Fix for my Freeze

Yep, 1.2 struck me too. Frozen with a look of amazement that my IPOD had become a cool black paperweight.
The fix that worked was to find a previous version of the updater on my hard drive. Search for updated in Spotlight. A vast array of choiced awaited me.
Double clicked on the most recent non 1.2 version without attaching the IPOD.
The update announced that it was waiting for IPOD. I attached the IPOD which it recognized.
The only option in the updater that was highlighted was restore. I had nothing to lose, so I took a chance.
The IPOD went into restore mode and after it was restored, came back as a fresh as the day it was bought IPOD.
I reloaded my library and all my music and playlists imported without a problem. I followed the previous instructions to NOT update to 1.2 when prompted. I now have a working IPOD and a lot less sleep over the past few nights trying to figure this all out.
Waiting for 1.3 and a few weeks of all clear before I leap again. Good luck to everyone on this update **** cruise....smooth sailing for me....for now.

I'm glad it worked for you, but it's not working for me. I followed the steps you outlined, but once the iPod was plugged in, the message changed from "Waiting for iPod" to "More than one iPod is attached. Please attach one iPod at a time to be updated. Eject the other iPods using the Finder and then unplug them."
More than one iPod? I only wish!
The good thing is that if I unplug the iPod from my MacBook and reset it, it works fine. I just can't plug it in to recharge and or resync.

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You can read the EXPLANATION or just jump right to the SOLUTION.
EXPLANATION
So in the past two days my Safari started freezing after using it for a mere few minutes. I'd get the spinning beachball and my system became unresponsive. I couldn't force close anything nor could I even access the force-close window (command+option+ESC).
This problem was also affecting Apple Mail because it uses Safari/WebKit to preview HTML in the messages.
I tried repairing permissions, I tried disabling extensions, etc. Nothing worked. While I was doing this, I pulled my MacBook Pro out of my bag and started using it to try and get some work done in my office concurrently. Well, all of a sudden IT started crashing with Safari as well!
This got my thinking, perhaps there was a bookmark or setting issue that was being synced via iCloud. So I unchecked Safari sync from the iCloud Preferences panel and also inside iCloud Drive.
I then followed the instructions below, which basically removes all of my Safari prefs, bookmarks, etc and reverts it to a clean, pristine install. Yes I lost my bookmarks. I have backups and will manually add them again. I've been using Pocket (GetPocket.com) anyway so no big loss to me.
Regardless, I've been using Safari for the past 30 minutes with my extensions re-installed and no freezing, no issues at all.
Taken from: Reset Safari Settings/Preferences
Note: The following will make a backup of all of your Safari prefs and copy it to a folder on your Desktop. It will then reset Safari to default.
SOLUTION:
Open a terminal window and just copy/paste the following into the terminal window and press RETURN / ENTER:
mv ~/Library/Safari ~/Desktop/Safari-`date +%Y%m%d%H%M%S`; \
rm -Rf ~/Library/Caches/Apple\ -\ Safari\ -\ Safari\ Extensions\ Gallery; \
rm -Rf ~/Library/Caches/Metadata/Safari; \
rm -Rf ~/Library/Caches/com.apple.Safari; \
rm -Rf ~/Library/Caches/com.apple.WebKit.PluginProcess; \
rm -Rf ~/Library/Cookies/Cookies.binarycookies; \
rm -Rf ~/Library/Preferences/Apple\ -\ Safari\ -\ Safari\ Extensions\ Gallery; \
rm -Rf ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Safari.LSSharedFileList.plist; \
rm -Rf ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Safari.RSS.plist; \
rm -Rf ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Safari.plist; \
rm -Rf ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.WebFoundation.plist; \
rm -Rf ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.WebKit.PluginHost.plist; \
rm -Rf ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.WebKit.PluginProcess.plist; \
rm -Rf ~/Library/PubSub/Database; \
rm -Rf ~/Library/Saved\ Application\ State/com.apple.Safari.savedState
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Best,
M.

UPDATE:
I copied my Bookmarks.plist file back to my Library/Safari folder from the copy that was created in the Safari backup folder on my desktop in the previous message. Safari continues to work and I have my bookmarks back.
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remove plugins
Restart
When you launch iTunes, hold down option key to create a new library. Follow directions.
Gapless analysis follows. MIne went through with no problem instead of freezing up.
I had to locate songs that were not added to the new library in the first go around, and use "Add to Library" two times to add all my songs to the new library. I had multiple libraries in my old iTunes. I found this tip on Ted Landau's MacFixit.com

I'm glad it worked for you, but it's not working for me. I followed the steps you outlined, but once the iPod was plugged in, the message changed from "Waiting for iPod" to "More than one iPod is attached. Please attach one iPod at a time to be updated. Eject the other iPods using the Finder and then unplug them."
More than one iPod? I only wish!
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FIX FOR:computer freezes during install of Leopard on a G4 MDD w/ ATI x800!

