[Fellow2000]

I am looking for some help. My battery menu extra has just disapeared off the menu bar in the top right hand corner. I can go to System Preferences>Energy Settings and click the checkbox but nothing happens, the menu extra does not appear. Then, after closing the preference pane and re-opening it, the box still appears unchecked.

I browsed in the Finder to HD>System>Library>Core Services>Menu Extras and the battery.menu is there, but nothing happens when double clicking it or dragging it up to the menu bar.

I am really confused at how this could happen and I have no idea what to do about it. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you,

- Josh

P.S. I forgot to add my system information. This is on a 15inch Powerbook 1.5 with the latest everything.

[Mr. Blur]

first guess would be a corrupt pref file....i think it *may* be ~/library/preferences/systemuiserver.plist (but could be a diff one too)...

[Fellow2000]

I trashed that pref file and then did a logout/login and I still have the same issue. Any more ideas on what this could be?

[Krusty]

I just clicked the battery.menu and it worked for me (even on an eMac that doesn't have a battery ). However, did you try restarting the whole machine ?? I'm guessing that if this file lives in /System that simply logging out and in will not reset it -- its system level NOT user level so one wouldn't expect that logging out the user would help.

After you reboot (or even before you reboot) you can open Applications/Utility/Console and browse the log for signs that the Battery.menu attempted to load. If you find nothing, it didn't even try to load ... if it tried to load and failed, that should be listed in the log (hint, type "menu" in the search field of the console log to reduce some of the other extraneous clutter that will likely be in the log).

However you end up getting this fixed, let us know ... might help someone else down the road.

[Fellow2000]

Originally posted by Krusty:
I just clicked the battery.menu and it worked for me (even on an eMac that doesn't have a battery ). However, did you try restarting the whole machine ?? I'm guessing that if this file lives in /System that simply logging out and in will not reset it -- its system level NOT user level so one wouldn't expect that logging out the user would help.

After you reboot (or even before you reboot) you can open Applications/Utility/Console and browse the log for signs that the Battery.menu attempted to load. If you find nothing, it didn't even try to load ... if it tried to load and failed, that should be listed in the log (hint, type "menu" in the search field of the console log to reduce some of the other extraneous clutter that will likely be in the log).

However you end up getting this fixed, let us know ... might help someone else down the road.

Yep, I have tried rebooting but it did not help. However, the console does seem to tell me something.... but its Greek to me. Can anyone help me decifer this as to what it means and what I can do about it?

Here is what the console gives...

Mac OS X Version 10.3.5 (Build 7M34)
2004-09-11 17:23:30 -0700
2004-09-11 17:23:31.662 Quicksilver[1218] Qu?c?s?lv????? v?28 (CBB)
2004-09-11 17:23:33.935 Quicksilver[1218] Next Version Check at : 2004-09-18 01:03:04 -0700
2004-09-11 17:23:58.442 System Preferences[1226] has battery
2004-09-11 17:24:00.798 System Preferences[1226] has battery
2004-09-11 17:24:00.803 SystemUIServer[1210] failed to load Menu Extra: NSBundle </System/Library/CoreServices/Menu Extras/Battery.menu> (not yet loaded)
2004-09-11 17:24:02.396 System Preferences[1226] has battery
2004-09-11 17:24:02.795 System Preferences[1226] has battery
2004-09-11 17:24:02.797 SystemUIServer[1210] failed to load Menu Extra: NSBundle </System/Library/CoreServices/Menu Extras/Battery.menu> (not yet loaded)
2004-09-11 20:47:44.795 Quicksilver[1218] action AppLaunchAction

[Mr. Blur]

have you tried the usual first step - repair permissions?

[Krusty]

Originally posted by Mr. Blur:
have you tried the usual first step - repair permissions?

I agree. Your log shows that the system is trying to load the menu but failing. So it doesn't appear to be pref problem. Permissions would be the next thing I'd try.

[Fellow2000]

Looks like repairing permissions did the trick. Thank you so much to the both of you. I'd buy you a round if I could.

Cheers!