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Re: unexplained system lock up
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2008-03-18 11:49:51
Richard E. Miles wrote:
> I got this imac last July for a birthday present. It is
very new and I 
> have not tried to add any ram modules.
[]
>>> I run the same application twice. What I mean
is I changed one of the 
>>>  applications by moving it to a different app
name using mv. I 
>>> changed  all string names in the plist to match
the new name and 
>>> changed the  binary name to match also. Every
so often my I Imac 
>>> intel running  leopard will freeze up with what
sounds like the disk 
>>> is busy.
>>> I do not see that my changing the application
name would have an 
>>>  effect on this but I am not sure. Is there
some bug in the Imac 
>>> intel  that occurs that would explain this
hangup (freeeze)?
>>>  
>> This doesn't sound very Fink-related, but we'll let
that pass.
>> Lockups, in my experience, are often associated
with hardware 
>> problems, like poorly seated RAM modules, or bad
ones.

Another possibility is that the two instances of your app
fight over the 
same files and block the system. They will, for example,
probably try to 
write to the same preferences file. Without more information
from you, 
however, this is blind guessing.

-- 
Martin


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