Multiple Freezes

Recently I have noticed that I am unable to run a weekly MacJanitor and also get a freeze up using cocktail (at the crons task function) when using the Pilot to perform all the assigned tasks. Tonight after trying to use both and force quitting them because they froze, I then had a freeze up of Camino, then couldn't get the computer to restart. It started to do so and all the icons disappeared the it froze with the spinning ball and would do nothing. I finally had to just turn off the computer and then it took forever to reboot. Also had problems with permissions and did all the iTunes deletion stuff but still have to remove it from the app folder and put it on the desktop to run permissions. Why can't I run the weekly/monthly or all tasks with either MacJanitor or Cocktail. The daily function in MacJanitor runs ok.
Thanks,
Glen
Power Mac G4, 400mhz Mac OS X (10.3.9)
Power Mac G4, 400mhz

Since there were no responses to this posting yet, I thought I would add one more thing which may help. This am I moved the iTunes App icon to the desktop and again tried to run Cocktail and it worked fine.
Any answers as to how to get it to run without moving iTunes to the desktop or is there an update coming to take care of this problem? I know others had the same trouble with repairing permissions.
Thank you,
Glen

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Multiple freeze issues on my laptop

Hello.
I'm experiencing multiple freeze issues lately. Inspecting all logs available but found nothing.
1. sometimes gdm freezes while switching users in Gnome 3. I share my laptop with my wife, separate accounts. While switching from one user to another, somethimes gdm (screen with account names) hangs, in situations when both users are logged or one is not. Only thing that helps is to switch to console, log in and restart gdm.
2. I had issues with suspend, so I turned off suspend based on inactivity. Now sometimes when laptop has some idle time and is inactive, screen turns off. Then it hands, all leds are on, unable to wake (turn on display), nothing works, switching to console, nothing.
3. Total freeze while logging into Gnome 3 session of my wife. Black screen, all leds on, only hard turn off (long press power button).
I inspected all logs in /var/log, also .xsession-errors in both home folders of both users. Can't find anything .... I'm desperate. Please post some tips, how to log more. I can't even submit or search for some bugs as I can't determine even what is the cause.
My laptop is ASUS X50Z.
lspci:
00:00.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 Host Bridge
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780/RS880 PCI to PCI bridge (int gfx)
00:04.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 PCI to PCI bridge (PCIE port 0)
00:05.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 PCI to PCI bridge (PCIE port 1)
00:06.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 PCI to PCI bridge (PCIE port 2)
00:11.0 SATA controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 SATA Controller [IDE mode]
00:12.0 USB controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB OHCI0 Controller
00:12.1 USB controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB7x0 USB OHCI1 Controller
00:12.2 USB controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB EHCI Controller
00:13.0 USB controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB OHCI0 Controller
00:13.1 USB controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB7x0 USB OHCI1 Controller
00:13.2 USB controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB EHCI Controller
00:14.0 SMBus: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 SMBus Controller (rev 3a)
00:14.1 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 IDE Controller
00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA)
00:14.3 ISA bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 LPC host controller
00:14.4 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 PCI to PCI Bridge
00:14.5 USB controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB OHCI2 Controller
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 11h Processor HyperTransport Configuration (rev 40)
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 11h Processor Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 11h Processor DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 11h Processor Miscellaneous Control
00:18.4 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 11h Processor Link Control
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RS780M/RS780MN [Radeon HD 3200 Graphics]
02:00.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR928X Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev 01)
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 02)
Packages installed -> http://pastebin.com/efUsSdr4
I will gladly post more info.

