Chris Devers writes:
> On Sun, 7 Apr 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Chris Devers writes: > > > > > You're seeing the symptoms of a deeper problem here. For lack of > > > a clearer idea of what exactly went wrong, reinstalling just might > > > be necessary. I'm almost wondering if this is some kind of hardware > > failure. What kind of Mac are you running, exactly? > > > > I'm running on a B/W G3 350 with 384 megs of ram. My theory is that the > > whole series of problems dates from when I had a HD crash and managed to > > salvage the system onto a different HD via Norton Utilites and the command > > ditto. > > AHHH, there it is. I think it's reasonable to assume that anything copied > over from the damaged disc is at least possibly tainted or corrupted, and > the problems could be way more subtle than just messed up config files. > It'll probably be less painful in the long run to start from scratch :/ > > > It did work fine, for several reboots, but apparently there was a problem > > that had escaped detection until now. I'm currently running Software Update > > on the fresh install, and it's not complaining. I hope to be back up to > > speed in a few days (but damn, it's a pain in the arse to reinstall all the > > crap I had, heh). > > No doubt, but a constant series of subtle, inexplicable bugs can be just > as much of a pain. I say salvage your data files & rebuild the programs. Yep. I'm currently 60% back to normal, and so far, there hasn't been any weird problems showing up... I think I managed to get off cheap. All my user files are backed up and safe while I reinstall :) -Mikkel _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
