I had two instances of what I believe is a serious problem with Sharity 2.7B3.
The symptom is simple: The computer locks up completely. Read on to understand why I
believe this is a Sharity problem. By "locking up" I mean the following: Some
operation will not finish, just hang (the first time, it was a double click on a share
while trying to mount it, the second time, a Disk Image mount process). The "spinning
cursor of death" appears. Initially, you can still switch applications by clicking,
e.g., in the Dock. But note that no app will receive keyboard input. The com-opt-esc
sequence does not work. Then, at some point, nothing goes anymore (no response to
mouse clicks). At this point, I have to hit the reset button (or apply the
three-finger salute). Upon reboot (and after booting in single-user mode and running
fsck -y a couple of times), the machine will go through the progress bar with
"Initializing network" etc., only to hang with a blue screen of death and spinning
cursor (alternatively, after a long delay, you get to the login screen, but loggi!
ng in takes forever). The way to recover is to remove the "Startup Items" folder from
the /Library folder. I have only two folders in there: SAMBA and Sharity. I doubt the
culprit is SAMBA, which has been working quietly for a long time. That leaves
Sharity...
Now I am goingto try 2.7B4 (maybe I am crazy....) and see if the problem happens
again. BTW, between the two instances of this crash, I updated from 10.1.3 to 10.1.4,
so it's not 10.1.4, either.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Davide
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Physics is like sex: A lot of interesting things come out of it, but that's not the
reason we do it.- Richard Feynman
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