[Matius]

a very Windows moment. I was on another forum, and I clicked on a link to Google Video. When I tried to watch the video it buffered and then I got the spinning beach ball for about three minutes. During this time force quit wouldn't even open up, the shut down menu would open but not function and pretty much everything else was non-responsive. After about three minutes I just held the power button until the computer shut down. Things appear normal now, but what might have caused this issue? I am running 10.4.8 on a 12" PPC PowerBook.
Matt

[Tsilou B.]

This is caused by a lookupd crash. I really don't know why Apple hasn't completely fixed this by now, but there's a workaround available:

dshadow.com: Unlockupd

[jmiddel]

Tsilou, so many thanks for the suggestion, this has been happening to me ever so often, huge pain in the arse when you're in the middle of projects with a gazillion windows that need re-opening. It is also good to know what caused the problems.