At 11:36 PM -0500 11/17/2009, Norm wrote: >G4 Gigabit with Sonnet 1gigahertz processor and 1 gig of ram >OS 10.5.11. > >Installed latest security update today from Apple. All three of my boot >able hard drives will not open. I get the gray screen with spinning icon >for hours, so I did an erase and install on one of them and it now >mounts. The icons for the other 2 drives show small locks on the lower >left side. Error is I do not have the right sufficient access privileges.
You seem to be reporting two separate problems here, interleaving the information. So things are a bit muddied. As I'm understanding it... Problem 1: Your mac didn't fully reboot after installing the update; hung showing the spinning gear. This most often occurs because Apple's installer failed to clear your kernel cache properly before initiating the reboot. This is a long-standing "bug" in Apple's installer. Drives me nutz. Apps like OnyX manage to do it right, but Apple can't! grrr. Anyway... The solution is to force the cache to be cleared and rebuilt, by booting into Safe Mode (shift key held down), then rebooting normally. Problem 2: Some other HDs are now r/o (read-only; padlocked). Are they internals or externals? Were these volumes mounted when you ran the Apple updater? What does it say about the write-lock, when the volumes are mounted, in your system log? Please show me the output of these two commands, issued in Terminal: diskutil list ls -al /Volumes (Just copy the two lines together, Launch Terminal, and paste 'em in - they'll run sequentially). - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, 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] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
