How to stop the endless spinning beach ball??

What am I supposed to do when something has obviously gone wrong & the beach ball is spinning round endlesly? In Windows you could just hit Control-Alt-Delete - is there nothing similar on a Mac?? I cannot close anything off or make it stop; if I force shut down, when I switch on again it is still there spinning round... Jeez, and people used to complain about the egg timer in Windows; this is 100 times worse; there seems to be no controls or anything to shut things off in this stupid Mac...?

In Windows you could just hit Control-Alt-Delete - is there nothing similar on a Mac??
OS X: How to quit an unresponsive application ... - Support - Apple

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Endless spinning beach ball / system crash report

I am now getting the endless spinning beach ball for about 5 minutes every time I go from one application to another. It's often if I've been in Word or Photoshop, & I go back to Firefox to look at emails; it spins & spins before I can do anything. I also had some sort of a crash yesterday while I was out of the room, so I wasn't doing anything. I came back to find the attached long crash report; it means nothing to me. Is there anyone out there who can interpret this? I had to save it in several screenshots as it was very long (& this isn't even all of it). Thanks.

Banks everywhere seem to try to encourage customers to install it, but in my experience (3 bank accounts) they don't insist.
Unfortunately, as I said earlier, it just doesn't seem to work well for many users of OS X (there are numerous threads on here about it). A couple of years ago I installed it when my bank started pushing it but immediately started having kernel panics. Removing it fixed things immediately.
Occasionally someone from Trusteer has appeared on here offering to help, but generally soon disappear when they start getting flack .

The movies from my Iphone 5 are not coming across on Apple TV. The little spinning beach ball appears like it is thinking. It use to work but quick working a month ago.

The movies from my Iphone 5 are not coming across on Apple TV. The little spinning beach ball appears like it is thinking. It use to work fine but quick working a month ago. I mirror from my phone to the Apple TV. Still images and everything I do on the phone is mirrored on to the TV except when I want to show a YouTube video or any video and then the screen on the phone and the TV screen go black and the spinning beach ball appears. The videos open right up on the phone if I do not have mirroring on and going through the Apple TV. I just downloaded the latest update to the phone it did not fix the problem. Please help. Thanks, Elvis G

Hello Elvis G,
After reviewing your post, I have located an article that can help in this situation. It contains a number of troubleshooting steps concerning device issues. You may want to consider a reset, then testing to see if the issue is resolved:
Turn your iOS device off and on (restart) and reset
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1430
How to reset
You should reset your device as a last resort and only if you can't restart it.
To reset, press and hold both the Sleep/Wake and Home buttons for at least 10 seconds, until you see the Apple logo.
Thank you for contributing to Apple Support Communities.
Cheers,
BobbyD

(Mountain) Lion and its endless spinning beach ball.

These cats like beach balls a lot.
I really hate to complain about any Apple product because this company really care about details and user experience. But this Lion thing is enough for me. Since I installed Lion on my computer, my work became a frustration. The computer decreased its speed 70% at least. Switching between applications became a torture while watching desperately the beach ball spinning endlessly until the solicited window draws completely. Numbers and Pages spend the time saving and saving taking from four to ten seconds each time while annoying me and stopping me from finishing my work and taking me out of concentration every five minutes or so. It's a hateful nuisance. The icons in Launchpad linger to draw, all I see for several seconds are their dotted frames until they want to appear. The whole machine freezes completely while the spinning beach ball spins happily and eternally until I force quitting application by application or reboot the computer at once, turning it off and on again for the third time this day, and the fifteenth time this week. Fixing privileges and cmd+alt+P+R don't work.
I beared all this torture for months hoping Mountan would fix this mess. Oh, poor of me, such a naive user; the hours and hours downloading the upgrade with a child-like heart who expect to be given a wished gift were useless and disappointing. The result is the same or worse if I dare to use iCloud.
So well. Fortunately for me, I had bought Tiger on disc a long ago... I'll draw back this weekend until Apple DO SOMETHING with this lazy Lion. For my part, the 200+ Mountain Lion features are totally useless and a spent of money and disk space if I can't even switch between applications without groaning or if I can't finish my Page/Numbers work on schedule and without disturbances.
My opinion: Mac OS X is a beautiful operating system but, for productivity purposes, stay away from Lion in any version. Because when you finish fixing all its mess, you will have lost your temper, your job or became insane, or all at once. It doesn't worth the while, better you invest the time with your family.

These cats like beach balls a lot.
I really hate to complain about any Apple product because this company really care about details and user experience. But this Lion thing is enough for me. Since I installed Lion on my computer, my work became a frustration. The computer decreased its speed 70% at least. Switching between applications became a torture while watching desperately the beach ball spinning endlessly until the solicited window draws completely. Numbers and Pages spend the time saving and saving taking from four to ten seconds each time while annoying me and stopping me from finishing my work and taking me out of concentration every five minutes or so. It's a hateful nuisance. The icons in Launchpad linger to draw, all I see for several seconds are their dotted frames until they want to appear. The whole machine freezes completely while the spinning beach ball spins happily and eternally until I force quitting application by application or reboot the computer at once, turning it off and on again for the third time this day, and the fifteenth time this week. Fixing privileges and cmd+alt+P+R don't work.
I beared all this torture for months hoping Mountan would fix this mess. Oh, poor of me, such a naive user; the hours and hours downloading the upgrade with a child-like heart who expect to be given a wished gift were useless and disappointing. The result is the same or worse if I dare to use iCloud.
So well. Fortunately for me, I had bought Tiger on disc a long ago... I'll draw back this weekend until Apple DO SOMETHING with this lazy Lion. For my part, the 200+ Mountain Lion features are totally useless and a spent of money and disk space if I can't even switch between applications without groaning or if I can't finish my Page/Numbers work on schedule and without disturbances.
My opinion: Mac OS X is a beautiful operating system but, for productivity purposes, stay away from Lion in any version. Because when you finish fixing all its mess, you will have lost your temper, your job or became insane, or all at once. It doesn't worth the while, better you invest the time with your family.

