OSX 10.6 goes unresponsive

Posted by mjb on Super User See other posts from Super User or by mjb
Published on 2011-06-25T23:42:57Z Indexed on 2011/06/26 0:24 UTC
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This behavior continues to perplex me. My MBP, running 10.6.7, stops responding to all Apple-based software. Whatever software I have open remains open (Terminal, iTunes, Safari), but if I try to use the F-shortcuts or launch any OSX-based software not already open (System Preferences for example) it just bounces in the dock then never launches.

I also cannot reboot without hard rebooting.

I left terminal open, so I see the following in /var/log/system.log

Jun 25 19:39:02 mjb-2 com.apple.ReportCrash.Root[59432]: 2011-06-25 19:39:02.585 ReportCrash[59432:7f1f] Saved crash report for CoreServicesUIAgent[59576] version ??? (???) to /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/CoreServicesUIAgent_2011-06-25-193902_localhost.crash Jun 25 19:39:02 mjb-2 com.apple.ReportCrash.Root[59432]: 2011-06-25 19:39:02.586 ReportCrash[59432:b10f] Saved crash report for quicklookd[59571] version ??? (???) to /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/quicklookd_2011-06-25-193902_localhost.crash

Two requests: (1) please don't send this off to the Apple area so it can die a slow painful rotting death of tumbleweed. (2) Suggest what I should kill -9 or logs to look at to cut this sh*$ out.

Cheers,
mjb

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