{"id":74,"date":"2005-11-18T09:07:23","date_gmt":"2005-11-18T14:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikew.ca\/wp\/?p=74"},"modified":"2025-01-16T04:11:41","modified_gmt":"2025-01-16T04:11:41","slug":"more-on-the-odd-mac-behavior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/?p=74","title":{"rendered":"More on the odd Mac behavior"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>So the problem occurred again. When I went down to look at the machine this morning, I saw the following things:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Backup open with the &#8220;I&#8217;m about to back something up&#8221; dialog visible and the auto-start count at 0 (i.e. ready to go), but not running<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Backup, Adium and iChat all flagged as &#8220;Not Responding&#8221; in the Force Quit dialog<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>When I&#8217;m in this state, if I force quite all three apps, then attempt to shutdown, the Mac shuts down to the &#8220;grey screen with progress spinner&#8221; stage, then stays there forever. I actually have to power it off and on to continue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The thing is, there are several possible sources of the problem:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>the 10.4.3 upgrade<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>switching to use the UA-5 USB sound module<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Backup itself<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>network issues related to backing up to my slug.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>It seems like there must be *something* network related, since all 3 apps would have been using the net stack at the point the backup was going to happen. However, even though those apps have locked up, everything seems fine if I browse the web or crawl around on the remote backup volume. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I got the combo 10.4.3 update, and I&#8217;m going to re-apply that tonight. I&#8217;ve also got the latest version of Disk Warrior and I&#8217;m going to feed it the main volume as well. Then it&#8217;s flush all the caches and maybe the preferences files and then just hope. If it happens again after that, I&#8217;ll have to start disconnecting pieces (likely the UA-5 first) and see if that helps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>sigh.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So the problem occurred again. When I went down to look at the machine this morning, I saw the following things: When I&#8217;m in this state, if I force quite all three apps, then attempt to shutdown, the Mac shuts down to the &#8220;grey screen with progress spinner&#8221; stage, then stays there forever. I actually [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-site"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3676,"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions\/3676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}