[OS X TeX] (OT) Tiger and not Tigrrrr :-)?
Herbert Schulz
herbs at wideopenwest.com
Wed Jul 27 00:05:02 CEST 2005
Howdy,
I have had a continuing battle with instabilities in Tiger.
Occasionally the OS would spike CPU usage to 70-90% and a user
process would not be able to respond to signals; this would show up
as a ``xxxxx not responding'' message in Activity Monitor (I never
needed to look in Activity Monitor and Console in any other version
of OS X). E.g., once in a while when I would try to put my system to
sleep the loginwindow process would take a very long time to come up
and display the dialog box.
I put 10.4 on my system using Archive & Install and believe(d) that I
had been very careful about putting things I needed back into my
system from the Previous Systems folder. I completely re-downloaded
and installed TeX, etc., etc., (see, I guess there is some vague
connection to the topic) and the few extras I knew were ok (Macaroni,
CocoAspell (latest version)). But that problem persisted.
I knew that Virex 7.x (I had used v7.2 downloaded from my .Mac
account and never updated to 7.5 because of reported problems with
Panther) was a problem with Tiger but felt that the Archive & Install
should have removed all the harmful things from the /System/ and /
Library/ folders. Remember... I was careful about what I restored
from the Previous Systems folder.
Seeing <http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301291>, I
downloaded the un-installer (destaller?) and ran it; the script is a
series of `rm -fr` commands run as root to delete all traces of the
given version of Virex.
Lo and behold, I haven't seen the problem for almost two weeks now
when I was almost sure to see it about every other day before.
My advice is to definitely delete all traces of Virex using the un-
installers mentioned above if you EVER had Virex on your system. Now
I call OS X 10.4 Tiger rather than Tigerrrr or Tigrrrr.
Post Script: Now I'm sure that five minutes after sending this email
my system will totally freeze to show its contempt for me! Just
waited 5 minutes and all is still well. Maybe I'm still a bit paranoid.
Good Luck,
Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest.com)
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