On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 12:46 PM, Bruce Johnson
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> In Finder select Go to Folder.
> /Volumes/<Name of drive as it appears in finder>/private/var/log
> Double-click on 'system.log' there to open it in Console.
>
Thanks Bruce. That's certainly a lot easier to do than what I came up
with on my own. I used terminal to navigate to private/var/log on the
external drive and then opened up Console via
open -a /Applications/Utilities/Console.app system.log
Anyway ...
The system log lists (some of) the console messages I was seeing which were:
137773 27:Apr 2 23:18:17 localhost ConsoleMessage: Selecting SymDC Extension
137774 27:Apr 2 23:18:17 localhost ConsoleMessage: Starting timed
execution services
137775 27:Apr 2 23:18:17 localhost ConsoleMessage: Starting kernel
event agent
137776 27:Apr 2 23:18:17 localhost ConsoleMessage: Starting SecurityServer
137777 27:Apr 2 23:18:17 localhost ConsoleMessage: Starting Apple
Multicast DNS Responder
137778 27:Apr 2 23:18:17 localhost ConsoleMessage: Initializing network
137796 27:Apr 2 23:18:25 localhost ConsoleMessage: Checking disks
137805 27:Apr 2 23:18:30 localhost ConsoleMessage: Starting Cornell
Authentication Services daemon...
137807 27:Apr 2 23:18:30 localhost ConsoleMessage: Loading Shared
IP extension
137808 27:Apr 2 23:18:30 localhost ConsoleMessage: Starting printing services
137809 27:Apr 2 23:18:32 localhost ConsoleMessage: Loading IP
Firewall extension
137813 27:Apr 2 23:18:33 localhost ConsoleMessage: Starting internet services
What I don't see in system.log is the final "Login Window Starting"
message that is on the screen when the boot appears to hang.
That last console message (above) is followed by the log messages below.
Apr 2 23:18:33 localhost xinetd[274]: 274 {init_services} no
services. Exiting...
Apr 2 23:18:34 localhost SystemStarter: The following StartupItems
failed to properly start:
Apr 2 23:18:34 localhost SystemStarter: /Library/StartupItems/SymDCInit
Apr 2 23:18:34 localhost SystemStarter: - execution of Startup script failed
Apr 2 23:18:34 localhost SystemStarter:
Apr 2 23:18:34 localhost SystemStarter: The following StartupItems
were not attempted due to failure of a required service:
Apr 2 23:18:34 localhost SystemStarter:
/Library/StartupItems/TrackDelete
Apr 2 23:18:34 localhost SystemStarter:
/Library/StartupItems/VolumeAssist
Whatever is going wrong is not obvious to me. I can post more of any
the logs, but I didn't want to start out by just pointlessly
regurgitating data.
This is for OS X 10.3.9 running on an 800 MHz eMac. The system seems
to boot fine when booted from the internal hard drive. But it hangs
when I attempt to boot from a CCC bootable copy of the hard drive on a
firewire attached external drive.
-irrational john
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