application launching failures

[Bart Silverstrim]

On Dec 19, 2006, at 3:39 PM, Kurt Werle wrote:

>>>> it just froze with the wallpaper showing until I held the on/off
>>>> button down.
>
> Has this happened more than once?  Review all your /var/logs.  If  
> it will
> happen again, fire up Activity Monitor early so you can watch your
> processes (or a terminal with top running).  It should be pretty clear
> what is eating your process space.

It has happened before, but the logs don't seem to show anything out  
of the ordinary other than a few messages like
****
  kernel[0]: (66: coreservicesd)tfp: failed on 0:
*****
Dec 19 12:37:56 x mDNSResponder:  8463:  
DNSServiceRegistrationAddRecord(x_x_x_x.<<INVALID LABEL LENGTH 224>>,  
type 10, length 8716) failed: data_len > 8K (-65540)
Dec 19 12:38:04 x mDNSResponder:  8463:  
DNSServiceRegistrationAddRecord(x_x_x_x.<<INVALID LABEL LENGTH 224>>,  
type 10, length 8716) failed: data_len > 8K (-65540)
Dec 19 12:38:27 x kernel[0]: (62: coreservicesd)tfp: failed on 0:
Dec 19 12:39:09 x kernel[0]: (62: coreservicesd)tfp: failed on 0:
Dec 19 12:39:18 x loginwindow[66]: sendQuitEventToApp (2200 Series  
Button Monitor): AESendMessage returned error -1712
Dec 19 12:39:18 x loginwindow[66]: sendQuitEventToApp (Transport  
Monitor): AESendMessage returned error -1712
Dec 19 12:39:19 x loginwindow[66]: sendQuitEventToApp (Palm Desktop  
Background): AESendMessage returned error -1712
*******

I x'd out the IP and machine name, but otherwise these were from the  
logfile in the period of time that I had the behavior today...other  
than these, nothing seemed to stand out.