Mac OS 10.5 Leopard sudden logout/login
:: Friday, January 25th, 2008 @ 1:39:40 pm
:: Tags: Computers
BIZARRE. Just now, I was working in the following applications: Excel, Preview, Aperture, Photo Mechanic, and iTunes (playing music). I clicked over from Excel to Photo Mechanic, and my Mac Pro screen went completely blue. Finder re-launched, and it was like I had just logged in after a restart.
Obviously, I lost all my work since the last save. It’s the first time anything like this has happened. Scary (and shitty).
(I used to get kernel panics during the early days of Parallels — thankfully, those days are over.)
OK, so now the few of my friends still on Windows are going to chime in and tell me to use Vista. No.
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Has anyone actually recommended vista to you? I’m stunned.
Personally, I like Windows 3.1. :)
Howdy — I’ve experienced this sudden-logout twice today and found you via Google :( This happened once about a week ago as well, before I’d upgraded to 10.5.2. Total bummer. If you have more info, I’d love to know what you’ve found out.
I found this discussion via Google, too. Had three sudden logouts (went to blue screen) in the last couple days. The first two was while I had Parallels in the background, so I thought it was that, but the last one, a few minutes ago, was without Parallels running, and I was typing an email in Entourage. This is new… and weird. It’s just like a system crash in the old days, you lose everything, but you don’t have to restart… you have to log back in. 10.5.1 Macbook Pro.
I just installed the “new 10.5″ Brother DCP - 7020 scanner driver - now after rebooting all I get is the login flash blue screen back to login over and over again ….
It was functioning fine with 10.5.2 iMac G5 before installing the scanner driver …
not seeing the benefits of Leopard ….
anyone else see this
Of course brother is blaming Apple et visa versa
Hi,
I can not find anyone talking about this on the Apple supporting forum. I wonder how ‘popular’ this problem is.
found this page from google too.
I got the same sudden relogin problem too
hi! this JUST happened to me… i’m on 10.5.2 on a macbook pro with 2GB of factory RAM. i was running dreamweaver, itunes and streaming from itunes radio, mysqld_safe, a ruby on rails app (mongrel invoked by script/server on port 3000), firefox, textedit…
i lost a little bit of work but nothing too critical… i specifically switched to mac from windows because i did not want to go through blue screens of death again… my finder turned blue and i was logged out. that was the fastest log out i have ever seen. also the applications when re-launched re-launched immediately, also the fastest ive experienced when logging in from a reboot, cold start, or just regular log in…
very weird… is this starting to be a wide problem?
Anyone else? i also googled this thread—before it happened, Excel became unresponsive and I couldn’t edit a spreadsheet cell and then boom I was logged-out. 2008 Mac Pro 2 x 4 cores 2.8 GHz.
happened right now… Safari + Firefox + Opera + Terminal + Excel… just switching back and forth… trying to open new safari tab… blue screen. logout… the funny thing… i still have terminal processes ssh’ing into different servers running, but i can’t access them anymore, the associated window (like all others) is gone it seems… the processes are still there though…
Just happened to me using Excel; was on with Apple tech support and they blamed Microsoft after doing a disk utilities scan of my hard drive and finding nothing. Is everyone using Office 2004? I wonder if that’s the problem.
same problem except it will want to restart my whole system, and it gives me that little grey box like it does when it crashes