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<blockquote data-quote="mufngruf" data-source="post: 1230968" data-attributes="member: 151219">well here's another fine mess...more and more frequently, when I go to install an application, the Installer app kicks into gear and walks me through the steps to install (where and for which users) and then it gets to the &quot;Type your password&quot; screen.At this point (I have discovered) if I move the mouse off the &quot;password&quot; window and back over the &quot;Installer&quot; window, even without clicking it, I get the spinning colour wheel. If i continue to move the mouse completely off these two windows and just hover it over the desktop, the wheel goes away.If I type in my authorisation password, the Installer &quot;freezes&quot; and had to be &quot;force quit&quot; - which takes a few minutes.So far, I have run fsck, and applejack and onyx. I have started in &quot;safe&quot; mode and I still have the same issue after each of these &quot;fixes&quot;.I have one hard drive in this iMac (24&quot; 2.66Ghz, 4GB ram Intel) and it's divided into two separate drives, both running the latest Snow leopard.If I reboot into the other drive, the installer works fine.Could this be something as simple as a corrupted prefs/plist file that I can discard and replace or is it more complicated than that?Any ideas?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="mufngruf, post: 1230968, member: 151219"] well here's another fine mess... more and more frequently, when I go to install an application, the Installer app kicks into gear and walks me through the steps to install (where and for which users) and then it gets to the "Type your password" screen. At this point (I have discovered) if I move the mouse off the "password" window and back over the "Installer" window, even without clicking it, I get the spinning colour wheel. If i continue to move the mouse completely off these two windows and just hover it over the desktop, the wheel goes away. If I type in my authorisation password, the Installer "freezes" and had to be "force quit" - which takes a few minutes. So far, I have run fsck, and applejack and onyx. I have started in "safe" mode and I still have the same issue after each of these "fixes". I have one hard drive in this iMac (24" 2.66Ghz, 4GB ram Intel) and it's divided into two separate drives, both running the latest Snow leopard. If I reboot into the other drive, the installer works fine. Could this be something as simple as a corrupted prefs/plist file that I can discard and replace or is it more complicated than that? Any ideas? [/QUOTE]

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