Hello, As per the Subject, I am having problems with the Finder menu and Dock not functioning at all when booting in normal mode. The system works fine in Safe Boot - holding down Shift key on start up.
I'm running 10.6.4 in a Mac Mini 2.53Ghz with 4Gb of RAM The problem is that that keyboard and mouse clicks become unresponsive in normal boot up mode. They work okay in Safe Boot, which indicates to me they are working fine hardware wise. Problem arose yesterday when machine wouldn't wake from sleep. I went through and disabled all the startup items under the user Account, ran Yasu a system repair utility. Taking on board the comments from a few weeks ago in the thread: >> Re: Strange Finder and OS behaviour and some resolutions I downloaded and ran AppleJack from Single User mode by pressing Command-S on startup. The result is unchanged. When I arrive at the login screen to select which user account - my main one and a Test account, the mouse cursor is visible and moves around, but the screen is unresponsive. The same thing happens if I reset the Account Login to automatically log into my main user account. The system starts up as one would expect, but the keyboard and mouse clicks are unresponsive - i.e the mouse moves, but there is no response to clicking. A forced shutdown is needed by holding in the Power button. In the WAMUG archive http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg59872.html referring to "Strange Finder and OS behaviour and some resolutions" the advice from Ronni was to performa a system reinstallation. Problem 2: The original system disks are still with the original owner of the Mac Mini. I "might" be able to contact him and find them, but finding him again is not so easy. The alternative, I am assuming, is to go buy a new OSX 10.6 disk. Any other options welcomed! Thanks Tim -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:[email protected]>