lsmod:
Module Size Used by
fuse 66858 2
ipv6 288122 24
ext3 191948 1
jbd 63179 1 ext3
uvcvideo 64995 0
videodev 85100 1 uvcvideo
media 10565 2 uvcvideo,videodev
v4l2_compat_ioctl32 8644 1 videodev
cryptd 8309 0
aes_x86_64 7508 2
aes_generic 26138 1 aes_x86_64
ecb 2073 1
btusb 11385 0
joydev 9895 0
bluetooth 150884 1 btusb
arc4 1410 2
ath9k 86553 0
radeon 994864 3
mac80211 221931 1 ath9k
ttm 54872 1 radeon
drm_kms_helper 25721 1 radeon
serio_raw 4294 0
i2c_piix4 8224 0
psmouse 55501 0
snd_hda_codec_realtek 282216 1
ath9k_common 1858 1 ath9k
drm 185736 5 radeon,ttm,drm_kms_helper
i2c_algo_bit 5199 1 radeon
i2c_core 20460 6 videodev,radeon,drm_kms_helper,i2c_piix4,drm,i2c_algo_bit
pcspkr 1819 0
asus_laptop 14098 0
sr_mod 14951 0
ath9k_hw 304895 2 ath9k,ath9k_common
ath 14770 2 ath9k,ath9k_hw
cdrom 36553 1 sr_mod
r8169 45411 0
evdev 9530 10
cfg80211 165636 3 ath9k,mac80211,ath
sparse_keymap 3120 1 asus_laptop
k10temp 2883 0
processor 24224 0
thermal 7799 0
button 4470 0
ac 2344 0
video 11164 0
battery 6453 0
snd_hda_intel 22410 2
snd_hda_codec 80889 2 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel
sp5100_tco 4568 0
shpchp 26281 0
mii 4059 1 r8169
pci_hotplug 25454 1 shpchp
snd_hwdep 6357 1 snd_hda_codec
snd_pcm 74368 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec
rfkill 15498 4 bluetooth,asus_laptop,cfg80211
snd_timer 19544 1 snd_pcm
snd 58362 10 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hwdep,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore 6210 1 snd
snd_page_alloc 7153 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
vboxdrv 1790690 0
ext4 375413 2
mbcache 5881 2 ext3,ext4
jbd2 70667 1 ext4
crc16 1359 2 bluetooth,ext4
sd_mod 28275 3
usbhid 35352 0
pata_acpi 3376 0
hid 82435 1 usbhid
ohci_hcd 21714 0
pata_atiixp 3928 0
ahci 20005 2
libahci 19559 1 ahci
libata 166724 4 pata_acpi,pata_atiixp,ahci,libahci
ehci_hcd 40794 0
usbcore 144144 6 uvcvideo,btusb,usbhid,ohci_hcd,ehci_hcd
scsi_mod 132794 3 sr_mod,sd_mod,libata
dm_mod 69692 12
/etc/rc.conf:
# /etc/rc.conf - Main Configuration for Arch Linux
# LOCALIZATION
# LOCALE: available languages can be listed with the 'locale -a' command
# DAEMON_LOCALE: If set to 'yes', use $LOCALE as the locale during daemon
# startup and during the boot process. If set to 'no', the C locale is used.
# HARDWARECLOCK: set to "", "UTC" or "localtime", any other value will result
# in the hardware clock being left untouched (useful for virtualization)
# Note: Using "localtime" is discouraged, using "" makes hwclock fall back
# to the value in /var/lib/hwclock/adjfile
# TIMEZONE: timezones are found in /usr/share/zoneinfo
# Note: if unset, the value in /etc/localtime is used unchanged
# KEYMAP: keymaps are found in /usr/share/kbd/keymaps
# CONSOLEFONT: found in /usr/share/kbd/consolefonts (only needed for non-US)
# CONSOLEMAP: found in /usr/share/kbd/consoletrans
# USECOLOR: use ANSI color sequences in startup messages
LOCALE="en_US.UTF-8"
DAEMON_LOCALE="no"
HARDWARECLOCK="UTC"
TIMEZONE="Europe/Bratislava"
KEYMAP="us"
CONSOLEFONT=
CONSOLEMAP=
USECOLOR="yes"
# HARDWARE
# MODULES: Modules to load at boot-up. Blacklisting is no longer supported.
# Replace every !module by an entry as on the following line in a file in
# /etc/modprobe.d:
# blacklist module
# See "man modprobe.conf" for details.
MODULES=(dm-mod vboxdrv)
# Udev settle timeout (default to 30)
UDEV_TIMEOUT=30
# Scan for FakeRAID (dmraid) Volumes at startup
USEDMRAID="no"
# Scan for BTRFS volumes at startup
USEBTRFS="no"
# Scan for LVM volume groups at startup, required if you use LVM
USELVM="yes"
# NETWORKING
# HOSTNAME: Hostname of machine. Should also be put in /etc/hosts
HOSTNAME="gorgoroth"
# Use 'ip addr' or 'ls /sys/class/net/' to see all available interfaces.
# Wired network setup
# - interface: name of device (required)
# - address: IP address (leave blank for DHCP)
# - netmask: subnet mask (ignored for DHCP) (optional, defaults to 255.255.255.0)
# - broadcast: broadcast address (ignored for DHCP) (optional)
# - gateway: default route (ignored for DHCP)
# Static IP example
# interface=eth0
# address=192.168.0.2
# netmask=255.255.255.0
# broadcast=192.168.0.255
# gateway=192.168.0.1
# DHCP example
# interface=eth0
# address=
# netmask=
# gateway=
interface=eth0
address=
netmask=
broadcast=
gateway=
# Setting this to "yes" will skip network shutdown.
# This is required if your root device is on NFS.
NETWORK_PERSIST="no"
# Enable these netcfg profiles at boot-up. These are useful if you happen to
# need more advanced network features than the simple network service
# supports, such as multiple network configurations (ie, laptop users)
# - set to 'menu' to present a menu during boot-up (dialog package required)
# - prefix an entry with a ! to disable it
# Network profiles are found in /etc/network.d
# This requires the netcfg package
#NETWORKS=(main)
# DAEMONS
# Daemons to start at boot-up (in this order)
# - prefix a daemon with a ! to disable it
# - prefix a daemon with a @ to start it up in the background
# If something other takes care of your hardware clock (ntpd, dual-boot...)
# you should disable 'hwclock' here.
DAEMONS=(hwclock syslog-ng netfs crond dbus gdm networkmanager @dropboxd sshd cupsd)

