinting at is 10.6.4 developer preview fixes the problem as noted in the release notes.

Same problem here with my mouse since I updated to 10.6.3 (they were right on release notes, more stability!)
A small workaround to avoid reboot that I have found is to just close down the screen until the mac hibernates, and them open up again the screen and login (sometimes it does not work, so you must repeat the process).
The mouse start working again.

Does everyone else have Spaces enabled? As by just not using Spaces has completely got rid of the fault for me.

I do not currently have spaces enabled. It is still happening. Albeit a lot less frequently.

Hello,

I gave a try to upgrade flash. And it does seem to work.
Thanks for the tip

xav

10.6.4 is out. Does it solve the freezing problems?

not for me. 20" iMac HD 2400 still intermittently freezes in browser and mail. I went back to 10.6.2 and now it's stable again.

Dear All,

just an update.... last Saturday I did a full backup of my 10.6.2 installation... and then I applied the 10.6.4 combo update.
4 days are passed... and no more freezes 🙂


Anyway... in the Console logs I continue to see messages related to the trackpad (like this one: AppleUSBMultitouchDriver::message - kIOUSBMessagePortHasBeenReset). But it doesn't seem to affect the usability of my system.

Let's keep the finger crossed 🙂

Marco

marcoskv wrote:
I did some tests on my macbook pro early 2008 during last weekend... just to understand if the mouse and keyboard freezes were caused by my fault... or an apple one...


Here is the first test:
1. deleted and recreated the partition of my mac
2. installed snow leopard
3. installed 10.6.3 v1.1 combo
4. in less than 5 minutes the trackpad and the keyboard started freezing (like before this test)


2nd test:
1. deleted and recreated the partition of my mac
2. installed snow leopard
3. installed 10.6.2 combo
4. restored my user profile from time machine
5. restored/reinstalled my applications from the backup disk
6. surfed on internet
7. downloaded/replied emails
.... and so on...
Finally my laptop is working without any problem 🙂



Anyway: THESE FREEZES ARE DUE TO AN APPLE BUG IN THE 10.6.3 UPDATE.
In the last week I tried everything:
- Reset PRAM
- Delete startup/login items
- Remove Global account preferences (~/Library/Preferences/.GlobalPreferences.plist)
- Clear kernel caches
- replace AppleUSBMultitouch.kext with previous versions

All of these workarounds were not working on my machine... the only solution was to reinstall everything and stop to the 10.6.2 update.

Hope this helps 😉

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