Jon Stacey
Bit poster
Summary
Parallels Desktop 5 for Mac will not start. The application will bounce in the dock for about a minute until finally settling down, but will never become operational. It will retain the Application Not Responding status in activity monitor until forcefully killed.
System
MacBookPro3,1
Mac OS X 10.6.1
Configuration
This is a clean Parallels Desktop installation from the trial image available for download on the Web site. The exact image retrieved is ParallelsDesktop-parallels-en_US-5.0.9220.531002.dmg. VMWare Fusion 3 is installed and works properly.
I attempted uninstalling, but the uninstaller will hang while trying to unregister the dispatcher. After 5 minutes a force quit was the only resolution. I thus performed a manual uninstallation following the instructions here: http://kb.parallels.com/en/4709. I then re-downloaded the installation image and tried again but to no avail. I uninstalled again. Interestingly, there were no kernel extensions similar to the ones in the KB during both uninstalls (although I did not run the uninstaller the second time).
See the attached file for the parallels log.
Parallels Desktop 5 for Mac will not start. The application will bounce in the dock for about a minute until finally settling down, but will never become operational. It will retain the Application Not Responding status in activity monitor until forcefully killed.
System
MacBookPro3,1
Mac OS X 10.6.1
Configuration
This is a clean Parallels Desktop installation from the trial image available for download on the Web site. The exact image retrieved is ParallelsDesktop-parallels-en_US-5.0.9220.531002.dmg. VMWare Fusion 3 is installed and works properly.
I attempted uninstalling, but the uninstaller will hang while trying to unregister the dispatcher. After 5 minutes a force quit was the only resolution. I thus performed a manual uninstallation following the instructions here: http://kb.parallels.com/en/4709. I then re-downloaded the installation image and tried again but to no avail. I uninstalled again. Interestingly, there were no kernel extensions similar to the ones in the KB during both uninstalls (although I did not run the uninstaller the second time).
See the attached file for the parallels log.