Comments on: OS X: Finder won't quit – Logout Timeout

By: Macca

Macca — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 20:05:47 +0000

Hey Michaela,

This should help explain:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1379

Hope it helps!

–ian

By: michaela

michaela — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 17:57:31 +0000

I’m sorry guys, but I’ve to ask How do you zap the pram and when. I’ve the same problem but not being a mac guru makes it hard to follow your solution.

So I have to press the powerkey to shutdown and the when it restarts I do what? pressing option+command+p+r? or what?

Thanks
Michaela

By: Joe Hutsko

Joe Hutsko — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:44:37 +0000

Thanks for the tip, mikes, worked for me as well. – JOEyGADGET

By: mikes

mikes — Thu, 15 May 2008 20:00:17 +0000

A buddy of mine was just having this problem. I shut his computerdown by holding the powerkey down. Zapped his pram and the problem is gone. option+command+p+r

By: Macca

Macca — Tue, 06 May 2008 12:50:19 +0000

@Wiggles

Just killing the window server process kicks you back to the login, after which it’s fine again for an indeterminate amount of time. As an aside, It hasn’t happened since I stopped using Adium….

By: Wiggles

Wiggles — Tue, 06 May 2008 10:32:56 +0000

It’s definitely not anything to do with USB devices as i’ve had this exact problem on my MB Pro with nothing attached. As mentioned before it’s definitely related to sleep as sometimes you open the lid and login, and instead it goes back to sleep. Close the lid, open and login again and everything appears ok except hot-corners screen saver doesn’t work (as in literally its like the corners have been disabled) and you have this same same problem with the finder not quitting. Very odd….did clearing the virtual memory work?

By: Scott Shattuck

Scott Shattuck — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 17:21:34 +0000

A workaround is that you can enable fast user switching, provided you have at least one other account (Guest perhaps). Then you can select “Login Window…” from the fast user menu bar item. This locks the account without losing the active work.

By: Macca

Macca — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 11:36:39 +0000

@PAC – Nope, not yet. I’ve just migrated to a brand new Macbook Pro running 10.5.2 and got the same problem within 2 days.
I have a hypothesis now that this is to do with devices connected over USB, I had both an iPod and a Windows Mobile 6 phone connected at sleep and wake time.
I don’t think i’ve seen this occur without things connected up at either sleep or wake.

By: PAC

PAC — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 10:44:51 +0000

Same problem here. Has anyone found a definitive fix?

By: Macca

Macca — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 11:24:45 +0000

@Chiang – What a timely post – as soon as I got to the office today, I had the same issue again.
I’ve followed your instructions, it booted to safe mode (eventually) then I rebooted to normal.
Lets see how long it lasts now..

Thanks.