New MacBook and The Infinitely Spinning Beach Ball: Anybody Else?

I wonder if I'm the only MacBook owner having this experience, or if there might be some company in my misery?
I purchased a new Aluminum MacBook on Nov.14. This one is the high-end, 2.4GHz model with 4GB of RAM and currently running OSX 10.5.5.
I have in the past few days (or week, or so) encountered what appears to be an intermittent performance failure. I will, for example, be in Apple Mail: Open a new message to compose, and as soon as I click on the open window, the beach balls starts spinning... and continues to spin for a minute or two. Typically, when this starts happening, when I get the cursor back I click again, and the beachball resumes spinning.
This will also happen in Firefox, or, as it did yesterday, even accessing items in the upper-right menu bar. Suspecting an impending hard-drive failure, I clicked the Time Capsule icon in the menu to see when I got my last backup, and instead of getting Time Capsule, I got... the spinning beach ball of death.
The most difficult thing about this dilemma is that it appears to be intermittent. I took the MacBook to the dealer that sold it to me yesterday, was unable to replicate the issues. Everything worked fine in the store. Came home, problem returned for about 10 or 15 minutes, then it went away and the computer performed normally until I closed the lid to go out for the evening.
Then this morning I opened the lid again and.... spinning beach balls for a total of about 17 minutes. And now, again, it appears to be working fine.
While I was at the store, we ran a disc verify in disk utility, and it returned the message "The volume Macintosh HD appears to be OK."
This is the worst kind of problem -- the intermittent one. I suspect something in the computer itself, in the believe that hardware issues are more likely to be intermittent than software issues; I could be wrong about that, I dunno.
All I do know is that I can have maddening periods when I can't do anything with the computer, and then, just as suddenly, everything goes back to normal.
So I wonder if there might be anything in the circuitry in these new MacBooks that might be causing a similar problem for others. Or is this my unique cross to bear until the thing goes completely south?
Thanks,
--PS

Have you tried running the diagnostics from the Leopard disc? If not, give it a go to see what it finds. To run it, boot while holding the "d" key (with Leopard disc in ofcourse).
Haven't tried that, I did not know that was on the disk. I'll run it, how long might it take? What sort of tests does it run, what sort of results should I expect?
Another thing to try is reset the SMC.
Following the link you provided suggests there might be some things in the SMC that could be causing my problems. Should I do that before or after I run the diagnostics? Would the diagnostics tell me if that's something I need to do?
If still nothing... perhaps a reinstall of Leopard.
I call that the "Vietnam Solution" -- destroying the village in order to save it. I thought was done with that sort of thing when I abandoned PCs and Windows. Not a desirable outcome.
As a last resort, you might consider trying a new hard drive. A failing drive can cause theses intermittent delays.
That was my initial thought, too. Are there any diagnostics I can run besides dick utility to determine the integrity of the hard drive? Do the diagnostics on the Leopard install disk do that?
Thanks,
--PS

Print error - there was a problem connecting to the server - spinning beach ball

This has happened pre-yosemite and since. It used to only happen at home but now also happens at work. Every time I try to print, I get a spinning beach ball and a long delay until I get an error message saying there was a problem connecting to the server. At home, after clicking OK, I get a second spinning beach ball session with same error. Once I click OK second time, I get print window and can print. At work, it's only one session of spinning beach ball. The office problem occurred after upgrading to yosemite. I've deleted and added the printers without resolution. I've repaired permissions. The home problem has been going on for at least a year, probably a couple. Using a macbook pro.