Dead iPod Touch after upgrade and multiple freezes

I have kept everything up to date on my MacBook Pro and iPod Touch, but I began having problems on the Touch once updates for new Apps appeared. If I tried to update the Apps wirelessly using the Touch (is there any other way?) the thing froze up from the first try. Getting it back to normal would take several hard restarts or a complete reinstall from iTunes. However, whenever I got it restored and working there was still the problem that most of my Apps were still waiting on updates and the number was increasing. I figured the problem was a bug in one of the updates, so I tried updating just one App at a time -- but every time the Touch would freeze and the cycle of several hard restarts and much time waiting before it became usable was repeated. My next thought was to remove all Apps and try them one-by-one to see if there was a particular problem. In this way, I was able to get wireless updates to work (one-by-one) and most of my Apps back on the iPod. THEN while I was still doing this, the recent upgrade appeared for the Touch and of course I installed it immediately thinking my problems would soon go away. All seemed fine, and after checking it I went on to try to install the last few apps. But upon the installation of my last app (Texas Hold'em) iTunes froze along with the iPod. I had to force quit iTunes and tried to hard restart the ipod. I WAS able to get the iPod to shut down, but since that time, I am unable to fully RESTART the iPod Touch at all. It shows the Apple logo and over a period of a few minutes might beep a couple of times, but appears frozen. If I wait for a long while the battery eventually goes dead. If I connect it to a power source it makes no difference. I have tried restarting 6-7 times, but this time it just won't get past the Apple. Reconnecting it in its dead state to iTunes starts a vain effort that leads to iTunes freezing. Before I return it to Apple for repair, is there ANYTHING else I should try??

I too have been having many issues with the recent upgrade as well as updating my apps. For the upgrade, I rebooted 3 times and on the last try, I waited for over an hour before the apple logo finally gave way to the menu. Since then I attempted to install the app upgrades through the wi-fi on the iPod Touch to no avail. My previous attempts only resulted in the Touch freezing and I had to force a reboot. Today if I "install" I see the loading progress on the app's icon but it keeps repeating the process. One app gave me a message that it cannot be installed directly and that I had to use iTunes. I synced the iPod and I did see the message that it was installing the app; but, the icon on the iPod still indicates that it's attempting to load. Is there a way to update using iTunes? Is there a way to simply update using any method?
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10.8.3 rendered my MBP to lag and freeze (and other issues)

Okay. I have a Macbook Pro 9,1 (non-retina, Mid-2012). After installing 10.8.3 through App Store, my computer begins to lag, and it would completely freeze in about 2 hours or so. It starts with one application 'not responding' and it would spread to other applications. When I try to Force Quit, that Force Quit window would freeze as well. None of my keyboard, track pad etc would work. I had to force shut down by holding the Power button.
I have done the following:
Restart
Restart with 'Reopen Windows when logging back in' off
SMC Reset
PRAM Reset
Hardware Test
Disk Permission Repair
Repair Disk
Reinstall OS
Reinstall using COMBO Update
fsck -fy in Single User Mode
I also checked the ~Library/Logs/Diagnostic Log and Uninstalled (with official uninstaller) EyeConnect (who crashed in the background for about 8 times during my 24hrs use of 10.8.3.)
While going through that list, I found issues in kernel_task taking up a lot of RAM (1+ GB in normal mode) (~400 GB in safe mode). The free RAM would also be miniscule just before the multiple freezes I had.
Booting through Safe mode, after about 2 minutes or so after boot, My RAM looks like this:
(No Free Space, Wired taking up 6GB...) The Animation would be very choppy and I would be using Nvidia Graphics Card (GT-650M) instead of Intel Graphics 4000, when nothing graphic intensive is up. Some Post floating in the Support Communities also mentioned how the VRAM for Intel Graphics 4000 shrunk from 512MB to 384MB. I think I have the same problem as well.
I've been to Apple Store/Genius Bar Twice: They basically said I should wipe the computer and hope for the best. They also checked my Hardware, and it seems alright.
I thought of rolling back to 10.8.2 through Time Machine, but for some reasons, my HDD (through Thunderbolt) would not mount when booted from the recovery partition. It's there in Disk Utility, just won't mount. When accessing the HDD through USB 3.0, my most recent back-ups are not present, with the most recent update from March 2nd. (March 3rd ~ March 18th Missing.)This shouldn't be the case, as I back up multiple times every day. I am also able to view the recent dates through Time Machine ('Enter Time Machine' from the menu bar).
I think the only thing left I could do would be Rolling back to March 2nd or Wiping my computer to factory settings. Both I'm quite reluctant to do so, for obvious reasons.
Hypothesis on the issue: I think it's the RAM management gone wrong, causing the computer to lag+freeze so much. I predict the wipe won't help much. But we won't know what will happen unless we do it, I guess...
Did I mention about the sleep problems I had before 10.8.3? I'll skip those since it's not fatal, but they're not resolved in 10.8.3 as well. I installed 10.8.3 hoping to solve those problems, only to get even more problems Help Please? Thanks!

