Spinning pizza

Rhisiart

Rhisiart

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I am sure this question has been asked before but I searched though old questions and couldn't find one relevant.

When I boot up my MacBook Pro it starts fine but within five minutes the spinning pizza arrives and then I cannot do anything. The whole system seizes up. I have reset the PRAM and used disc utility repair but nothing seems to work.

Any suggestions would be most welcome.
 
Maybe something is going on in the Hard drive? Plus what does /Applications/Utilities/Console.app say about this? Plus have you checked /Applications/Utilities/Activity Monitor.app to see if a process is hanging?
 
Maybe a more direct method to check for a "hanging" app - is to try the Force-quit window: Option-Command-Esc, and check for any apps that have stopped responding.
If Finder is alone in that window, you could simply select Finder, and click the Relaunch button.
That is a temporary measure to hopefully get you working again, and you could come back to try to discover what's (really) happening.
 
Satcomer said:
Maybe something is going on in the Hard drive? Plus what does /Applications/Utilities/Console.app say about this? Plus have you checked /Applications/Utilities/Activity Monitor.app to see if a process is hanging?
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I can't access either the Console or the Activity monitor as the spinning pizza of death appears immediately after launching any programme. I'll try rebooting the MacBook and see if I can access the console straight away.
 
What programs do you have set to open at login? The culprit just maybe one of those.

Have you tried booting in safe mode?
 
Or as a different user (without the same programs starting as that user's login items)?
Any chance you would have 10,000 fonts you added recently?
Or that you would have 1 GB of free space on a 300 GB hard drive (or otherwise very much below 15 % free space)?

If you can get Terminal, you could also see if that shows anything stealing all the memory, top -u.
At least it should take way less resources than Activity Monitor...

Did it by the way start to get slower and beachbally slowly or recently?
(Any chance it'd have been updated to Mavericks yet?)
 
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