I thought MacOS X was supposed to be stable...
I crash it WAY more often than I crash MacOS 9. As if crashing wasn't annoying enough, it bugs me that after I restart, my Dock preferences are all gone. But that's not all.
Each crash seems to increase the likelihood of crashes because the file system gets screwed up. Essentially, I have two questions:
1. When the GUI locks up, is there any way I can drop into Darwin to allow the file system to finish writing, and then restart from there?
2. What can I do in general to make MacOS X more stable.
Quite frankly, I rarely get the message, "[Application] has unexpectedly quit, but no other applications or the System have been affected." That's probably not the correct text, but who can blame me since I almost never see it? Instead, the mouse just freezes. The next thing I know, I'm sticking a paper clip in the side of my iMac.
I mean, just because the GUI goes down, that doesn't necessarily mean the kernel is hosed. So perhaps there is a way to just drop into Darwin? Sometimes my file system gets so screwed up, I just reinstall the whole damn system. I'm probably on my 6th installation now.
But mainly, I'm just tired of all the crashes. Can anybody help me?
Aylutar
I crash it WAY more often than I crash MacOS 9. As if crashing wasn't annoying enough, it bugs me that after I restart, my Dock preferences are all gone. But that's not all.
Each crash seems to increase the likelihood of crashes because the file system gets screwed up. Essentially, I have two questions:
1. When the GUI locks up, is there any way I can drop into Darwin to allow the file system to finish writing, and then restart from there?
2. What can I do in general to make MacOS X more stable.
Quite frankly, I rarely get the message, "[Application] has unexpectedly quit, but no other applications or the System have been affected." That's probably not the correct text, but who can blame me since I almost never see it? Instead, the mouse just freezes. The next thing I know, I'm sticking a paper clip in the side of my iMac.
I mean, just because the GUI goes down, that doesn't necessarily mean the kernel is hosed. So perhaps there is a way to just drop into Darwin? Sometimes my file system gets so screwed up, I just reinstall the whole damn system. I'm probably on my 6th installation now.
But mainly, I'm just tired of all the crashes. Can anybody help me?
Aylutar