Here are three of the better articles for performance problems:
Performance Guide
Why is my computer slow
Why your Mac runs slower than it should
While this Apple article is about batteries, it does have some suggestions for using Activity Monitor:
Battery – Runaway Applications Can Shorten Battery Time
Sleep problem - waking up or not sleeping?
Wakeup Computer
Sleep - Won’t

Connect freeze frame in FCPX 10.0.8 - wrong part of clip freezes - not where playhead is parked

After successfully creating multiple freeze frames from the Event browser, I have run into a situation where I am constantly getting a freeze-frame that is not relevant to where the play head is parked. I keep getting the same non-relavant spot no matter what I do.

You would probably get more help by posting int he FCPX forum, you can easily locate it at:
https://discussions.apple.com/community/professional_applications/final_cut_pro_ x

System wide freezes since 10.5.5

Ever since upgrading to 10.5.5 I've noticed the following sort of system-wide freeze on my iMac.
First, one application becomes unresponsive; you get the spinning beachball of death; you can still move the mouse around and click; every application becomes unresponsive, including the Finder. Only a hard restart works.
At first I noticed the problem in iChat, and looked into that. Hey presto, other users are experiencing the same problem with iChat, so I wrote to Apple/feedback and sat and waited. I stopped using iChat, and then found it happened in iTunes. Look at the iTunes discussion, and yes, there it is again, other users having the same problem.
I've repaired permissions, run Onyx, done everything I can think of.
Console doesn't have any useful (to me) messages. It says:
26/09/2008 18:47:48 mDNSResponder[17] Failed to obtain NAT port mapping 00048CF8 from router 192.168.1.254 external address 0.0.0.0 internal port 5353 error 0
26/09/2008 18:47:49 kernel jnl: disk1s3: journal replay done.
26/09/2008 18:47:49 fseventsd[40] event logs in /Volumes/Time Machine Backup destination/.fseventsd out of sync with volume. destroying old logs. (2414 4 2606)
26/09/2008 18:47:49 fseventsd[40] log dir: /Volumes/Time Machine Backup destination/.fseventsd getting new uuid: 4B7F4EF0-7E6D-4E02-80DC-4F9DD9FBDB89
26/09/2008 18:47:49 mds[34] (/Volumes/Time Machine Backup destination/.Spotlight-V100/Store-V1/Stores/E77C8009-6066-4242-A13D-CD5BAC0FB62 E)(Error) IndexCI in ContentIndexOpenBulk:Unclean shutdown of /Volumes/Time Machine Backup destination/.Spotlight-V100/Store-V1/Stores/E77C8009-6066-4242-A13D-CD5BAC0FB62 E/live.0.; needs recovery
26/09/2008 18:47:52 mDNSResponder[17] Failed to obtain NAT port mapping 0080A41C from router 192.168.1.254 external address 0.0.0.0 internal port 4500 error 0
26/09/2008 18:48:10 kernel BootCache: hit rate below threshold (10214 hits on 20429 lookups)
26/09/2008 18:48:39 mdworker[76] (Error) SyncInfo: Boot-cache avoidance timed out!
26/09/2008 18:48:51 mdworker[76] (Error) SyncInfo: Catalog changed during searchfs too many time. Falling back to fsw search /
That kernel bootcache looks ominous, but I have little idea what it means. I wonder whether it's something to do with Time Machine backing up. Of course, the above might just be totally unrelated to what's going wrong. (Looking at Console is I find rather like looking at a medical dictionary; it's truly frightening, but most of it never in practice seems to be a problem.)
Anyone else experiencing random system freezes only since 10.5.5? Anyone suggest what else I can try or look for in Console to pin things down a bit more?

