Leopard - apps quit, can't print, what's going on?
I've recently updated to Leopard and it has been a nightmare since. There is no one specific problem, just everything seems to be not working right:
- Safari wont open (for more than about 5 secs anyway) before "unexpectedly quitting"
- I don't seem to be able to send the error report to apple (no explanation why)
- Any app I try and print with also unexpectedly quits (and then doesn't print)
- For a while iTunes was pausing every 4 secs although this has disappeared since archiving and reinstalling Leopard
- Software update quits unexpectedly 10 secs after loading
- Every 20mins or so, PubSubAgent quits unexpectedly (I don't know what that is?!)
If anyone can help I really need a hand as I'm fairly new to Macs and this is driving me mad!
Thanks in advance
I'm guessing you were running Tiger before this and you upgraded to Leopard? If so, did you choose "Archive and Install" or "Upgrade" when you changed to Leopard? Apparently the upgrade method, for some reason, messes up your User profile. Do an "Archive and Install" in the future to save headaches. In the mean time, try to see if you can create a new user (System Prefs>Accounts -- click on the "+") and make sure it's admin. Log off and login as the new user and check to see if the same symptoms occur. If everything works just fine with the new user, then you know it's your user profile. From here you can migrate all your documents, songs, etc. over to the new user. If it doesn't, see if you can at least back up your data (documents, songs, pictures, etc.) then scrub the whole drive and start from scratch (Erase and Install). Hope this helps.
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Message was edited by: fiveinchwrenchHey DaddyPaycheck and Japamac,
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+You are a tenacious one, that's for sure! :-)+
I don't know if that's a good thing in this case.....;)
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+The defining bit of data would be if you could determine that one socket or the other is continually working, or if one is sporadic (thus explaining the occurrence of the pair working).+
I'm having trouble narrowing down that part. I can swap them back and forth and get the same result-so both sockets seem to be working. But like I said when both pairs are couple together, it shows as dual, and it works for a certain amount of time. So I know they are working to a certain degree. But when they're mixed, only one (don't know which one) is being seen.
Yes, I've run thermal calibration and everything goes fine. Even with the diagnostic disc, when the CPUs are mixed, hardware specs show one CPU. But when the original pairs are coupled, it will show both.
This is like a splinter that I can't get out. It runs great as one CPU, and I could let it go like that, but knowing that it could (and should) be dual is driving me nuts.
Is there anything either of you can think of that I can try?
Message was edited by: fiveinchwrench
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