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Just installed snow leopard and now my Mac rarely shuts itself down.

Just installed snow leopard and now my Mac rarely shuts itself down. I click shut down and get blue screen with the small busy lines. I've left it overnight with no success. I also seem to crash more often and have more applications shut themselves down. I've got all the latest updates from when I intaleed. The iPhone seems to always crash Iphoto the most. Help please!

Mac OS X (10.6.8)

Posted on Mar 2, 2013 11:28 AM

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Posted on Mar 2, 2013 12:41 PM

Are you using any A-V, anti-virus? Can you restart into Safe Boot, Shift at the chime; give it much longer than a usual boot. Can you shutdown properly from a Safe Boot?

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Mar 3, 2013 5:33 AM in response to debdon

If it shuts down from a safe boot, that will generally mean some third party item is preventing a proper shutdown. Safe Boot disables those so that points the finger at one of them.


It you installed Snow over Leopard or Tiger or migrated everything over from a previous OS, there might be something incompatible. Or you may have installed some third party program since doing the Snow install.


This may help to find the culprit: fellow contributor etresoft has written a small program that may help identify what's interfering. Unzip it and run the app, then post the results here. You would run this booted normally.


http://www.etresoft.com/etrecheck


Also, run this command in Terminal in Utilities and post the output. Just copy/paste it in and hit return.


kextstat | grep -v apple


It is possible, although unlikely, that the Safe Boot itself fixed the issue.


Message was edited by: WZZZ

Mar 3, 2013 6:38 AM in response to WZZZ

Here are the results of the etresoft check.


Hardware Information:

iMac - model: iMac7,1

1 2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo CPU: 2 cores

2 GB RAM


Video Information:

ATI,RadeonHD2400 - VRAM: 128 MB


System Software:

Mac OS X 10.6.8 (10K549) - Uptime: up 0:0:25:5


Disk Information:

WDC WD2500AAJS-40RYA0 disk0 : (232.89 GB)

(null) (disk0s1) <not mounted>: 200 MB

+ù+ (disk0s2) /: 232.57 GB (65.83 GB free)



USB Information:

Apple Inc. Built-in iSight

Apple Computer, Inc. IR Receiver

Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller


FireWire Information:


Kernel Extensions:


Problem System Launch Daemons:

[not loaded] org.samba.winbindd.plist


Problem System Launch Agents:

[failed] com.apple.Kerberos.renew.plist

[failed] com.apple.mrt.uiagent.plist


Launch Daemons:

[loaded] com.trusteer.rooks.rooksd.plist


Launch Agents:

[loaded] com.trusteer.rapport.rapportd.plist


User Launch Agents:


User Login Items:

None


3rd Party Preference Panes:

Flash Player

Rapport

YAMAHA-USBMIDIPatch


Internet Plug-ins:

CouponPrinter-FireFox.plugin

Flash Player.plugin

FlashPlayer-10.4-10.5.plugin

FlashPlayer-10.6.plugin

iPhotoPhotocast.plugin

JavaAppletPlugin.plugin

OfficeLiveBrowserPlugin.plugin

QuickTime Plugin.plugin

Silverlight.plugin


User Internet Plug-ins:


Bad Fonts:

None


Top Processes by CPU:



Top Processes by Memory:

Just installed snow leopard and now my Mac rarely shuts itself down.

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