Hello all,
Let me chime in on this also... I also experienced freezes immediately after I updated to 10.5.5 from 10.5.4 about 10 days ago. I had never had my Mac (Black MacBook with 4GB or RAM) freeze that much, so I concluded that it had to do with the update.
After multiple freezes, I brought the Mac to the Apple Store where a Genius did a disk check, hardware check and everything checked out OK. However, the random freezes remained. They then did an archive and install *back to 10.5.4*, but same thing, freezes remained. At random intervals.
Around that time, I noticed that if I waited long enough, the machine would return from the freeze and everything would operate normally after that.
I seem to remember that the first ever time I noticed the freeze was when I was working in the Mail application.
After my fifth successive daily visit to the Genius Bar, where they offered to completely format my internal drive, install a fresh copy of 10.5.4 and re-load my data back in. On this, they completely failed me, they returned my computer with half of the applications missing (the iPhoto application was not even on the drive), and my data partially restored.
I then decided to re-format my drive once again, use the 10.5.2 Install Disk that came with my Mac to freshly install the OS. Then immediately thereafter I downloaded the 10.5.5 combo installer and used it to upgrade to 10.5.5. Then, I selectively copied files from my Time Machine backup hard drive back to my internal drive.
Time Machine did not work for me when trying to restore e-mail mailboxes. It only partially imported the mailboxes I needed. Instead I had to do an "import mailboxes" from the Mail application and point it to the mailbox location on my Time Machine backup.
So, now I have a system that is lean and clean, I didn't install any "major" other applications using installers, just a few applications I drag-copied to the Applications folder.
The machine ran fine for a day or two, until I tried to move some mail from my inbox into another mailbox. Boooom, spinning beach ball again. I let the machine sit for about 5 minutes, and it came back. But this indicates that there is still an issue.
Since I also experienced this problem after going back to 10.5.4, I am wondering whether the 10.5.5 install does affect firmware or other device 'hardware' functionality that remains, even after reverting to 10.5.4. This is the only reason I can come up with for why the problem still existed when I went to 10.5.4.
Anyway, this post does not provide a solution, but merely some other data points.
Oh and by the way, I had never even started iTunes before this problem showed up again this morning. So, not sure whether it is related to iTunes.

G5 Freezes, display settings and videocard : A clue ?

Hello,
Before you begin to read this ( rather ) long post (sorry for that), i will summarize the final question :
Can there be a relationship between freezes and monitor settings in system preferences ? Are there solutions to improve these settings ? what can be done ?
*My experience* :
After last Tiger updates (9 and 10), my Finder (?) froze very often.
In April, for this reason, I made a Tiger "archive and install" installation.
Nothing really improved.
In July, after multiple freezes I uninstalled :
-ATI monitor utility,
-Optical Logitech mouse *LCC driver* (and come back to the cord original Apple mouse), and the
-APE folder "*Application Enhancer*" installed in System files, which I could not imagine to be there, since I had uninstalled "APE" from preference panes under Panther and +never reinstalled it+ after that. But EasyFind showed it to me and Pacifist indicated me that in the LCC driver package there was a "call" to APE installation (and in the last ATI monitor crash report I had seen this ape mentioned).
-dsl modem wifi card and come back to an ethernet connexion, and also
-reinstalled a *mac OS X 10.4.10 combo* update,
in spite of all these un-/installations, freezes were going on with a peak at 10 one day, leaving me convinced that something important in the G5 was totally dead.
One morning, on start, the screen was totally black and the monitor power green led was even off. (I checked warranty for the monitor : 3 years on site until ... November 2007, at least that could be saved.)
Before calling the shop where I had bought this *SyncMaster 213T* display, I wanted to be sure that nothing else was wrong. So, I did some test indicated on the Samsung paper manual (fortunately, there are still some...) i.e. : unplug the monitor from the computer and test it by itself ... I could see exactly the boxes that were indicated as "normal". So the monitor seemed to be "clean".
After I had uninstalled all other devices such as : USB 2 hub, Sony active speakers, and, on a friend's (knowing much more things than me on Macs) advice, made ( done ? sorry ! ) some vigourous PRAM reset I could restart with a "normal" screen.
The first thing I did, then, was to open the virtual monitor manual, in the trouble shooting session. Namely concerning compatibility between video cards and this monitor. There was something about frequencies unsupported by certain cards. I understood that the higher, the better. But to get the higher, I had to choose a lower Display resolution. In its native resolution (1600 x 1200), the Monitor pref pane proposed only 60 Hz; to get 75 Hz (the maximum frequency indicated in the pref pane) I had to downgrade the resolution from 1600 x 1200 to 1280 x 1024. So did I. After a last freeze, I restarted with PRAM reset. The screen was ok.
And several weeks after, in August, I realized that, since that time, I had encountered NO freeze at all. At that time, I was sure that the "vigorous" PRAM reset had made the wonder.
One day of August, I wanted to change my desktop image with a photo I had just taken. The photo size was wider than the display resolution and I could not see it entirely on the screen. So to get a total view of it, I changed the resolution size to the initial one (1600 x 1200 - freq. 60 Hz). And my photo was entire. Then, I wanted to read something in my newsreader ( Thoth , which I daily use). As a post window was too small to see the entire post and wishing to avoid scrolling, I dragged, as usual, the left lower side to resize this window and I saw the black border line figuring the new window ... but nothing else happened. The window did not resize and suddenly I realized that I was again in a freeze story. :-/
The Apple mouse cursor was moving freely but nothing else happened. And no click was efficient in the display view (but I could hear - as before - its reactive noise inside the G5).
I decided to wait a bit and dit it for about 20 minutes. Nothing went better and I had to shutdown and restart again, tried a "*fsck -s*" but there also, after a beginning of the process, monitor froze. Then, I decided to restart (with alt ) on a "safe" 2nd internal boot disk with a "clean installed" Tiger, which I keep for this kind of problems and from there repaired authorizations and checked the other disk (which appeared to be ok).
Then I restarted normally on my "working" session. Opened iTunes, but as soon as I wanted to click on Mail in the dock : re-freeze.
This time, when I restarted after shutdown (since the "force to quit" was unavailable), the first thing I did was to re-change the Monitor resolution and frequency (to 1280 x 1024 and 75 Hz). And from this time, mid-august, I had only one freeze, which occurred when I wanted to look at a genuine Apple screensaver (but for this, there are about two years that I had to abandon to look at them or at iTunes animations, that I miss ... snif) I just wanted to check if- now -with this display settings change, things were better, but no.
My display is a digital Samsung SyncMaster 213T (21") plugged on the DVI ATI card port.
Many thanks to those who have had the patience to read this and my apologize to those who have the feeling they have lost their time (and also for my approximative English).
*Thank you !*
PS : Since yesterday my SuperDrive, a Pioneer 106 D, (replaced one year ago by Applecare), seems to be definitely dead : a DVD appears like a text generic document in DiskUtility and does even not appear on the desktop although the DVD player opens, but on a "visualisation" window only (the name of the DVD, a video commercial one, which I could look at last week, did not appear in the window header but did in DiskUtility). And just before, another DVD made an horrible noise in the superdrive but nothing mounts on the desk, DVD player opened but I quickly removed the DVD because of the persistent noise (so I didn't open DiscUtility to see what happened). (Problems with this superdrive date from long).
Can there be a link between this last problem and others above ?
Message was edited by: Josy

