Originally by: Lorn Cholaxu

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Oh, the lamentations of the myopic and righteously indignant.



I sympathize, but it is a cruel, unforgiving galaxy, and cynical old bastards like me need our entertainment.

Queued up 10 day skills on all of my alts on Monday, because these things happen--it's nearly impossible to test the client under real world environments and load, and hopefully Mac users will do a better job of representing themselves on Singularity in the future.

I experience the random discos as well, I can usually solve the issue temporarily by nuking my Library/Preferences/Eve Online Preferences directory. This resolves the matter for a while, then it locks again. It's annoying but not a show stopper.

I've had to run "> ps -U username" from the terminal and then "kill -9 procid" to kill the wineserver and EVE processes, because sometimes the process does not fully terminate when the game locks. Even the "force quit" doesn't seem to fully kill the thread.

If you can't remember your username, run "whoami" from the terminal, then "ps -U username" to see the list of processes. Once you kill the thread, if the game doesn't restart, nuke the preferences folder and make sure all of the wineserver and game processes are terminated and try again. If none of this works or you don't know how "kill" works on the command line, google "man kill" for more instructions.

It also helps to empty your trash, because if there is still a thread running on the client the trash won't fully empty, which can indicate that you missed a process. Once all of the client threads are dead and the preferences folder is fully nuked, the game should restart.

If you want to be sneaky, you can log in, set up your preferences the way you like, log out, make a backup copy of your preferences folder, then when you have to nuke it just replace it with a fresh snapshot of the copied directory. Saves you the time of remapping your keys every 20 minutes.

Hope this helps.

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