>Hi, > >Does anyone else find that machines getting 'stuck' if Fast User >Switching (OS X 10.3) is used while an Apple installer is "Optimizing >System Performance"? Basically, the system gets stuck on its blank blue >screen while switching. I can't remember if this is before or after the >'3-d cube' effect. Anyone know how to recover from this situation >without pressing the hardware reset button? I'm yet to see whether the >systems "come back" after "optimisation" has finished, but I seem to >recall that they don't.
Try ssh'ing in from another machine - patience is a virtue, the CPU is occupied! - and killing off first the prebinding process, then loginwindow.app, and then SystemUIServer.app. The GUI will be restarted, and it will kill any apps you were running, but it is kinder to the filesystem than a hardware reset. A little drastic, but in that state there simply isn't much of a way to interact with GUI applications. Ryan
