Kartik, Well, you didn't have to reinstall OSX, just do the disk utilities. But if it's back to the way it should be, then no harm done.
I can't remember what it was that I did, but at one point I ended up screwing up the permissions on everything, too, and couldn't ls, cp, or anything. I was using 10.1 at the time, so it's not a Jaguar thing or a fink thing. I found a program called X-Ray that went through and fixed permissions for me. The disk utility does the same. As such, I don't think it's a hardware problem. Actually, now that I think of it, if it's just a disk permissions thing, you can use the Disk Utility in the /Applications/Utilities/ directory to do the same thing. There's also a great program called Pacifist that allows you to reinstall specific portions of the installation disk, so that if you know what is corrupted, you can just reinstall that one bit. Find it at versiontracker.com. Chris On 10/17/02 7:55 PM, "Kartik Sheth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dear Chris, > Update - I went through the entire installation - as if I were > installing OS-X from scratch and it recovered without any problems- it > recovered all the programs I had previously installed which was great! > > And now I am running the cvs update version of fink for Jaguar - it seems > to be working alright - it is taking a while but it seems happy. > > Do you know why the corruption may have occurred ? Is it a hardware > problem or do you think it is fink related ? I ask because if it is > hardware related I have time to return the laptop and get a different one. > > Thanks for your help. > > -Kartik > > > On Thu, 17 Oct 2002, Chris Waddling wrote: > >> Kartik, >> >> Put the OSX 10.2 CD1 in and hold down the 'c' key upon reboot to reboot from >> the CD. When the installation window pops up, from the menu bar select >> 'Open Disk Utility'. Select "first aid" and select the Volume to repair. >> Click "repair disk", let it run its course, then reselect the volume to >> repair and run "repair disk permissions". This may help. >> >> Chris >> >> >> >> On 10/17/02 6:24 PM, "Kartik Sheth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> >>> Hello, >>> I am new at using a MAC but the ability to use MAC software and >>> Unix software at the same time has won me over. However, two of us here >>> have had a terrible problem with Fink - it crashed and corrupted our >>> machines so completely that we have had to reinstall OS-X from the >>> installation CDs. >>> >>> Here is what happened: >>> >>> 1) Dowloaded the Fink binary from 0.4.1 and tried to install it. >>> >>> Now I realize that this is the wrong thing to do for 10.2 but I am pretty >>> sure it worked okay when I did this yesterday for the first time. >>> >>> In any case, after I ran the install, I couldn't even do basic commands >>> like ls and cd in a terminal. I got errors saying "/bin/ls: Permission >>> Denied". I couldn't open anything on the Desktop - in fact, when I >>> clicked on something it disappeared. I could not change directories. >>> >>> When I rebooted the machine, it came up with the MAC version of a blue >>> screen of death - how disappointing. >>> >>> Now cvs does not automatically work for me. So I am at a loss on how to >>> use Fink for my 10.2 MAC-OS. >>> >>> Thanks for your help. >>> -Kartik >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------- >>> This sf.net email is sponsored by: viaVerio will pay you up to >>> $1,000 for every account that you consolidate with us. >>> http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;4749864;7604308;v? >>> http://www.viaverio.com/consolidator/osdn.cfm >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Fink-beginners mailing list >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners >> > ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
