WTF is going on with my school lab.

falconfalcon
Posted:
in macOS edited January 2014
In Visual Communications and Yearbook class' we have a medium sized lab of iMacs and Powermacs. G3 500-600's, G4 400-733's. Running 10.1, and Photoshop 7.

They all crash repeatedly. Several times each day. Just hard freeze. This supprised me since I though 10.1 would solve a lot of their stability problems with 9, guess not. This doesnt exactly please the PC guys, who allready complain about how much money the school could have saved if they had bough PC's.



Any ideas on what the hell is going on? I probably didnt give you enough info, but I dont have the class anymore, but I still want to try and fix this for my friends.

Comments

  • Reply 1 of 8
    buonrottobuonrotto Posts: 6,368member
    Do a dirty re-install.
  • Reply 2 of 8
    ghost_user_nameghost_user_name Posts: 22,667member
    Yeah, 10.1 should not just randomly freeze up. I'd guess that someone there has been mucking around with stuff that they shouldn't be.



    I'd do reinstalls as BuonRotto suggested. When you do, double-check permissions on /Library and /System to make absolutely sure the casual user can't do anything in them. Also, I'd leave the root account *off* like Apple has it by default.



    Of course, details would help greatly here. Is Photoshop the only major app people are using? Have they installed any "hacks" like TinkerTool, unsanity goodies, or anything else that works globally? Also, are they using any Palm software or Norton Utilities? I've heard that both of these are pretty buggy -- especially Norton.



    I have personally never had problems running Photoshop 7 on 10.1 yet. I've actually been surprised with its stability. Photoshop has been rock-solid for me.



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  • Reply 3 of 8
    buonrottobuonrotto Posts: 6,368member
    Does this happen with everyone's account or is someone in particular logged in when it happens?



    Anyway, the most likely culprit is a bad .kext in the System folder. Are you aware of any non-Apple software asking for an admin password when installing?



    Also check for bad peripherals.
  • Reply 4 of 8
    ebbyebby Posts: 3,110member
    It happened to one of my labs when a Apple file server crashed. All macs connected to it also crashed.
  • Reply 5 of 8
    falconfalcon Posts: 458member
    The lab isnt connected to the internet so I doubt any muck apps have gotten on them. The students never logg in, as no one has there own personal account. The teacher just leaves them on 24/7. Some mac specialist from 'MacMedic' comes in and try's to solve the problem, but comes away saying everything is just fine.
  • Reply 6 of 8
    buonrottobuonrotto Posts: 6,368member
    They're not letting everyone use that machine on an administrator's account are they?!
  • Reply 7 of 8
    the g5the g5 Posts: 42member
    did you get the 9.2.2 update? this supposedly helps out with os x stability in classic apps. if those computers have less than 400 megs of ram, i'm sure they'll be a pain to use anyway.
  • Reply 8 of 8
    scott_h_phdscott_h_phd Posts: 448member
    [quote]Originally posted by Ebby:

    <strong>It happened to one of my labs when a Apple file server crashed. All macs connected to it also crashed.</strong><hr></blockquote>



    Yea. My gut reaction was that it was a networking problem. But I wouldn't know how 10.1 does in that setting.
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