There are many possible causes for this issue, and it may be very hard to resolve without wiping your account clean of everything except documents as a last resort. Please take each of the following steps that you haven't already tried. Back up all data before making any changes.
If you get the alert in the login screen before you log in, stop here and ask for instructions.
Step 1
If you get the alert as soon as you log in, it's probably caused by one of your login items or by software that otherwise loads at startup or login. Ask if you need help identifying it. Known offenders are "1Password" and "Adobe Resource Synchronizer."
Step 2
If there's an icon representing the server in the sidebar of a Finder window, hold down the command key and drag it out.
Step 3
In the Finder, press the key combination command-K or select
          Go ▹ Go to Server...
from the menu bar. In the upper right corner of the window that opens is a Recent Servers popup menu represented by a clock icon. From that menu, select
          Clear Recent Servers…
and confirm. Test.
Step 4
Open the Printers & Scanners pane in System Preferences and delete any network devices you no longer use. If in doubt, delete them all and add back the ones you want.
Step 5
Triple-click anywhere in the line below on this page to select it, then copy the text to the Clipboard by pressing command-C:
~/Library/PDF Services
In the Finder, select
          Go ▹ Go to Folder...
from the menu bar and paste into the box that opens by pressing command-V. You won't see what you pasted because a line break is included. Press return. A folder may open. If it does, move the contents to the Desktop, or to a new folder on the Desktop. Log out and log back in. Test. If there's no change, put the items you moved back where they were and continue.
Step 6
Open the folder
~/Library/Preferences
as in Step 5 and move the file named "loginwindow.plist" items in that folder to the Trash, if it exists (it may not.)
Log out and back in again, and test.
Step 7
Other possible causes are references in the iPhoto, iTunes, or iMovie library pointing to the server, bookmarks in the Preview application, and PDF files created by Adobe Acrobat with embedded scripts.
Try rebuilding the iPhoto library, if applicable.
Step 8
Resources such as images or sounds stored on the server may have been added to various applications. Examples would be pictures added to Contacts and custom sounds added to Mail. The range of possibilites here is practically infinite, so I can't be more specific. You might get a hint by launching the Console application and looking for error messages that appear at the same time as the alerts.
Step 9
Disconnect all wired peripherals except those needed to start up. Start up in safe mode. Test. After testing, restart as usual (not in safe mode) and verify that you still have the problem.
Note: If FileVault is enabled in OS X 10.9 or earlier, or if a firmware password is set, or if the startup volume is a Fusion Drive or a software RAID, you can’t do this. Ask for further instructions.
Step 10
Triple-click the line below to select it:
/System/Library/CoreServices/Directory Utility.app
Rght-click or control-click the highlighted text and select
          Services ▹ Open
from the contextual menu.* The application Directory Utility will open.
In the Directory Utility window, select the Directory Editor tool in the toolbar. Select Mounts from the Viewing menu in the toolbar, and/Local/Default from the node menu, if not already selected. On the right is a list of names and values. By default, the list is empty. If it's not empty, post a screenshot of the window and stop here.
*If you don't see the contextual menu item, copy the selected text to the Clipboard (command-C). Open a TextEdit window and paste into it (command-V). Select the line you just pasted and continue as above.
Step 11
Open the following file as you did in the last step:
/etc/auto_master
It will open in a TextEdit window. The contents should be exactly this:
# Automounter master map
+auto_master          # Use directory service
/net               -hosts          -nobrowse,hidefromfinder,nosuid
/home               auto_home     -nobrowse,hidefromfinder
/Network/Servers     -fstab
/-               -static
If there are any other lines in the window, post them. Otherwise, close the window.

Aperture will not open. Just an endless spinning beach ball. Will not force quick., Aperture will not open. Just an endless spinning beach ball. Will not force quit

Every attempt to open Aperture results in a spinning beach ball. When attempting to force quit, every program freezes. I am running a MacBook Pro, OS X 10.9.3, 8 GB Ram. Have deleted and reinstalled the program from the App store with the same results. Purchased Aperture a few months ago and began without difficulties. However, recently, the program simply stopped working. Suggestions?

Try a few of these:
-Hold option while opening. This will ask you to create a new library/choose a different one. Create the new library, see if it opens
->If it opens, it's a library issue. Swap the library back to the original one.
->Try running Library First Aid (cmd + opt while opening)
->Make a backup first, run each of these until it opens.
-If it does not open, test in Safe Mode (shift while booting)
->If it works there, it's user login items or startup items that can be removed from /Library/LaunchAgents, /Library/LaunchDaemons, /Library/StartupItems and ~/Library/LaunchAgents.
->Show no mercy in these folders, but don't trash everything just yet. Move it to a safe location on the desktop where you can easily put these files back. Reboot, test.
->Put some files back from harmless/well-known developers. Reboot, test.
->Rinse and repeat until Aperture doesn't open.
-Test in a new user account
->If it opens here, it's part of your user preferences
->Log back in to your main user
->Open ~/Library/Preferences, pull com.Aperture.xxxxxx.plist
->Logout, log back in, test.
If it keeps up, contact Apple or try verifying/repairing the disk through Disk Utility.

MacBook keeps freezing and/or encountering the infamous spinning beach ball of death

HI, in December 2010 I purchased a MacBook for my wife. She basically just uses it for school, internet browsing and uploading photo's from her phone. The only software installed on the computer since it was purchased was Office for Mac. This was installed early on without problems. She has been increasingly seeing the spinning beach ball and encountering freezing issues. Neither once of us are technical with computers, so any idiot-type instructions on how to resolve this issue would be appreciated. Thank you.

I recommend seeing this link for advice on making your Mac run faster:
http://www.cultofmac.com/how-to-greatly-increase-your-macs-speed-video-how-to/95 180

How to stop the "BEACHBALL" spinning forever with every move I do?

