My Mac has been freezing lately. It usually happens when I login and launch a few apps. It doesn't totally freeze, I can still move the mouse, which takes the form of an eternally spinning rainbow-wheel, like out some myth told by ancient Greek hippies.
Perhaps things would right themselves eventually. But after a long time of nothing happening, no disk activity, and not even the ssh server responding, I switch it off and reboot. Sometimes it comes back up correctly, sometimes I'm again greeted by the eternally spinning rainbow wheel. A further reboot seems to fix the problem.
This seems to have only happened when I upgraded to Panther, and furthermore, when I turned off journaling on the disk drive. I turned back on journaling, and hopefully it will fix the problem.
Posted by ahyatt at December 27, 2003 09:20 PM