Startup issues. Alredy tried fixes from other posts

*Problem started with an un-forcequitable freeze in the finder.
*After restart, screen hung on gray apple screen then fans revved.
*Forced to boot on OSX 10.4 install disk.
*Disk Utility verified the main os drive, then hung up verifying the volume.
*Booted on apple hardware test. The comprehensive test revealed no problems.
*Option button on restart reveals os intall disk, main os drive, and techtool edrive.
*Startup on all of these results in the same gray apple freeze and subsequent fan revving.
*Already tried the little button next to the ram, holding down power button untill hearing that special tone, and unplugging every thing for five minutes before restarting.
Sooooo.......Is there anything else I can try before I have to bring it in some where????
-Desperate, and Confused

Use SuperDuper and keep more backups.
Run Alsoft Disk Warrior regularly, and always before doing any updates, patches, or installing something new.
Those two will go a long way. There are also some other utilities that can help, Leopard(Tiger) Cache Cleaner and MicroMat TechTool Pro 5, are two more.
And make sure you have two extra boot drives, a backup of your working set, perhaps from before last update even, an "emergency" boot drive that is lean and has only minimum and used just for running repairs and such, nothing else.

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Hello all
My i-tunes 6 will not open on my computer. A few times at one point it flashed the user agreement and then died. It does appear in my windows task manager but only for a few seconds. I know some peopple have suggested a malware problem. I have been working with my brother, who makes a lving fixing other people's computers, and we cannot seem to isolate the malicious program causing the problem. There is an application in the msconfig utility that is called "qxjj" that will not delete. We believe this is the problem. I was wondering if anyone had encountered this particular program before and if they knew how to get rid of it. Ewido, spybot and microsoft anti-spyware have not appeared to get rid of it. Any help would be appreciated.

gaah. i think you and your brother have correctly diagnosed the problem.
there's a Qoologic variant that has been causing "error-less" itunes launch failure since late October. it's associated with the "license screen flash" symptom. it also drops randomly-generated-4-and-6-letter-name startup items in people's PCs.
Ewido and AdAware have typically been getting rid of it for people, so it's a bit disturbing that they aren't touching it in your case. however, we also have a "manual" removal technique that has been working for people. let's see if Dave's technique works for you:
Dave’s manual removal technique for the Qoologic variant
keep us posted.
love, b

Hi all, i can't sync over wifi between my iPhone 4 and Windows 7 64 bit, wifi sync works with the same phone and my Windows 8 machine, tried solutions from other threads with no luck, just thought i'd see if anyone else had any ideas, thanks.

Hi all, i can't sync over wifi between my iPhone 4 and Windows 7 64 bit, wifi sync works with the same phone and my Windows 8 machine so the problem seems confined to Windows 7. I've tried solutions from other threads -
Making sure everything is allowed through firewall
Rebooting phone/laptop/router
Disabling ipv6
Disabling all networks except the one curently on
Re-installing iTunes
Restoring iPhone
No luck with any of those unfortunately so i just thought i'd see if anyone else is still without wifi sync after trying those as well and if you ever found a fix, thanks.

I just wanted to leave a note that it's working now. I'm not sure if it was the latest iTunes update that got it working or that i decided to start a new library instead of using the one i had backed up on Windows 8 (it didn't occur to me to check using the old library when i re-installed iTunes). But if anyone is having this problem, it might be worth trying again with a new installation of iTunes to see if the latest update works for you, and if not, try using a fresh library instead of a backup (by fresh library i mean discard your old library completely and start a new library, not just restore as new iPhone, a whole new library).

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I am now receiving 3 sunfire 4800 machine from others, but I am afraid that someone hide some hack program in this machine, I will check crontab ,at and using sshd,tcp_wrapper to reinforce it ,Can you told me others ? Thanks !

Never trust anyone. Install the box yourself. And use Sun Management Center to monitor it when you are done.

