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New Mac Troubleshooting

I’ve a new (refurbished, late 2008) MacBook Pro and have a number of issues with it. This post is to track my troubleshooting on a few issues.

Both Macs were running 10.5.8.

One of the many suspicions of hardware instability that led me to the new MBP, was a series of Grey Screens of Death. I also suspected 10.5.8 :

Since upgrading, it’s happened once as i tried pairing a bluetooth headset. The suspicion the grey screen of death is associated with the 10.5.8 upgrade returned.

History of the GSOD events and other notes, after the cut.

Descending Grey Screen of Death History

Mandrake

09081?  grey screen of death
090816 USB PROBLEM
090817 12:45 ish grey screen of death
090818  12 to 1:30 GSOD
090818   4-5 pm GSOD
090820  10 am GSOD
090824 2:17 pm GSOD
090908 2 pm  GSOD

Pennyroyal

090921 10:15a GSOD wtf

Can’t View Trash

The trash can icon in the dock displays the “has trash” version, but the context click|Open option doesn’t seem to do anything. Emptying works. I can view contents from the command line. The permissions are the same as in the working machine.

[pennyroyal:~] judielaine% ls -dltra .Trash/
drwx------  13 judielaine  staff  442 Sep 23 08:15 .Trash/
[pennyroyal:~] judielaine% ls -dltra /Volumes/Mandrirror/Users/blondie/.Trash/
drwx------  2 judielaine  staff  68 Sep 16 07:30 /Volumes/.../.Trash/

Ack! it just started working! >_<

Insomniac Mac

IM clients still active when i got to work with other MBP.

Power draw down Tuesday night.

Consider
resetting the system management controller.

* http://www.mac-forums.com/forums/apple-notebooks/150267-macbook-doesnt-go-sleep-when-i-close-top.html

Apps that need to be reinstalled

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