On 13 jan 2011, at 23.33, Jeff Weinberger wrote: > The symptom is that when it wakes up (by opening the clamshell), the right > side of the menu bar is unresponsive (spinning beachball when I cursor there, > but not everywhere else). > > The clock shows the time it did when it went to sleep (I closed it), and it > won't reconnect to the network. > > Apps that were running work fine (with the exception of System Preferences > and Activity Monitor, if they were running), but apps won't launch (they look > like they do - dock icon bounces - but the never open their windows). > > I can't log out or shut down or restart from the apple menu (I can make the > choices, but it doesn't happen).
I'd suspect a hardware error, perhaps the airport card. The SystemUIServer process controls all of the widgets in the top-right of your menu bar, so if one of them gets stuck (trying to get the status out of your broken hardware component), all of them gets stuck. This would also be why you can't shutdown / reboot. Open your Applications/Utilities/Console.app and check for error logs around the time when you see this issue. If you have any third party "extensions" / "haxies" I'd disable them for as long time as it takes to diagnose this issue. Reinstalling the OS could fix something like this, or if not, time to take your machine to your local Apple Store / service center. j o a r _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
