10.3: IrDA-compatible PowerBooks may have menubar issues

Oct 27, '03 10:42:00AM

Contributed by: sms

When I grabed my Panther install and updated 10.2.8, everything went fine with one very annoying exception: the menubar, and thus fast user switching, was unusable as the menubar was reloaded every three seconds or so. In Terminal, my ol' friend from Linux days, I discovered that systemUIserver was restarted over and over again. The frequency of its restarts reminded me of the frequency of the flashing IrDA icon when searching for a connection.

I opened ~/Library -> Preferences -> com.apple.systemuiserver.plist and deleted the line containing "IrDA." When I turned on the IrDA display in menubar in System Prefs, the error reappeared, and I could only turn it off via editing the .plist file.

My System: PB Ti 500. Otherwise Panther installed fine on an iBook 800 (update from 10.2.3) and an iMac 233 (clean install).

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