Stuck in Warranty Limbo - Need RMA for MFG limited warranty - Z10 Black Screen - USB not recognized (yes I've tried all the tips from other posts)

Here's to hoping a Blackberry employee reads this and can help me out.
I'm stuck in warranty limbo with my unlocked Z10. Bought new off Amazon.ca beginning of April-2014. While on Vacation the phone blue screened and died. It's outside of the online retailers 90 day exchange policy, in which case all I have left is the manufacturers limited warranty. Tried to contact Blackberry and they directed me to my carrier Telus, even though I did not purchase the phone through them. Telus was very helpful, we worked through troublshooting together, but unfortunately got to the same conclusion that the phone needs to go back for a hardware issue. They kindly offerred to RMA the phone for me through their system, however since I did not purchase the phone through them and it is an unlocked world phone it does not recognize the IMEI so they couldn't complete the process for me. There is absolutely no luck getting any help through any of the multiple Blackberry phone numbers I've called. Any help sorting this out would be much appreciated. I will drive the phone to the office in Waterloo if need be.

You're probably going to have to drive the phone to Waterloo.
Here's the situation: You bought the phone from Amazon which has a 90-day exchange warranty. That's mistake #1. Then you registered the phone for service on Telus' network but the phone wasn't purchased from them so they won't honor any warranty claims (which is their right because they didn't make any money from your purchase of the phone from them). You're in a catch-22 situation. There's really nothing I can advise you to do except buy your next phone from the carrier with which you have monthly service.
Not much help but that's how I see it. Perhaps others can enlighten me with a different point of view. Cheers.
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GuitarCable help. Tried all possibilites from other posts...

Hi - I am trying to use the Griffin guitar cable with GB2. I get no input from my guitar (tried 2 different guitars with the levels up). I have switched the System Preferences->Sound->Input and still nothing. The little EQ that shows the level of sound in the pref screen sits idle. Both the cable and my laptop are new. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
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On machines with a sound in port isn't there a sound in option?
Not in GB itself, its only options are Built-in, or any device you may have attached. You change whether the Mac considers the Mic or Line-In as it's "built-in" via System Prefs, but if you read the first message, he says he did that already.
Garageband defaults to the built in mike.
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Can't get Firefox to load at all after trying fixes from support web site. Have checked for lock file, processes running, reboot, reinstall. NO JOY.

I'm running Vista for operating system on an HP laptop that's about 2 years old. I've installed all current updates.
I've always used Firefox. It started crashing and creating processes but not launching. Went to support and scoped it out -- there was a lock file my profile directory. I deleted it, and Firefox started loading.
Used it a few times -- closed the app each time on exist as per suggestions on support site info. One time -- back to square one, wouldn't load, just created a process. Reboot, ending process, checking for lock file, reinstalling -- all unsucessful.

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Below is from using a SIP build. It does offer G722, but it's way down on the list so it's never used...
m=audio 32678 RTP/AVP 0 8 18 102 9 116 101
a=rtpmap:0 PCMU/8000
a=rtpmap:8 PCMA/8000
a=rtpmap:18 G729/8000
a=fmtp:18 annexb=no
a=rtpmap:102 L16/16000
a=rtpmap:9 G722/8000
a=rtpmap:116 iLBC/8000
a=fmtp:116 mode=20
a=rtpmap:101 telephone-event/8000
Taking Sreekanth's suggestion to try a Skinny build, I get the following when I make a call. It offers codecs in the order I SET THEM AND ONLY THE CODECS I SET! YAY!
m=audio 19374 RTP/AVP 9 0 101
a=rtpmap:9 G722/8000
a=fmtp:9 bitrate=64
a=rtpmap:0 PCMU/8000
a=rtpmap:101 telephone-event/8000
Using a Skinny build on the phones also solved other issues. The phones use G711 when the whole path supports G711 and G722 when the whole path supports G722. It doesn't always use G722 and rely on transcoding for the call paths that can't use it. It's fantastic.. The phones also receive the QoS tagging that I set and that seems to result in better audio quality than on the SIP builds, which never did get those settings. Finally, it even solved a slow Exchange 2013 answer issue I have been experiencing for quite some time. I practically fell out of my chair when I saw everything that was fixed just by switching...
Cisco, PLEASE FIX YOUR SIP BUILDS! It's insane how the SCCP builds work perfectly and the SIP builds don't, especially with how much these phones cost.. I was thinking of possibly acquiring some 9951s, which are SIP only. I'm a little leery about that at this point. If they have the same kinds of issues as the SIP builds for the 7975g, there's no SCCP alternative to use..
Sreekanth
Thank you for suggesting a Skinny build.. That was about the only thing I didn't try. I am happy beyond belief that this is working so well now, even though the SIP builds should be just as well developed as the SCCP ones.

