The colorful water ball of death
Leopard arrived. I took a 5er license to allow upgrading my MacBook and Kristin’s MiniMac.
MacBook went ok. Very slick. However, the MiniMac (one of the PowerPC ones) was not so lucky. Upgrade worked well, machine rebooted. Login screen appears. And a few seconds later the cursor turns in the cheery, colorful ‘rotating water ball’ that all Mac users know. And stays there.
I let the Mini run through the night, in case it is jut doing some indexing or disk reorganizing or whatever it is that Macs do when you are not looking. No luck.
Anyone heard of that? I don’t want to do a fresh install; there is some data on that box that Kristin would be very upset to lose.
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One Response to “The colorful water ball of death”
1 Adrian Sutton 30 October 2007 @ 10:31
Sounds like the rapidly becoming famous, Leopard blue screen of death. It’s usually caused by having Unsanity’s APE installed (which is installed without your knowledge by the Logitech drivers). The simplest solution is to do an Archive and Install which takes longer and requires 5-10GB more free disk space but gives you a clean Tiger install but preserves all your documents, applications and most of your settings.
Apple has a technote about it:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=306857
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