On Mon, 30 Aug 2004 16:48:58 +0100, Adrian Simmons wrote: >Neil Hughes wrote: >> My G3 iBook, running 10.3.3, locks up >You'll need to enable remote login on this machine if you haven't >already done so, go to System Preferences > Sharing and make sure it's >checked. Note that when remote login is selected in the list of services >system preferences actually tells you how to log in, mine says: >
Cheers Adrian....I've done telnet before (though not with OSX) and for some reason I expected ssh to be completely different. From your instructions it looks pretty straightforward. The next time things go pear-shaped I'll be ready... > >> the Finder that's throwing a wobbly. >If it were just the finder you should be able to do >command+option+escape and relaunch it. Well, that never works, so I guess it's not the Finder. From memory, most of the time the whole machine locks up (frozen cursor) but occasionally I get a spinning moveable beachball but the rest of the GUI is dead. I've just remembered another way I managed to lock everything, and I can repeat this one consistently - if I start copying a large file to an afp drive (in my case it was an NT box running Services for Macintosh) and then stupidly start copying from another machine so that the iBook suddenly finds there's not enough space.....bye, bye Mac :-( > >> seems to be less stable than Jaguar and about on par with my OS 9.2.2 box. >Nasty. Sounds like there is a real problem somewhere, maybe even >hardware but these things can be hard to pin down. My setup's a bit of a mess - file servers running on NT and OS 9.2.2, an 802.11b Dell TrueMobile basestation (Orinocco card I believe), NetGear ADSL router and a Surecom switch. Plenty of suspects before I even get to the iBook, though you'd expect it to fail a bit more gracefully than it does. Plus, this iBook was unusual in that it came with Jaguar and a Panther updater, which might not be as reliable as a plain Panther install. If the machine wasn't in demand so much I'd consider a fresh install or archive/install, but even the latter takes the best part of a day (you have to go back to the Jaguar CDs and then reapply the Panther stuff and updates on top) - so far I've decided to suffer the extra couple of minutes of inconvenience when the machine freezes and reset the iBook. > >It's probably worth taking a look at your system logs in /var/log, see >if there are any error messages that turn up when this problem occurs Neil. > Good idea. Thanks again for your advice. Neil -- Mac UK is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... 123Inkjets.com <http://lowendmac.com/ad/123inkjets.html> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Mac UK list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/mac-uk.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-uk%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
