...5.1b5 won't start up???

[Gregory Block]

No; the problem is unrelated to any of those.  I didn't restart the 
computer, or anything similar; just kill -9'd the process.  The problem 
appears to be something unusual about the startup in the state it was 
in, I haven't been able to replicate it since (though I've got 
stability problems with keyboard control of the URL bar during window 
loading).

Had both CPUs spinning at 100% utilisation, too, so it was a big, 
beautiful red bar in XRG before I killed it off.  :)

It literally happened only on first launch, didn't affect (and isn't 
affected by) my network performance, and has been fine since; something 
either time-sensitive or behaviorally sensitive in the OmniWeb startup 
code; moreover, as it had both CPUs spinning full tilt, it's probably a 
spinlock...

On 18 Dec 2004, at 16:03, Jonathan Tyzack wrote:

> From a post at MacNN:
>
> "I installed 10.3.7 on three different computers...all of them ran 
> slow. What caught my eye was how slow Web pages loaded after 
> upgrading. It was taking 2 to 3 minutes when it took a few seconds on 
> 10.3.6. My mail program would not respond...I remembered a problem 
> with a previous OS: The DHCP would not get stored correctly, [but] if 
> you put in valid DNS numbers in the Network [preferences], Safari 
> would work just fine. I put in the DNS numbers in all three computers 
> and everything including Mail works just fine."
>
> Does that help at all?? There's quite a bit about this at MacFixit.com 
> as well and this appears to do the trick.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jonathan
>
> On 18 Dec 2004, at 16:00, Neil Lee wrote:
>
>> Le 18 déc. 2004, à 06:05, Gregory Block a écrit :
>>
>>> Just had the odd experience of launching it from a mail link for the 
>>> first time (dialog pops up with the whole 'are you sure' bit, and 
>>> then bouncing icon) to find that, well, it's not actually starting 
>>> up.  It's hanging for a really, really long time, but it's not 
>>> actually doing anything, it never opens the first window, and it's 
>>> just sitting in the background.  Churning CPU.
>>
>> You must be running OS 10.3.7 - there's a bug I've encountered which 
>> causes certain applications which initiate network connections at 
>> launch (Safari, OW, Mail, and others) to hang for up to 2-3 minutes. 
>> If you disconnect from the network (unplug your Ethernet cable, 
>> disable Airport) these applications should then launch immediately.
>>
>> I logged a fairly extensive bug report with Apple at 
>> bugreport.apple.com, so hopefully something will get done quickly.
>>
>> Neil
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