02-23-2012, 09:29 AM

I feel like this is an OS problem, and not hardware related, so I wanted to try here first.

iBook G4, 12", 1ghz, 1.25gb RAM, 10.4.11.

I recently updated(past 3 months) the machine to it's current level of Mac OS, and it was running just fine up until this past week. It worked just as it should, and quite well.

Until I woke it from it's sleep state one day to find an entire mess of problems. First, I keep Thunderbird(the older, appropriate version) running so it is always there when I wake it from sleep, but this time, it was completely non-functioning, it would pull up the main screen, but then the spinning beach ball of death, for an eternity. Could not force close.

Attempt reboot. System shuts down, restart, hangs up on apple logo. No loading wheel. Ended up needing to shut down, pull battery, and then it would boot.

Upon the reboot, everything seems normal, and is looking like it is working like it should, assuming it was just a one time deal, I put the machine to sleep like normal. After waking it again at a later date, I am experiencing similar issues in regards to Thunderbird, with the added inability to load any other applications. These include Safari, Activity Monitor, System Preferences, Finder(and everything associated with it, as in, could not "reboot" or "shut down" from pull down menu).

It seems a shut down and battery pull is the only thing that is fixing this. Obviously, with good reason, it is very aggravating.

What would you folks on here need from me to help me out with this issue? Is there error logging or crash reporting going on in the background that I can post up? Thunderbird recently was auto updated, and while it was fine for some time with that release, it could be possible that it is having a negative effect at this point.

Any help would be great. I am coming from the Windows world and really enjoy this iBook, even though it's dated, it does everything I need it to do while being outrageously portable, but situations like this make it unusable.

Thanks in advance.

Steve

02-23-2012, 01:25 PM

No answer here, but had to share this:
Scanning the list of topics quickly, at first I saw an 'x' instead of a 'v' in "several".