On 2010/12/01 08:34, Bruce Johnson so eloquently wrote:
On Nov 30, 2010, at 8:53 PM, Tina K. wrote:
I've had the same problems on all three of my Macs, and all three
behaved very well under Tiger. I do run Applejack monthly in both
manual and deep clean modes, and I have run memtest on all three
with no problems reported. So I've learned to live with it,
knowing that safe boots would temporarily stop the failed logout
cycle is a big help (thanks again to whomever told me about
this).
Well, you have to look at what's in common on all of them that's
doing this. I looked, my laptop's been up 52 days. No crashes from
Mail. A bunch of crash logs for Safari, but those are all from me
force-quitting out of flash-related SPODS.
The iMac now runs linux but the other two both run BOINC and Little
Snitch at boot.
Applejack (like Diskwarrior) is a 'use when it's broken' thing, not a
maintenance thing...OS X is largely maintenance-free.
I mainly do that to clean caches and swap, and to check prefs. Is
running disk repair and permission repair as well harmful to the system?
But then I used to wait until I had a problem to run DW, now I run it
about every three months to try and keep the directory from getting
corrupted.
Seriously, I NEVER do any of this stuff to any of my Macs; and it's
not like I treat 'em with kid gloves or anything.
It's still annoying but now that I know the fix, albeit temporary, it's
not as frustrating as it used to be.
Check the system log for what happens when you try and fail to log
out...it should tell you if something's preventing it.
I did look at the log some time ago, I didn't see anything revealing but
I will recheck it when this occurs again.
Tina
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