Shut down and restart hangup - tried advise from other posto, still no luck

Hi
IBook G4
54GB HD, (22GB free)
OSX 10.4.11
Disk permissions have been repaired with disk utility
Diskwarrior has been run while the machine was in Target mode
So, on shutdown/restart, it hangs with a beachball and won't shut down. A workaround that works is closing the lid, opening it again, and it shuts down without the need to use a hard power-button shutdown.
Any ideas how to solve this?

Hi Chester,
First, Safe Boot , (holding Shift key down at bootup), off the HD & use Disk Utility from there to Repair Permissions, see if the problem exists in Safe Mode.
How much free space on the HD, btw?
I think you should get Applejack...
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/19596
After installing, reboot holding down CMD+s, then when the DOS like prompt shows, type in...
applejack AUTO
Then let it do all 5 of it's things.
At least it'll eliminate some questions if it doesn't fix it.
The 5 things it does are...
Correct any Disk problems.
Repair Permissions.
Clear out Cache Files.
Repair/check several plist files.
Dump the VM files for a fresh start.
First reboot will be slower, sometimes 2 or 3 restarts will be required for full benefit... my guess is files relying upon other files relying upon other files!
Disconnect the USB cable from any UPS so the system doesn't shut down in the middle of the process.

Bizarre Airport woes (different from other posts)

Hi everyone. I did a big search before posting and didn't find any posts that exhibited these particular behaviors, so I thought to post here.
Airport on my MacBook Pro (core duo) has recently stopped working every few days. The following happens, apparently with no real direct cause;
- Internet connection no longer works, though it says it's connected to my access point.
- No other wifi points show up (normally there are 8 or so).
- Bars drop to 4; normally it is 5 and strong, but immediately drops to 4 when it no longer works.
- Disabling Airport and re-enabling it doesn't work. The only solution I've found is restarting my mac!
I've tried standard mac troubleshooting methods (disk permissions, disabled extra network features, etc.) and nothing has resulted in a change. Every few days the connection is just gone and nothing seems to bring it back except for a reboot.
Some specs;
- Wireless Card Type: AirPort Extreme (0x168C, 0x86)
- Wireless Card Firmware Version: 0.1.31.1 (the latest?)
Also, I'm seeing this in the console log every few hours or so, but I don't know what is causing it, or if it's related to this problem:
launchproxy[7893]: /usr/sbin/smbd: getnameinfo(): Non-recoverable failure in name resolution
Can anyone help? Obi-won? Bueller?
Macbook Pro 15" Mac OS X (10.4.9) 2GB Ram, Glossy, just beautiful...

