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    Unstable OSX 10.5 (Macbook Pro)

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by wave, Jun 5, 2008.

  1. wave

    wave Notebook Virtuoso

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    I need your help Running a Santa Rosa Macbook pro with 10.5.3

    Recently I have been playing with Mac Ports. Installed Deluge and Gimp. I installed the 10.5.3 Compo Update since Ports said that I need to update my X11.

    Ever since my Mac is screwed up. It take longer too boot. Sometimes rEFIt doesnt come up and I have to hold down alt to select a boot drive to get it going. But what is most annoying is that the colorful beach ball keeps coming up. The program I have the most problems with is VMware Fusion. I am running Windows XP on it and it just hangs. Windows doesnt hang but Fusion does. I click on it and nothing happens. The mouse doesnt move and the Fusion menu bar does not come up. I cant force quit it either. I have to close all the vm threads and reboot to get going again.

    Lucky I have been working with MS Access most of the time so I didnt lose any data (access writes straight to disk and doesnt cache anything). But the reboots are a huge time waste!

    What should I do? Reinstall leopard? Remove Mac Ports? Remove the 10.5.3 combo update (no idea how)? What else could be causing this?

    edit: **One other idea I have... The cause might be that I keep switching between OSX Firefox and Fusion Win XP Access and copying text via cut and paste. It mostly locks up after I leave VMware fusion in the background for a while (20-30min) working in OSX.
     
    wave, Jun 5, 2008
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  2. Budding

    Budding Notebook Virtuoso

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    The obvious solution would be to do a non-destructive re-installation of Leopard, and use Fink Commander as opposed to Macports in the future.
     
    Budding, Jun 5, 2008
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  3. masterchef341

    masterchef341 The guy from The Notebook

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    i dont know exactly what macports is for, but there is a native mac version of gimp ( http://darwingimp.sourceforge.net/)

    and there is a native mac version of deluge as well. also, transmission is an excellent alternative.
     
    masterchef341, Jun 5, 2008
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