Thomas Bryant wrote:
Hello! There are a couple of things you can do. One would be to run the Apple Hardware test to see if it comes back with anything. It's probably on one of the install discs if it's not on a separate disk. Second you can open the console (apps>utilities>console) and see if it's throwing a crash log that might help. The monitor and video card resolution could very well be causing the problem which would seem to indicate since a PRAM reset would clear the resolution settings. I think you'll have to find the resolution that works and stick with it. Tom
Hello!
For the AHT unfortunately impossible now with a dead Superdrive ... I had done it quite recently (one month) and all appeared to be ok. I'm thinking of buying an external one but don't know if it could help for this i.e: if an install DVD will run on an external drive.
for the console: I don't well understand your "throwing" a crash log ... Is it "deleting" that you mean? Then which one?
Just after writing this post, I read an interesting article by a developer about Tiger and resolution (an hidden feature) which I thought could be in relationship with my problem (I'm not a developer myself but to help localizing somme apps I had to install the DTools). Also saw in a forum a similar problem concerning a "younger" type of G5 monoproc 1.8, and an ATI RADEON card (younger too) and this resolution 1600 x 1200. It seems that several people (all gamers) with this configuration was meeting the same trouble. Sky punishment ??
Well I think I will stick to pram reset then.
Thank you very much for you answer (and your patience !)

ITunes Downloads Hanging & Freezing

We seem to be experiencing difficulties when downloading music from iTunes on multiple of our workstations. When a user signs onto their personal iTunes account and tries to download songs they have previously purchased, the download begins, but shortly into the download (1-5 MB), the download hangs, and the time remaining counter begins to increase. After 30-90 seconds, the download then resumes, the song starts to download again, but it then hangs again. The download does eventually complete, but the total download process takes 3-5 times longer than it should (with multiple freezes).
I've noticed this issue mainly with our Dell Precision workstations with Broadcom NetXtreme 57xx Gigabit Controller. When uninstalling Symantec Endpoint Protection, the downloads still experience issues. We're running the newest BIOS on each workstation, have downloaded the latest version of iTunes, and have updated the network adapter drivers.

I am having the same problem with 8.2.1, which seems to be related to whether my iPhone is connected or not. If my iPhone is connected, it hangs, regardless of whether it is connected upon startup, application launch, or connection after the application has been launched. When I open the "force quit" window, I can see iTunes' status change to "not responding" when I connect my iPhone.
I trashed all my preferences, even went so far as to trash iTunes 8.2.1 and reinstalled 8.2, but it didn't help. Trying to install an even earlier version of iTunes won't work either, because the earlier versions can't find my iTunes library.
I wish that Apple would provide a customer service/support line for downloads and updates of its own software.

3 year old iMac running very slow, freezing all the time. Advice?

My three year old iMac - 2.4Ghz processor, 2GB RAM, running Lion - is becoming almost totally useless. For many months it has been very slow, with multiple freezes, and then "force quits" on iPhoto and other applications.
First, I tried to free up some space - i now have about 44GB free. Then I ran disk utility etc, Then I ugraded to Lion.
But still I'm getting the same problems. Any suggestions?

