The problem when your computer/device as a whole OR an individual application becomes unresponsive, "hanging" as it were, in mid air.
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Macbook Pro hangs when booting into Boot Camp Windows 7
I have a 2011 Macbook Pro 15" 10.7.4 with Windows 7 installed in Boot Camp. A few days ago, I tried to boot into Windows 7 and it just froze after I selected the Boot Camp volume on the Select Drive ...
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Terminal in full screen mode: how do I recover from “cat /dev/random”
What are the ways I can regain control over my computer when I have terminal in full screen mode and type:
cat /dev/random
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iMac 2011 spinning beach ball after login
the following is the HW profile of my iMac:
Hardware Overview:
Model Name: iMac
Model Identifier: iMac12,1
Processor Name: Intel Core i5
Processor Speed: 2.5 GHz
...
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1answer
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Can't get past the login screen even with a correct password
I recently upgraded a 2010 MacBook Pro to Mountain Lion, and it's worked fine for the most part. Today, however, upon waking up from sleep, the laptop won't go past the login screen. I enter the ...
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1answer
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Preview Bug with (Mountain) Lion — hangs/crashes on repeat postscript openings
I have been able to duplicate this error on both Lion and Mountain Lion.
Open a(n) (enhanced) post-script file (either .ps or .eps) using preview.
It should convert properly to PDF and be displayed
...
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2answers
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Mac doesn't respond after sleep mode: how to Prevent this?
My mac often doesn't respond after sleep mode. What can be the reason?
There are a lot of articles about what to do in this situation. But I can find nothing about how to Prevent it.
Mac is macbook ...
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How to stop MacBook Pro (Retina) from freezing/locking at the login/authentication dialogue, after wake?
Steps to reproduce:
Be doing anything
Close the lid of the computer
Wait around for a while
Open the lid of the computer
Login prompt for last logged in user appears, battery and time MAY update, ...
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How to solve stuttering after upgrade to Mountain Lion?
After upgrading to Mountain Lion, audio playback in iTunes stutters, as well as video playback and other minor system hangs.
How can I solve this without a downgrade?
Is there confirmation of it ...
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4answers
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Mountain Lion sometimes hangs when mouse enters Dock – pointer is movable, but the MacBook Air seems otherwise frozen
I have a mid-2011 13" MacBook Air (MacBookAir4,2 with Intel HD Graphics 3000).
Since installing Mountain Lion I sometimes encounter a problem when I move the mouse cursor over the dock to click ...
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What is causing Lion's Mail to freeze for upwards of 45 seconds after launch?
This just started happening today. I have no idea what is causing it. No useful system.log information. I tried rebuilding the envelope files to no avail.
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How does 'stuck' (in results of 'top') relate to 'not responding' (in Activity Monitor), 'spin' or 'hang'?
In results of top commands, I sometimes see stuck.
Apple's top(1) OS X Manual Page does not explain this use of the word.
How, if it all, does stuck relate to the following?
not responding – ...
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MacBook Pro with Mountain Lion freezes frequently (full screen Flash in Chrome, Messages, HTC on USB)
Problems following an upgrade to Mountain Lion on a 13-inch, Early 2011 MacBook Pro (MacBookPro8,1 with Intel HD Graphics 3000).
With Google Chrome, I was watching YouTube video fullscreen – Flash ...
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3answers
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With Firefox Aurora, Mountain Lion hung - but the mouse still worked
I've just had my first Mountain Lion lockup. The screen was entirely frozen in place (I have seconds displayed on my clock in iStat Menu and even that wasn't moving) BUT the mouse still worked. I ...
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Ipod Classic 120 GB frozen when syncing with a new PC.
I am trying to sync my Ipod Classic with my new PC, and my iTunes account is the same username, login, etc. My iPod has frozen in the "Connected- Eject before disconnecting" screen. It isn't syncing, ...
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1answer
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Every time I try to empty my recycling bin it gets stuck
I'm trying to empty my trash but everytime I do it gets stuck.
The only way to get it off the screen, even after hours is to force quit.
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1answer
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Regular Boot System Unresponsive
My computer was working fine until last night when I restarted. When the computer booted up and I logged into my account, I suddenly got the beachball whenever I tried to open an application. For ...
