Why it takes a long time for my MacBook Air to turn on?
I brought my MacBook Air at a Power Mac Center to fix vertical lines on the screen. The vertical lines were removed. But since then, when I turn on my laptop, it takes a long time before it actually turns on. Sometimes, after pressing the power button, something seems to run at the upper left corner of the keyboard (near the power adapter) but it takes me practically hours before it actually turns on.
And when it is turned on already, I observed some unusual behaviors happening:
- Sometimes, while it is turned on, the battery status in the menu bar looks operating normally, but after a while, the trackpad will no longer work until the battery status says, "No Battery Available" and "Power source: Power Adapter".
- Sometimes, several horizontal lines appear on the screen then after a while the laptop will hang up.
- Sometimes, the sound sounds abnormal then after a while the sound no longer operates, and when I check the Sound at the System Preferences, it says, "No input devices found"
- Several applications do not work anymore, like Calendar, TextEdit, Reminder, Facetime, Preview and others.
Please help me figure out the problem. I cannot use my laptop as regular as before. I can no longer catch up with paper work deadlines because of these problems.
Please, help me. I need an immediate response so I could try to fix the problem because I need to use my laptop right away. Pls help.
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I have a MacBook White (13-inch, Mid 2009) that isn't unibody, and was running Leopard 10.5.
I did a clean installation and now Snow Leopard 10.6.2, with iLife, iWork, and many many apps.
I am the only one who will use the Mac and my user account is as the 'admin'.
I previously had a problem concerning X11 too:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2343732
*What I've done:*
(1) rename my HD to 'Michaels_Home' under 'Get Info' from Finder (I can't rename in Disk Utility though)
(2) press return (enter)
(3) change my home folder path to the '/Volumes/Michaels_Home/Users/Michael' (http://eshop.macsales.com/Reviews/Framework.cfm?page=Tips/relocate3/relocate3.ht ml)
(4) restart
(5) log in and open X11
(6) problem solved!!
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*BUT NOW* I have a problem after:
(1) log in as the root user, and use command +ditto -V xyz xyz+ to copy my home folder from '/Volumes/Michaels_Home/Users/Michael' to '/Users>Michael'
(2) change my home folder path to the '/Users/Michael' (http://eshop.macsales.com/Reviews/Framework.cfm?page=Tips/relocate3/relocate3.ht ml)
(3) use the Mac OS X Snow Leopard USD$29 disc to boot my Mac up
(4) delete the 'Michaels_Home' partition (I had 3 partitions: (1) Macintosh HD (2) Michaels_Home (3) Windows XP Professional)
(5) resize the 'Macintosh HD' partition
(6) boot from Macintosh HD
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_The problem:_
it takes a *long time* for X11 to start.
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Jumping and jumping... finally, it doesn't jump any more, with just the X11 icon on the dock.
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I right-clicked the icon, it shows me 'application not responding'.
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(1) X11
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*At the moment now, if you would wait for about 1.5 min., X11 will open.*
Please see below for the system log (from 'FREEZING' to 'WORKING')
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Mar 1 00:42:10 n219073058253 [0x0-0x22022].org.x.X11[327]: X11.app: main(): argc=2
Mar 1 00:42:10 n219073058253 [0x0-0x22022].org.x.X11[327]: argv[0] = /Applications/Utilities/X11.app/Contents/MacOS/X11.bin
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Mar 1 00:42:10 n219073058253 org.x.privileged_startx[344]: font_cache: Scanning system font directories to generate X11 font caches
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Mar 1 00:42:14 n219073058253 org.x.privileged_startx[344]: font_cache: Done
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Mar 1 00:42:51 n219073058253 org.x.startx[335]: xauth: timeout in locking authority file /Users/Michael/.Xauthority
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Mar 1 00:43:31 n219073058253 org.x.startx[335]: xauth: timeout in locking authority file /Users/Michael/.Xauthority
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Mar 1 00:43:51 n219073058253 [0x0-0x22022].org.x.X11[327]: X11.app: dostart_x11server(): argc=6
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Mar 1 00:43:51 n219073058253 [0x0-0x22022].org.x.X11[327]: argv[3] = tcp
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Mar 1 00:43:51 n219073058253 [0x0-0x22022].org.x.X11[327]: argv[5] = /Users/Michael/.serverauth.335
Mar 1 00:43:51 n219073058253 org.x.startx[335]: Xquartz: Handoff connection established (try 1 of 5) on fd 6, "/var/tmp/tmp.0.9OYerf". Sending message.
Mar 1 00:43:51 n219073058253 org.x.startx[335]: Xquartz: Message sent. Closing handoff fd.
Mar 1 00:43:51 n219073058253 [0x0-0x22022].org.x.X11[327]: Xquartz starting:
Mar 1 00:43:51 n219073058253 [0x0-0x22022].org.x.X11[327]: X.Org X Server 1.4.2-apple45
Mar 1 00:43:51 n219073058253 [0x0-0x22022].org.x.X11[327]: Build Date: 20090705
Mar 1 00:43:51 n219073058253 [0x0-0x22022].org.x.X11[327]: (EE) XKB: Couldn't open rules file /usr/X11/share/X11/xkb/rules/base
Mar 1 00:43:54: --- last message repeated 1 time ---
Mar 1 00:43:54 n219073058253 [0x0-0x22022].org.x.X11[327]: X11.app Handing off fd to server thread via DarwinListenOnOpenFD(6)
Mar 1 00:43:54 n219073058253 [0x0-0x22022].org.x.X11[327]: DarwinListenOnOpenFD: 6
Mar 1 00:43:54 n219073058253 [0x0-0x22022].org.x.X11[327]: Calling ListenOnOpenFD() for new fd: 6
Mar 1 00:43:54 n219073058253 [0x0-0x22022].org.x.X11[327]: X11.app: Launching /usr/X11/bin/xterm:
Mar 1 00:43:54 n219073058253 [0x0-0x22022].org.x.X11[327]: argv[0] = /bin/sh
Mar 1 00:43:54 n219073058253 [0x0-0x22022].org.x.X11[327]: argv[1] = -c
Mar 1 00:43:54 n219073058253 [0x0-0x22022].org.x.X11[327]: argv[2] = /usr/X11/bin/xterm
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I quit the X11:
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Mar 1 00:45:45 n219073058253 [0x0-0x22022].org.x.X11[327]: Quitting Xquartz...
Mar 1 00:45:45 n219073058253 org.x.startx[335]: /usr/X11/bin/xinit: connection to X server lost.
Mar 1 00:45:45 n219073058253 org.x.startx[335]: waiting for X server to shut down
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AFTER quitting X11, I can see something related X11 is stilling running:
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Mar 1 00:46:06 n219073058253 org.x.startx[335]: xauth: timeout in locking authority file /Users/Michael/.Xauthority
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So what actually causes this problem?
Thanks in advance!It turns out that there's something wrong about permissions.
Here's the fix:
(1) log in as the +root user+
(2) type +chown -R Michael:staff ~Michael+
(3) log out the +root user+
(4) log in your account
(5) done!
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