On Wednesday, October 23, 2002, at 01:16 PM, Trey Harris wrote:
Well, I can certainly do that. But exactly what should I be looking for?There is a version file that gets clobbered which prevents the GUI from starting up.
As a Unix machine, the box seems to be responding fine--it's still doing
firewalling and NAT just fine, for instance. It's just the Mac-y stuff
that's fubar'ed.
/System/Library/CoreServices/SystemVersion.plist
There was actually a bug back in one of he 10.x updates when it was first released for testing (long since fixed)... it didn't write the file out when it was done. The end result was a box that ran fine as a Unix machine, but no GUI.
It's an ASCII text file, This is the correct file from 10.2.1
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist SYSTEM "file://localhost/System/Library/DTDs/PropertyList.dtd">
<plist version="0.9">
<dict>
<key>ProductBuildVersion</key>
<string>6D52</string>
<key>ProductCopyright</key>
<string>Apple Computer, Inc. 1983-2002</string>
<key>ProductName</key>
<string>Mac OS X</string>
<key>ProductUserVisibleVersion</key>
<string>10.2.1</string>
<key>ProductVersion</key>
<string>10.2.1</string>
</dict>
</plist>
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