CUI CUI CUI error 10.7.3 all apps crashes

UPS, typo, mental one, I continue to forget its MacBook Pro now. My G4 is senile but it did help this time. I'll go on updatingit until its battery dies, which appears to be getting close according to iSTAT PRO, but I never unplug it. Apparently, upon trying to restore my daughter's, which was my first option and the first one to crash, Time Machine crashed and rendered the already opened backup files unusable, they were actualized to the last hour. I must admit I don't monitor my daughter's downloads and she did destroyed a Presario laptop she had once since she would download things without thinking and, lot of games and junk, she was 13 or so. But my son's Presario didn't fair well either. I then forced them to use Mac despite their school's Window's environment. But I don't think, haven't seen, any of the programs you mention and had already gone thru the delete process of all PowerPC-only programs when installing 10.7.2.

I did not have problems finder-copying the user folder, not that I can remember right now, I'm almost burned.

You mentioned delta backups and .inprogress backups for TM, the last I noticed during this ordeal but had never heard of the first. I guess I have some reading to do. And, I tought the larger the hard drive, the better. Specially, since I am backing up 3 Macs to the same drive?

Thanks

Sorry, one last thing: When did COMBO come out? I am now doubting if I downloaded before or after COMBO got released. Really, didn't notice the aftername if it was there.

CARTOLFAMMACS wrote:

You mentioned delta backups and .inprogress backups for TM, the last I noticed during this ordeal but had never heard of the first. I guess I have some reading to do. And, I tought the larger the hard drive, the better. Specially, since I am backing up 3 Macs to the same drive?

Thanks

Ah, yes, it's the Delta Update that caused all the problems in the first place! Software Update changed that to the Combo Update about two days later (around February 3).

About the Time Machine, in theory it should work fine about backing up multiple Mac OS X partitions to one Time Machine Drive. It's recommended to backup each Mac to a separate Time Machine Partitions. An external disk can have many partitions. A Time Capsule can't. I don't know which you use (or both?). I recommend a direct hook up external hard drive. And go ahead and repartition a new drive into three (or how ever many Mac's you have) partitions and do Time Machine backups on those individual partitions. Better yet, buy a single external hard drive for each Mac. That's the best and most reliable.

In my case, I have two Mac OS X partitions on one internal hard drive. One is my main, the other is to test things on. (I can dual boot. Besides the recovery partition)

Pondini (he's a Apple Support Communities Regular) has been very helpful with me in my Time Machine troubles. He has set up a website written all by him all about Time Machine. Lot's of good information and tips!

Here's his website:

Time Machine - Troubleshooting

Here's his FAQ's:

Time Machine - Frequently Asked Questions

and in that, here's the question that you may like to read!:

Time Machine - Frequently Asked Questions 4. Can I back up 2 or more Macs to the same external HD?

The third paragraph (partitioning) is what I was talking about.

There really is so much to Time Machine, it is quite remarkable (when it works perfectly)!

MacGunt wrote:

To all the people who were working feverishly towards important deadlines and thought to themselves, now would be the perfect time to make a modification to my operating system: give your head a shake. If you don't have a backup and/or can't afford to spend a measely couple hours restoring the backup or performing a reinstall.... why would you do this?

I suppose, these Mac users have never had a problem with a simple Delta Update! I didn't think much of it either, and I develop. Didn't take me long to fix the CUI ??? errors on my Macs though.

If having a problem with Mac OS makes soemone think of changing to Windows, Its like getting a shot on your head for getting a traffic ticket!!!!!!!! Thanks God for each problem I'd had with my Macs for nearly 30 years! Each one prevented over a hundred had I been using Windows. I loved your references and Thanks you for them. Certainly, we have to be paranoic when dealing with machines, circuits, networks, electrical supply and surges. If you are not to deal with this preventive paranoia, you'd better stay with the abacus and keep children and pets aways, they love those little colored balls! Prevention is worth an ounce per several tons. Apple has its responsibility and it should come forward with an apology, at least but, we are the end users and its our responsibility to be careful and follow the primary rules of safety. I could have 5 PCs for each Mac but, what for, to have the occasional mishap multiplied by 500 and on a daily basis? One more step forward in learning, experience, wisdom and prevention. One more reason to keep my children away from updates and upgrades until I HAVE DONE IT and, to go on installing these a week or two after release as I always do so, problems get known and commented beforehand. This time my son dragged me by installing first so, I had to follow suit immediately and, Thanks God I did, I got the problem and found the solutions before his Mac ran into trouble 6000 miles away!