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4answers
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Frequent beach ball all apps esp Safari, often needing Force Quit
Beachball (& occasionally wristwatch!) very frequently (as in every minute or so if I'm using the machine multi app) appears in all apps, especially Apple core apps. This most often happens in ...
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1answer
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Faulty 2006 iMac - what is it useful for?
I own a 2006 iMac, which, alas, has a known manufacturing fault. Because of the poorly-designed cooling system, the graphics card (soldered to the motherboard) has become defective and the system ...
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2answers
321 views
Has FileVault crashed?
I've just enabled FileVault 2 on my mid-2012 MacBook Air and am worried it has crashed.
I've entered all the details and clicked "Restart" and now have a greyed out System Preference pane with a ...
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1answer
142 views
Vertical lines on iMac
I have vertical lines showing up on my 2.16 GHz 2 GB RAM Core 2 Duo iMac. Any idea what's going on and what I need to do to fix it? My computer is also freezing frequently.
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2answers
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Freezes on MacBook w/ Lion with Intel 330 SSD
I installed an Intel 330 SSD (120GB) in my MacBook (4,1) a few weeks ago. I reinstalled a fresh Mac OS X Lion (10.7.4) to make sure there are no issues with the new drive.
However, since then I ...
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1answer
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Why does Force Quit Applications freeze?
When an app freezes on my app, I will press Command ⌘+Option ⌥+Esc ⎋ to open the Force Quit window.
However, this will take minutes often, and clicking on the Force Quit button freezes the Force Quit ...
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1answer
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Why does Xcode always have trouble submitting archives to iTunes? [closed]
Some Background
Xcode not submitting to iTunes flawlessly has ALWAYS plagued me! I just don't understand what's going on, ever!
I know what I am doing, I have quite a few apps in the iTunes App ...
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3answers
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Messages beta hangs. How to remove it or at least its accounts?
I've received a huge iMessage and now the App hangs. I can't remove the App, because it's only possible via the menu item which is not responding. Removing ~/Documents/iChat/* and ~/Library/Messages/* ...
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MBAir 13" 2011 blinks after open lid
I have a 2011 MBA (13", 10.7.2, 256 GB). Very often, when I open the lid (and the MacBook is sleeping) the system freezes for 2-3 seconds, then the display blinks; after that, the system waits 1-2 ...
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1answer
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Time Machine Backup freezing computer
Time Machine on my computer is trying to backup onto a external hard drive, but the only thing I get is the famous beach ball of death which makes my computer extremely slow.
When I go to cosole.app ...
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1answer
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Preview hangs while viewing images / PDFs files within mounted sparsebundle
I often keep all my personal files within a sparsebundle image, and notice that the built-in Preview often freezes while viewing jpeg/gif/png/pdf files. You can see the candy spinning for a good 30 ...
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2answers
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How do I stop my MacBook Pro from randomly freezing when trying to go to sleep?
My 2011 MacBook Pro has been having a problem occasionally where I put it to sleep, but it continues to run. Later when I go use it again, I realize that it was on the whole time (usually inside my ...
2
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1answer
330 views
Restored from Time Machine, no boot
I restored from a Time Machine backup onto a new HDD, this was using a disc with OS X Lion
Upon boot, in verbose mode, the text hangs after initpool: offset = 0x08000000 size = 0x0800000.
I would be ...
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0answers
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Why is my login screensaver freezing, instead of the display going to sleep?
I have an iMac running Mac OS 10.6.8 with fast user switching enabled, Vine VNC server running on one user account, and the login screen displayed. The screensaver on the iMac activates but then ...
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2answers
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Occasional system hangups after upgrade to Lion: is it a disk or software problem?
I have an 13 inch MacBook unibody Alu (early 2009, before they started to be called MacBook Pro) that I use every day for many hours (it's my work and life computer). Few weeks ago within few days I ...
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MacBook frozen immediately after logging in
I've had an ongoing issue (since Snow Leopard and now on Lion) with my MacBook Air. After a restart or when I boot the machine up, I type in my password to login, and then about 25% of the time it ...
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4answers
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Can't delete folder named __MACOSX
So, I have a folder in my ~./Trash folder, and I can't seem to delete it. It's named __MACOSX, and I've tried everything I can think of to get rid of it. Finder won't start at all because of it (it ...
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1answer
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How to kill stuck Screen sharing authentication dialogue?
