Hello, again, everyone!
I've got a kool new OS X bug! Here's how it works:
I walk away from my 1999 PBG3 w/320 MB ram, and I
come back 20 minutes later, and the screen is black. This is to be expected, since I have energy saver on. I tap the space bar, or tap the track pad, and the screen turns into a grey dotted blankness, with the faintest hint of a cursor blinking about where the login dialog would be. The screen stays grey and evenly blank while I type in my name and password, and then the computer logs me in and starts a new session, with no hint of whatever was happening before. The grey fuzz disappears once the finder has started up. Now, I have scoured my system looking for where the setting would be that configured my mac to log me out and end my session after some here-to-for unknown period of time. As far as I can tell, and I've checked every system pref, including some that had no chance whatsoever of being relevant for this (being thorough, ya know?) I don't have anything set that would do this.
For what it's worth, this mysterious behavior started after I installed 10.0.2, and it's a big problem for me, since I do a lot of 3D and After Effects work, and leaving the machine unattended for weeks (seriously) is a big issue. Anyone got a clue? I love editing text files, so XML values are welcome. TIA!
Joshua
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In article joshua-070520011939320555@redacted.invalid, Joshua Whalen joshua@redacted.invalid wrote:
I walk away from my 1999 PBG3 w/320 MB ram, and Icome back 20 minutes later, and the screen is black. This is to be expected, since I have energy saver on. I tap the space bar, or tap the track pad, and the screen turns into a grey dotted blankness, with the faintest hint of a cursor blinking about where the login dialog would be.
For what it's worth, this mysterious behavior started after I installed 10.0.2
Dittos here. I have the same problem with my B&W G3/350, and it started after I upgraded to 10.0.2. I've been trying to watch more closely what I was doing before such things happen, to formulate an accurate bug/problem report.
My experience varies slightly from yours, in that I don't have to log in again, but I'm set up as a single user with auto login; that could be the difference. But, I'll leave several apps running but not active, come back after the system has gone to sleep, and find a "greyed-out" screen. All my applications have quit, so it's apparent there was a Finder restart while I was away.
My desktop only comes back in sections; I find the only way to get rid of the grey is to open a window and "sweep" the entire desktop with it. I also have seen colored vertical banding on the left quarter of the screen. Even when the grey is gone, if I move a window to the left, it fills up with "noise".
I hope this one gets resolved soon; it's quite annoying.
Kevin
In article 080520010042209268%kbcraig@redacted.invalid, Kevin Craig kbcraig@redacted.invalid wrote:
My experience varies slightly from yours, in that I don't have to log in again, but I'm set up as a single user with auto login; that could be the difference. But, I'll leave several apps running but not active, come back after the system has gone to sleep, and find a "greyed-out" screen. All my applications have quit, so it's apparent there was a Finder restart while I was away.
Aaaarghhh! Just happened again. :-(
This time I couldn't recover; I had to hit the reset button to restart. I had a totally grey screen, and nothing was responsive. This happened in roughly 5 minutes, while I was away fixing a snack.
The following apps were running: Internet Connect (hidden); MSIE; Ircle; AIM; Gerry's ICQ; and Eudora.
I just checked my Energy Saver control panel, and I'd set times of 30 minutes for System sleep, and separate 5 minute limits for the display and the hard disk. I suspect the different "sleep" times may have a role in this. I just unchecked them, and we'll see from here.
Kevin