Sorry for the lack of a better word. I have (2) G3 imacs running 10.3.9 w/cable internet, the graphite is linked directly to the cable modem w/ Airport Extreme and and the Flower Power uses an Airport Express. The Flower Power has no problems and is faster than the graphite. The problem of the spinning "Beachball" has gotten worse. As I surf, and go from page to page, it will load fast, but THEN the ball spins! , I have to wait for it to stop so I can move about the page, I guess you can say it freezes for a minute or 2, the mouse moves freely, but I can't click on anything. I empty my cache, and zap my "p" rams at start up, and even rebuild the desktop.
Does anyone have this problem? and what can I do to stop it? Any settings I can check, etc...?
THANKS FOR ANY INPUTS!
iMac G3 Graphite, iBook G3 Graphite Clamshell, iMac G3 FlowerPower Mac OS X (10.3.9)

You're Very Welcome East Coast!
I'm happy that I could point you in the right direction!
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Help!! Stopping Freeze-ups (spinning beach ball of death.)

I don't know what to do anymore except to upgrade or get more ram.
Installed and launched FCE 3.5 HD, no problem. I have been able to even capture a whole 62 min tape of HDV material (with its normal lag of course) which I was even surprised, I have been able to edit, do transitions, text, work with sequences in the timeline etc...everything looks good in the canvas, viewer.
The minute I start playing the sequences after rendering all the transitions and effects it runs very well for a minute or two and then.... FCE locks up gives me the dreaded SBOD and even when I force Quit and can not even get back to the Finder unless I reboot. everytime that this happens I've trashed the Preference file as per the numerous links in this Forum
I have repaired the HD and the External FW LaCie with the Disk Utility several times It always reports no problems, I don't use any other Apps when working on FCE. Is this a lack of Ram and processor power only??
I don't have this problem when I work on the Lessons from the Apple Pro Training Series for FCE.
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks, Luidoly
G5 1.8 Gz single, 512MB ram Mac OS X (10.4.8) La Cie d2 ext FW drive 160GB 7200rpm
G5 1.8 Gz single, 512MB ram Mac OS X (10.4.8) La Cie d2 ext FW drive 160GB

Thanks, PieroF
Yes, I know that I'm scratching the bottom of the barrel with only 512 especially for HDV, but I just did a test by capturing DV from an HDV tape, (setting the camera for DV out) and I got perfect DV clips, I figured this it would be able to handle since I was no longer working with HDV clips, but the minute I started setting the I/O points in the viewer it locked up again.
I have 123Gigs on the LaCie scratch disc and about 95Gigs free on the Mac disc
so I don't think is that.
I know ram is cheap but probably will hold out until new Macs come in they are rumored to have plans for a BlueRay Superdrive.
I just don't know what else to do in the meantime.
Luidoly.
G5 1.8 Gz single, 512MB ram Mac OS X (10.4.8) La Cie d2 ext FW drive 160GB

