[MPlayerOSX-devel] mplayer OSX v2b6 broke my menu bar...

[mike f. <flu...@si...>]

...on a G4 iBook running OSX Tiger 10.4.11.

After testing out mplayer v2b6 and deciding it was too sketchy, I 
trashed it (after quitting). After quitting mplayer, but before trashing 
it, all of the right-side menu bar items -- WiFi signal strength, 
time/date, audio volume, battery level -- disappeared from the menu bar.

The following suggestions have been tried:
- Manually switching show/hide settings for right-side menu bar items 
had no effect.
- Booting into safe mode showed no change.
- Creating a new user and logging in as the new user showed no change.
- Force-quitting SystemUIServer from inside Activity Monitor had no effect.
- Using "Pacifist" to extract and install a new copy of SystemUIServer 
from my original 10.4 Install Disc followed by reboot had no effect.
- deleting com.apple.systemuiserver.plist, com.apple.BezelServices.plist 
and com.apple.dockfixup.plist followed by reboot had no effect.
- Updating to Tiger 10.4.11 had no effect.
- Resetting PRAM and NVRAM had no effect.
- Using Disk Utility to repair permissions had no effect (disk verified OK)
- Manually resetting permissions to the Library in my home folder had no 
effect.

One solution in the forum at Apple involved opening Terminal and issuing 
instructions to UIServer via the command line invoking something called 
"sudo". I have a very basic understanding of what "sudo" is and what it 
does, but the description of the procedure made my brain explode.

I've also briefly considered reintalling mplayer, launching it, then 
quitting, just to see if it resets the menu. I'm also going to open the 
package file and make sure there isn't an uninstaller I need to run; 
when I decided mplayer was too sketchy, I trashed the main application, 
but later, when running an 'mplayer' string search on my machine, I 
found a couple of what looked like fragments of mplayer, one of which 
was a .plist, iirc.

One nugget of info that may or may not help is that when booted to the 
OSX Tiger original install disk to run Disk Utility, the right-side menu 
bar appeared normally, showing a language icon (US Flag icon) and a 
battery-charge level icon.

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"Though I could not caution all, I yet may warn a few:
  Don't lend your hand to raise no flag atop no ship of fools!"

                                                --grateful dead.
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