CS3 Leopard: System Lock Out

This now the 5th time this week I've had my system completely lock out while working in the most updated version Illustrator CS3, and ONLY within Illustrator. 3 out of the 5 times it has been while using the type tool, either creating a new text box or adjusting a current one. The other two times have been while performing basic shape manipulations.
Essentially though, it's locking out the entire system. I've waited, up to 20 minutes in case it was processing entirely too long (which shouldn't really happen with 4GB of RAM in this beast), even closed and re-opened my MacBook Pro thinking that would fix the problem. When I open it back up, the screen does not re-illuminate.
It seems the only fix to this problem is holding the power button and completely rebooting the computer seeing as Force Quit (from the keyboard command) will not work, nor will it let me switch to other programs or click on anything as it changes from the colored wheel to the pointer when it feels like it.
Only other thing, is that iTunes will continue to play. No other keyboard or system commands will work, such as adjusting volume, switching programs or exposé. Is anyone else experiencing this, or is it really just me?

Hi Joe:
Im having the exact same problem with Illustrator 13.0.2 on Mac OS X 10.5.2; in my case, I have installed Leopard last sunday and I havent really tested my machine yet in real work but seemed to be perfect except when applying Overprint in Illustrator. Did you find any solution?
Please, anyone, I hate to reboot my machine this way.
Eduardo Guarniz I.

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Boot to the Internet Recovery HD:
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Reinstall Lion/Mountain Lion. Mavericks: Select Reinstall Lion/Mountain Lion, Mavericks and click on the Install button. Be sure to select the correct drive to use if you have more than one.
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I am experiencing a strange problem and hope someone can give me some direction on where to start digging on this issue.
I am getting a good number of users reporting they are getting locked out of their voice mail and they all claim that they have not changed their password and some user even got their greeting recorded by someone else. One thing in common for the users who reported the issue is that they all using the system default password. I am trying to trace to find out who/what has access to these users' mailbox but so far I have not had any luck.
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Danny

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System locks up coming out of sleep/hibernate

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She consulted a colleague and suggested I either send it in or make an appt at my local Apple store. Thats when it really went down hill...
More disappointed at the process, I called my local store (Regent Street - London) and was advised that the Touch would be replaced under warranty - but that I needed to make an appt to have that done, and no they couldn't make an appt on line (you are warned that up front in the recorded message before you get to speak to anyone). This I find odd - two people from Apple advise I can get a replacement under warranty, yet I have to make an appt - thats not good service.
As i am nearby, I decide to go to the Apple store anyway. I get same story and ask to speak to the manager. He is very well trained. He says all the diplomatic things, he agrees unit will be replaced under warranty, but says I have to see a technician - but I cant until tomorrow at earliest.
What then follows is a discussion about the process - his argument is that it allows the customer to attend at a time that suits them (but it suited me NOW - I was nearby). In reality the converse is true you can only chose a slot that suits apple.
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So, anyone have any thoughts - agree/disagree - who can I voice this to in Apple - the store doesn't seem to care past lip service!
I will also try to repost this on the general area if there is one
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Michael

