[Pochii]

Help! The toolbar on the top right of the screen that shows the time, airport status and spotlight disappeared! I tried checking the boxes in System Preferences, but everytime I check the box, the next time I come back to it, it appears un-checked! This has been going on for 3 days now, and I am really frustrated. Please help me!


Thanks in advance,

Pochii

[TETENAL]

Try trashing the preferences of the SystemUIServer (com.apple.systemuiserver.plist).

[badidea]

Originally Posted by Pochii

Help! The toolbar on the top right of the screen that shows the time, airport status and spotlight disappeared!

Spotlight disappeared???
I have the same problem with Displays, Network and Bluetooth since quiet a long time (even on a fresh user)...I hope Tetenal is right!

[Pochii]

Originally Posted by TETENAL

Try trashing the preferences of the SystemUIServer (com.apple.systemuiserver.plist).

Hmm... Not working...

[TETENAL]

Did you reboot after trashing its preferences? What does Activity Monitor say about SystemUIServer? Is it running? Does it have a crash log in ~/Library/Logs/CrashReporter?

[Pochii]

Originally Posted by TETENAL

Did you reboot after trashing its preferences? What does Activity Monitor say about SystemUIServer? Is it running? Does it have a crash log in ~/Library/Logs/CrashReporter?

I rebooted after trashing the preferences. Activity Monitor shows no SystemUIServer. There is a crash log in there that repeatedly reads:

Jan 24 16:01:58 macmini crashdump[535]: SystemUIServer crashed
Jan 24 16:01:59 macmini crashdump[535]: crash report written to: /Users/Pochii/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/SystemUIServer.crash.log

[TETENAL]

So then your problem is that your SystemUIServer is crashing. Post the crash log, maybe that gives some hint what the reason is.

Did you install some hacks that affect it? Like maybe hacks that put third party menu items into the menubar (don't confuse with status items in the menu bar, those have nothing to do with the SystemUIServer).

[Pochii]

Originally Posted by TETENAL

So then your problem is that your SystemUIServer is crashing. Post the crash log, maybe that gives some hint what the reason is.

Did you install some hacks that affect it? Like maybe hacks that put third party menu items into the menubar (don't confuse with status items in the menu bar, those have nothing to do with the SystemUIServer).

How do I go about doing that? The crashlog is 50mb!

[TETENAL]

Copy one typical (the last or so) complete crash out of the crash log (each crash is separated by *****) and post it here (you still might have to split it in two parts to post it here).

[Pochii]

Originally Posted by TETENAL

Copy one typical (the last or so) complete crash out of the crash log (each crash is separated by *****) and post it here (you still might have to split it in two parts to post it here).

Host Name: macmini
Date/Time: 2006-01-25 16:04:29.641 +0800
OS Version: 10.4.4 (Build 8G32)
Report Version: 3

Command: SystemUIServer
Path: /System/Library/CoreServices/SystemUIServer.app/Contents/MacOS/SystemUIServer
Parent: WindowServer [62]

Version: 1.4.2 (192.0.4)
Build Version: 1
Project Name: SystemUIServer
Source Version: 1920004

PID: 362
Thread: 0

Exception: EXC_BAD_INSTRUCTION (0x0002)
Code[0]: 0x00000002
Code[1]: 0x986ac6fc


Thread 0 Crashed:
0 com.apple.BezelServicesFW 0x986ac6fc BSRemoteControlFeatureAvailable + 140
1 com.apple.systemuiserver 0x00002d84 0x1000 + 7556
2 com.apple.systemuiserver 0x00002990 0x1000 + 6544
3 com.apple.systemuiserver 0x0000d034 0x1000 + 49204

Thread 0 crashed with PPC Thread State 64:
srr0: 0x00000000986ac6fc srr1: 0x000000000008f030 vrsave: 0x0000000000000000
cr: 0x24000244 xer: 0x0000000020000004 lr: 0x00000000986ac6f4 ctr: 0x00000000928c37a4
r0: 0x00000000986ac6f4 r1: 0x00000000bffffbe0 r2: 0x0000000000059000 r3: 0x00000000a28e5b84
r4: 0x00000000909cf00c r5: 0x0000000001800000 r6: 0x00000000ffffffff r7: 0x0000000001800c00
r8: 0x0000000000002f30 r9: 0x0000000000307470 r10: 0x00000000000000e7 r11: 0x0000000024000228
r12: 0x00000000928c37a4 r13: 0x0000000000000000 r14: 0x0000000000000000 r15: 0x0000000000000000
r16: 0x0000000000000000 r17: 0x0000000000000000 r18: 0x0000000000000000 r19: 0x0000000000000000
r20: 0x0000000000000000 r21: 0x0000000000000000 r22: 0x0000000000000000 r23: 0x0000000000000000
r24: 0x0000000000000000 r25: 0x0000000000000000 r26: 0x0000000000307510 r27: 0x000000000004b49c
r28: 0x0000000000000000 r29: 0x0000000000320180 r30: 0x00000000a86aa004 r31: 0x00000000986ac678

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[Chuckit]

Assuming the machine name is accurate and this is a Mac mini, have you by any chance tried to install Front Row on it?

[Pochii]

Originally Posted by Chuckit

Assuming the machine name is accurate and this is a Mac mini, have you by any chance tried to install Front Row on it?

Uhm.....

Yes actually
I just saw it floating about on the internet, and I decided to give it a try. It didn't work, and I thought "bah! forget it" and just trashed the .dmg file. I don't know how to get rid of it though.

[Pochii]

Success! I just opened the frontrow thing installer and uninstalled it! Thanks a bunch MacNN!