Hi All.
I'm running panther 10.3.2, on a 17" 1ghz Imac, with 512mb ram, and am on a 56k dialup internet connection.
With a local copy of my idisk enabled, when I have been online, (and a synch has taken place, manually or automatically) and I disconnect from the internet, I am then unable to log out, restart or shut down the machine - the message 'log out has timed out as mirror agent failed to quit" comes up.
Trying to force quit etc, as the error message suggests merely hangs the finder, and either the machine will eventually restart in five minutes or so, or I have to shut down by holding in the power button, and then restart. I have tried trashing idisk preferences etc, but all to no avail - the only solution seems to be to disable the local idisk.
I note that with local idisk enabled, I can log on to the net, log off and do a restart etc generally OK if I don't synch; however, if I DO a synch, THEN log off the net etc, and try to shut down, the aforementioned problem arises every time.
I have also tried both manual and auto syncing re settings etc which does not appear to make any difference. Other than my dialup modem connection, I also have an ethernet connection to a PC via SMB.
This problem occured with Panther 10.3, and the updates to 3.1 and now 3.2 have failed to fix this irritating problem.
Has anyone any technical clues as to what is going on or how to fix this?
Are other users experiencing this problem, or is it only me?
All advice appreciated.
Merry Xmas to all :-)
John.
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