Hi,
I used to work at an Apple Store so I have 2 summers of customer service experience under my belt. Let me just say that, yes, I empathize. Some of the store policies are ridiculous, which is partly why I left the company. Well, ok no, I just like to say that that's why I left. I'm actually a student.
Anyways, whoever told you that you can't make an appointment at the Genius Bar was WRONG. Shame on them. Go to this website (it's just apple.com/uk/retail (and Regent Street's site specifically) and on the right hand side there's a column for you to click Genius Bar Reserve.
http://www.apple.com/uk/retail/regentstreet/week/20071118.html
Here's the entire gist of the store policy. The store is obligated to give you a new iPod Touch if there's a manufacturer defect within 2 weeks of your original purchase. You'll still need a Genius Bar appointment, but all they do is take a look at it, confirm that it's a defect, and they'll return it for you (& they'll label it as DOA - Dead on arrival), and give you a new one. Easy.
I'm guessing you are outside of the 14 day period which is causing you all the trouble. So now we're talking about the year warranty. So you got your replacement iPod touch. Should there still be a defect in your replacement, you still have 14 days from the day you received THAT iPod touch to get a new one. There's a chance that if you talk to the manager (a different one and there are several), he'll hook you up with a brand new iPod touch, without having to go through replacement protocol.
The manager you talked with sounds like a jerk to me, and believe me, I hate it when Apple employees try to think theyre "all that." We student employees used to laugh at how seriously some employees took it. But really, those guys are there to help you and give you solutions, at least that's the company line. With that in mind, demand them to do what's right. I wish I could actually help you. I used to take care of people in situations like these all the time.
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I messed up permssions by accidentally changing the get info window on my internal hard disk - the HD - instructing it to apply the altered & mistaken permissions to everything inside the HD volume. The system crashed and I couldn't boot up.
So, I re-installed snow leopard from the CD and did a restore from the time machine backup which was residing on an external disk.
But when completed I still had messed up permissions everywhere & was locked out of all my external hard disks - including the one with the backup on.
Although the computer was working, things were wrong and the time machine could not access the external disk to do any more backups either.
In its present state, the computer is unusable as I cannot move anything to other folders without it copying and I have to provide my password a thousand times an hour for doing things plus I'm locked out of external discs.
Does anyone know what to do abokut this ?
I read some old threads from 2009 here which mention lots of people having this problem, but nothing I do has worked and I guesss those threads are far too out of date to of use.

I've tried everything I can think of and am still locked out of a partition on my computer hard disk where I had stored a previous, older OS & I am also, separately, locked out of a partition on an external hard disk which I think also has an old OS, possibly Tiger, on.
But worse than that is that in the past few days my whole main user account on the computer which I had restored by booting up from the Snow Leopard OS disk holding down the 'C' key is becoming increasingly corrupted. It is painfully slow & unusable because of that, & the time machine backups seem to have gone nuts., One produced a 500 plus GB backup from a computer hard disk which is only 250 GB big. Others time machine backups remain incomplete, others backup really,really slowly and never seem to complete. It's chaos.
Then today safari just refused to load in that main user account although it continued to load and allow it to be used in another account.
The only solution seems to me to be to completely erase everything, everywhere and re-install the Snow Leopard OS again after emptying the computer hard disc completely.
And then leaving all my information on the external hard discs and not restore as I did before because that will just re-install the same problems.
I find this ridiculous and now I have learnt a bit more about it and the fact that many people have had this problem when restoring from a time machine backup it seems to me that apple software is just total rubbish and not fit for purpose.
Can anyone tell me what on earth is the solution to restoring default permissions on ALL files. As I mention above the standard solution of booting up in the OS install disc & going to utilities/reset password and then reset the ACL just refuses to work for my main user account, although it did allow reset for the other accounts which had hardly any files in them.
I really & truly cannot believe the way software is written so consistently badly.

Files mysteriously "locked out"

We are having an issue with InDesign (CS3) or possibly InCopy (CS3) in which one of our writers goes into her InDesign file to make changes to an article or do formatting and when she goes to check it out it says it is locked out and in use by me. The curious thing is that I have never worked on the newsletters and have not been in the files when this message comes up. I do use InCopy for the Journal which I edit but have never been involved with her files. I see that some others have had this problem. Is there a fix?

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Back up all data now. Before proceeding, you must be sure you can restore your system to its present state
Launch the Terminal application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
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sudo !!
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Next, boot into Recovery by holding down the key combination command-R at startup. Release the keys when you see a gray screen with a spinning dial.
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In the Terminal window, enter “resetpassword” (without the quotes) and press return. A Reset Password window opens. You’re not going to reset the password.
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Locked Out-no boot