It happens to me regularly as well. Usually late in the evening / night:
1/ internet would slow down to a crawl and then the connection would go off completely.
2/ no other wi-fi point would show up
3/ applications regularly connected to the internet (typically Skype and Mail) would start showing the beach-ball, force quitting them would not work
4/ no new applications would start up
5/ the system would become unresponsive
6/ "hard" shut down would have to be performed
The sequence happens almost every evening. Tonight it was the first time that a kernel panic was announced:
Thu May 17 02:32:41 2007
panic(cpu 0 caller 0x0035C30A): freeing free mbuf
Backtrace, Format - Frame : Return Address (4 potential args on stack)
0x2504ba08 : 0x128d08 (0x3cb134 0x2504ba2c 0x131de5 0x0)
0x2504ba48 : 0x35c30a (0x3eb914 0x0 0x2504bb28 0x39ee89)
0x2504ba68 : 0x35c6aa (0x36f2c200 0x8 0x2504bab8 0x1)
0x2504ba88 : 0xa52dd6 (0x36f2c200 0x0 0x20 0x0)
0x2504bbf8 : 0xa530f9 (0x236962c8 0x23698140 0x2504bc48 0x37e1000)
0x2504bd38 : 0xa5ed80 (0x23699004 0x0 0x2504bd78 0x37d0c84)
0x2504beb8 : 0xa31ce3 (0x236964bc 0xab0764 0x2504bed8 0x19e23a)
0x2504bf48 : 0xa303fa (0x3e0b004 0x0 0x2504bfc8 0x199ef1)
0x2504bf78 : 0x13d7d9 (0x3e0b494 0x3e0b004 0x2504bfc8 0x3993f0)
0x2504bfc8 : 0x19ac1c (0x0 0x0 0x19e0b5 0x3911364) Backtrace terminated-invalid frame pointer 0x0
Kernel loadable modules in backtrace (with dependencies):
com.apple.driver.AirPortAtheros(223.47.4)@0xa2f000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IONetworkingFamily(1.5.1)@0x6c4000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.2)@0x59d000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IO80211Family(154.1)@0x88b000
Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 8.9.1: Thu Feb 22 20:55:00 PST 2007; root:xnu-792.18.15~1/RELEASE_I386
It seems like a problem with the AirPort driver or even possibly AirPort card.
Any help or info with this would be highly welcomed. It is most frustrating, highly predictable, and smells too much of Windows.
Hardware details:
Machine Name: Mac
Machine Model: MacBookPro2,2
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2.16 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache (per processor): 4 MB
Memory: 2 GB
Bus Speed: 667 MHz
Boot ROM Version: MBP22.00A5.B01
SMC Version: 1.12f5
Serial Number: W87110RYW0K
Sudden Motion Sensor:
State: Enabled
AirPort Express WiFi router.
One additional possibly related observation is that the ammount of used inactive memory seems to be unusually high at all times, reaching 1.3GB in a few minutes after reboot.
Grega
P.S.: PowerBook G4 February 2005 model worked in the same environment without a hitch.
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ITUNES 7 Still won't open, even after trying solutions from other topics

I have tried the following things:
Uninstall/Reinstall
Quicktime as a stand alone
Virus protection off
Trying to start Itunes with a CD
System Reboot.
None of these things have worked. Can anyone help me.

Okay,
I HAVE FOUND A WORKAROUND
This is definitely not a solution, and Apple needs to address this problem immediately, but this will do it until they pull the proverbial lead out of their proverbial apple-holes...
Right-click on the iTunes shortcut, and select "Run As"
Run it as a different user, such as Administrator. If you do not have any other users, go to Control Panel > Users and make a new user.
If you run it as a different user, it seems to work fine...
Note: The iTunes Music Library is different per user, so you may need to import all of your music again
Rick

What are some active IRC (Internet Relay Chat) Channels where people can discuss Oracle related issues and seek support from other Oracle users?

I know of #Oracle on Freenode, but it isn't very active, I was hoping to find some that are more active.
Thanks,
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IRC and the Oracle discussion forum are complete different things. One is live chat, the later is the exchange of written communication. I think the Oracle community will be your best option. It depends what you are looking for, which you did not outline. IRC is a dinosaur from the last century, which has a bad reputation in regard to security standards and hence is often blocked by corporate networks. For instance, because IRC connections are usually unencrypted and typically span long time periods, they are an attractive target for Dos/DDos attackers.

Devour - Can't Receive Texts from other Carriers

Lately i've been having issues with receiving texts from other Carriers. I've already reset my phone multiple times, both hard and soft. All applications were deleted, i deleted conversations, wiped all conversations, re-texted the person, and tested who gets what.
Basically in a nutshell,
T-Mobile, i can occasionally get texts from.
Sprint, AT&T, Virgin, and any and all subsidiaries of forementioned carriers send replies i cannot get.
Every carrier can receive my message. i cannot receive theirs.
Verizon does work - for send and receive.
voicemails do work, i can leave one, and they can call me.
i've tested every method suggested over and over. im at the end of my rope. My job requires that my phone can receive messages from the employees and bosses, and all of them aren't Verizon-based. Somebody, please help. No, getting a new phone isn't feasible, and all my other phones are broken, except this one...and this was the first phone i actually owned three years ago.

