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I have to force quit. Also, I can't get to any other System Preference items as it's hanging on the "Display" window?
Recently installed Lion and has been working flawlessly other than it seems to be somewhat slow???
iMac, Mac OS X (10.7)
It has to do with a problem accessing the images on the home>images folder. To solve it, just move its content (iphoto library included) to another place. Then, restart System Preferences. Moving your iPhoto library to another location seems to fix the problem. I am sure Apple will issue an update to correct this problem. But, for now this seems to work for me.
It has to do with a problem accessing the images on the home>images folder. To solve it, just move its content (iphoto library included) to another place. Then, restart System Preferences. Moving your iPhoto library to another location seems to fix the problem. I am sure Apple will issue an update to correct this problem. But, for now this seems to work for me.
Thanks a lot Michael. I ran into ths same issue after Lion upgrade and was pulling out hairs to solve this problem. The corrupted iphoto library in /Users/<john-doe>/Pictures/iPhoto Library was the main reason the preference was stuck. I moved the iphoto library temporarily and got the system preferences working.
Console Errors for the corrupted iphoto DB
Jul 24 09:42:44 PulPulPulMacBook System Preferences[12015]: kCGErrorIllegalArgument: CGSDeviceCreate: Invalid window
Jul 24 09:42:44 PulPulPulMacBook System Preferences[12015]: kCGErrorFailure: Set a breakpoint @ CGErrorBreakpoint() to catch errors as they are logged.
Jul 24 09:42:44 PulPulPulMacBook System Preferences[12015]: Failed to create window context device
Jul 24 09:42:44 PulPulPulMacBook System Preferences[12015]: CGWindowContextCreate: failed to create window context delegate.
Jul 24 09:42:44 PulPulPulMacBook [0x0-0x146146].com.apple.systempreferences[12015]: Jul 24 09:42:44 SudhishMacBook.local System Preferences[12015] <Error>: Failed to create window context device
Jul 24 09:42:44 PulPulPulMacBook [0x0-0x146146].com.apple.systempreferences[12015]: Jul 24 09:42:44 SudhishMacBook.local System Preferences[12015] <Error>: CGWindowContextCreate: failed to create window context delegate.
Jul 24 09:42:44 PulPulPulMacBook System Preferences[12015]: _initWithWindowNumber: error creating graphics ctxt object for ctxt:0x16323, window:0x0
Jul 24 09:42:44 PulPulPulMacBook System Preferences[12015]: CGPixelAccessLock failed!
Jul 24 09:42:45 PulPulPulMacBook System Preferences[12015]: Can't open search index until its validated…
Thanks for assisting in helping me fix this issue. Sounds like it's a known issue with Apple. It had to do with the iPhoto conflicts. Thanks
Michael Mebane only copied&pasted the answer given by other member. You can see it here: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3198020?start=0&tstart=0
System preferences hangs after trying to change desktop image;