Spinning Beach Ball of Death

I'm always geting the Spinning Beach Ball of Death, yet instead of it being from having heavy stuff open or not enough RAM, it's as simple as coming out of a screen saver, or clicking a forum button on a browser that can cause it. It doesn't stop, instead it just keeps going until you can do nothing, and can only restart the iMac. Some times you can move the curser around, yet Finder doesn't open the Force Quit and the shortcut doesn't work.
How do you stop geting the SBBD??!! And it's not from a lack of RAM, as I got the max of 4 GB, and just having Firefox and a few much smaller applications open don't use even close to that much RAM. I got 72 Gigs of space left on the man harddrive, so it's not from having too little space there.
Here's some logs from right when the last freeze and restart occured.
May 20 22:34:30 localhost com.apple.launchd[1]: *** launchd[1] has started up. ***
May 20 22:34:36 localhost DirectoryService[15]: Improper shutdown detected
May 20 22:34:42 localhost fseventsd[33]: event logs in /.fseventsd out of sync with volume. destroying old logs. (40189 13 40718)
May 20 22:34:42 localhost fseventsd[33]: log dir: /.fseventsd getting new uuid: 49B9789C-90E1-4252-94D3-C38B1CAA1B9A
May 20 22:34:45 localhost bootlog[40]: BOOT_TIME: 1305956069 0
May 20 22:35:00 localhost blued[41]: Apple Bluetooth daemon started
May 20 22:35:00 localhost mDNSResponder[28]: mDNSResponder mDNSResponder-258.18 (Jan 18 2011 20:25:03) starting
May 20 22:35:00 localhost com.apple.usbmuxd[20]: usbmuxd-211 built on Jan 13 2011 at 04:20:21 on Jan 13 2011 at 04:20:21, running 64 bit
May 20 22:35:02 localhost /System/Library/CoreServices/loginwindow.app/Contents/MacOS/loginwindow[29]: Login Window Application Started
May 20 22:35:02 localhost configd[13]: Sleep - Filtered Sleep Failure Report - Power Button Shutdown - Apps Failure
May 20 22:35:02 localhost configd[13]: bootp_session_transmit: bpf_write(en1) failed: Network is down (50)
May 20 22:35:02 localhost configd[13]: DHCP en1: INIT transmit failed
May 20 22:35:02 localhost configd[13]: network configuration changed.
May 20 22:35:03 localhost fseventsd[33]: event logs in /Volumes/Movie files/.fseventsd out of sync with volume. destroying old logs. (40015 1 40739)
May 20 22:35:15 jesse-smiths-imac-2 PhoneHome[46]: Fri May 20 22:35:15 jesse-smiths-imac-2.local imagesnap[157] <Warning>: 3891612: (connectAndCheck) Untrusted apps are not allowed to connect to or launch Window Server before login.
May 20 22:35:15 jesse-smiths-imac-2 PhoneHome[46]: Fri May 20 22:35:15 jesse-smiths-imac-2.local imagesnap[157] <Error>: kCGErrorFailure: Set a breakpoint @ CGErrorBreakpoint() to catch errors as they are logged.
May 20 22:35:15 jesse-smiths-imac-2 /var/phonehome/imagesnap[157]: _RegisterApplication(), FAILED TO establish the default connection to the WindowServer, _CGSDefaultConnection() is NULL.
May 20 22:35:15 jesse-smiths-imac-2 PhoneHome[46]: _RegisterApplication(), FAILED TO establish the default connection to the WindowServer, _CGSDefaultConnection() is NULL.
May 20 22:35:18 jesse-smiths-imac-2 loginwindow[29]: Login Window Started Security Agent
May 20 22:35:18 jesse-smiths-imac-2 configd[13]: network configuration changed.
May 20 22:35:18 jesse-smiths-imac-2 loginwindow[29]: Login Window - Returned from Security Agent
May 20 22:35:18 jesse-smiths-imac-2 loginwindow[29]: USER_PROCESS: 29 console
May 20 22:35:19 jesse-smiths-imac-2 com.apple.launchd.peruser.502[173] (com.apple.ReportCrash): Falling back to default Mach exception handler. Could not find: com.apple.ReportCrash.Self
May 20 22:35:28 jesse-smiths-imac-2 com.apple.launchd.peruser.502[173] (com.apple.Kerberos.renew.plist[194]): Exited with exit code: 1
May 20 22:35:37 jesse-smiths-imac-2 WindowServer[90]: kCGErrorFailure: Set a breakpoint @ CGErrorBreakpoint() to catch errors as they are logged.
May 20 22:35:37 jesse-smiths-imac-2 com.apple.WindowServer[90]: Fri May 20 22:35:37 jesse-smiths-imac-2.local WindowServer[90] <Error>: kCGErrorFailure: Set a breakpoint @ CGErrorBreakpoint() to catch errors as they are logged.
5/20/11 10:34:30 PM    com.apple.launchd[1]    *** launchd[1] has started up. ***
5/20/11 10:35:09 PM    com.apple.SystemStarter[21]    Starting Broadband Optimizer
5/20/11 10:35:09 PM    com.apple.SystemStarter[21]    Starting APC PowerChute Personal Edition daemon
5/20/11 10:35:09 PM    com.apple.SystemStarter[21]    -S
5/20/11 10:35:09 PM    com.apple.SystemStarter[21]    Starting HP IO Monitor
5/20/11 10:35:09 PM    com.apple.SystemStarter[21]    /usr/sbin/comapcpowerchutepe start: comapcpowerchute starting...
5/20/11 10:35:09 PM    com.apple.SystemStarter[21]    Starting HP Trap Monitor
5/20/11 10:35:09 PM    com.apple.SystemStarter[21]    /Library/StartupItems/HP Trap Monitor/HP Trap Monitor: line 15: /Library/Printers/hp/hpio/HPIO Trap Monitor.app/Contents/MacOS/HPIO Trap Monitor: No such file or directory
5/20/11 10:35:15 PM    PhoneHome[46]    Fri May 20 22:35:15 jesse-smiths-imac-2.local imagesnap[157] <Warning>: 3891612: (connectAndCheck) Untrusted apps are not allowed to connect to or launch Window Server before login.
5/20/11 10:35:15 PM    PhoneHome[46]    Fri May 20 22:35:15 jesse-smiths-imac-2.local imagesnap[157] <Error>: kCGErrorFailure: Set a breakpoint @ CGErrorBreakpoint() to catch errors as they are logged.
5/20/11 10:35:15 PM    PhoneHome[46]    _RegisterApplication(), FAILED TO establish the default connection to the WindowServer, _CGSDefaultConnection() is NULL.
5/20/11 10:35:19 PM    com.apple.launchd.peruser.502[173]    (com.apple.ReportCrash) Falling back to default Mach exception handler. Could not find: com.apple.ReportCrash.Self
5/20/11 10:35:28 PM    com.apple.launchd.peruser.502[173]    (com.apple.Kerberos.renew.plist[194]) Exited with exit code: 1
5/20/11 10:35:37 PM    com.apple.WindowServer[90]    Fri May 20 22:35:37 jesse-smiths-imac-2.local WindowServer[90] <Error>: kCGErrorFailure: Set a breakpoint @ CGErrorBreakpoint() to catch errors as they are logged.
Process:         mds [27]
Path:            /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/Metadat a.framework/Versions/A/Support/mds
Identifier:      mds
Version:         ??? (???)
Code Type:       X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [1]
Date/Time:       2011-05-20 10:48:46.962 -0700
OS Version:      Mac OS X 10.6.7 (10J869)
Report Version: 6
Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV)
Exception Codes: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at 0x0000000000000000
Crashed Thread: 3 Dispatch queue: Main compaction scheduler
Application Specific Information:
/SourceCache/Spotlight/Spotlight-507.15/index/ContentIndex/ContentIndex.c:1443: failed assertion 'false' (hfs, t: 0x11, st: 0x1, f: 0x480d000) corrupt index, will rebuild
