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Double force-quit glitch traced to loginwindow plist System
For the past couple of months, my machine has required two force quit operations from the dock to actually kill an app. This started to get on my nerves, and tonight I went hunting for it. All I can really say is that removing the loginwindow.plist file from ~/Library/Preferences/ and logging out and in, then redoing my list of auto launch apps fixed it. Also, this fixed EscapePod, which hasn't worked for a couple of weeks.

I hope this can save somebody some frustration.
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Double force-quit glitch traced to loginwindow plist
Authored by: ppp on Mar 03, '04 03:02:59PM

This corrected both problems (double force-quit and escape pod) for me once, and then the problem returned.



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Double force-quit glitch traced to loginwindow plist
Authored by: ShaZaaM on Apr 16, '04 05:50:58AM

I am PLAGUED by this problem. Restart, Shut Down and Reboot do nothing from the Apple menu and I need to sudo reboot from the terminal. Also when I try to access the Desk Top & Screen Savers preference pane, the system preferences hang. Theres only minor inconveniences but I'm wondering if thisis the left overs of a font problem I was having or if these are symptoms to a greater, imminent and significantly more dangerous Mac os x fiasco??

Anyone else recognise this?
Can you help?

When I trash the loginwindow.plist everything is sweet again but something seems to be corrupting it after a while and I don't have enough experience with the os x engines to know what to look for.



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