Spotlight Freezes/Hangs at Login

Environment: we are running 10.4.3 servers and 10.4.4 workstations with remote home directories. Problem: sometimes after Tiger crashes while a user is logged in, when a user re-logs in, the system freezes with only the Spotlight icon visible on the menubar. The following does not help:
Disabling Spotlight in /etc/hostconfig and rebooting.
Repairing the local drive with Disk Utility.
mdutil -E /
mdutil -E ~/
rm -rf /.Spotlight-V100
rm -rf ~/.Spotlight-V100
But, the user can login using another workstation, and other users can login to the problem workstation. The only solution has been to reimage the local drive, which is rather extreme. Other are experiencing this same problem:
http://grimthing.com/archives/2006/01/07/MacOSX_Tiger_hangs_onboot/
Any advice is appreciated.
Tom Kishel
Mac OS X (10.4.3)

Tom:
Same thing is happening to my 10.42 - 10.4.5 desktops in a design shop environment. It seems to occur when spotlight gets heavy usage. It is well documented here: scroll to the end for the answer.
http://grimthing.com/archives/2006/01/07/MacOSX_Tiger_hangs_onboot/
I fixed it with ONYX, version 1.6.7. I log in as another user and open ONYX. Under the Maintenance tab there is an option to reset the spotlight index. This works every time. Log out and back in under the user that is having the issue. Spotlight will re-index the drive and all is well.
I could also use the terminal and type:
sudo mdutil -E /.
But I need a solution for my end users. I cannot have a graphic designer messing with the terminal, especially if they call me late at night. So ONYX to the rescue. Give it a try and report back.
Cheers and good luck.
fernando

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However, if the issue still persists, please contact Microsoft Customer Support Service (CSS) for further troubleshooting. I hope the problem will be resolved soon. Thanks!
Nicholas Li - MSFT

My new MacBook keeps freezing at the login. What possibly could be the problem?

I have taken my computer to the store 3 times and the last time left it there for 4 days. Each time it miraculously works and there is no identified problem. I have not put any software on in for two months to see if it was the problem. It randomly freezes at the login window and have to restart several times. Anyone else have this problem?

Are any wired peripherals connected? If so, disconnect them and test.

LabVIEW 6.1 Freeze / Hang – Related to User Interaction / Potentially File I/O

Hi Everyone
As you can see by the title, we are using an archaic version of LabVIEW. This will not change, as the system has been running since 6.1 was new, and it is our philosophy not to touch a running system.
The thing is that it isn’t a running system anymore. Or should I say it’s never been perfect, only that we didn’t notice. Anyhow… Here comes what this is about:
We use LV in a jet engine test environment. Now, a normal engine test would take something like an hour or maybe a maximum of two, depending on the applicable test procedures. This time frame used to cover the majority of tests and we had no problems whatsoever. Recently though, we had an accumulation of engines that caused problems and therefore the tests started taking longer and longer, up to four or even five hours. And that is when the problems started…
LabVIEW would run just like it should, until after a long time it would suddenly freeze / hang upon user interaction. It looks like this could be related to some file i/o, like writing test results to an excel file or alike (“Save”), but I cannot rule out 100% that this impression is wrong. The data, however, will never be saved to the file in cases of a freeze / hang.
To test it and see what happens, we had let the application run over night and write some data and a time stamp to a text file, so we could see if and when it would hang. Nothing happened, obviously because there was no user interaction.
It may be handy to know that we are running LV on a Windows XP SP3, 32Bit system. The O/S doesn’t hang / freeze and everything else carries on working just like it should, it’s only the LabVIEW application as such that hangs (all of it, not individual *.vi’s or loops). Normally, after several minutes the application is back, but TCP and *.xls ActiveX references (refnum, in a global variable) are closed, and need to be re-established manually.
I know this information is very vague and you may need more input to be able to help. Yet it is a starting point.
Thanks for feedback!
Linuxx

