Yeah, I thought it was going nicely. Running 10.2.5 happily, several shutdowns, program installs, reboots etc. Wouldn't boot this morning. Rebooted three or so times and it finally did.

Sounds like a bad drive cable to me. I have had them on the edge (as it were) with connectors that were not crimped as well as they could have been. but I have seen a bad battery do that too..

First thing I replaced...


then I have had some ATTO SCSI cards do that in some slots but not others. ahhh The mystic art.

Tried all slots...


There are what looks to be permissions to be fixed that are not permissions to be fixed at all- 2 items read carefully-

2003-07-11 23:04:45 -0400 - Repair of privileges has started
We are using special permissions for the file or directory ./System/Library/Filesystems/hfs.fs/hfs.util. New permissions are 33261
2003-07-11 23:10:08 -0400 - The privileges have been repaired on the selected volume.

That's one of em. The other is: Group differs on ./private/var/run/utmp, should be 0, group is 1

Are these 2 items the ones you are getting?

These items will always show on a clean system. They are simply the feedback that special permissions are being set for the scan and the rights tree is repaired.

So the bad crap on "hfs.fs" isn't actually bad? I suck at software stuff, but could you give me a bit more info on that?

If your system has become so corrupted you cannot work with it at all remember there is a last resort option that is not bad at all with OSX. You can do a refresh install of the OS *without* affecting your docs or applications. I have done it several times (as a part of my OSX learning curve) and found it quite painless.

The OSX installer offers an option for refresh install. A very good explanation of the procedure is in the OSX Missing Manual Book.

BUT a refresh install does nothing to help if your problem lies elsewhere. That is only for a heavily munged system.

Sweet. THanks for the tip.


Aqua

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