Mcxappitem Hanging

[tricyclejp]

I administer a Dual 1.25GHz G4 that belongs to an Active Directory domain. It's running 10.3.9.

users must sign in to use the machine, so the login window is present at system boot.

Attempting to sign in with a valid AD account, the progress bar on the login window just spins and spins, not going anywhere. Remains in this condition seemingly indefinitely (I let it go 10 minutes once).

While the spinning was going on, I ssh'd into the machine and noticed via top that a process called MCXAppItm was occupying 100% of the CPU. After killing this hung process, the login proceeds successfully.

I've gotten this to happen 3 times in as many tries. Signing in as the macine's usual user (also an AD account) works okay, but signing in with a new account that hasn't signed in on that machine before produces the problem.

Any thoughts?

Thanks in advance...
jon

 

[Satcomer]

Without knowing the process YOUR particular network is setup, solving you problem maybe hard. How are the users logging in? What version of windows is the Windows server? Have you searched for Windows problem on this board, there are numerous other questions on Windows Active Directory login. Also have you search on the net for a Windows to Mac dedicated web site? I say this because there is an excellent web site called MacWindows that any respectable Windows Admin that administers OS X machines on their network should know about!

 

[cbeaulieu]

as the origional poster. The only other tidbit I can offer is the station performed properly until I imaged and deployed it with netrestore. Although I have not had any problems with this scenario previously as I used 10.3.9 and netrestore previously without problem. Recent security updates may have impacted ths process.