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Adium 0.8
Posted: Fri May 06, 2005 9:09 am
by ukwilky
Since upgrading Adium 0.8 my Powerbook G4, continually crashes on boot up it took hours to get in and remove Adium from the system. I have had no previous problems with Adium versions and since removing my MAC is stable.
Is anyone else having this problem, is there a fix as I am going to downgrade. FYI, I am fairly new to MAC's
Posted: Fri May 06, 2005 12:51 pm
by Son of a Preacher Man
What's a MAC?
Did you have Adium set to run at startup or something?
Posted: Fri May 06, 2005 3:03 pm
by Adam Iser
Nothing Adium can do should be able to crash your machine completely. Adium can crash (which you can fix by force quitting it with apple-option-esc), but the entire operating system should not crash.
If it does, the issues is usually a corrupt OS X install, problematic hard-drive data, or a hardware failure such as a bad stick of ram.
Posted: Sat May 07, 2005 11:20 am
by ukwilky
Son of a Preacher Man wrote:What's a MAC?
Did you have Adium set to run at startup or something?
Yeah, it was to run at startup, it would either freeze the machine or cause lines of code to go across the screen, since removing Adium v0.8 everything is fine and the issues only started happening after installing this version
Posted: Sat May 07, 2005 11:24 am
by ukwilky
Adam Iser wrote:Nothing Adium can do should be able to crash your machine completely. Adium can crash (which you can fix by force quitting it with apple-option-esc), but the entire operating system should not crash.
If it does, the issues is usually a corrupt OS X install, problematic hard-drive data, or a hardware failure such as a bad stick of ram.
Thanks for the info, I wasn't able to force quit due to the machine freezing on boot up as Adium was setup to run on startup. I have checked the hard disk and there are no errors and since being able to remove the lastest version, my machine is now stable again, the issues only started after installing the latest version. I will try and install from scratch to see if it is ok
Posted: Sun May 08, 2005 9:45 am
by Son of a Preacher Man
Bizarre.
For future reference, if you hold down Shift after login/as your desktop appears, you can prevent startup items from happening.
Posted: Sun May 08, 2005 3:06 pm
by ukwilky
Son of a Preacher Man wrote:Bizarre.
For future reference, if you hold down Shift after login/as your desktop appears, you can prevent startup items from happening.
Thanks for the tip, have reinstalled and everything seems to be stable, thanks for all your help