The drive has a lot of space (half the drive).
Applejack will verify/repair the disk and I have also done that with the Disk
Utility on the new Leopard install disk that I have (I think all Applejack does
is provided scripts to run Apple utilities in single user mode).
In any case, I have been working on this for a week during which both of the
disk repair processes at various times have said that the Volume Header needs
minor repair (2,0) and do the repair successfully.
After the Volume Header repair they also say the /tmp directory does not exist
and go ahead and create a symbolic link. /private/tmp: /tmp -/private/tmp
So I know the problem is re-occurring for some reason and that Applejack / disk
utility temporarily fixes at least the printing problem (I think printing uses
/tmp) and it may explain why I can't reinstall Photoshop. Photoshop may want
to use /tmp to for install purposes.
I am curious as hell about where the /tmp directory got off to and how I would
best put it back.
If anyone has any knowledge about this, I'd love to hear it.
I have another drive and I think I will install it as primary and load it with
Leopard and try to work around the issue but I am a bit concerned that if the
problem is hardware or application software related that it may just occur
again on that drive...
All suggestions welcome.
db
-- Original message --
From: David K Watson davidkirkwat...@gmail.com
I don't think Applejack will verify your disk. Do this with
Disk Utility.app, and if problems are reported, repair them by
booting from your installation disk.
Another thing you can do, besides the suggestion already given
that you look at the logs, is to run Activity Monitor. Look at the open
files and ports for your various applications and system processes,
and see if anything obvious pops out at you.
How full is your disk drive? If the drive your OS is on is close to
being filled, then your system can bog down because the OS
needs a fair bit of space for virtual memory, particularly if you
don't have a lot of real memory. I don't remember the exact
numbers, but OS X runs best if you have in the neighborhood of
10-20% of your drive free, and this should be at least 5-10GB.
If you are well short of these numbers, you probably don't
have to wipe and reinstall to a bigger disk. Cloning your
system to a bigger disk using CarbonCopyCloner or SuperDuper!
and using the cloned system may fix your problems while keeping
all your preferences and data intact.
Good luck!
On Oct 22, 2009, at 12:00 AM, COMPUTERGUYS-L automatic digest system
wrote:
From:db db...@att.net
I've got a thorny problem with an Tiger Mac Pro system.
Apps including Office start loading slow, then stop printing.
Photoshop
/ Bridge says to reinstall but will sometime run again if I run
Applejack.
I've run all aspects of Applejack manually one by one, including
memcheck a number of times.
I've run Font Doctor multiple times.
I don't have a DiskWarrior CD and the downloaded version I bought from
Alsoft and installed on that machine won't launch apparently because
of
the problems.
I'm about to wipe and install Leopard on a new and bigger primary disk
but was wondering if it could be some other physical problem (power
supply, chip, MB...)
Can anyone recommend the best system test utility can I use to check
these issues before I invest the reload labor?
db
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