In a message dated Wed, 23 Oct 2002, Bruce A. Burdick, Jr. writes: > You could have a bad hard drive. That might explain the behavior you are > seeing. Wiping the drive and reinstalling OS X may work. But if it's the > drive, you're not out of the woods.
Yeah, but this whole episode was presaged by a spinning-beachball-of-death attack. One of those where a seemingly innocuous click on a menu starts the spinning ball in one app, and then over the next minute or two, the spinning ball "spreads" to every other app, you can't logout--you can't pull up a logout dialog--attempts to ssh in never respond, etc. This happens with some regularity to me, and the only answer seems to be to just powerdown. Am I the only one who sees this? It must happen once a month or more, though it seems to be somewhat rarer with Jaguar than it was with 10.1. *That's* what caused the hour-long fsck, I think--cycling power on a running machine. Maybe there's disk problems too, but I don't want to think about that yet... Trey