Hi people .. using the laptop to post this
My Desktop .. I have 2 OSX on 2 different HDD.
HDD 1 is Tiger, the other is Leopard on HDD 2.
FCP was giving me problems in Tiger, so I booted
Leopard to work in that system. FCP was working well.
But I couldn't render or save because I didn't have permissions.
So, I did the permissions thing and rebooted. Same thing happened.
Access denied .. you do not have correct permission .. (something like that)
I used the help menu to correct the issue. Followed the path and changed
the permissions in the accounts area of the INFO panel.
An alert came up saying .. this will change all within the selected folder.
This action can not be undone.
So .. what the heck .. I pushed the button ..
After a while of churning .. it stopped and it was then I found I was
locked out. (Of Everything) .. Now I can't even boot up ..
I put the Leopard disc in to boot of the disc .. No good .. won't boot.
I cant even get the thing to boot off Tiger, on the No.1 HDD ...
because it is not selected as the boot disc. No keyboard control at all.
Do I have to remove the No.2 HDD and force it to boot off Tiger ?
(do some swapping of cables etc ..) or is there an easier way ?
+ what's the go with Leopard not giving the admin or owner (me)
permissions.
Seems FCP was not the only App affected (if my memory is correct)
Any help ?? ... Please ..
Regards
Mark

Hello again.
Problem solved. I disconnected HDD 2, swapped the cables and got the Leopard Disc to boot.
Then got the Start up disc to Boot on Tiger.
Then to Disc Utilities to Repair Disc Permissions and Repair disc for the Tiger Volume.
After making sure Tiger Boots ok .. I installed Leopard again as a
new install. Archiving the old system, then dumping it after to gain disc space.
This time, I will take the time to configure all the apps and hope it never
happens again.
Lets have another go...
Don't know if this helps anyone else, but it was the only way to battle the beast
Cheers everyone
Mark

ERROR: attribute verification of /etc/.java/.systemPrefs/.system.lock fai

Dear all experts, i am trying hard to solve this problem on solaris 10.
i downloaded java package i.e jdk-6u18-solaris-i586.tar.Z and extract it using zcat jdk-6u18-solaris-i586.tar.Z | tar -xf - . it extracted successfully following folders.
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SUNWj6dev
SUNWj6dmo
SUNWj6jmp
SUNWj6man
SUNWj6rt
plus few others
i tried to install all of the above using command pkgadd -d . SUNWj6rt SUNWj6dev SUNWj6cfg SUNWj6man SUNWj6dmo.
all of the package succesfully installed except one i.e SUNWj6cfg
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[Do you want to continue with the installation of <SUNWj6cfg> [y,n,?] y
Installing JDK 6.0 Host Config. (1.6.0_18) as <SUNWj6cfg>
## Installing part 1 of 1.
[ verifying class <none> ]
cp: /etc/.java/.systemPrefs/.system.lock not found
cp: /etc/.java/.systemPrefs/.systemRootModFile not found
[ verifying class <preserve> ]
ERROR: attribute verification of </etc/.java/.systemPrefs/.system.lock> failed
pathname does not exist
ERROR: attribute verification of </etc/.java/.systemPrefs/.systemRootModFile> fa
iled
pathname does not exist
## Executing postinstall script.
Installation of <SUNWj6cfg> partially failed.]
i am trying hard to find out what is the problem.
thanks in advance
Mr parkar
UAE

These are innocuous errors that you may safely ignore. However the disk error is a problem. Do the following:
Repairing the Hard Drive
Boot from your OS X Installer disc. After the installer loads select your language and click on the Continue button. When the menu bar appears select Disk Utility from the Installer menu (Utilities menu for Tiger and Leopard.) After DU loads select your hard drive entry (mfgr.'s ID and drive size) from the the left side list. In the DU status area you will see an entry for the S.M.A.R.T. status of the hard drive. If it does not say "Verified" then the hard drive is failing or failed. (SMART status is not reported on external Firewire or USB drives.) If the drive is "Verified" then select your OS X volume from the list on the left (sub-entry below the drive entry,) click on the First Aid tab, then click on the Repair Disk button. If DU reports any errors that have been fixed, then re-run Repair Disk until no errors are reported. If no errors, then quit DU and return to the installer. Now restart normally.
If DU reports errors it cannot fix, then you will need Disk Warrior and/or Tech Tool Pro to repair the drive. If you don't have either of them or if neither of them can fix the drive, then you will need to reformat the drive and reinstall OS X.

