On Sep 24, 5:06 pm, billycarmacs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On two occasions, since upgrading to 10.5.5, my Finder seems to have
> gotten into something that keeps it terribly, Beachball Spinning,
> busy ...
>
> First time facts escape me .... but I think maybe it was Spotlight
> working ...
>
> Today, I moved / installed a Seagate 80GB hard drive from my PowerPC
> 8500 PCI ATA channel into an External Oxford FW case I used to have a
> PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-106D drive in (but moved that one to my QS since
> it's internal one was failing ... both the same model from 2003) ...
>
> When it came up on the Desktop, I did a Get Info .... then my Finder
> just went into Busy Mode ... I could open and play iTunes things, open
> Mail and look around, but couldn't close them ... each got stuck being
> partially closed ... and then there's the spinning beachball when I
> navigate to the Desktop ...
>
> Any hints on what happened?
>
> Couldn't open Activity Monitor to see what was going on ....
>
> Bill Connelly
> Musician and Painter
> artsite:http://mysite.verizon.net/moonstoneartstudio/
> myspace:http://www.myspace.com/moonstoneartstudio
Yes, I've been getting that, too. On my last generation PowerBook,
I've also had repeated kernel panics at the point after login when all
the stuff is started. Looking in CrashReporter log tipped me to
syslogd. Activity Monitor showed this process hogging 80-100%
processor. This is not a new bug (just new to me), and has been
documented since the testing versions of Leopard. The goog found me
this page:
http://www.spockboy.com/blog/archives/8
where I did:
Firstly, stop syslogd
sudo launchctl unload com.apple.syslogd.plist
Open up the syslogd.plist file for launchd:
sudo vi /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.syslogd.plist
Find the following line (on an unmodified version, line 23):
<string>/usr/sbin/syslogd</string>
Add these lines after:
<string>-c</string>
<string>0</string>
Start syslogd again:
sudo launchctl load com.apple.syslogd.plist
It's working so far - processor is down around 20-30% with the normal
4-5 apps running, and the system feels responsive again.
Good luck,
V Mabus
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