When last I looked, the sole responder to this question over at Apple's Discussions had volunteered the suggestion of an archive and re-install. Obvious enough, but conributing little to my comprehension of the matter, as I observed.
I'm by no means as familiar with the innards of OS X as I am with those of OS 9 and its forebears, so I appreciate any identification of potentially responsible/corrupted kexts and the like. It's nearly 25 years since Unix was a daily concern of mine, and even then it was mostly to program in PostScript on top of it. Rather like Logo in many ways, but rather more sophisticated. But I digress. My innate and learnt preferences are to understand the event, its causes and outcomes, but it's my wife's eMac and she is up to her earballs in a literature survey at the moment. I shall boot into and back-up from the serviceable partition for her weekly backup until I dare to dispossess her of her machine long enough to try your suggestion.
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(60x) 13DT + 3PB + PTPro; (G3) 7DT/MT; (G4) 3T + PB. System 8.1 to OS 10.5.8
I'm by no means as familiar with the innards of OS X as I am with those of OS 9 and its forebears, so I appreciate any identification of potentially responsible/corrupted kexts and the like. It's nearly 25 years since Unix was a daily concern of mine, and even then it was mostly to program in PostScript on top of it. Rather like Logo in many ways, but rather more sophisticated. But I digress. My innate and learnt preferences are to understand the event, its causes and outcomes, but it's my wife's eMac and she is up to her earballs in a literature survey at the moment. I shall boot into and back-up from the serviceable partition for her weekly backup until I dare to dispossess her of her machine long enough to try your suggestion.
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(60x) 13DT + 3PB + PTPro; (G3) 7DT/MT; (G4) 3T + PB. System 8.1 to OS 10.5.8