Locked out of additional internal drives... Help please

Any help would be more then welcomed as I did something stupid and need a bit of help to fix it please.
Had an issue today on my Mac Pro (2.8, Quad 5.1). All was running fine until I went to update a piece of 3rd party software (Fetch). After the download I went to drag new version into my apps folder and was told I didn't have permission to instal the app.
Now to be clear, I've had a bit of an issue with this before as I'm running 2 mac pros in different locations and drag and copy files and folders from here to there on a regular basis via FTP and external drives. I also have all 4 slots filled on both systems with various drives set up for a particular function along with a number of externals. I've set permissions on both systems and all drives to "read and write" for both my accounts to have full access and each time "apply to enclosed items" was selected.
But for some reason, from time to time, I have to authorise the file transfer. Haven't figured out the reason but it's not a huge deal so have left it.
Today was the first time I have had access denied for my home folder when working from same system. Not thinking and while on the phone to someone (this is where I did the stupid part), I opened the info on my boot (startup) drive and decided to add both of my user accounts and change permissions for each in addition to the system, admin and everyone that was already there. This was done while working from it directly and then set options to "apply to enclosed items". Yea, smart I know.
About 20 minutes passed and then it told me that it didn't like any of my system extensions. I was forced to do a restart and got the spinning wheel for about 30 minutes. Had to do a force quit and open in single user. Applejack wouldn't help at all, nothing. Had to then open cd drive through terminal just to get systems disk inside.
Restarted from systems disk and tried a simple disk utility repair. System restarted fine but I noticed that I was then locked out of all of my additional internal drives, iDisk included (padlock shown on all drive icons excluding my Boot/Startup drive). Tried opening info on the various drives with apple i option and "permissions denied" popped up each time.
I then took the step to restore from time machine. Set my restore selection to about 2 hours before I became an idiot. After it was finished I restarted the system hoping that would clear up my mistake but same thing, still locked out of all of my drives aside from boot/startup drive.
All user accounts that I have added to the boot drive are still showing, I have yet to try and remove them... Figured I would ask for help before I messed it up any further. Spoke to apple care and they have advised me to do what I have done so far.
Aside from an erase and instal, what steps should I take from this point? Will removing the added accounts clear up the issue?
Also, any idea as to why I was refused permissions to begin with...?
Thanks in advance and sorry for the book, just wanted to be as clear as possible.

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Odd System Lock-Ups [XP-Pro SP3]

Something odd is happening, on my normally, and otherwise stable laptop with XP-Pro SP3.
I have observed that on Fridays, at about 11:30AM MST/USA, I get system lock-ups. Everything just freezes.
I have poured over Event Viewer, and nothing is getting launched at about that time. Really nothing in System, or Applications, from about boot-up, other than my Browser (Chrome). Not one Warning, or Error, and little real activity.
I cannot verify that this happens every Friday (do not remember it on Friday Jan. 13, for instance, but then the Adobe Forum Log-in went down), as I am often out of town. However, and based only on memory, this has now happened about 5 - 6 times, and always late in the morning, and on Fridays.
Normally, I only have my Browser open, though this time also had Windows Explorer minimized. During this AM, I had PrPro, PrE and Photoshop open at times, but none was open, when the lock-up happened.
I tend to suspect something is trying to update, but it's not showing in Event Viewer. A few times, there was a Norton Live Update Scan, but those were usually hours before. Those are not download/installs, as I have Live Update to full manual, and the same for all other such utilities.
Does anyone have any ideas, or perhaps a monitoring utility, that will gather data, better than Event Viewer?
TIA,
Hunt

hmm.... google.... i dont really trust google much....
i used to have something ( i use xp ) that basically I had total control over when to connect to isp etc and disconnect... but for life of me cant remember what it was. that was years ago.
now when i start computer it automatically ( partially this is due to isp of verizon ) connects and then gives me control of computer ( is part of boot and load process now ).
your prob seems to be some kinda scheduled thing is why i was thinking maybe turn stuff ' off ' that might be trying to update or something under the radar ( is part of the system more or less.. components ...)
this area
you wont see this related stuff in event viewer type listings ... and gets kinda complicated to me at least.

