[mintchocolate000]

The icons (Spotlight, Bluetooth, Date/Time, Battery, Volume, etc) on the right side f the menu bar is gone...
Even if I open any application, it's not there.
And even if I create a new account it is not there.
I cannot figure out why
Can anyone help me?

[mintchocolate000]

Forgot to say,
my computer is a 10.4.10 MacBook.

[Sethro]

Its relatively easy to restore the Bluetooth, Time and Airport Wireless icons to the white menu bar. Open System Preferences and under the Bluetooth icon, there should be a checkbox which allows you to restore it to the menu bar. Do this for sound and Airport.

Although I have no idea how you managed to remove the Spotlight icon.

[C.A.T.S. CEO]

Originally Posted by Sethro 

Its relatively easy to restore the Bluetooth, Time and Airport Wireless icons to the white menu bar. Open System Preferences and under the Bluetooth icon, there should be a checkbox which allows you to restore it to the menu bar. Do this for sound and Airport.

Although I have no idea how you managed to remove the Spotlight icon.

Um, I don't think he removed them, if he knew how to do that he could turn them back on. I think you would have gotten a hint when he said that spotlight doesn't show up (which you can't turn off) that there is another problem with the system.

[mintchocolate000]

The checkbox doesnt let me put a check on it.
I've tried doing that but it didn't work.

[Big Mac]

Have you restarted? You're seeing a problem that infrequently occurs on certain computers with one of the system background apps. A restart is usually the cure.

[mintchocolate000]

Yes I have restarted.
I've been having this problem for about a month now.
And here's the stuff I've tried:
repair disk using the disk utility (it said no errors)
restarted PRAM and NVRAM
Reset System Management Controller

None of these worked

[mintchocolate000]

I've also tried trashing com.apple.systemuiserver.plist

[chris v]

What happens when you kill the systemuiserver application in Activity Monitor? I've had mine lock up, and had to kill it to unseize the menubar. It'll relaunch once you've killed it, or at least it should.

[JKT]

If you run Console.app, what does it say in the system.log for the first entries after a restart?

[mintchocolate000]

well, I opened Activity Monitor, and the SystemuiServer is acting weird...
SystemUIServer shows up randomly (like once every 5 minutes?), and vanishes after less than 5 seconds.

[TETENAL]

~/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/SystemUIServer.crash.log

See whether you have a crash log and if so open it to see what's wrong.

Also, did you trash the SystemUIServers's preferences and reboot as had been suggested in this thread already?

[mintchocolate000]

I'm sorry it took a while to reply
It says, SystemUIServer crashed
crash report written to:/Users/---/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/SystemUIServer.crash.log

[mintchocolate000]

This is what it says under SystemUIserver...
Link (dyld) error:

Symbol not found: _ICNSetDeviceAddedCallback
Referenced from: /System/Library/CoreServices/SystemUIServer.app/Contents/MacOS/SystemUIServer
Expected in: /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/ICANotifications.framework/Versions/A/ICANotifications

And when you mean "trash the systemuiserver's preferences", you mean the com.apple.systemuiserver.plist in the prefs file?

[TETENAL]

Yes, that's its preferences file. Trash it and reboot.

If that doesn't help post the complete last crash report from the crash log. It might help to identify the issue.

[mintchocolate000]

ive tried trashing the preference file, and restarting before, but it didn't work.

here's what it says in the crash log:

Command: SystemUIServer
Path: /System/Library/CoreServices/SystemUIServer.app/Contents/MacOS/SystemUIServer
Parent: WindowServer [58]

Version: 1.4.6 (192.13)
Build Version: 1
Project Name: SystemUIServer
Source Version: 1921300

PID: 644
Thread: Unknown

Link (dyld) error:

Symbol not found: _ICNSetDeviceAddedCallback
Referenced from: /System/Library/CoreServices/SystemUIServer.app/Contents/MacOS/SystemUIServer
Expected in: /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/ICANotifications.framework/Versions/A/ICANotifications

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