The instability is really getting to me now. 10.4.2

Lt Major Burns

Lt Major Burns

"Dicky" Charlteston-Burns
yesterday my system became unstable again. i've got so used to applications like photoshop/flash just crashing now, but yesterday i managed to get the force quit menu up (after a very long wait where i was entertained by a beachball)

it said something along the lines of:

Photoshop (not responding)
Safari (not responding)
Illustrator (not responding)
Firefox (not responding)
Flash MX (not responding)
Quicktime (not responding)
Activity Monitor (not responding)
iCal (not responding)
Preview (not responding)
Finder

this is something i'd have accepted on 9.2, but this is the perfect MacOS X, Which Never Crashes (tm).

the other day, i was working on flash, it became instable and it just closed itself, asking whether i'd like to reopen it (losing all my unsaved work) i then opened it again, and before it completed opening, it force quit itself, and did this a further 3 times, before....

I rebooted. this is not windows, but it bloody well feels like it.

firefox always crashes. the dock crashes, or just becomes very unstable, it used to work regardless of anything, it was proof of just how stable the system was, now i'm uwilling to let people see my computer, out of embarrassment (i've harped on for years about how stable it is, how it's always solid as a rock, no matter what happens, it'll never crash).


is anyone else like this, or do i have a problem with my computer?

the only 3rd party background apps i have are Synergy, and WMV for quicktime player (which i'm going to remove)

i've got 45gb free on my system disk (74gb capacity)
 
Certainly doesn't happen on my PowerBook... So yeah, I'd guess something's wrong with your installation... Well, the usual then: Start from the Tiger DVD, repair permissions, repair harddrive, try setting up another user to find out if the problem is also there (to find out whether it's some preference file on your account...)... And worst case: Reinstall. What your Mac's going through certainly shouldn't happen.
 
I'm still on Panther, but my computer has also acquired some questionable behavior. Like having a kernel panic when I wake it up. Or plug in my memory stick. Does not happen often, maybe because I've become a bit militant in using programs like System Optimizer X and OnyX. Lt Major Burns , I'm sure you know of such programs. Is there no improvement on your computer after running such programs and re-starting?
 
Can you manage to get Activity Monitor loaded up when something like this happens? I'd bet the problem stems from some invisible "server" process hanging, which all those other apps rely on. Something similar happens to me when System Events starts hanging, which in turn causes the Finder the hang.

For something to affect all these apps, though, it would have to be pretty basic. Maybe the font server?
 
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