Really hard to even begin to diagnose the problem with this data. You mentioned that your wrote to a text file with a time stamp, so I'm assuming from this that the program can be modified (just not upgraded to a newer version)? If so there is a diagnostice utility in the Windows kernel32.dll that might help, if used properly it shows "stuff" going on in your code and in the Windows environment. What we do here is create a little sub-vi that will write a string to the Windows debug "file", and salt these throughout our code, showing when commands are issued, threads are shut-down, etc. Using a free download utility from MicroSoft called dbgVIEW we open a monitoring window behind our code and watch what is happening. It is particularly useful if you are running your application as a exe as it can give you a view into the inner workings without the overhead of writing to a file, etc.
Putnam
Certified LabVIEW Developer
Senior Test Engineer
Currently using LV 6.1-LabVIEW 2012, RT8.5
LabVIEW Champion

System freezes(Hangs) if I use Print Button

Hello,
I created few dashboards using SAP xMII.Once I logon to the application, if I press Print button to take the print of the Dashboard screen, System Freezes(Hangs).
Than I have to use Task Manager and kill SAP xMII session thread to close the application.
Did any body came across similar kind of experience or knows about the problem?
Help will be highly appreciated.
Regards
Raman

Raman
R using window.print() function for this or wat?
One important thing to remember
A printer friendly page is really just a page with text, no images, graphics, navigation or advertising.

Regards
Som

Fixed my SL freezes, hanging, beachball

After migrating from Leopard to Snow Leopard (10.6.2) about a month ago, I experienced a constant issue with hanging applications, sporadic freezes with a variety of applications.
I have gone through all the suggestions posted wrt to this issue and for me the following fix worked (so far...) rather perfect. My systems now runs as stable as it did using Leopard. Reinstalling, PRAMMING, VRAMMING, CleanUps, DiskUtility check, S.M.A.R.T. status checks & eventually just using TimeMachine restore did not solve my freeze/hanging/beachball issue
_My solution_: go to ~/Library/Internet Plug-Ins/
and put all the plugins you see there into a custom folder (I named mine SwitchedOff). Now move all the plugins to that folder and reboot. Well: now your browsers are decapitated, so I moved
Flash Player.plugin
flashplayer.xpt &
Silverlight.plugin
back into ~/Library/Internet Plug-Ins/
and restarted the browsers. (now enabling flash & silverlight video options)
Result: no more sporadic freezes, hangs, 30-60 secs. beachball phenomena and basically a stable steady OS I was used too.
FYI: I have not tested moving back the other Plugins into my ~/Library/Internet Plug-Ins/SwitchedOff folder. They now contain:
DivXBrowserPlugin.plugin
Flip4Mac WMV Plugin.plugin
Flip4Mac WMV Plugin.webplugin
Googletalkbrowser.plugin
iPhotoPhotocast.plugin
JavaPluginCocoa.bundle (an alias)
NP-PPC-Dir-Shockwave
npdivx.xpt
nsIQTScriptablePlugin.xpt
Quartz Composer.webplugin
QuickTime Plugin.plugin
XStandard.plugin
I will do some testing if re-adding these plugins recreate the freezes etc. but for now this solution works for me and will enjoy a freeze-less OS for now.

You're correct. BTW, these are installed on my SL machines and have never caused any issues for a year and a half (beta-tested SL):
DirectorShockwave.plugin
DivXBrowserPlugin.plugin
DRM Plugin.bundle
Flash Player.plugin
flashplayer.xpt
Flip4Mac WMV Plugin.plugin
Flip4Mac WMV Plugin.webplugin
Google Earth Web Plug-in.plugin
Installer Log File
iPhotoPhotocast.plugin
ipxBrowserPlugin
JavaPlugin2_NPAPI.plugin
JavaPluginCocoa.bundle
npdivx.xpt
nsIQTScriptablePlugin.xpt
Quartz Composer.webplugin
QuickTime Plugin.plugin
RealPlayer Plugin.plugin
SpeedDownload Browser Plugin.plugin

Excel 2013 freezes,hangs

Hi,
One of our Accounts team member's Excel freezes,hangs ( freezes suddenly when he is in middle of something) and has to close excel and reopen it. Cursor moves but few areas of the excel freezes and cannot click anything on the excel sheet.
Did anyone face this type of issue. Please suggest.
Is there a way to put performance counters on excel and see what is going on ?
Thanks

