10-20-2005, 11:10 AM

Sup All ::

1st post, w00t!

Quick question for anybody to tackle. I don't know if it's a back-door virus, bug, or software/hardware issue, however my machine at work seems to be on some type of rotating schedule of pissing me off.

I regularly am running Extensis Suitcase, Photoshop, Illustrator & Quark. I'm running OSx 10.3.9, and I know that Suitcase has "issues" with 10 in combination with Norton Anti-virus, (so i've heard from my boss).

My question and issue is that regularly my machine asks me to shutdown. It will go for months, weeks without doing it, and suddnely one day it's like pulling teeth to get anything done, because I constantly have to click cancel when it asks me to shutdown.

It's like it happens out of the blue, I don't know if anything triggers it or what? But it's total randomness it seems. I can work for days on end without it popping up asking me "are you sure you want to shutdown your machine?" So I'll click cancel, cancel cancel, etc ... like 6-7 times in a row, it'll rest for about half an hour, pop up again, than disappear for a while.

This issue is driving me crazy. Google'd it, and came up dry. My boss, and art director here don't know how to resolve the issue, and I've even done a quick search on this forum, but came up dry as well and so I'm posting my issue.

If anybody has any thoughts, or previous experience with this nasty bug coud yea let me know how to beat it?

Thanks

m


p.s. glad to be aboard!

10-20-2005, 11:41 AM

You will see this when software update runs and installs a update that requires a reboot

10-20-2005, 11:44 AM

Kernel panic?

10-20-2005, 11:45 AM

Originally Posted by forbin

You will see this when software update runs and installs a update that requires a reboot

But it's constantly asking to reboot, even if the update proggy isn't running. ?? neye:

10-20-2005, 11:56 AM

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106227

10-20-2005, 12:09 PM

Originally Posted by mynameis

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106227

Thanks for the link, Do you think i'm getting a "kernel panic" even though i'm not getting that forced shutdown screen?

It's "asking" me if i want to shutdown, it's not a forced, "SHUTDOWN ur comp" screen.

10-20-2005, 12:41 PM

Originally Posted by .michael

Sup All ::

1st post, w00t!

Quick question for anybody to tackle. I don't know if it's a back-door virus, bug, or software/hardware issue, however my machine at work seems to be on some type of rotating schedule of pissing me off.

I regularly am running Extensis Suitcase, Photoshop, Illustrator & Quark. I'm running OSx 10.3.9, and I know that Suitcase has "issues" with 10 in combination with Norton Anti-virus, (so i've heard from my boss).

My question and issue is that regularly my machine asks me to shutdown. It will go for months, weeks without doing it, and suddnely one day it's like pulling teeth to get anything done, because I constantly have to click cancel when it asks me to shutdown.

It's like it happens out of the blue, I don't know if anything triggers it or what? But it's total randomness it seems. I can work for days on end without it popping up asking me "are you sure you want to shutdown your machine?" So I'll click cancel, cancel cancel, etc ... like 6-7 times in a row, it'll rest for about half an hour, pop up again, than disappear for a while.

This issue is driving me crazy. Google'd it, and came up dry. My boss, and art director here don't know how to resolve the issue, and I've even done a quick search on this forum, but came up dry as well and so I'm posting my issue.

If anybody has any thoughts, or previous experience with this nasty bug coud yea let me know how to beat it?

Thanks

m


p.s. glad to be aboard!

If it is only every couple of months couldn't you just say yes and go make a cup of coffee while it reboots? :dive:

It might be that the underlying journalling filesystem needs to clean up a bit, usually the machines are set to do this at around 3am but if you put the machine to sleep it will not be able to do its housekeeping.

Amen-Moses

10-20-2005, 12:43 PM

Originally Posted by Amen-Moses

If it is only every couple of months couldn't you just say yes and go make a cup of coffee while it reboots? :dive:

It might be that the underlying journalling filesystem needs to clean up a bit, usually the machines are set to do this at around 3am but if you put the machine to sleep it will not be able to do its housekeeping.

Amen-Moses

Where would I check to see if this is happening? Can I set this time?

10-20-2005, 02:40 PM

Originally Posted by .michael

Where would I check to see if this is happening? Can I set this time?

Actually that's a good question to which I don't know the answer and my OS X book is out on loan.

I am sure we've had a thread on here about it before though.

Amen-Moses

10-20-2005, 02:41 PM

Fixing the Default Housekeeping schedule

Amen-Moses

10-20-2005, 02:45 PM

I know this is obvious but have you tried repairing permissions?

Also, if you are putting it to sleep, the ram may not be clearing effectively, and could be the reason why you expriencing random shut-down messages.

10-20-2005, 02:56 PM

In all probability, since it's at his office, they'll turn the machines off at the end of each workday, entirely prohibiting such schedule maintenance.

10-20-2005, 03:01 PM

Originally Posted by Meyvn

In all probability, since it's at his office, they'll turn the machines off at the end of each workday, entirely prohibiting such schedule maintenance.

yea I shutdown my comp everyday before I leave, but I could schedule a start-up / shutdown from 3:00am - 6:00 am since I don't get here till 7:30-8ish in the morning.

But do you think these random "do u want to shutdown now" messages are from improper scheduled maintenance?

10-20-2005, 03:22 PM

Can't guarantee it of course, but it's definitely worth a shot to try, and see if that resolves the problem. Even if the lack of scheduled maintenance isn't the source of THIS problem, in all likelihood another problem will surface as a result in the future if you don't fix it.

10-20-2005, 05:16 PM

Could it be possible that one of your keyboard keys is a shortcut to shutdown the computer and you are catching the key ever so slightly on occasion? It may not be, but just a thought...