Jaguar is crasherific!
Am I the only person who is being afflicted by frequent application stalls, hangs, finder quits?
Granted, my system probably isnt in the best of health, but could it be truly this bad? Perhaps a clean install is in order, can I clean install my "system" folder without wiping out my hard drive?
Granted, my system probably isnt in the best of health, but could it be truly this bad? Perhaps a clean install is in order, can I clean install my "system" folder without wiping out my hard drive?
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It seems Jaguar is still very much lacking in networking (a lot of hangups happen there) and dial-up, but out-of-the-blue hangups have occurred as well, where I couldn't really pinpoint some reason.
<strong>...can I clean install my "system" folder without wiping out my hard drive?</strong><hr></blockquote>
yes, boot from the 10.2 cd, and as install choose "Archive" (or something like that, it's the 2nd option).
this will keep your user, but install a new system folder.
HTH
-Scrolling some finder's windows using the arrows is sometimes jerky.
-Sometimes (not too often), the Finder doesn't show dark the selected icons on the desktop. I mean, I may select an item on the desktop and doesn't get it dark, like if it wasn't selected. Annoying.
-Sometimes, the Finder suddenly quit and restart for no apparent reasons.
-Sometimes, doing a search in the Finder doesn't work, or make the Finder to quit and restart.
-The key commands for the menus and windows cycling (ctr-m and ctrl-w), as selected in the keyboard preferences, doesn't work all the times. I have to restart the user session to make them back to normal.
-Once (and only once), all the OS hard crashed (freeze). Force-quit wasn't working at all. This occured while I opened a wrong document (a QT music file) with TextEdit ! TE opened the file, showing a lot of garbages, and after I closed the document, everything frosted. I had to manually restart the machine. I didn't tried to reproduce the bug.
These problems are showing on a clean install OS X 10.2.1, on a new DDR 867 MHz with a full GB of ram.
Because of these, I'm a bit disapointed about OS X. It is not as strong as Apple is saying.
It has been the smoothest transition ever, a real pleasure.
I've had a few apps crash on me but not Jaguar.
I think if people would mention what machine they were running, specs, ram, hd, strange software (esp haxies) that they are running - it might help us get a better idea of why people are having problems.
Cause if you're runnin OSX on a upgraded G3 installed over the top of an old copy of OS9 with a whole ton of weird haxxies running - yeah. No kidding youre crashing.
I read all these posts and think how lucky I really must be! <img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" /> I am yet to ever experiance a single Kernal Panic in either 10.1 or 10.2, I have only ever restarted twice in 10.2 and the only serious problem I have occurs only on one of my computers where Photoshop unexpectactly quits.. (Always before I save anice big project too)
The only other problems I have is where the screen doesnt refresh lines of texs so you get like three lines of text in word all on top of each other!
Unfortunately, a lot of us are running Beta versions of various programs (often that's the only thing that's avail for OSX) and even some of the non-beta apps should probably still be considered Beta. This, combined with the fact that many 3rd party programmers are still learning Cocoa APIs, results in some marginal code.
I believe that this may cause a lot of the program hangs, unexpected quits, etc.
Fortunately, time should fix most of these problems (at least with reputable programmers, who will FIX their apps, rather than just PATCH them.) Problem is, I am an extremely impatient man (just ask my children).
On a side note... while I can cut the non-apple apps some slack, I sure would have expected better performance from Apple itself (my problems have been with networking - though Jag seems to have fixed those).
So if your having lots of problems, consider removing all your Beta's, or other questionable apps (certainly the haxies). Follow this with a clean install. See if that improves things.
You can then re-install stuff you want, maybe try to figure out which one's giving you probs.
-just my 2 cents
Today I have had both IE and Word crash and I had to re-boot to cure the problem. All seems fine at the moment.
<strong>Today I have had both IE and Word crash and I had to re-boot to cure the problem.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Would it be cynical to suggest there's a common thread to those two crashes? <img src="graemlins/bugeye.gif" border="0" alt="[Skeptical]" />
Still never had an unrecoverable error on my trusty G4 Cube...best Mac ever made.