[G4] a bit OT--weird behavior and application conflict(s) with Tiger?

[Daniel Brieck Jr.]

Could have been a file corruption, I had one somewhere when Tiger  
installed for the first time. Again, after installing the computer  
would have a kernel panic on every restart or shutdown. The solution  
was to do a Archive and Install over the existing 10.4 tiger  
installation, that fixed it rather painlessly. The traditional  
hardware method limited the problem down to the Apple usb keyboard..  
Oddly enough most of the time the computer would not panic if the  
keyboard was substituted for the original mini G4 / imac keyboard.  
So, something was messed up there, but it is all fixed now minus the  
DVD player issue. Note that prior to this I was running on a upgraded  
system folder that had been around problem free since Mac os 10.0.   
Considering the changes made since then it is not out of the question  
for something like that to happen over that much time.


Daniel J. Brieck Jr.



On Jun 12, 2005, at 3:32 PM, Steve Goldstein wrote:

> Since having installed Tiger, and maybe even dating back to 10.3.9-- 
> I really forget now, my Quicksilver 2002, upgraded with Mercury  
> Extreme 1.4 GHz card and Radeon 9000 video card, had been going  
> whacko: bright green random character substitutions, mainly in  
> Eudora, but then creeping into other app's, too, and finally in  
> Tiger, freezing the machine requiring hard re-boots.  My first  
> thought was a corrupted font, so I downloaded a font manager  
> program and chacked everything out and got rid of all questionable  
> fonts.  Then, trashed all the font cache files (great article in  
> current MacWorld, BTW: "Take Out the Cache").  Also used Font  
> Finagler.  Then started up as root, removed the Fonts folders in / 
> Library and /System/Library and replaced them with the Fonts folder  
> from the install disk.  Nothing worked.  I even tested memory with  
> Remember, and it was OK.  But, when I logged in as another user  
> with no startup files nor anything else pre-installed, the computer  
> was OK (though I seem to recall having had problems in Safe Mode  
> with my normal account).
>
> Well, taking that clue, I turned off all startup applications and  
> haxies and other goodies, and one-by-one introduced them, and it  
> appears that the culprit was the seemingly innocuous wClock.app, an  
> improved menu bar clock.  At first I thought that it could have  
> been PrefsMenu because of the way that it munged the icons in  
> Tiger.  But, I just fired it up again, and it *seems* to behave OK.
>
> So, has anybody else experienced problems with wClock?  Or PrefsMenu?
>
> Thanks in advance for any insights,
>
> Steve
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