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Buying from other iTunes music stores

Does anyone know whether it is possible to buy from iTunes in other countries? I'm located in Australia and can only buy a limited range of the music I like. The UK iTunes store seems much better suited to the stuff that interests me. Is there any legal issues, known problems buying from other stores?
Cheers!

Yes, it's legal issues. Read more here.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=121779

I have been trying to get my ibook g4 fixed from apple for 6 years now. my ram doesnt work and the logic board is f'd up aswell... i know 12 people that have had the same issue. 4 of them got there ibooks replaced. anyone know what to do?

i have been trying to get my ibook g4 fixed from apple for 6 years now. my ram doesnt work and the logic board is f'd up aswell... i know 12 people that have had the same issue. 4 of them got there ibooks replaced. anyone know what to do? all 4 ibooks were replaced outside warranty, why wont apple help me...

Apple supports most of their computer products for a 7 year period, could be that your IBook is well past any kind of help.Secondly parts are no longer being made for this machine and never will be again. Finally I find it hard to believe that nothing has been done with this for 6 years.Have you documented the reasons why you were turned down for repairs ? were the replaced Ibooks within a couple of months of warranty expiration? What model is your IBook ? At least if we knew what the model #, some of the more techy types could find out if there were any repair programs for your model.
Seems odd that you'd hang on to a non-working IBook for that long.

Have any ideas re: G5 startup issues? Long post...

My dual processor G5 (purchased Jan. 2005) is in the shop, and, of course, out of warranty. It's been down for over two weeks. Here is the story of its demise:
Installed 10.4.9 upgrade. Began having "launch systems" and crashdump/usb crash errors thereafter. Not a lot of info online regarding these problems, so I decided to do an archive and re-install of my system software.
Started having intermittent problems restarting the G5. Either it would chime, but not kick on the monitor, chime and kick on the monitor but hang at the grey apple startup screen, or not chime at all, with which only the fans would come on. Apple Extended Hardware Test came back OK. Still had problems after removing my USB devices.
Problems continued after the reinstall of the system software, eventually to the point where I could not even boot from a CD. When the G5 did operate, after a short period of use it would freeze, and I would have to force a restart and pray it would boot up completely. It would reliably freeze after waking it from sleep, but also froze in iPhoto and Finder as well.
I have tried resetting the PMU and the PRAM with no improvement. Took it to an Apple Authorized Service Center, luckily only a couple miles from where I work. They tried booting with the Apple RAM only, then the third party RAM only, no improvement. Hard drive was completely reformatted and system reinstalled, no improvement. I am waiting to hear what else they've tried.
My G5's serial # falls outside of those involved with the power supply issues. Yet, could this be a possibility? Any other ideas as to what the problem could be, or has anyone had similar issues?
I freelance as a graphic designer and this has me in a panic. Now using the hubby's Intel iMac to run CS2 and it's a drag.
Thanks in advance.

Hi and thanks for the input. I just spoke to the Apple service guy and he still insists there is not a hardware issue. Apparently there is an Apple technical doc, available only to authorized techs, that refers to this particular issue, and the fix is a download and install (firmware, perhaps?) He has to contact Apple and confirm my G5 is within the serial # range for this particular fix.
That's my best interpretation of our discussion. He was rather cryptic. But he says it's not the power supply.
I did an archive and install because, like an idiot, I did not have anything backed up at that point. After that failed, I used up my stash of DVDs and copied gigs to our iMac until the G5 gave out. I had run the hardware test several times and each time came back clean.
Permissions were repaired before and after updates; had it freeze a couple times mid-update. Tried booting in safe mode and single-user mode and still had the same startup issues.
To add insult to injury, I purchased a LaCie Porsche external drive as an eventual backup drive whenever the G5 returns. Hooked it up to our iMac to backup the items I saved off the G5. It failed after the second use. Returned for replacement.
Thanks.
G5 Dual 2.5 MHz Mac OS X (10.4.8)

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