Re: 12 inch seems crippled

2004-02-11 Thread João Loureiro
Meg, In my opinion, the problem is simple: your HD is dieing. A few months ago a client of mine started to have slow logins and the computer (same model) would take ages till it start up. The machine went to Apple because of the warranty and got a new HD. -João L. On 10/fev/2004, at 15:35, Meg

Re: 12 inch seems crippled

2004-02-10 Thread megsaint
Laurent Daudelin wrote: Should "nobody" be running multiple iterations of sh? There is certainly something odd about permissions in your installation. I don't recall user 'nobody' running multiple iterations of sh, nor that forcing quitting an app would log you off. Try to create a dummy account

Re: 12 inch seems crippled

2004-02-10 Thread Laurent Daudelin
On 10/02/04 07:34, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Steve Fuller wrote: >> >> Did you install any software or any patches for anything that you >> recall before this activity started to occur?? Even something that >> seems harmless may be interacting with something else on your ma

Re: 12 inch seems crippled

2004-02-10 Thread megsaint
Steve Fuller wrote: Did you install any software or any patches for anything that you recall before this activity started to occur?? Even something that seems harmless may be interacting with something else on your machine and causing problems. Are you running Jaguar or Panther on it? Steve

Re: 12 inch seems crippled

2004-02-10 Thread Steve Fuller
Two days ago, my 12 inch PB suddenly slowed to a crawl. I ran disk first aid. I did an archive and install and updated everything. It's a little better. It only takes 20-30 minutes to get to the log on screen after a restart as opposed to an hour. Lots of spinning beach balls. If I have Activity M

12 inch seems crippled

2004-02-10 Thread Meg St. Clair
Help!!! Two days ago, my 12 inch PB suddenly slowed to a crawl. I ran disk first aid. I did an archive and install and updated everything. It's a little better. It only takes 20-30 minutes to get to the log on screen after a restart as opposed to an hour. Lots of spinning beach balls. If I hav