PD 5 Will Not Start - Application Not Responding

Discussion in 'Installation and Configuration of Parallels Desktop' started by Jon Stacey, Nov 4, 2009.

  1. Jon Stacey

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    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.
     

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  2. lonewolfdj

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    I'm having the same problem but I upgraded from Parallels 4.... This is very frustrating.
     
  3. AlexD

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    I'm having the exact same problem after upgrading to v5 (trial) from v4
     
  4. AmandaK

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    I'm experiencing the same symptoms.

    Parallels 5 did manage to start up immediately after installation, but since rebooting it has failed to start up, in the manner described by Jon Stacey.

    This is with Mac OS X 10.6.1, MacBookPro5,3.
     
  5. Martin Buergi

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  6. BennyC

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    me2

    i upgraded from 4.0, cannot start 5.0
    uninstall and reinstall... still cannot start 5.0

    repeating this and restarting my imac, still cannot start 5.0...

    really need help from parallels...
     
  7. BennyC

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    i'm having the same problem... upgraded from 4.0

    i tried a clean installation but it didn't work...
     

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