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Re: Mavericks - occasional complete freeze

From Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups comp.sys.mac.system
Subject Re: Mavericks - occasional complete freeze
Date 2013-11-26 01:43 +0000
Organization People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates
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On 2013-11-26, Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> wrote:
>
> A few times since Mavericks was installed, the computer has completely 
> frozen for 20 - 30 seconds.  No beachball, menumeters stop moving, clock 
> stops updating.  No response to keyboard (eg: CMD-Tab) Only the mouse 
> cursor moves.
>
> Seems to occur a few days after a restart.  It does it a few times, I 
> restart the OS and I'm good for a few days again.
>
> Seems to occur when I'm using Chrome - but also have various other apps 
> running when it occurs.
>
> (iMac late 2012 i7, 24 GB, 1 TB Fusion).
>
> Anyone?
>
> I see this:
> http://www.techradar.com/news/mobile-computing/laptops/haswell-powered-macbook-pro-retina-models-reportedly-freezing-mavericks-to-blame--1194127
> But it seems specific to the MBP.
>
> and
> http://venturebeat.com/2013/10/25/apples-new-os-x-mavericks-crashes-far-more-frequently-for-some-including-me/
> (but at least in my case it resumes after a bit...)

Why not have a look at the console and system logs for events around
that time?

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Mavericks - occasional complete freeze Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2013-11-25 19:31 -0500
  Re: Mavericks - occasional complete freeze Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2013-11-26 01:43 +0000
    Re: Mavericks - occasional complete freeze Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2013-11-27 17:23 -0500
      Re: Mavericks - occasional complete freeze peter.misak@gmail.com - 2014-01-26 05:03 -0800
        Re: Mavericks - occasional complete freeze Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2014-01-26 10:26 -0500
        Re: Mavericks - occasional complete freeze Michael Vilain <vilain@NOspamcop.net> - 2014-01-26 13:08 -0800

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