May 20 22:34:35 localhost kernel[0]: npvhash=4095
May 20 22:34:35 localhost kernel[0]: PAE enabled
May 20 22:34:35 localhost kernel[0]: 64 bit mode enabled
May 20 22:34:35 localhost kernel[0]: Darwin Kernel Version 10.7.0: Sat Jan 29 15:17:16 PST 2011; root:xnu-1504.9.37~1/RELEASE_I386
May 20 22:34:35 localhost kernel[0]: vm_page_bootstrap: 1015439 free pages and 24945 wired pages
May 20 22:34:35 localhost kernel[0]: standard timeslicing quantum is 10000 us
May 20 22:34:35 localhost kernel[0]: mig_table_max_displ = 73
May 20 22:34:35 localhost kernel[0]: AppleACPICPU: ProcessorId=0 LocalApicId=0 Enabled
May 20 22:34:35 localhost kernel[0]: AppleACPICPU: ProcessorId=1 LocalApicId=1 Enabled
May 20 22:34:35 localhost kernel[0]: calling mpo_policy_init for TMSafetyNet
May 20 22:34:35 localhost kernel[0]: Security policy loaded: Safety net for Time Machine (TMSafetyNet)
May 20 22:34:35 localhost kernel[0]: calling mpo_policy_init for Quarantine
May 20 22:34:35 localhost kernel[0]: Security policy loaded: Quarantine policy (Quarantine)
May 20 22:34:35 localhost kernel[0]: calling mpo_policy_init for Sandbox
May 20 22:34:35 localhost kernel[0]: Security policy loaded: Seatbelt sandbox policy (Sandbox)
May 20 22:34:35 localhost kernel[0]: Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993
May 20 22:34:35 localhost kernel[0]: The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
May 20 22:34:35 localhost kernel[0]: MAC Framework successfully initialized
May 20 22:34:35 localhost kernel[0]: using 16384 buffer headers and 4096 cluster IO buffer headers
May 20 22:34:35 localhost kernel[0]: IOAPIC: Version 0x20 Vectors 64:87
May 20 22:34:35 localhost kernel[0]: ACPI: System State [S0 S3 S4 S5] (S3)
May 20 22:34:35 localhost kernel[0]: AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement: initialization complete
May 20 22:34:35 localhost kernel[0]: Sleep failure code 0x00000000 0x12000000
May 20 22:34:35 localhost kernel[0]: mbinit: done (64 MB memory set for mbuf pool)
May 20 22:34:35 localhost kernel[0]: rooting via boot-uuid from /chosen: 935CF64F-D6FC-3D58-8ECE-8AC8BCCEB438
May 20 22:34:35 localhost kernel[0]: Waiting on <dict ID="0"><key>IOProviderClass</key><string ID="1">IOResources</string><key>IOResourceMatch</key><string ID="2">boot-uuid-media</string></dict>
May 20 22:34:35 localhost kernel[0]: com.apple.AppleFSCompressionTypeZlib kmod start
May 20 22:34:35 localhost kernel[0]: com.apple.AppleFSCompressionTypeZlib load succeeded
May 20 22:34:35 localhost kernel[0]: AppleIntelCPUPowerManagementClient: ready
May 20 22:34:35 localhost kernel[0]: BTCOEXIST off
May 20 22:34:35 localhost kernel[0]: wl0: Broadcom BCM4328 802.11 Wireless Controller
May 20 22:34:35 localhost kernel[0]: 5.10.131.36
May 20 22:34:35 localhost kernel[0]: FireWire (OHCI) Lucent ID 5901 built-in now active, GUID 001ff3fffe2ba406; max speed s800.
May 20 22:34:35 localhost kernel[0]: Got boot device = IOService:/AppleACPIPlatformExpert/PCI0/AppleACPIPCI/SATA@1F,2/AppleICH8AHCI/PR T0@0/IOAHCIDevice@0/AppleAHCIDiskDriver/IOAHCIBlockStorageDevice/IOBlockStorageD river/Hitachi HDS721010KLA330 Media/IOGUIDPartitionScheme/Apple_HFS_Untitled_2@5
May 20 22:34:35 localhost kernel[0]: BSD root: disk0s5, major 14, minor 5
May 20 22:34:35 localhost kernel[0]: jnl: unknown-dev: replay_journal: from: 16665600 to: 1036800 (joffset 0x322000)
May 20 22:34:35 localhost kernel[0]: USBMSC Identifier (non-unique): 2008070800001349 0x928 0x4 0x0
May 20 22:34:35 localhost kernel[0]: jnl: unknown-dev: journal replay done.
May 20 22:34:35 localhost kernel[0]: hfs: Removed 4 orphaned / unlinked files and 0 directories
May 20 22:34:35 localhost kernel[0]: AppleYukon2: Marvell Yukon Gigabit Adapter 88E8055 Singleport Copper SA
May 20 22:34:35 localhost kernel[0]: AppleYukon2: RxRingSize <= 1024, TxRingSize 256, RX_MAX_LE 1024, TX_MAX_LE 768, ST_MAX_LE 3328
May 20 22:34:36 localhost kernel[0]: systemShutdown false
May 20 22:34:47 localhost kernel[0]: yukon: Ethernet address 00:1f:5b:f3:2d:f8
May 20 22:34:47 localhost kernel[0]: AirPort_Brcm43224: Ethernet address 00:1f:5b:c6:5c:bd
May 20 22:34:47 localhost kernel[0]: IO80211Controller::dataLinkLayerAttachComplete(): adding AppleEFINVRAM notification
May 20 22:35:00 localhost kernel[0]: AirPort: Link Down on en1. Reason 8 (Disassociated because station leaving).
May 20 22:35:01 localhost kernel[0]: Waiting for DSMOS...
May 20 22:35:02 localhost kernel[0]: Previous Shutdown Cause: 3
May 20 22:35:02 localhost kernel[0]: Warning - com.Cycling74.driver.Soundflower declares no kernel dependencies; using com.apple.kernel.6.0.
May 20 22:35:02 localhost kernel[0]: NVDANV50HAL loaded and registered.
May 20 22:35:02 localhost kernel[0]: DSMOS has arrived
May 20 22:35:02 localhost kernel[0]: IPv6 packet filtering initialized, default to accept, logging disabled
May 20 22:35:02 localhost kernel[0]: jnl: disk0s2: replay_journal: from: 10576896 to: 11386880 (joffset 0xfa2000)
May 20 22:35:02 localhost kernel[0]: jnl: disk1s1: replay_journal: from: 28380160 to: 29163008 (joffset 0x1c30000)
May 20 22:35:02 localhost kernel[0]: jnl: disk1s1: journal replay done.
May 20 22:35:04 jesse-smiths-imac-2 kernel[0]: jnl: disk1s2: replay_journal: from: 8115712 to: 510464 (joffset 0xf1000)
May 20 22:35:05 jesse-smiths-imac-2 kernel[0]: jnl: disk0s2: journal replay done.
May 20 22:35:05 jesse-smiths-imac-2 kernel[0]: jnl: disk1s2: journal replay done.
May 20 22:35:05 jesse-smiths-imac-2 kernel[0]: jnl: disk0s3: replay_journal: from: 8181760 to: 9530880 (joffset 0x5af000)
May 20 22:35:05 jesse-smiths-imac-2 kernel[0]: Ethernet [AppleYukon2]: Link up on en0, 1-Gigabit, Full-duplex, Symmetric flow-control, Debug [796d,af48,0de1,0200,cde1,7800]
May 20 22:35:06 jesse-smiths-imac-2 kernel[0]: jnl: disk0s3: journal replay done.
May 20 22:35:06 jesse-smiths-imac-2 kernel[0]: jnl: disk0s4: replay_journal: from: 12537856 to: 13320704 (joffset 0x322000)
May 20 22:35:06 jesse-smiths-imac-2 kernel[0]: jnl: disk0s4: journal replay done.
May 20 22:35:07 jesse-smiths-imac-2 kernel[0]: jnl: disk0s6: replay_journal: from: 7915520 to: 310272 (joffset 0x18c000)
May 20 22:35:08 jesse-smiths-imac-2 kernel[0]: jnl: disk0s6: journal replay done.
May 20 22:35:08 jesse-smiths-imac-2 kernel[0]: Auth result for: 18:f4:6a:5b:66:cf MAC AUTH succeeded
May 20 22:35:08 jesse-smiths-imac-2 kernel[0]: AirPort: Link Up on en1
May 20 22:35:09 jesse-smiths-imac-2 kernel[0]: AirPort: RSN handshake complete on en1
May 20 22:35:09 jesse-smiths-imac-2 kernel[0]: jnl: disk2s2: replay_journal: from: 58208256 to: 58503168 (joffset 0x4096e000)
May 20 22:35:09 jesse-smiths-imac-2 kernel[0]: jnl: disk2s2: journal replay done.
May 20 22:35:12 jesse-smiths-imac-2 kernel[0]: BootCache: hit rate below threshold (3266 hits on 6533 lookups)