Sometimes when connecting to a screen sharing machine in Finder, the authentication dialogue hangs indefinitely. The only way I've been able to get rid of it is log out.
So far I've tried killing a ...
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1answer
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Built-In Trackpad and Keyboard Unresponsive after Sleep or Restart
I have a MacBook Pro (15-inch, Early 2008) that's currently running 10.7.3. I've been finding that it will intermittently freeze and then I have to shut down and restart the computer, but sometimes ...
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2answers
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Can't get Safenote to open; freezes on loading screen
I've had the Safenote app for quite a while now and have a lot of useful notes in there. But now it won't open—it's frozen on the loading screen. Is there any way of getting it working again?
I'm ...
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5answers
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Is my MacBook Pro hard drive dying?
I have an early 2011 13" MBP, i7, 8GB crucial RAM, 500 GB Seagate ST9500325ASG.
I've had it for about 4 months. Twice, including last night, the beach ball appears, concurrent with a sound that can ...
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1answer
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Why does my computer auto-restart after freezing (Lion 10.7.3), even when disabled?
Since recently upgrading to "Lion 10.7.3" I have had repeated instances of the machine hanging/crashing without warning and then silently restarting.
Problem is, that such automatic restarts happen ...
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1answer
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Preventing Resume after Hang/Crash OS X 10.7.3
Since recently upgrading to "Lion 10.7.3", I have had repeated instances of the machine hanging/crashing without warning and then silently restarting.
While this is annoying enough, the point of this ...
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2answers
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My Mac freezes when using Safari
I am using a Mac with OSX Snow Leopard.
Sometimes I am playing some media through Safari and my Mac freezes. I basically cannot do anything. The trackpad does not work anymore as well as the ...
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0answers
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Macbook Pro 13 mouse freezes after wake up
I have a Macbook Pro 13" bought in December which means it is the latest available version.
(MacBookPro8,1 , 2,4 Ghz Intel Core i5, 4 GB 1333 MHz DDR3, Intel HD Graphics 3000 384 MB)
I have problems ...
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2answers
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OSX able to throttle down CPU on heavy usage?
I have a company macbook with a 4 core 2,8Ghz i7 (to much power for a "laptop" if you ask me, whatever). Sadly the cooler seems not to be able to handle 100% cpu usage. Sometimes filevault stresses ...
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2answers
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Adding a bookmark or a web page to the reading list in Safari causes freeze
When I try to add a bookmark or a web page to the reading list in safari it freezes.
How do I solve this problem and what is causing it?
Systeminfo
Mac OS 10.6.8
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1answer
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Operating System becomes unstable after prolonged use
My setup
uname -a prints:
Darwin Jutsu.local 11.2.0 Darwin Kernel Version 11.2.0: Tue Aug 9 20:54:00 PDT 2011;
root:xnu-1699.24.8~1/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64
Mac OS X Version: 10.7.3 as of this post
...
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0answers
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C and C++ executables freeze in Lion, remotely hosted on Ubuntu box [closed]
I'm trying to compile and run some very simple C and C++ code in Lion. Compilation works fine. Running the executable leads to the 'spinning beach ball of death.' Force-quitting out of Terminal ...
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3 finger select and drag freezes Finder
Using the 3 finger drag to swipe across document icons and then dragging from one finder window to another (say drag and dropping to an external drive) freezes the icons in their position on the ...
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1answer
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Random iOS Mail App Freezes?
I've found myself depending more and more on the Mail app's ability to pull down mail from the servers immediately upon their arrival, and for the most part it works flawlessly.
Every now and then, ...
2
votes
2answers
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How do I determine what is locking up my machine?
My MBP is suddenly locking up to the point that only a power down will fix it. Neither command+alt+esc or command+alt+shift+esc do anything. It started by getting some nice screens in multiple ...
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1answer
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Why does Safari freeze on YouTube HTML5 videos?
I'm in YouTube HTML5 trial, and the experience is terrible with Safari.
Every video is lagging severely, and the browser gets unresponsive constantly.
I have zero problems with the Flash version, ...
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votes
3answers
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loginwindow process out of control
I have an early 2010 27" iMac that is the family computer. It has 5 user accounts on it. (Not sure if this is relevant or not).
Often times I'll come home and the login screen won't appear. Usually ...
