On 10/29/02 6:37 PM, "Martin Costabel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It looks now more and more as if the binary installer under certain > circumstances may reduce the permissions of "/" to 700, that is > "drwx------". This would explain the inability to boot. By booting into > single user mode, this shouldn't be hard to fix. Actually, there is an > Apple knowledge base article about such boot problems titled "Mac OS X: > Troubleshooting a Startup Issue" at > > http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106464 > > They explain the procedure to repair the permission on "/": We've already deleted OS X, although against my will, so we can't try that. More than the permissions for / were just screwed up, though. The OS X install disk, which we used to originally install OS X, said something about different languages and wouldn't go past the disk-selection step; that's why we deleted it. We'll try the install again later. To help you diagnose the problem with changing permissions, I'll point out that we ran the 0.4.0 installer twice (with two months in-between) with no problems. However, the receipt may have been deleted in-between those installations. We also ran the 0.4.1 installer on top of an existing installation, with no problems. We then (immediately) ran it again *after* deleting the fink installation, but *without* deleting the receipt that the .pkg left. This seems to also have been Andy Cunningham's problem. In the little I know about .pkg programming, this doesn't seem fixable. It seems that, especially with all of the other .pkg problems, it would be easier to create/license a .app installer. -- -- sinclair44 Optimism: "If you see a light at the end of the wormhole, it's probably an explosion from the death of another borg cube." Pessimism: "If you see a light at the end of the wormhole, it's probably a photon torpedo." [Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force] Realism: "If you see a light at the end of the wormhole, you're eyes are going to hurt." ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: Influence the future of Java(TM) technology. Join the Java Community Process(SM) (JCP(SM)) program now. http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?sunm0004en _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
