At 11:15 PM -0400 7/17/2009, Bill Connelly wrote: >Since my last thread entry, I reseated the video card, and on CUDA, >cmd-opt-P-R Startup, the 3rd - 5th partitions of my harddrive took a >relatively long time to come up on my desktop.
The long mount time should have been just due to journal replays. >When I looked at the log, it appears the Spotlight indexes were >corrupt in some form that Restarting would have corrected according to >the log entry. Show us the entries, please. >I did the Terminal routine of turning off Spotlight for each >partition, getting rid of the index, and reindexing, allowing it to >run to completion under Leopard: Stop that. Simplify the problem. *Reduce* the number of variables. Turn the indexing OFF. sudo mdutil -i off /Volumes/* sudo mdutil -E /Volumes/* Then leave them off. Run a verify disk pass with Disk Utility on all of your volumes. Make sure they've survived so far. (You have up to date backups, right?) Then leave the indexing off. Run for a while. If the panics continue, go back to looking at hardware. >I had also jumped to Tiger and back, updating my Tiger partition (with >the latest iTunes, etc). And I believe I stopped the Spotlight >indexing under Tiger, which may have caused the problem. Interrupting spotlight's indexing, regardless of which OS, is a Bad Idea. Spotlight is Fragile. >Curious how Spotlight handles things when you go from one OS X to >another (Leopard > Tiger > Leopard). I believe stopping it in Tiger >using Privacy can cause corruption of the index files? I vaguely remember reading that there's enough diff in the index contents that Spotlight ends up rebuilding the whole thing each time you boot into the diff OS. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