"Well, it looks like everyone who's recently posted here has had eventual success with their 10.7.3 Update in one of about 4 ways to update! That is except for rsnyder6 and jhuber222."

Yes, I tried again today and still no luck for me. I have downlonaded a new copy of Lion from the Mac App store, booted with a clean user, tried fixing permissions, etc.

Still the same issues for me. Drop box hangs, Safari hangs, some "applet" hangs, crash reporter hangs TotalFInder hangs or will not start, maybe some more - I never get that far past those things that are start up items, so there is likely more. If I boot into a user that doesn't have the login items, Safari still hangs. (By hangs I mean huge CPU usage, and never start. Safari just give me a blank window.)

I tried again so I could get the Messages beta to run, (and I need to get it to work at some point) but alas not good. I guess my next step is to try installing Snow Lepoard and then Lion again. (Can I install Snow Lepoard over Lion?) I suppose I can format the disk and reinstall everything, but I would really like to avoid that whole lengthy process. I had to do that for other people, and always things get lost, or lots has to be reset. (It would fix the BootCamp partition issue though.)

As it is 10.7.2 work pretty well for me, and I'm not sure I want the hassel of messing with everything, espcially if it will not work. There must be something in my set up that is the problem, and I'd hat to do a lot of work that deosn't fix it. --Roger

Well I finally took the plunge. I backed up everything on the computer twice, (OSX, the BootCamp partition, and the Linux partiton, I had it set up for triple boot), made a Lion boot disk, formatted the hard disk in the computer, and did a clean install of Lion (10.7.3)

I ran migration assitant. When I booted the same as before. Dropbox doesn't load, just uses a lot of CPU. Same with TotalFinder. Safari runs, but never loads a web page. I see others are having both the Safari and Dropbox issues. Updating to Safari 5.4.1 didn't help. I have to quit Safari, and then WebProcess to speed things up. With TotalFinder, in some places the process is called applet.

I must still have something conflicting, but it is going to take a while to find out what. If I don't run TotalFinder, DropBox, and Safari, things aren't too bad so far, (it has only been a couple hours), though OmniGrowl is using CPU, but it would do that every so often in the past, so I don't know that it is related. That others have at trouble with some of the same programs make me think I can fix it somehow.

Thanks for everyone's suggestions, I have tried them all.

rsnyder6 wrote:

Well I finally took the plunge. I backed up everything on the computer twice, (OSX, the BootCamp partition, and the Linux partiton, I had it set up for triple boot), made a Lion boot disk, formatted the hard disk in the computer, and did a clean install of Lion (10.7.3)

I would be thinking that a lot of your third party programs may well need to be updated to work properly with Lion. some may even need to be reinstalled from scratch. You may have just carried over and exasperated problems that were not so evident in Snow Leopard but have come to the fore in Lion.

Pete

I've been cleaning things out. The whole machine is a bit snappier, (likely in part to the reformat and reinstall). I also was able to add the Lion recovery partition. (I could not before because of the BootCamp partition).

TotalFinder started working by itself all of a sudden, but the stopped when I rebooted (as I was removing other things). Dropbox and Safari are still no goes. Dropbox doesn't start, and Safari runs but will not load pages. Others are having the same issues, but I'm not sure anyone has the whole combination.

Safari does run on the recovery partition, which is now 10.7.3, but not even on a new user. Still more exploring.

--Roger

I hope this works for you

I downloaded the COMBO update via http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1484

@VJC: What's there to instruct for the combo update? Just give them the combo update link, (http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1484), download it and install like any application.

I haven't noticed any difference, but I only downloaded it 12 hours ago. Read about the update and what it includes here: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5048

I've had this issue before. Reinstall Lion. http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4718

People need to download the 10.7.3 Combo update here http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1484 it is different from the update that will only update Lion 10.7.2

Try this.

http://www.apple.com/macosx/recovery/