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lemondrop · Apr 17, 2003, 04:06 AM

this happens after a few days of uptime. And I just reinstalled my system a few days ago. It used to happen before the reinstall too. It goes back to 10.2.4 and now I'm running 10.2.5. This is on a iBook 600 with 384 megs of RAM. No haxies or themes, a pure set-up.

Any ideas? Oh, and a restart fixes this. For a few days. Not mission critical, just an inconvenience.

THX..

jessejlt · Apr 17, 2003, 04:13 AM

Well, since rebooting fixes it, and it only happens after a couple days of uptime, I would say your iBook is suffering from sleep depravation!
jesse ;-)

GENERAL_SMILEY · Apr 17, 2003, 04:18 AM

Bizarre, happened before and after a clean reinstall... Have you tried doing all the PRAM wiping stuff etc...

After that it's got to be hardware related I guess (RAM?)

lemondrop · Apr 17, 2003, 04:21 AM

Originally posted by jessejlt:
Well, since rebooting fixes it, and it only happens after a couple days of uptime, I would say your iBook is suffering from sleep depravation!
jesse ;-)

Funny you would say that. I never put the iBook to sleep. I serve my website off it. But could that be the problem?

I'm also from PDX..

RiverCity Rules.

lemondrop · Apr 17, 2003, 04:27 AM

Originally posted by GENERAL_SMILEY:
Bizarre, happened before and after a clean reinstall... Have you tried doing all the PRAM wiping stuff etc...

After that it's got to be hardware related I guess (RAM?)

I'll zap the pram and run the hardware test CD. Unfortunately it will take a few days to see if that fixes it.

THX, for the input.

SYN · Apr 17, 2003, 06:22 AM

try trashing the caches too, could help.

ShotgunEd · Apr 17, 2003, 06:53 AM

fix permissions?

andreas_g4 · Apr 17, 2003, 11:17 AM

Originally posted by GENERAL_SMILEY:
Bizarre, happened before and after a clean reinstall... Have you tried doing all the PRAM wiping stuff etc...

After that it's got to be hardware related I guess (RAM?)

PRAM zap is ok, but I'm pretty sure it's not hardware releated. What piece of hardware could cause fonts to look like this?

Looks more like a kerning/font problem. Have you additional fonts installed? If so, delete them temporarily and see whether this helps or not. good luck!

dampeoples · Apr 17, 2003, 11:50 AM

Mine gets to looking funny as well after a while, like the Applications icon is just white. It's weird, and a reboot and fixing disk permissions always fixes it, and I haven't lost any data that I know of, so it's all good

icruise · Apr 17, 2003, 12:33 PM

I had something similar once where the labels for some of my dock applications were overlapping in a similar way. A reboot fixed, but not sure what the cause was.

Agent69 · Apr 17, 2003, 01:42 PM

Why restart? Try logging out and logging back in. It generally has the same effect as a restart for minor problems.

CharlesS · Apr 17, 2003, 02:08 PM

Does this happen when logged in as another user?

It could be corrupted preference files.

TheIceMan · Apr 17, 2003, 04:31 PM

Originally posted by lemondrop:

this happens after a few days of uptime. And I just reinstalled my system a few days ago. It used to happen before the reinstall too. It goes back to 10.2.4 and now I'm running 10.2.5. This is on a iBook 600 with 384 megs of RAM. No haxies or themes, a pure set-up.

Any ideas? Oh, and a restart fixes this. For a few days. Not mission critical, just an inconvenience.

THX..

I get the EXACT same thing on mine too! I'm on 10.2.4 Powerbook w/ 667Mhz & 512 RAM. Like you said, it happens every once in a while. Don't know what it is, but I'm guessing it's a bug in 10.2.4 and 10.2.5. The bug, like most bugs, only affect SOME users, while others are immune.

BuonRotto · Apr 17, 2003, 06:28 PM

Could it be a corrupt font?

http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/7791

ASIMO · Apr 17, 2003, 06:52 PM

No, it's just OS X getting drunk and choking on its own vomit. Something to do with vm, caching, blah, blah blah...whatever, it's not lethal, just annoying.

Just log out and in, and all should be fine. Otherwise, reboot.

Ry�kan · Apr 17, 2003, 10:21 PM

Have you tried running Disk Warrior?

11011001 · Apr 18, 2003, 01:18 AM

You might want to try killing the dock's process and starting it again.. don't know, might be quicker than logging out->in again.

nobitacu · Apr 18, 2003, 02:28 AM

Wow... that totally sucks... sorry... I have no clue on ho wto fix this...

Ming

Jan Van Boghout · Apr 18, 2003, 06:27 AM

Originally posted by Icruise:
I had something similar once where the labels for some of my dock applications were overlapping in a similar way. A reboot fixed, but not sure what the cause was.

I had that too once. Never happened in the menus though.

lemondrop · Apr 18, 2003, 07:20 AM

That's it I'm buying a Windows box.

Logging out fixes this. Not a huge deal. I was just curious if anyone had an explanation for this. I can't say if any of the suggested fixes work since it takes a while to show up. But, thanks for the input.

wwworry · Apr 18, 2003, 10:35 AM

I have heard that something like this might happen if you hard disk is almost all full and you are maxed out on ram usage. When you are using a lot of ram (lots of programs open etc.) the computer uses virtual memory (hard disk storage rather than ram storage). If the hard disk is full the virtual memory gets corrupted.

This is all hearsay and I do not have solid technical knowledge. Just something I heard about once.