The drive has a lot of space (half the drive). Applejack will verify/repair the disk and I have also done that with the Disk Utility on the new Leopard install disk that I have (I think all Applejack does is provided scripts to run Apple utilities in single user mode).
In any case, I have been working on this for a week during which both of the disk repair processes at various times have said that the "Volume Header needs minor repair (2,0) and do the repair successfully. After the Volume Header repair they also say the /tmp directory does not exist and go ahead and create a symbolic link. /private/tmp: /tmp ->/private/tmp So I know the problem is re-occurring for some reason and that Applejack / disk utility temporarily fixes at least the printing problem (I think printing uses /tmp) and it may explain why I can't reinstall Photoshop. Photoshop may want to use /tmp to for install purposes. I am curious as hell about where the /tmp directory got off to and how I would best put it back. If anyone has any knowledge about this, I'd love to hear it. I have another drive and I think I will install it as primary and load it with Leopard and try to work around the issue but I am a bit concerned that if the problem is hardware or application software related that it may just occur again on that drive... All suggestions welcome. db -------------- Original message ---------------------- From: David K Watson <[email protected]> > > I don't think Applejack will verify your disk. Do this with > Disk Utility.app, and if problems are reported, repair them by > booting from your installation disk. > > Another thing you can do, besides the suggestion already given > that you look at the logs, is to run Activity Monitor. Look at the open > files and ports for your various applications and system processes, > and see if anything obvious pops out at you. > > How full is your disk drive? If the drive your OS is on is close to > being filled, then your system can bog down because the OS > needs a fair bit of space for virtual memory, particularly if you > don't have a lot of real memory. I don't remember the exact > numbers, but OS X runs best if you have in the neighborhood of > 10-20% of your drive free, and this should be at least 5-10GB. > If you are well short of these numbers, you probably don't > have to wipe and reinstall to a bigger disk. Cloning your > system to a bigger disk using CarbonCopyCloner or SuperDuper! > and using the cloned system may fix your problems while keeping > all your preferences and data intact. > > Good luck! > > > On Oct 22, 2009, at 12:00 AM, COMPUTERGUYS-L automatic digest system > wrote: > > > From: db <[email protected]> > > > > I've got a thorny problem with an Tiger Mac Pro system. > > > > Apps including Office start loading slow, then stop printing. > > Photoshop > > / Bridge says to reinstall but will sometime run again if I run > > Applejack. > > > > I've run all aspects of Applejack manually one by one, including > > memcheck a number of times. > > I've run Font Doctor multiple times. > > > > I don't have a DiskWarrior CD and the downloaded version I bought from > > Alsoft and installed on that machine won't launch apparently because > > of > > the problems. > > > > I'm about to wipe and install Leopard on a new and bigger primary disk > > but was wondering if it could be some other physical problem (power > > supply, chip, MB...) > > > > Can anyone recommend the best system test utility can I use to check > > these issues before I invest the reload labor? > > > > db > > > ************************************************************************* > ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** > ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** > ************************************************************************* ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