It sounds like your problems are more serious than a 'hardware upgrade' issue. My late 2008 MacBook 2.4GHz with 2GB RAM runs applications (and iPhoto) fine. In addition I have run OS X operating systems with little more than 5GB free hard drive space with no issue (being able to run advanced applications like Photoshop).
My advice- if you have simply upgraded to Lion keeping all your systems settings and files intact then you may want to perform a 'clean install', you'll backup your important data/files in order to transfer them back again into Lion. You could even create a Time Machine Backup and use this to move only your data and applications back into your clean install of OS X Lion.

Lock up and attempted restart on recent recordings

Recordings made since about 10 days ago are giving me problems. They will lose sound about 1 second before freezing. After about 1 minute the vbox than tries to restart itself, but the restart screen just flickers every 10 seconds like it's recycling. It never gets any where with the restart, I have to pull the power. Restarts ok when power is restored.
The freeze points are repeatable. I can try playing a recording again and it will freeze at the same frame. I can fast forward and backward past the freeze point as long as I do so before it locks up. There are also multiple freeze points in recordings. The freeze points in the recordings are not at set times or lengths, just appear random.
Watching live is ok. Signal strength looks the same as it ever did. Older recordings play back without any problem. I've got two other PVRs and have made simultaneous recordings on all three as a test; the vbox has problems, the other two don't even show a flicker.
Anyone got any ideas. I think the vbox is going faulty. Can't recall exactly how long I've had the vbox but it's over 18 months or so and it's worked nigh on perfectly all the time.
Thanks,
mark

Hi Mark,
Thanks for the post and welcome to the forum. I can help with this.
Please drop me an email to [email protected], include your BT Vision account details and I will get this looked into.
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Synaptic touchpad stops working now and then on ProBook 6450b

The touchpad on my ProBook 6450b stops working every now and then. It just freezes, no error message or anything. It always works again after I reboot. It also starts working immediately if I go to the Task Manager and kill SynTPEnh.exe and then restart SynTPEnh.exe via Explorer (C:\Program Files\Synaptic\SynTP\SynTPEnh.exe). I have had this machine for 9 months, and these problems started only a couple of weeks ago. There are no error messages, and Device Manager says the device is working properly even when the touchpad is frozen. Sometimes I can go days without having a freeze, sometimes multiple freezes within minutes. Also, it happens during different activities - web browsing, watching movies, etc.
I'm not sure, but I might have enabled the WiFi-card in the BIOS prior to having these problems. However, as I currently need wireless, disabling it again is not an option.
I tried updating the BIOS, but the installation program wouldn't detect my SanDisk Cruzer USB stick, so I couldn't make a backup and decided to abort the procedure. I also tried installing another version of the Synaptic driver (can't remember the version, but it said "Evaluation Copy" on the Synaptic device in the Control Panel). It worked for a couple of days, then I got the old freeze again.
My setup:
HP ProBook 6450b
Windows 7 Professional 32-bit
Synaptic driver version 15.0.24

As a "quick'n'dirty" solution, I figured out how to automate this process. Simply create a new textfile called "Restart Synaptics.bat" and enter the following into it:
taskkill /IM SynTPEnh.exe /F
"C:\Program Files\Synaptics\SynTP\SynTPEnh.exe"
This will kill the SynTPEnh.exe process and then restart it. Now put a shortcut to your batch file in the Start Menu for easy access.

IPad 3rd Generation 64GB crashing when updating apps

Ever since updating to iOS 7 (and subsequently 7.0.3 and 7.0.4) I find that whenever I update multiple apps on my ipad 3rd generation I suffer multiple freezes & reboots. Any suggestions on how to resolve this would be greatly appreciated or failing that details of when a stable version of iOS 7 will be released.

You should let the apps update automatically as and when they are available.
Settings>iTunes and App Store>AUTOMATIC DOWNLOADS>Updates>On

All my lil problems with Ipod Mini

1) incomplete transpher of music
2) multiple Freezes
So far that's all for now, help if you can. I could really use it.

These are the standard fist steps to this type of issue:
First try Resetting Your iPod to correct this problem. It may take several attempts.
If that does not solve the problem, then Restore Your iPod and put the music back on your iPod, from iTunes.

Rendering VERY slow or stays at 0% before crashing...

