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Cogs (the game) crashes, no FREEZES OS X 10.6.8 - space-time - 10-26-2011
I downloaded Cogs, the game which was part of the Humble Bundle a few months ago.
Son plays on wife's Macbook Pro. 2011 model, 13". 10.6.8. Sometimes the computer totally freezes, the mouse still moves, but nothing else can be done. Volume or brightness key do nothing, I tried expose, dashboard, I tried COMMAND+OPTION+ESCAPE, nothing, it's like I am running OS 9. The only way to recover is a forced shutdown. I haven't see anything like this in OS X before. I've had other applications crash, but it's very unusual to take down the whole OS.
Upon restart there is no error message. I check hard drive with Disk Utility, I repaired permission. everything seems to be fine. I still have warranty and plan to get Applecare just to be safe.
I recently added a Bluetooth mouse, I can try to remove that, I am not sure if that is the problem.
BTW, I searched before asking here, but I come across posts related to an audio editor with a similar name, or to reference of the spinning wheel (COG) when you start OS X.
Where do I start troubleshooting? Son likes the game, otherwise I wouldn't bother.
Re: Cogs (the game) crashes, no FREEZES OS X 10.6.8 - Chakravartin - 10-26-2011
> Where do I start troubleshooting?
The Console.app in your Utilities folder.
Look for entries corresponding to the date and time of one of those crashes.
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If you know how to enable Remote Login and connect to a Mac via SSH in the Terminal, you could try killing the misbehaving application remotely from another Mac on your network. That might save you the trouble of doing a forced shutdown.
Re: Cogs (the game) crashes, no FREEZES OS X 10.6.8 - space-time - 10-26-2011
cool, remote log in enabled, I can kill COGS, now I have to wait for the next crash to see if I can to this.
That's a good start, I can avoid the restart
Now I go to see the console
Thanks Doc!