[X4U] Strange Screen Saver and Shutdown Behavior

[Mark Des Cotes]

I had the same problem. Disk Warrior fixed it for me.

Mark Des Cotes
Systems Manager/Graphic Designer

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On Apr 9, 2005, at 3:01 AM, godfatherK wrote:

> During the last couple of weeks, my 10.3.8 system has been randomly 
> kicking into screen saver mode.  I could be typing, moving the cursor, 
> reading a webpage, etc.  All of a sudden, the screen saver will start 
> without a reason.  I set the screen saver to start after 5, 10, or 15 
> minutes of inactivity.  The only thing I can note so far is that 
> shorter the inactive minutes set in the System Preference, this 
> strange behavior increases and vice versa.
>
> Worst yet is after the system has been running for (estimated) several 
> hours, there is no way of shutting it down or restarting.  Choosing 
> the options in the Apple Menu does nothing.  The usual control-eject 
> keystroke doesn't even bring up the shut down / restart panel.
> So far, the only suspicious thing that I have found is this entry in 
> the system.log:
> Apr  8 22:03:23 localhost diskarbitrationd[90]: loginwindow 
> [262]:30211 not responding.
> And, the only way to safely shut down the computer is through the 
> Terminal.
>
> To be clearer, during the first few hours just after the start up of 
> the system, shutting down / restarting the computer functions 
> normally.
> I've already tried repairing the permissions and made sure that the 
> kiosk mode is not enabled.
>
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