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Diagnosing a menubar crash / lock-up problem
Authored by: monickels on Nov 04, '03 11:37:26AM

Me too. Let me elaborate: On more than one occasion when waking my iBook 800 (640MB/30GB with no peripherals attached, but at least once I may have been using the Airport card when this happened), I have been presented with the password screen, which, after entering my password, does not disappear, but only gives me the spinning beachball.

I have not tried to wait it out and see if it the beachball goes away and the desktop appears as it should, at least, not longer than four or five minutes, which is the limit to my patience. Given journaling, a force reboot should be less dangerous than it used to be, right? And add that to the faster boot times, then rebooting is faster and nearly as safe as just waiting. After reboot, there is nothing in the logs and no core dump. I have not tried to diagnose it further because it happens only rarely, five times since installing Panther on Thursday.



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Panther has major MENUBAR BUGS! PCMCIA card insertion crashes systemuiserver
Authored by: PlowD on Nov 04, '03 02:04:38PM

I have had a similar problem with the menu bar and the systemUIserver. Mine occurred when plugging a compact flash PCMCIA card into the side slot of a PB667 (preDVI). When you plug a card into slot, it appears on the desktop and in the menu bar.... as soon as it appears in the menu bar, systemuiserver starts using 80+% of the processor and cannot be quit... I also cannot log out. To end the process I must force a restart with the power button. Furthermore, when the card is inserted, passing the mouse over the card icon in the menu bar produces a spinning beachball... all of this this is a real bummer because I use the card to import digital pictures.

Anyway, in light of my problem and the others mentioned on this site, I think this is an official nasty BUG in panther. (there are too many causes--PCMCIA cards, firewire cables, menu add ons...) Basically, something is screwed up with the menu bar...

for the record, I only display apple system items in my menu bar (ie. bluetooth, airport, volume and power and clock.) and I tried turning them all off and the same problem occurred when the card was inserted and appeared in the menu....

Panther has menu problems!



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Panther has major MENUBAR BUGS! PCMCIA card insertion crashes systemuiserver
Authored by: asher on Nov 04, '03 02:57:01PM

I had the same problem with the same setup as you. Did you notice there were error messages in the console log when you insert the pc card. But I had these problems in Jaguar. All seem fixed in Panther. The pc card is recognized faster than ever, no messages in the console log, no panics.



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