Nope. But when OS X Lion came out, the forever spinning beach ball stopped. I have yet to be forced to power re-start my iMac because of this since upgrading to OS X Lion. Now only programs generate it, when using a lot of memory.

Spinning beach ball and slower performance

I have been noticing that the performance of my iMac is becoming slower, with the dreaded spinning beach ball apearing whenever I change between applications to perform relatively basic functions. However, the worst is when I am in iTunes, where I experience the spinning beach ball for several minutes after connecting and choosing a device, and I typically cannot do anything else in other applications until it stops. As for other applications, I have nearly abandoned Aperture because anything from scrolling to adjustments will cause the spinning beach ball to return several seconds to minutes.
My iMac is a 2.8 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo with nearly 30g's left on the hard drive. I have the memory max'd at 4GB. I am running OS X 10.7.2 with all apps completely up to date. Overall, I am doing basic functions in Bento, Pages, and surfing Safari on a daily basis with only the minimal applications needed open at once.
Is there anything I can do to resolve this?

Hi Todd, thanks for the reply. Actually, I do have CS6 via my Creative Cloud membership but I'm having to work in 5.5 on this particular client's system for a project.
I was hoping that the above solution would be the answer I was searching for but alas, that is apparently not the case, since the issues have returned and the spinning beach ball continues to churn... (nothing like the elation of finding a solution only to later feel crushing defeat as the problem returns...)
The issues were resolved for a while, so perhaps this post may still be able help someone. I'd rather be working in CS6 right now, and I'm pushing for this client to do the upgrade as well. Considering how much time is being wasted waiting for the Mac to continue after hanging every other keystroke, I'd think the client would be anxious to make the change!

