thanks ronni and carlo for your replies - yup, niece in position again pb has 1.5 g ram - 47gb disc used and 73 free on the main partition. i forgot to say i have tried another account and it was fine for a while then got the quits. ditto from my spare partition.
i just ran memtest and it's coming back with quite a few failures - all data mismatch at bufa address. i don't know how serious these are, or how to tell which of the 2 ram sticks might be the culprit. A development - was strapping niece into bouncer and getting my other hand back and returned to find adobe crash reporter jumping up and down saying illustrator had quit but it has only half quit. It still has a triangle in the dock, though its windows have gone, and activity monitor says it is using 90% of CPU. This hasn't happened before and I don't know if it helps. Next stop Carlo's serious diagnostic regime. I don't really know what is unusual in a system log, but the crash reports often have corevideo and quicktime frameworks near the end. Will try permissions from the disc next many thanks alastair On 09/11/2011, at 12:27 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: > Hi Alastair, > > How much Memory do you have and how much Free space on your Hard > Drive? > > Have you checked in Activity Monitor.app to see what is actually > using active system resources in your system? > > Also check Console.app for any reports that might give you a clue > as to what is happening to cause the quits. > > Cheers, > Ronni > > 17" MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7 “Thunderbolt" > 2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD > > OS X 10.7.2 Lion > Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) > > > On 09/11/2011, at 11:11 AM, [email protected] wrote: > >> Hi all >> >> Been googling this till my fingers bleed and can't fix it. >> >> G4 powerbook 1.5 10.4.11 Applications keep quitting unexpectedly - >> worst culprits safari and illustrator CS2 - no use switching to >> firefox or camino; if safari is doing it, so do they. Sometimes i can >> go all day without quits, others it happens every 2 mins. if i repair >> permissions and restart things are usually ok for a while but problem >> soon returns. tried trashing plists and entire illustrator folder in >> application support, turning off plug-ins in safari, deactivating all >> but system fonts, run onyx and fsck. i'm running out of ideas! sorry >> about one hand typing - small niece on lap. >> >> your suggestions much appreciated >> kind regards >> alastair >> > > > > > > > > > > > > > Cheers, > Ronni > > 17" MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7 “Thunderbolt" > 2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD > > OS X 10.7.2 Lion > Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- 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> > Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/ > wamug.org.au-wamug> -- 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> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
