Thanks Andre and Bob, Good tips. Never thought of console. I'll have to add it as a must-do to my troubleshooting checklist.
Gregory On Thu, Jun 17, 2010, at 1:00 PM, Andre wrote: > Gregory, > > If you're felling like doing some unix, then you can launch console.app (not > terminal.app, I keep mixing them) and check out the logs in there, specially > system.log. There might be some hint in there. Once my system was taking > about 10 minutes to boot up, after being fed up for months, I decided to > look at the logs. What was happening was that once upon a time, I had > installed parallels and vmware, their kernel stuff were still loading even > though I did not had the apps anymore but the biggest criminal was an HP > monitor thing for the printer that I don't have anymore that would stall the > system for minutes while it loaded. Now I know better.... > > Cheers > andre > Message: 16 > Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2010 09:14:08 -0700 > From: Bob Sneidar <b...@twft.com> > Subject: Re: What's With the Tilde After the Stack File Extension? > To: How to use Revolution <use-revolution@lists.runrev.com> > Message-ID: <3046130a-b3de-4864-ac22-23acafb29...@twft.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > Be careful about the Console Logs tho'. There is a lot of normal stuff that > floats through there that looks like there is something wrong, but there > isn't. I spent a lot of time googling until I realized I was just chasing > ghosts. And IMHO HP is notorious for really badly written drivers, for both > PC and Mac. I bought 3 separate models of printers where the drivers on the > CD that came with it did not actually work! I always get the drivers from the > support site now. > > Bob _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
