[emcea]

Ok, I think Panther really screwed up my Pismo.

I was using it without problem yesterday and closed the lid to put it to sleep before I left to go see Revolutions

I woke up this morning and opened the lid to be greeted with the slowest waking up process ever. The beachball was just spinning and every action I took (clicking the apple menu to restart for example) would take a good minute or two to register.

So I restarted and was greeted with the same constant beachball and delayed reactions. I then shut down, reset pram and hard booted. Then guess what? It booted into OS 9! WTF?!

So I selected my OS X partition in Startup Disc and restarted. It booted into X as normal, but I noticed that it would hang on "Loading Login Window..." in the boot screen for a much longer time than normal.

When it finally got to the desktop, the same problem was there: beachball, slow delayed reactions to user input.

What the hell is going on? I never had this problem with OS X PB, 10.1 or Jaguar.

FWIW, I did an "archive and install" and just installed the 2003-11-04 Security Update before this problem started happening.

[MickS]

Have you mounted your iDisk and have it keeping a local copy?

I did this on my PB G4 and it changed boot time from < 1 minute to > 15 minutes. This maybe usable on a wired ethernet connection but it's not over airport Shame, because as I have no internet access for chunks of the week it would be good to be able to dump stuff on my iDisk and have it appear later.

[emcea]

Originally posted by MickS:
Have you mounted your iDisk and have it keeping a local copy?

No, I don't have an iDisk but you got me thinking that it could be trying to find some shares (file & printer) I have set up on my PC. Since the networking is so flaky on Panther, I'll try turning off AirPort all together and see what happens.

As an update, I booted off the install disc and ran disc verify and repair permissions... everything was fine and didn't need repair