Application keeps restarting after quitting

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Application keeps restarting after quitting

Hi,

I am facing a strange issue off late. Here is the symptom of the problem:

If I quit an application (such as Chrome, Firefox, Safari, evernote, itunes etc), the application restarts immediately. I have not selected these applications to be started at the login time.

Only way I get rid of the application is to kill it manually from the terminal using "kill -9 <pid>"

Anyone has faced the similar problem?

Appreciate any inputs on what is going on.

I am running Macbook Pro Snow Leopard (10.6.8)

Thanks

Joshua J

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)

Posted on Jul 8, 2012 9:58 PM

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Answer 1

Jul 8, 2012 10:39 PM in response to Joshuajohn

Have you run any repairs on your system?

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Joshuajohn Author

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Jul 9, 2012 2:01 AM in response to Dale Weisshaar

Hi,

I haven't done any repairs on my system (if you are referring to disk repairs).

There were software upgrades with snow leopard itself.

What could be cooking with repirs?

Thanks

Joshua J

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Answer 3

Jul 9, 2012 12:41 PM in response to Joshuajohn

Try using Disk Utility to do a Disk Repair, as shown in this link, while booted up on your install disk.

You could have some directory corruption. Let us know what errors Disk Utility reports and if DU was able to repair them. Disk Utility's Disk Repair is not perfect and may not find or repair all directory issues. A stronger utility may be required to finish the job.

After that Repair Permissions.

No need to report Permissions errors....we all get them.

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DALE

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Joshuajohn Author

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Jul 9, 2012 8:17 PM in response to Dale Weisshaar

Hi Dale,

I appreciate your inputs.

I will try the disk repair and update you.

I am thinking of using diskutil to verify (live verification) first and then do repiar offline in needed. Is this ok?

Thanks

Joshua J

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Answer 5

Jul 9, 2012 8:21 PM in response to Joshuajohn

The verify is not really helpfull. I never run it. Sometimes the Repair will fix some little thing that the verify won't pick up. It doesn't hurt to run the repair, but it's best to have a backup just in case.

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Jul 9, 2012 9:11 PM in response to Dale Weisshaar

Hi Dale,

I ran the disk verify and it appears there are some errors. I am going to run disk repair later. Here is the output of verify:

$ diskutil verifyVolume /

Started filesystem verification on disk0s2 Macintosh HD

Performing live verification

Checking Journaled HFS Plus volume

Checking extents overflow file

Checking catalog file

Checking multi-linked files

Invalid finder info for file hard link (id = 670840)

Checking catalog hierarchy

Checking extended attributes file

Overlapped extent allocation (id = 670838, /HFS+ Private Data/iNode670838)

Overlapped extent allocation (id = 670840, <some file name in my home directory>)

Checking volume bitmap

Checking volume information

Invalid volume free block count

(It should be 74981298 instead of 74981325)

The volume Macintosh HD was found corrupt and needs to be repaired

Error: -9957: Filesystem verify or repair failed

Underlying error: 8: POSIX reports: Exec format error

thanks

Joshua J

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Answer 7

Jul 10, 2012 8:43 PM in response to Joshuajohn

Do you have a backup of your system before you started having issues? Some of the errors reported are real serious ones and some will likely not be repaired by Disk Utility.

Especially the "overlapped extent allocation" reports. The link is for Tiger and down but will give you an idea of what you are facing. Advice would be similiar for 10.6.

If I remember correctly, I was able to move on from that same error by using DiskWarrior. I did lose the data that was overwritten but it was unimportant. Disk Utility just isn't robust enough to handle the bigger issues.

DiskWarrior is the best at directory repairs. It rebuilds then actually replaces your old directory. I feel every Mac owner should have a copy. It also has File System repair now and hard drive S.M.A.R.T. diagnostics.

Make sure you get the disk so you can boot up on it to run repairs. You can also install it on another drive and run it from there to repair this one. DW works faster that way. But sometimes a badly damaged system can be deemed unrepairable by the installed version, but if booted and repaired from the DW disk it may be repairable. This has happened to me.

I use DW once a month to try and catch errors in my system from getting too far out of hand. It has repaired every little and big issue I have ever had with my three Macs.

DALE

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Joshuajohn Author

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Jul 11, 2012 7:35 AM in response to Dale Weisshaar

Hi Dave,

Thanks a lot for your inputs.

Right now, I don't have diskwarrior utility.

I tried to boot from rescue disk to repair the main disk. But I failed to boot from the rescue disk as my rescue disk (from CD) is not being recognized. I tried multiple options such as holding down "C", "c", "option" key etc while the system is restarting. Only the main disk was being shown as the bootable option but not the rescue disk. I verified that my rescue disk is good.

Then I booted into single user mode

Removed the offending file

Ran "fsck -fy"

Restart

Again boot into single user mode

Ran "fsck -fy".

This time, I could see that my disk is repaired. Then I booted normally and once again ran the disk verificaiton using disk utility and this time it didn't give the original errors. I hope things would be ok.

Could you let me know how to boot from rescue disk? My rescue disk was working with another Mac (Lion) while holding the "C".

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Joshuajohn Author

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Jul 12, 2012 10:01 PM in response to Joshuajohn

Hi Dale,

The disk repair procedure that I have menitoned in my previous mail seem to have solved the problem.

Thanks a lot for your time and inputs.

Joshua J

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Answer 10

Jul 13, 2012 1:03 AM in response to Joshuajohn

I'm glad you had success!! I would like to encourage you to make a backup clone of your system when it's running right. If you need help with that, I'll gladly supply it. A purchase of DiskWarrior is also advised! May not be this lucky next time!

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Joshuajohn Author

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Jul 13, 2012 3:39 AM in response to Dale Weisshaar

Hi Dale,

Yeah, I will take the complete system back up - I usually take using Time Machine.

I will consider buying the diskwarrior.

Thanks

Joshua J

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