MacWeirdness

[ceagle]

Here's one I've never seen before...
This Macintosh Powebook's clock seems to have frozen at 2am.
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*scritches headfeathers*
Could that be a bug related to the auto-set for daylight savings, even though it's weeks past that? Since 2am is when daylight savings usually changes, that's my only guess. Or perhaps it's a hardware thing.

I am going to try just restarting first and see if that fixes it, if not.. manual reset and possibly check battery. Odd. *fluffs feathers out with puzzled goosebumps*

Comments

[c-eagle.livejournal.com]

That fixed it!

*gack* that was weird... ;P

[secret-wolver.livejournal.com]

Silly eagle. *Snugs*

[c-eagle.livejournal.com]

hehheh! *hugs ye in return*

[j77.livejournal.com]

I was gonna say, I'd actually seen that sort of bug before. It happened all the time on the Mac at my workplace -- the clock would just freeze, while the rest of the system kept going. A reboot always cleared things up. I think what was actually happening was that one of the other indicator modules up there crashed, and it just locked up the clock display with it, but that's only a guess.

*ruffles the iggle*

[c-eagle.livejournal.com]

awwww...... *warble*.... thanks for the ruffles and the comment :>

.... and I *think* I've traced it!
Ya know how some apps these days do that thing like Photoshop CS where it puts that nutty menu-thing up there where it's got controls and tools that used to all be in little window panels?
I think when the program launches, it kiboshes the regular menubar (in Classic at least)... nothing else freezes or crashes, just renders the clock useless after that until restart.. ;P

I usually use Pshop 4 or even 3 since they are so blazingly fast and economical on the system, but I needed to edit some PDFs so I had fired up 7. rowf! :D

...so I theenk that might be it! *winghugs*

[xianjaguar.livejournal.com]

I dunno if this is true about the newer Macs, but the older mac's clocks are powered by a seperate little battery that needs to be changed if the clock starts to fail.

But....that SEEMS so outdated now. I dunno. I can't imagine it'd still be like that.

[c-eagle.livejournal.com]

Yesh... idn' that so weird? Even in laptops! *fuzzlefur*
Some machines won't even startup with a bad battery... ;P

Thanks for your purr, er.. comment!

[loveyouenola.livejournal.com]

Glad you fixed the weirdness!

*TB Hugs da eagle*

[c-eagle.livejournal.com]

*hugs back*
Thank ya, nifty bear!
(read above for my hypothesis) :9

[dragonfan1.livejournal.com]

i had that happen to me at times during the day nothing new at all.
but at least you got it fixed.

BTW i know you through suzidragonlady lizkay & just2draw since i do comment on their entries too but you seem to be a nice person

no worries :>

[c-eagle.livejournal.com]

Welp... not really fixed, but I think I know what causes it now...

Thanks for the comments! *wags tail*

Re: no worries :>

[dragonfan1.livejournal.com]

you're welcome