Symptom
Menu bar items blink, such as the clock, AirPort menu, Input menu (flag), and Volume menu.
If Crash Logging is enabled, a log for "SystemUIServer" is generated each time the menu extras disappear.
Note: The Apple Filing Protocol (AFP) is known by service names such as Apple File Service, AppleShare, and Personal File Sharing. It may be offered by Apple or third-party operating systems.
Solution
Update to Mac OS X 10.3.3 or later.
Additional information
The menu bar items will stop blinking when you eject, or disconnect, the AFP server.
This happens when certain languages are selected as the primary language in International preferences. The affected languages use Cyrillic, Greek, Central European, or Modified Roman characters. These languages are:
- Belarusian
- Bulgarian
- Czech
- Croatian
- Hungarian
- Icelandic
- Greek
- Kirghiz
- Kazakh
- Latvian
- Lithuanian
- Macedonian
- Polish
- Romanian
- Russian
- Serbian
- Slovakian
- Slovenian
- Tatar
- Tajiki
- Turkish
- Turkmen
- Ukrainian
- Uzbek