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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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