This happens once in awhile. My PB G4 1.67Ghz 1 GB RAM SD hangs at the blue screen with the pin wheel spinning when I do a shutdown. The previous time before this, it stayed on the blue window for about 30 min. so I reverted to a forced shut down by holding the power button for a few seconds.
Did a forced shutdown again, but before shutting down, I noticed while my wife was typing up a document from MS Office, the menu bar had only the 2 login items and Spotlight showing. The Volume, Airport, International, Battery and Time menulets were all missing. I tried logging out and in and a reboot. I logged into my Admin account, to see if it was only my standard accounts problem, the same menu bar there. I finally got them all back after doing a Safe Boot.
I don't know if this has anything to do with it all, but I also got a couple of beach balls when I was using Safari to download Camino v.1.1a1. At the same time I had iTunes, Adium, WeatherDock and Activity Monitor open. I checked the Memory in Activity monitor and it showed about 450 mb free.
Would this be Mac OS X 10.4s way of telling me something bad is looming on the horizon? Anything I could do to keep my PB from doing a long shutdown again?
BTW I got lots of free space on my HDD and Disk Utility shows that the S.M.A.R.T. status is verified along with SMARTReporter showing green.
Did a forced shutdown again, but before shutting down, I noticed while my wife was typing up a document from MS Office, the menu bar had only the 2 login items and Spotlight showing. The Volume, Airport, International, Battery and Time menulets were all missing. I tried logging out and in and a reboot. I logged into my Admin account, to see if it was only my standard accounts problem, the same menu bar there. I finally got them all back after doing a Safe Boot.
I don't know if this has anything to do with it all, but I also got a couple of beach balls when I was using Safari to download Camino v.1.1a1. At the same time I had iTunes, Adium, WeatherDock and Activity Monitor open. I checked the Memory in Activity monitor and it showed about 450 mb free.
Would this be Mac OS X 10.4s way of telling me something bad is looming on the horizon? Anything I could do to keep my PB from doing a long shutdown again?
BTW I got lots of free space on my HDD and Disk Utility shows that the S.M.A.R.T. status is verified along with SMARTReporter showing green.