Abrupt Logout in Leopard 10.5.2
Okay this so totally sucks that I have to let the world know about it!
While in the middle of my work, Leopard 10.5.2 just logged me out on its own without any kind of warning. It didn’t let me save any open documents or anything — it just logged me out, and so totally hosed a FileMaker 6 file I was working on in the process that it can’t be recovered or anything. Thank god I have a back up — but DAMNIT Apple, you just cost me two hours worth of painfully tedious work on that file with this little inconvenience. I’m pissed in a very big way right now. Thank you so much.
First it was the external monitor debacle that bit me, now this! Has anyone else had this happen to them? How did you deal with it? Is there something I don’t know about going on here?
[update] It would seem the WindowServer crashing was the culprit according to my crash logs. It could be that there’s a tremendous memory leak in FileMaker 6 (a PPC application which has to run in Rosetta) windowing code. Unfortunately, I don’t have much choice here as the day job is unwilling to upgrade — other than developing FM6 solutions in Windows, which I may have to do now. At any rate, I’ve calmed down somewhat, but I’m still quite annoyed that I lost the 2 hours of work.
Last Call To Report Yasu Issues
A quick note…
As of yet I’ve gotten no reports of trouble from any user regarding the recent Yasu betas that were released last week. So, I’m going to start getting ready to build the final release sometime this week. That means if you’ve had anything to report, now is the time to do it.
If you have something to share, please use my contact form to do it.
Yasu Public Beta v2.5.3b3 Released
A new beta release of Yasu has been made available. For those who are curious, the following changes have been made in the beta releases since v2.5.2:
- v2.5.3b1 (276)
- update reset launch services for Leopard
- changed/updated many paths that were shared, Tiger only, and/or Leopard only
- locks all keychains before restart, shut down and log out to hopefully prevent corruption
- v2.5.3b2 (277)
- added cache & temp file removal to system domain for /private/var/folders/ specific to Leopard
- v2.5.3b3 (278)
- added DNS cache flush to browser history
You can view the full Yasu release history at this link.