I am having the same problem:
let me share my answers to your questions:
Where did the member use the Excel file? Local disk, SharePoint, File server, or network shared disk?
LOCAL DISK
Does the issue occur in the special file or every file?
NO HAPPENS IN ANY FILE, EVEN A BLANK NEW FILE
Which Office version is the file created? Excel 2013 or early? If it is XLS format, please try to convert to XLSX to test.
NOT APPLICABLE. BOTH.
Does the file have some macros?
NO
Does the issue occur recently? If it is, have you installed some programs or update before you encountered it?
THE NEW 2013 EXCEL IS NEW AND NEVER WORKED WELL
Do you get some error message when Excel crashed?
NO. IT FREEZES FOR A MINUTE. THE NAME OF THE FILE BLINKS AT THE TOP AND THAN I GET ACESS TO THE FILE AGAIN. IF I NAVIGATE WITHOUT THE MOUSE NO ERROR OCOUR

Freezing/hanging when taking pictures and videos in i phone 4

freezing/hanging when taking pictures and videos in i phone 4 with flash on.

Hi Mister.
Let's try to answer your questions.
- The E5 does not have a red light when you take pictures.
- I don't know about battery life comparing with E6 and E72, just can say on the E5 is quite good. It has a 1200 mAh battery, you should check the others, but also the features of each one, i.e. the E6 is a touchscreen one, so it consumes more power.
- It has a notification white light, around the navigation button.
Regards.

ITunes 10.4.1 freeze (hang) when webradio stream drop out for any reason.

Hello,
My iTunes freeze (hang) when any webradio stream drop out for any reason; e.g. when ISP renews the IP, the radio station has limited the stream duration (as some do) per connection or wireless is cut off e.g. by closing the lid of the MacBook.
I've to force Quit then iTunes. If I wait (up to an hour for testing) no hung or crash report get generated, iTunes still stay unresponsive.
System: MacBook Pro 2011
OS: OS X 10.6.8 (Snow Leopard)
iTunes version: 10.4.1 (10)
iTunes 3rd Party add-on's: None
Any ideas out there?
Cheers - Lupunus

I will commiserate. I have this same issue. In some cases, the stream will stop and restart after 15-30 seconds; repeat. In other cases, the stream will stop, and iTunes will switch to the last radio station in that playlist. Then that station will play for a few minutes, and stop, and sometimes restart. But usually iTunes will hang (spinning beach ball) and must be force-quit.

Who do I stop the freezing hang-up or crashing,it happens daily while playing in FB.

In the last few weeks firefox keeps freezing, hanging up or crashing on me mostly while playing on FB. It will not let me close the page or get out of firefox. After I get it to close & I try to restart it ,it can take anywhere from 2-10 min. before it will reload. Ever at times; when I start up the computer, it can take 10/15min after I try to open firefox, for it to show up. I got a message the other day saying," skype was a malware & creating the problem" should I uninstall skype & reinstall it ? frankly I'm getting pretty much ticked off with this problem, & the meassage from firefox saying"well, this is embarassing" is not helping

This forum is for Firefox support. Since you say that Firefox is working but you are are having problems with installing or using other browsers (e.g. Chrome and Opera) your question is off-topic for this forum.
If you haven't had any success on those browser help forums, you could try a Windows forum, for example,
* answers.microsoft.com (Microsoft Community forums)
* sevenforums.com (Windows 7 Forums)
* windowsbbs.com
You could also try one of the Adobe forums at forums.adobe.com if you think your issue with other browsers is related to an Adobe product.

Windows Premier pro CS5 Program monitor freezes/hangs when video on sequence bar is playing

Hi all,
I have been experiencing program monitor freezes/hang while the audio and the video on sequence bar is still playing. This happens on both HD and SD projects. I have tried many ways but at time it works but at times does not work. i have updated CS5 to 5.02, updated the driver and also quicktime.
Hope someone can help me on this ! Appreciate it.!
This is a complete new system.
The specification as follows: INTEL(R) CORE(TM) i7CPU950@ 3.07GHz 3.56GHz
installed 12.0GB RAM
System at 64bit
Display driver using NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470.

Hi Dennis,
Thanks for the reply. I have updated the graphics driver on Nvidia website as well.It still does not work.
Under project settings: Video rendering and playback, i have both mercury playback engine GPU accelerator and mercury playback engine softway only. it is currently set as mercury playback engine GPU accelerator.
Thanks in advance

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