I am working in a project with multiple clips - up to 10 layers of video and audio at any one time. I'm using all proxy files. I am using split screen effects on most of it and other effects also. Lots of compound clips and I am also cartooning the whole thing by putting the effect on one big compound clip. The whole video is 3minutes long. I've managed to cartoon the whole thing (after hours of waiting and multiple freezing on 28%) but there is still more rendering to do within the large compound clip that I have cartoonise (for some reason nothing within the large compound clip would render unless I click inside the compound clip - is this normal?). So anyway the rendering left to do seems to stay on 0% forever without budging and then eventually the dreaded beachball comes up and it crashes. It's driving me mad. Frankly the whole rendering thing is taking hours and it just seems messed up - again, is this normal?
I'm using latest iMac 3.4Ghz. Core i7 16GB Ram. All event and project files are on an external My Book Firewire 800. I am running no other programs during rendering.
I tried looking in library-preferences to delete them and restart but I couldn't find them! I haven't tried reinstalling. I logged in froma different user as I read you can test if it works better...but doesn't that mean I have reinstall Final Cut again..? Might as well just do a reinstall no?
Any solutions to these problems? I just started using this program...any other recormmendations of video editing software? I won't be able to stand this much longer...

This is my pet checklist for questions regarding FCP X performance - you may have already addressed some of the items - and some are relevant to playback rather than rendering, but it's worth checking.
Make sure you're using the latest version of the application - FCP X 10.0.5 runs very well on my 2009 MacPro 2 x 2.26 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon with 16 GB RAM and ATI Radeon HD 5870 1024 MB. I run it with Lion 10.7.5.
First, check that you have at least 20% free space on your system drive.
For smooth playback without dropping frames, make sure 'Better Performance' is selected in the FCP X Preferences - Playback Tab.
If you have not already done so, move your Projects and Events to a fast (Firewire 800 or faster) external HD. Make sure the drive's formatted OS Extended (journalling's not required for video). You should always keep at least 20% free space on the Hard Drives that your Media, Projects and Events are on.
Check the spec of your Mac against the system requirements:
http://www.apple.com/finalcutpro/specs/
Check the spec of your graphics card. If it's listed here, it's not suitable:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4664
If you are getting crashes, there is some conflict on the OS. Create a new (admin) user account on your system and use FCP X from there - if it runs a lot better, there's a conflict and a clean install would be recommended.
Keep projects to 20 mins or less. If you have a long project, work on 20 min sections then paste these into a final project for export.
If you ever experience dropped frames, I strongly recommend you use ProRes 422 Proxy - it edits and plays back like silk because the files are small but lightly compressed (not much packing and unpacking to do) - but remember to select 'Original or Optimised Media' (FCP X Preferences > Playback) just before you export your movie, otherwise it will be exported at low resolution.
If you have plenty of processor power, for the ultimate editing experience, create Optimised Media - most camera native files are highly compressed and need a great deal of processor power to play back - particularly if you add titles, filters or effects. ProRes 422 takes up much more hard drive space but is very lightly compressed. It edits and plays back superbly.
Hide Audio Waveforms at all times when you don't need them (both in Browser and Storyline / Timeline). They take up a lot of processor power. (Use the switch icon at the bottom-right of your timeline to select a format without waveforms if you don't need them at the moment, then switch back when you do).
Create folders in the Project and Events libraries and put any projects you are not working on currently, in those folders. This will help a lot. There's a great application for this, called Event Manager X - for the tiny cost it's an invaluable application.
http://assistedediting.intelligentassistance.com/EventManagerX/
Unless you cannot edit and playback without it, turn off Background Rendering in Preferences (under Playback) - this will help general performance and you can always render when you need to by selecting the clip (or clips) and pressing Ctrl+R.
The biggest single improvement I saw in performance was when I upgraded the RAM from 8 GB to 16.
Andy

Persistent 5G 60 gig problems - Widespread?

Reverted back to 1.0 software to correct known Video issues (video stopping and then starting again with no music)... this worked...
However...I still have a periodic problem with songs & Videos just not playing... this happens about 1 out of 5 times of use. I turn the ipod on... I select a song or Video and ...it just sits there...shows the play symbol but the song / video does not begin to play. I have to reset to get the ipod to get it to work work.
Now...my wife has a 30G 5G and she does not have this issue...so I figured it was my Ipod...I have gone back to Best Buy and gotten 3 new ones (5 g 60gig) over the last 3 months...this problem is still there....
I have reset..refreshed...everything you can imagine... I am starting to believe that this is just a 5G 60 Ipod problem....and I should just wait for the 6G...
any advice?

"Considering that you have not tried to eliminate anything else (at least you don't mention this in your troubleshooting efforts), how about trying that?"
-not sure what you mean...have done a re-fresh...etc, installed older software..etc... I am just not sure what else I could troubleshoot...considering my 4G ipod worked fine (photos & Music)
My wifes computer is being loaded on the same computer...etc. as my problematice 60G.
Here is something I was thinking about....at work..I charge my Ipod by connecting it to my company laptop...which does not have Itunes...thus...it just says "do not disconnect" and I leave it hooked up until it is fully charged..I then disconnect (using the proper procedure) and go...
This is the only difference w/ use between mine and my wifes 30G....could this be causing an issue? I did this charge procedure night...and I had multiple freezes this morning.....hmmmm any other ideas?
THANKS SO MUCH FOR REPLYING>>>I AM GOING NUTS WITH THIS!!

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