Had some problems today:
- Safari hung when playing a youtube snippet in a Flash Player
- Had to force quit safari
- Safari was stuck in the dock (the blue light was still on), and when trying to click on it nothing happens - the menu shows "Application not responding" even when there is no Safari process running.
What I tried:
- Relaunching the Dock - did not help
- Relauncing Finder - now it is stuck too !
- Typing open -a Finder, and open -a Safari both result in an error that says "LSOpenFromURLSpec() failed error -600."
- From there things deteriorate
- I notice that Time Machine is taking a very long time to perform "finishing backup", and I try "stop backing up" - problem continues.
- I can't eject the backup drive since Finder will not start (sigh)
What solved the issue:
- Unplugging the USB cable to the backup drive !
Hopefully someone googling for poblems similar to what I had will find this OSx Leopard tip regarding "LSOpenFromURLSpec() failed error -600" and find it useful.