I had problems with freezing during installation of Tiger & Leopard on my G4 MDD. It took some trouble shooting, but when I installed Tiger I found out that the freeze was from the video card I had installed, an ATI x800 xt 256mb AGP video card. I do not know why this card freezes the installation process, but I found a way to get the installation to complete without freezing. I took an old ATI PCI video card, installed it in an empty PCI slot, connected monitor to PCI card, and then installed Tiger with no problems. After install I hooked the monitor back up to the AGP ATI card and it worked great. So when my G4 froze with the Leopard installation I did the same thing, switched to an old PCI video card and Leopard installed with no problems whatsoever, then I switched back to AGP card after install. I hope this helps someone.
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Thanks for taking the time off to share this information.

Possible simple fix for Yosemite freeze/high CPU etc

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~t.

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Anyway, the upshot of all of this is that I tried various solutions I've seen around the boards - seems a bunch of folks are having similar difficulties - and so I tried a couple of the suggestions: repairing permissions; using Macaroni to do routine maintenance such as clearing logs & caches; running Disk Utility. I found that using a newly-created account got rid of the problem, so I figured there was some problem with my user account.
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And miracle of miracles, that seems to have solved the problem. Not sure if the computer was trying to look in the Library for fonts and getting confused by finding two identical files, or what, but hey, I can't complain.
So I thought I'd post this here in case it's helpful for anyone else!
~t.

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Hi everyone, I've been using arch for a little bit now and really enjoying the experience. I have run across 3 small problems and other than that everything thing seems to be running flawlessly. I'd appreciate any help with these, and thanks in advance. I have googled trying to find solutions and searched the wiki but either none of the issues were listed or the fixes for them didn't seem to have an effect, but if I missed something sorry, just if you want to point me in the right direction that'd be appreciated.
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Last edited by Sinner (2011-03-26 05:05:57)

milomouse wrote:Maybe you should use UUIDs instead of /dev/sd* to avoid any possible device confusion (type 'blkid' to see your UUIDs), though from your first post about "cannot mount /dev/sda2" it still appears to check for root device correctly. At any rate, in your grub or lilo or syslinux (whatever bootloader you have) config you could also change root=/dev/sda2 to root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/YOURROOTUUID (however your bootloader can handle it) to help further reduce possible errors. (helpful link: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pe … ice_naming ) Trying to think of what else it could be since it only happens every now and then, which is a little strange.
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Last edited by Sinner (2011-03-25 16:29:32)

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There appears to be a serious bug in Mac OS X's lookupd which can pull the rug right out from under Mac OS X Tiger. While this bug could possibly be triggered in a number of different ways, there has been a recent rash of reports that have been tracked to some mainstream Web sites such as FoxNews.com using links to an adware site js.adsonar.com. This document describes a quick way out of the hang and a simple way to block links to js.adsonar.com from taking down Tiger again. While this doesn't fix the underlying lookupd bug itself, it prevents Mac OS X from hanging, while allowing you to continue using Web sites like FoxNews.com with full Java and JavaScript access enabled.
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You can not log out, restart or shut down.
Apparently these symptoms indicate that a low-level component of Mac OS X, lookupd, has hung. Since lookupd is used by many other parts of Mac OS X, it effectively hangs Mac OS X itself.
If this sounds like a problem you are having, try the steps in the following link to fix it.
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Hope it helps,
-MikeS
Disclaimer:
[The above link goes to a bug fix on DreamLight.com, my commercial website. While neither I nor DreamLight receives any compensation for this fix, or for visits to the site, increased traffic to the site could of course indirectly lead to additional business opportunities.]

Hi Bee,
There is indeed "such a bug", though you may be fortunate enough to not be affected. Unfortunately MANY others are affected by this. I spent three days helping track this down (many of those 38 posts were while tracking it down in the Tiger discussions) and find a fix to this and thought that others might benefit by my efforts... By the way it's NOT a Safari bug, it happens in any browser, it's a "lookupd" bug which may be triggered by surfing to certain sites which contain links to "js.adsonar.com", which if you have JavaScript enabled can hang lookupd and take down your entire system... consider yourself lucky that it hasn't happened to you...
Here is some background information if you don't believe me:
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I only posted this fix to the specific threads where people were having Safari hang, incase it might help them. Forgive me for trying to help them... I thought that was the point of these boards and that was why they started threads about their issues... I'd be willing to bet that this fix will indeed fix many of their problems...
I also posted one additional new topic here on the Safari board and one on the Tiger board for new readers looking for solutions to the same system hangs they may be getting while surfing.
If this fix does indeed help any of you other readers, please post back here so that Bee can indeed see that I'm not just posting here to waste my time...
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