[scb]

I'm having a problem with logout. All my apps quit and I'm left an empty desktop. The "Force Quit Applications" window is also empty.

I assume there is some process that refuses to quit. Can anyone recommed a way to see what processes are running with the computer in this state, and to figure out what should quit that does not? Can I login remotely from another machine?

By the way, I'm running Panther 10.3.2 on a 15" Aluminum Powerbook with 1G memory on two 512M memory cards.

Thanks!

[Cadaver]

Turn on Remote Login in the sharing preferences in the System Preferences, then login via SSH from another machine and check top.

From machine #2, issue from the OS X terminal (or Linux CLI): ssh <your_username>@<problem_machine_IPaddress>
then enter your password when asked.
Type: top
This will display a list of running processes. Hopefully you'll be able to figure out which is the problematic one. If you can, look at its process ID number.
To kill it, type: sudo kill <process_number>
It'll probably ask for your admin password again...

Hope this helps.

[scb]

Originally posted by Cadaver:
Hope this helps.

Thanks, that helped a lot.

So now I can see what's running, but I can't figure out how to get top to filter by user or even to display user.

The commands "top -U myusername" and "top -U root" give me the same output.

A connected, unixish question: anyone know how to run top in interactive mode? According to the man page, "top -L" should do it, but after running that command I can't seem to get top to actually interact. For example, typing "?", which should bring up a help page, does nothing.

Thanks again!

[Ω]

Try

ps -auxcm

in the terminal - it will give you details on root/user.

[ReefHobbyist]

Originally posted by scb:
I'm having a problem with logout. All my apps quit and I'm left an empty desktop. The "Force Quit Applications" window is also empty.

I assume there is some process that refuses to quit. Can anyone recommed a way to see what processes are running with the computer in this state, and to figure out what should quit that does not? Can I login remotely from another machine?

By the way, I'm running Panther 10.3.2 on a 15" Aluminum Powerbook with 1G memory on two 512M memory cards.

Thanks!

I have noticed this behavior occationally and traced it to MirrorAgent (sp?) not quiting properly. Do you sync your iDisk to your Mac? MirrorAgent doesn't show up in the Force Quit window and I have to do a forced restart.

Scott