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rafiki - Mar 23, 2005 - 5:23 am

Hi, I am just facing the first real problem on my mac after a year of using it. I recently installed the last security update, then my ibook G4 800MHz with 30GB and no additional RAM, started to get slow , so i decided to repair permissions and after that i wanted to repair the disk for the first time, so i booted from the install Disc 1 and when i ran the repair permissions function half way through it stopped saying that there was that the disc needed to be repair and there was a failure on exit -9972 and that 0 HFS volumes were repaired. I tried to repair the disk several times with the same result. Then i booted back to the OSX and checked the SMART on DU and it says "verified". Everything seem to be running smoothly however when i tried to use safari the links would not opened and after a minute it would say that it could not open the page, then trying once again , it opened it. And that has been repeating again and again. Sometimes it openes it right away others it just says it cant open it. Then this has an effect on other apps , mail also had problems opening and so on... Is there anything i can do? What would be the best way to proceed? I am not a tech expert so i would appreiciate your comments, Thanks in advance and congratulations for the site!

tubajensen - Mar 23, 2005 - 8:26 am

Rafael,

I experienced my system getting slower too after the last security update. However, when I repaired permissions I was back to normal. Maybe you could try and repair permissions on your startup disk using /Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility. You DON'T have to repair permissions using the System CD.

The Safari issue could be helped by typing:

defaults delete com.apple.Safari WebKitInitialTimedLayoutDelay

in the Terminal and then pressing return. If you DON'T get a message like:

2005-03-23 15:22:30.862 defaults[1053]
There is no (WebKitInitialTimedLayoutDelay) default for the (com.apple.Safari) domain.

the above command should have solved your problem - at least for Safari.

Allan

rafiki - Mar 23, 2005 - 4:19 pm

Thanks Allan, that was very helpful. My ibook is running back to usual now, for some reason it just started to work fine again. I just did an additional permissions repair and that was it. Still i was wondering about the failure on exit -9972, is that something is should take care of soon? and what can be done? Thanks in advance..

tubajensen - Mar 23, 2005 - 5:50 pm

Rafael,

I'm glad your book is running again. The "failure on exit" issue I can't help you with. If you want to, you could try posting just this part of the question again.

Allan

rafiki - Mar 23, 2005 - 6:09 pm

Hi again Allan, i m writting again because the ibook started to slow down again specially when opening safari links, then i did the proceadure you recommended and i got this:
2005-03-24 01:07:29.813 defaults[571]
There is no (WebkitlnitialTimedLayoutDelay) default for the (com.apple.Safari) domain.

In your first answer you said that if i DONT get a message like this then the command should had fixed any problems, as i understand that , then that means that there is a problem? sorry for the confusion! What else could be originating the problem? I am working from home and i have a fast LAN connection, and this problem affects other apps like mail and so on... Thanks again,

tubajensen - Mar 24, 2005 - 3:58 am

Hi Rafael.

What I meant was that if you didn't get the message, Safari "waits" a little bit to open a link when you click on it. To speed up Safari you can set this "wait" to only 0.000001s with the command:

defaults write com.apple.Safari WebKitInitialTimedLayoutDelay 0.000001

in Terminal. This however may cause the problems you were encountering (in Safari). That's why I suggested you trying the command:

defaults delete com.apple.Safari WebKitInitialTimedLayoutDelay

to restore the default "wait". But as you didn't get any output after hitting return, it means nothing had been changed in the first place. This also means that I can't think of anything else causing your problems, sorry.

Allan