abnormal shutdown procedere (PB12")
Folks,
since a couple of days my PB12" shows
an abnormal behavior when i shutdown
the machine. Instead of just shutting down,
(you know, everything quits, the screen dims, black
screen appears and then the PB is off),instead of all this
the black screen lasts for a while and then a message
(white letters) appears:
halting
halt by [USER]
Also i found this in the Logfile after:
It scares me a bit. Is there something going on?
ANY ideas?
(I am posting this, because EVERYTHING else (repairing priv. and so on)
failed to fix this issue.)
since a couple of days my PB12" shows
an abnormal behavior when i shutdown
the machine. Instead of just shutting down,
(you know, everything quits, the screen dims, black
screen appears and then the PB is off),instead of all this
the black screen lasts for a while and then a message
(white letters) appears:
halting
halt by [USER]
Also i found this in the Logfile after:
Quote:
Jan 20 23:19:21 localhost loginwindow[187]: halting
Jan 20 23:19:21 localhost shutdown: halt by [USER] :
Jan 20 23:19:21 localhost loginwindow[187]: halting
Jan 20 23:19:21 localhost shutdown: halt by [USER] :
It scares me a bit. Is there something going on?
ANY ideas?
(I am posting this, because EVERYTHING else (repairing priv. and so on)
failed to fix this issue.)
Comments
Originally posted by Vox Barbara
Folks,
since a couple of days my PB12" shows
an abnormal behavior when i shutdown
the machine. Instead of just shutting down,
(you know, everything quits, the screen dims, black
screen appears and then the PB is off),instead of all this
the black screen lasts for a while and then a message
(white letters) appears:
halting
halt by [USER]
Also i found this in the Logfile after:
It scares me a bit. Is there something going on?
ANY ideas?
(I am posting this, because EVERYTHING else (repairing priv. and so on)
failed to fix this issue.)
Well, halting the system is what you're doing when switching off the PowerBook.. so the shutdown isn't too abnormal in that regard
I've seen this behaviour as well, but it occured only after booting in SingleUser Mode first and switching to "Fully Operational" mode (whatever it is called) afterwards...
Originally posted by durandal
Well, halting the system is what you're doing when switching off the PowerBook.. so the shutdown isn't too abnormal in that regard
I've seen this behaviour as well, but it occured only after booting in SingleUser Mode first and switching to "Fully Operational" mode (whatever it is called) afterwards...
I've never seen these lines before, so to me
this behavior seems to be "abnormal" .
Also, i've never seen this on any mac i worked with.
This shutdown message is definitely not
common sense. As far as i understand "common sense".
/Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginwindow.plist
...might be a candidate. So you could trash it, restart and check whether your PB is back to normal... (just an idea, don't have any real clue as to what might be wrong with your laptop)
greetings,
durandal
Originally posted by johnq
Are you running APE (Application Enhancer)? That might cause it.
I guess so, but as i stated above, this message
never occured prior, this shutdown behavior started
only 3-4 days ago.
Which app does install APE? MenuMeter or something?
BTW, on my powerbook there are several user accounts
created, two of them have admin status. Could this
be the culprit? Just a wild guess.
thank you so far
When I google "localhost shutdown: halt by "
This thread suggests MSN Messenger:
http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache...t+by+%22&hl=en
This one suggests APE:
http://www.macfixitforums.com/php/sh...=5&o=31&fpart=
Might not be either, but rather any app the is crashing might be doing this. Can't tell without seeing the log.
Is the user you named you? Or one of the other users?
Perhaps they are running programs and they are halting your shutdown.
Originally posted by johnq
How about MSN Messenger?
Nop.
Originally posted by johnq
...
Might not be either, but rather any app the is crashing might be doing this. Can't tell without seeing the log.
Perhaps they are running programs and they are halting your shutdown.
I looked up the logs by myself. The last time i saw this
""halting" message thing", ichat agent crashed.
Actually, i have the feeling that there is something very bad
happening with my PB, because now (the last 2 days) the "windowserver"
is crashing occasionaly. NEVER happend before.
If the windowserver is crashing the entire
UI becomes unusable. You have to reboot the hard way
After rebooting i look up the logs and a lot of
stunning things crashed too: SystemUIserver,
securityagent, loginwindow etc pp.
It is really scaring.
In short: My system is a PB 12" 1ghz/768RAM with build in Superdrive.
Since purchase (15 months ago) i had no troubles at all
with this beast. It was just working. Uptimes up to 30 days, no
crashes except MS Word, only occasionaly.
The PB is running 10.3.7 -
all possible and available updates included. Software,
which is legaly installed: Adobe CS 8, Office 2004, FinalDraft, FCE 2,
iLive 4, - well nothing exotic, neither Haxies,
betas nor "System Enhancers" and such.
I have no clue what happend. Something hardware?
Example: Original Apple Hardware Test CD (Jaguar) tells me
... Grafic card unknown.
The Panther Hardware Test CD tells me the apropriate Grafic card.
Oddly enough i'd say.
The weird thing is, i can't reproduce the crashes. Example: i do my work
for 3 or 4 hours. Everything is fine, then i switch from one app to another
(CMD-TAB), and - guess what - the system crashes. Well the windowserver crashes, which is like a system crash. I have to reboot. To my knowledge it is no KP.
BTW do you want to see the entire "log"? i can post it via PM, if you want.
Originally posted by durandal
Well, halting the system is what you're doing when switching off the PowerBook.. so the shutdown isn't too abnormal in that regard
I've seen this behaviour as well, but it occured only after booting in SingleUser Mode first and switching to "Fully Operational" mode (whatever it is called) afterwards...
I know this is off the topic a bit, but do you have to select multiple users after you use single user mode? I though you just restarted.
who has done bad to my system.
I searched a while on this page
and indeed i found some pretty useful informations there.
Perhaps useful for others too.
Well at first i put 2 files into the trash bin:
(1) library/preferences/com.apple.windowserver.plist
(2) library/preferences/com.apple.loginwindow.plist
rebooted
At first glance the system feels stable again.
Later on i learned on the very same page,
that corupted fonts (this is something i knew already can do
nasty things to your system as well.
And some apps do install corupted fonts by default, i.e.
MS Internet Explorer, which i had installed once, but
never used. Until recently. Perhaps plain random, but i
can see kinda relationship. Well i dragged some
MS Fonts to the bin. I will see...
[/fingers crossed]
Originally posted by Vox Barbara
I am on the way to trace back,
who has done bad to my system.
I searched a while on this page
and indeed i found some pretty useful informations there.
Perhaps useful for others too.
Well at first i put 2 files into the trash bin:
(1) library/preferences/com.apple.windowserver.plist
(2) library/preferences/com.apple.loginwindow.plist
rebooted
At first glance the system feels stable again.
Later on i learned on the very same page,
that corupted fonts (this is something i knew already can do
nasty things to your system as well.
And some apps do install corupted fonts by default, i.e.
MS Internet Explorer, which i had installed once, but
never used. Until recently. Perhaps plain random, but i
can see kinda relationship. Well i dragged some
MS Fonts to the bin. I will see...
[/fingers crossed]
Good luck, let us know.
Originally posted by MacCrazy
Good luck, let us know.
Alright, i will report...
[EDIT] Everything seems to be fine again.
Perhaps damaged top library pref files,
perhaps damaged MS fonts. I can't decide
right now.