System lock ups when using hard disks

At first I thought I had the same issue as in this thread however after reading his logs I decided that it is unlikely since the topic opener seems to be getting a bunch of
Apr 4 17:00:15 daxteriv slim[708]: (Do:882): GLib-CRITICAL **: Source ID 46 was not found when attempting to remove it
, so I decided to start a new thread.
I am not getting anything in my logs when I look at them after the crashes. It seems as if whatever is causing the issue makes it impossible to write to the drives so nothing seems out of place until after it's too late, and quite obvious that something is wrong. The sole exception to this was some complaint about ata9.00, however this seems to have been a red haring since the complete removal of this drive solved nothing, though it did make the error go away.
I have run memtest, and prime95 (in windows since at the time I didn't want to boot my system) both coming back negative. I also checked for SMART errors, particularly UDMA errors. Again, negative.
Here are some previous threads of mine that I believe to be all related to the same issue:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=195449
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=193937
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=192704
[edit3] My previous thought was that this was a btrfs issue, however now I think it may be more hardware related.[/edit3]
Last night I was writing urandom to a new drive and I woke up in the morning to see that it had stopped prematurely, but not due to lack of space. The system had not locked up completely, which was new, however, as soon as I did something that accessed the disks (tried using the Gnome Dash), all hell broke loose. I immediately hit the power button, which would start a shutdown. I didn't know about REISUB, or I would have tried that. In anycase the shutdown failed and I had to hard reboot.
The evening before I was playing games just fine and doing normal activities.
Also, the other day, while booted into the live cd I think it started to crash since it was acting extremely bizarre, but I shutdown, successfully, before it could do more than complain a lot. At the time I was in the middle of scrubbing a btrfs volume after a system lock up. I think, but am not certain, that I saw on my motherboard "A5" which, according to the manual indicates "SCSI reset", but I had an extremely bad viewing angle. I know neither if what I think I saw was correct, nor do I know if the system was again in the process of a meltdown.
In general there is no activity that seems to be able to instantly trigger this, though in each case, if my memory serves me well, there was a constant stream of data either to or from a HDD.
My set up is that I have 5 HDDs, and an SSD. One HDD has Windows, my fallback installation of Arch, and daily backups. Another drive, which I just installed a few days ago currently only has single 50GB btrfs partition that is not part of any sort of larger volume. I also have three other drives each with four parttitions each involved in a btrfs volume. At the top is a 175 GB volume in a RAID0 configuration, after that is a 25GB partiton in RAID1, then a 650GB partion (RAID1), and the remainder of the disk (about 80GB) is in single. The RAID0 is has games on it and sometimes for short term storage (a few hours), the 25GBx3 RAID1 is used for Arch as well my ~/.local, ~/.cache, ~/.thunderbird, ~/.mozilla, and ~/.config. The 50GB partition I mentioned is currently doing the job of this volume, and was not mounted last night, but has been before. The 650GBx3 is used for long term storage of just about everything, in particular ~ is mounted here. The single configured volume is used for downloads, storing ISOs and installers. The SSD is used for caching those partitions used in the RAID0 volume with bcache. I DO NOT think this is a bcache issue since the RAID0 volume has never had any errors.
My motherboard is a ASUS X79-DELUXE which has the SATA controllers: Intel X79 Express Chipset, Marvell 9230, ASMedia 1061.
[edit] Oh, I'm on kernel 3.19.2 and btrfs is 3.19.
[edit2] Also, I converted the RAID0 to a single in case that matters.
[edit4] I finished scrubbing and copied my "journalctl -b" output to pastebin. I can't see any thing that might raise any flags. http://pastebin.com/WXpbpTuc
Last edited by nstgc (2015-04-05 16:46:00)

nstgc : it's hard to tell if your problems are memory related, but memtst often needs multiple passes to detect errors.
How many passes did you let it make ?
Is it possible for you to take out say half of the memory chips and see if that changes anything ?
Last edited by Lone_Wolf (2015-05-22 18:27:04)

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