[OSX-Users] Off behaviour: Cutting to pick-user screen

[m.c. schraefel]

yup 
never had so many reboots as the past summer 
can't force quit or if force quit doesn't help
have to do hard reboot

no fun




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> On 26 Sep 2016, at 08:58, Christopher Gutteridge <cjg at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
> I've had a few annoyances since I got a new OSX machine running El-Capitan 10.11.16.
> 
> It's locked up a few times requiring a reboot. But last night was a doozy. It was running very hot - it had a 3d game & firefox open and both seemed to be causing more load than usual. It had already had one sulk about freezing programmes due to a lack of resources, and then I had some display corruption -- based around windows not scanlines, so I'm guessing drivers not hardware. Soon after that it suddenly threw up the pick-a-user screen I logged back in and tried to start firefox but it wouldn't as it was already running. Creepiest of all, I heard the facebook new-message sound effect as someone messaged me. Firefox was still running but I had no way to get back to it. I killed it from the command line and then could start firefox and then I tried to return to what I had been doing, but two more incidents of throwing me back to the "pick a user" screen and I gave up and did a hard reset.
> 
> I've also had issues around the WIFI being a big flaky, and this was fixed by resetting the NVRAM.
> 
> The crashses, by the way, are full lock ups with the mouse still moving, not the oldschool darkend screen and message in the middle.
> 
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