What causes spinning beach ball upon waking from sleep

I have a 4 year old iMac that has recently developed an intermittent problem. If I put it to sleep, sometimes on waking up, the hard drive access seems to stop. I hear a tap sound as though it was trying to read the disk, but it gets stuck and a spinning beach ball appears instead of the cursor. I can move it around, but I cannot perform any actions. The ball will stay forever if I let it.
Another variation occurs shortly after wake-up, where I start to click on a file on the desktop or even an icon in the Dock. The name will become highlighted and then the same spinning beach ball appears.
The only cure for the behavior has been to shut it down and reboot. It then works fine.
The weird thing is that I have just been using it for 6 hours straight with out any hassles... until I will put it to sleep!
I have tried running Disk Utility from the Leopard System Disk as well as repairing permissions and I have used Disk Warrior 4 . It seemed to allow about 6-8 sleep cycles before the symptoms re-appeared.
I verified the disk and repaired the permissions again yesterday and all seemed OK. Yet today, when I started up from sleep. the system froze. The only cure so far is to never allow the hard drive to sleep. I put the display to sleep after 15 minutes but the hard drive continues to spin.
I am concerned that not sleeping the hard drive will do harm to it.
I am using OS 10.5.8 on a 233 Ghz Core 2 Duo iMac
I have Parallels 4 installed and cannot tell you if the problems started after a PC session.

HI Studio Guy,
Welcome to the forums. When ever your having trouble with a computer; it's really a good idea to back every thing up. If your not backing up; http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1427 explains how to back up your computer to an external hard drive. (assuming your using 10.5 or 10.6)
You could try running a hardware test on the computer. http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1509
You could try a safeboot, it can repair lots of issues. http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1455
This article explains how to delete the sleep image; a bad sleep image can cause wake from sleep issues. http://osxdaily.com/2010/10/11/sleepimage-mac/
But if your hard drive is rapidly making a taping noise you may want to take it to a genius bar; they might recommend replacing the hard drive. http://www.apple.com/retail/geniusbar/

Spinning beach ball of death in iTunes

Everytime that I open iTunes, I get the dreaded spinning beach ball of death. All I have to do is move the cursor and it appears. The sbbod stays around for about 30 seconds or so and then goes away. If I use the search function, it reappears. If I play a song, the song plays ok, but if I try to make any sort of menu selection, the sbbod always reappears and hangs out for a while. I have also noticed that the fan comes on and wants to stay on whenever I have iTunes open. To get the fan to shut off, I have to force quit iTunes.
I have a Macbook circa 2008 running Mac OSX 10.6.8 with all updates installed (except for a Security 2012-001 that refuses to install) I have 147 GB of 250 GB of free space on the hard drive.
Anyone have any suggestions on how to get iTunes to behave like it used to? It used to just work with no problems and no sbbod.
Thanks,
dhruid

I'm having the same problem. And it tells me that sync is not activated and asks me if want to activate sync. I say 'yes' and it then say it cannot activate sync would I like to 'override.' This just started happening this week. And it's very annoying. It's as if something is accessing my iphone and keeping iTunes from accessing the phone a while. If I wait long enough it shows up in iTunes. I'm running Symantic Norton Anti Virus. My first guess is there's a virus. Or Norton Anti Virus is trying to access the phone for some reason. I just noticed you now have the option of automatically checking the iphone for virus when connected. But when I deactivate the auto scan of the iphone option the ball still spins for minutes and minutes. I've spent HOURS trying to figure this out. Apple has got to help. I've not installed anything else new to my system in the past few months.

Moving plugin windows around causes spinning beach ball.. 8.0.2 near???

last q. for now...how come when moving plugin windows around in logic it can sometimes cause the dreaded spinning beach ball?? you think logic is going to crash but it doesn't, it recovers and then runs real sluggish... logic or leopard bug??? i can't wait for 10.5.2 to see what it magically fixes in logic!! any hope that we might have 8.0.2 in the near future...there are all these other updates floating down from cupertino but yet logic seems neglected...

Thanks Pancenter... appreciate your input. Really useful information. When I bought my Mac Pro, there was an issue with the video cards; if you wanted to run 2 x 30" ACD's, then you had to up the spec to a more powerful card. The guy in the mac shop assured me the GeForce 7300 GT that came with the machine would be sweet enough for 2 x 23's... and it was. But that was with Tiger. (?)
Is Leopard &/or LP8 graphically more demanding than Tiger &/or LP7... I wouldn't have a clue? Does anyone have an opinion on this? (I'd be REALLY interested!) Are the cards shipping with these machines really up to the job of running the OS AND something as complicated as LP8? My opinion is; They SHOULD be.
Thanks Zuelito... I had noticed this thread & was surprised/dismayed that even 8 CORE machines were having this problem too! But then, if it's a problem with underpowered graphics cards, I don't suppose it matters how many cores you've got... does it??? Thanks for your post... again, really USEFUL information. I appreciate it! (GREAT thread.)
I only get this problem when I open anything UAD; it runs happily in the background but out comes "the ball" whenever I open & move more than 1 instance of a UAD plug. Haven't once had it happen with Logic or 3rd party AU's.
Thanks again for your input... keep it comin'!
Cheers...

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