minimalistic
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Today my mac started hanging - 3 times so far. The only common thing I've observed between those was that there was some intensive disk activity - first 2 times I was downloading smth, and the last time I started the Disc Verification from the Disk Utility tool.
My question is - how do I debug/troubleshoot this thing? In windows the task manager is always responsive, even if explorer.exe dies. How/what do I do when Finder hangs on me?
A weird thing is that when it hangs, the browser (firefox) is still running just fine. If I however try to open the 'Force quit' app or start a Terminal, then everything hangs completely and the only option is forced shutdown (holding the button for 10secs).
Any ideas on how to approach this?
p.s. I was looking in the system.log, but can't see anything suspicious. If anyone is interested, I can send it over.
Thanks for your ideas!
My question is - how do I debug/troubleshoot this thing? In windows the task manager is always responsive, even if explorer.exe dies. How/what do I do when Finder hangs on me?
A weird thing is that when it hangs, the browser (firefox) is still running just fine. If I however try to open the 'Force quit' app or start a Terminal, then everything hangs completely and the only option is forced shutdown (holding the button for 10secs).
Any ideas on how to approach this?
p.s. I was looking in the system.log, but can't see anything suspicious. If anyone is interested, I can send it over.
Thanks for your ideas!