[iBook] endless spinning cursor

[Anne Cartwright]

Wow! If I could just down a cocktail and get a janitor to clean my 
house and computer, I'd be in seventh heaven.

Anne


On Wednesday, March 9, 2005, at 04:38  AM, Allan Hise wrote:

>
>
> On Tue, 8 Mar 2005, Larry Kollar wrote:
>
>> On Tuesday, March 8, 2005, at 09:10 PM, R. Hefner wrote:
>>
>>> Lately my iBook has been experiencing the endless spinning cursor
>>> problem and the only thing I can do to get it to stop is push the off
>>> button for a few secs and then reboot.
>>
>> Time to do maintenance.
>>
>> As you boot the computer, hold down Cmd-S until you see white text
>> scrolling on a black screen. After a couple of minutes, the text 
>> should
>
> That's a bit extreme. Why not boot from the install CD (or firewire 
> drive)
> and run disk first aid from there? AFAIK, iit is doing the same thing 
> as
> fsck. Some people freak out at the command line, so it is nuce to 
> present
> a GUI way to do it first, if possible.
>
>> Log in as usual, and start Disk Utility (Applications -> Utilities).
>> Click your hard drive along the left, click the "First Aid" tab at the
>> top, then click "Repair Permissions" at the bottom. Wait for it to
>> finish. You'll see some weird messages in the window, but that's 
>> normal.
>
> This probably will help, but I think it is mostly voodoo. If there is
> something changing persmissions, that is a problem. But the software 
> needs
> to be fixed or removed - otherwise it will just do it again... I think
> this is the most overrated OS X maintainence task.
>
>>
>> Finally, start Terminal (Applications -> Utilities). Type   sudo
>> update_prebinding -root  /  -force   and press Return. It will ask for
>
> Wait, I take it back. This is. This is not really needed anymore, 
> assuming
> you are using a recent (10.3.x for sure, I tzhink even 10.2.x) OS. 
> This is
> all taken care of by the OS.
>
> I would recommend downloading a cocktail or macjanitor and running some
> of the maintainence scripts there (like the daily/weekly/mothly stuff 
> that
> wont happen if the iBook is asleep or off when it wants to run
> automagically in the middle of the night).
>
> Allan
>
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