Menu Bar issues on Macbook Pro

I came across this problem with my mac where after logging in I noticed that the menu bar, specifically the battery and wifi icon takes atleast 5-10 mins to appear and when I hover the cursor anywhere on the right side of the menu bar it shows the spinning rainbow. Also the volume button seems to be greyed out as well and usually I have to plug in ear phones and it will go away but only temporarily. This never happened to my mac until today and for some reason I think it has to do with the installation of Adobe CS6 Master Collection. (yes, it was torrented. no, I wont do it again.) I did some slight research and on some website it said that there could be some applications recently installed that could have caused this to happen. If anyone has a solution I would very much appreciate it.

Having the same issue. Macbook Pro 2011, latest Mavericks update ....
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Norman Jackson wrote:
Couple comments concerning this:
You cannot make it larger.
On My MacBook Pro it has a high resolution screen. 1152 x 720 resolution is not listed. if you think your type in the menu bar is small, you should see mine!
I personally would never recommend anyone orders on with Hi-Res.
No matter what resolution I use other than 1680 x 1050 ( max listed for my Notebook) the sharpness is not acceptable to me.
Wrote to apple concerning the menu display along with numerous others and have been totally ignored.
Norm
Hi Norm,
1. I've been researching, and, with a few exceptions which are not acceptable to me, I believe you are correct.
4. I really have no choice, I have to reduce the res to see text.
5. Apple does not reply to feedback, so don't feel ignored. I've also sent feedback and emailed Jobs, and maybe, someday, after enough of us do that, this will get "fixed." Meanwhile, I'm also often at 1152x720.

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[SOLVED] Linux kernel 3.6.2-1 issues on Macbook Pro 4,1

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I felt it was necessary to post this issue, especially if another person also has it, so that it may be resolved in future kernel updates. If there are any logs or other information people need to help resolve this issue or if I should notify a mod of this or something, please let me know.
Last edited by mojojojo (2012-10-28 21:15:37)

After further investigation the issues were easily solved.
Regarding my encrypted home directory, I checked kernel.log and found that ecryptfs did not like the argument ecrypt_key_bytes=16 and that manual mount has the variable name ecryptfs_key_bytes=16. So I simply changed that in my fstab. Auto-mounting my home directory works nicely again.
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Still found it strange that some of these issues happened during kernel upgrades, but glad to have solved the issues.

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panarpan wrote:
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