[macbain80]

So the last couple of days (after installing iLife...hmmm), my 1 ghz TiBook (OS 10.2.8) has frozen in a way I've never seen or heard of before...

I'll be in the middle of something benign, like closing a finder window, etc., when suddenly the computer freezes. A closing window stopped right in the middle of it's animation and sat floating above the dock, halfway minimized. Here's the really bizarre part... the mouse moves around just fine, but clicking on anything is useless. Not even force quit comes up with the keyboard command, nothing.

Even weirder has been the solution. Twice I've shut the powerbook, and a minute later it goes to sleep. Then, when I open the lid, it comes out of sleep and all seems fine, for the moment.

Any ideas or thoughts? It's scary because it's not a kernel panic, and it's not just the processor overloaded and taking a while. It's an honest-to-God OS9 style freeze...

[blizzard]

That's exactly what happened to mine before it broke for good and I had to bring it in for warranty repairs...the window froze in the middle of an animation and the mouse clicks wouldn't do anything. But when I tried to restart, the computer just refused to boot.

Probably not what you were wanting to hear...and of course this doesn't mean it'll happen to you...but there you have it.

[macbain80]

OUCH! On the OSX forum, somebody mentioned Synergy causing that type of freeze, which I have, but then again I've had it there for a month or so and it never caused this...

ANY remote ideas what might be doing this? Do any iLife programs make kernel or root alterations? Safe to say it's time to back up...

Thank you for your warning!

[southtdi]

I have a Ti and a dual G5 and iLife '04 started doing the same thing on mine when I installed it. Did the three maint. routines (daily, weekly, and monthly) and repaired permissions. It solved it but it still was starting up a little slow so I did another restart and reparied the persmissions again and now it runs fine.

My dual G5 didn't really have too much of a problem other than it started getting a beachball everytime I opened a new app. but after a few seconds it would clear. I did the smae proceedure on it as the Ti and that solved the problem.

iLife, for me, seems to have wreaked a little havoc when I installed it. Hope that helps out some.

[threestain]

I have a TiBook too and occaisionally get this "freezing" behaviour - generally its when running too much stuff, or at least that's what I put it down to despite it not recovering.

Hasn't yet led to a massive crisis though I'm sure I've said that one will come!