tehnick Posted June 9, 2008 Share Posted June 9, 2008 I've been using OS X 10.5.2 for some months now, pretty much everyday. When I installed it, I used the Leo4Allv2 DVD. Overall, it works as expected aside from some irritations that occur after no specific length of time. These are some of the things that start to randomly occur: - Applications start to become unresponsive & crash constantly - Apps have to be restarted, and then rarely work for more then a few minutes before crashing again - System seems to ignore things, (doesn't respond to "Quit", or anything in the Finder menu - Copy, etc. while the menus appear to be functional) - Unable to move files in ANY way, results in a false lack of disk space error (occurs when downloading, moving, etc.) - Applications actually refuse to launch; every app initiates a weird error message with a -9999(random numbers) code and fails - Everything will freeze leaving nothing but the cursor working and sometimes the Finder bar - Attempting to logoff or restart often closes all applications and leaves an empty screen without ever shutting down These things DO NOT happen all at once, and are just some of the different things I've encountered (frequently) while doing everyday tasks. They go away after a restart, and then come back in what doesn't seem to be any kind of set time - sometimes several hours, sometimes minutes. When it's "normal" and I'm not getting any issues, everything from games, speed, apps, restarting, logging off, etc. all work flawlessly. Here are my specs: AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000+ Asus M2N-SLI Motherboard (w/ nForce 570) 2GB RAM (2x 1GB) nVidia GeForce 8800 GT 512MB (full support, QE+CI) 500GB Seagate SATA HDD Asus DVDRW dual-layer SATA drive PCI Ethernet card Darwin Kernel Version 9.2.0 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/109572-random-stability-issues-odd-occurrences/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zaap Posted June 9, 2008 Share Posted June 9, 2008 Do you do any kind of regular maintenance? IE: clearing caches, fixing permissions, boot from the CD and check/repair the hard drive with the disk utility? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/109572-random-stability-issues-odd-occurrences/#findComment-776587 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tehnick Posted June 9, 2008 Author Share Posted June 9, 2008 From what I recall, I have it set to automatically boot with -f on startup; so it should clear caches every time I start up OS X. I do fix check/repair permissions on the hard drive every so often, and it usually checks out fine - I don't remember it ever having an impact on the issues I've been having. Last night I took some time to upgrade to 10.5.3 - which was very successful, I had to reinstall the nvidia drivers but that was it. I haven't had any problems yet since the upgrade, but only time will tell if that fixed anything. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/109572-random-stability-issues-odd-occurrences/#findComment-777193 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tin_man_0 Posted June 10, 2008 Share Posted June 10, 2008 From what I recall, I have it set to automatically boot with -f on startup; so it should clear caches every time I start up OS X. I do fix check/repair permissions on the hard drive every so often, and it usually checks out fine - I don't remember it ever having an impact on the issues I've been having. Last night I took some time to upgrade to 10.5.3 - which was very successful, I had to reinstall the nvidia drivers but that was it. I haven't had any problems yet since the upgrade, but only time will tell if that fixed anything. Does the console show anything unusual while this is going? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/109572-random-stability-issues-odd-occurrences/#findComment-777812 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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