On Wednesday, October 23, 2002, at 11:48 AM, Puneet Kishor wrote:
several reasons...
- putting a computer to sleep still consumes power.
Not very much. I'm one of those people who only sleeps my iBook, I
never turn it off. The machine can go several days asleep without
losing more than a
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
A computer-clueless co-worker of mine had a similar problem under OS
10.1.??. She reinstalled the OS on top of the current fubarred
installation and things were magically fixed.
YMMV.
It's just another anecdote, but our iMac booted recently to a root shell,
On Wednesday, October 23, 2002, at 02:12 PM, Trey Harris wrote:
Yeah, but this whole episode was presaged by a
spinning-beachball-of-death
attack.
[...]
This
happens with some regularity to me, and the only answer seems to be to
just powerdown. Am I the only one who sees this? It must
I saw the spinning beach ball of death a lot with 10.0.4, and then less
with 10.1.x and now with 10.2 I still see it, but not quite as often it
seems. This is on a G4 with 768 MB of RAM. Nowadays it seems to just
affect one app rather than the whole system... which isn't quite as bad,
a force
On Thursday, Oct 24, 2002, at 11:03 US/Pacific, Lou Moran wrote:
Not the case with my stuff. I have a second drive that I have
installed all my apps to (except the ones that insist on being in
/Applications) so that saved a lot of time. I also kept my mail and my
/Documents folder
On Thursday, October 24, 2002, at 12:29 PM, Trey Harris wrote:
In case anyone wonders (or cares), I ran DiskWarrior last night, and
after
twelve hours (!) of repair, my machine came back behaving much more
nicely. At the very least, I could once again use the Finder. I also
ran
the Disk
On Thursday, Oct 24, 2002, at 13:50 America/New_York, Ian Ragsdale
wrote:
The only truly annoying part of this is the number of shareware apps I
have which do *not* send their registrations via email. Once I clear
the
disk, I'm going to lose the registration keys, unless I find the
patience
In a message dated Thu, 24 Oct 2002, Ian Ragsdale writes:
You should be able to re-install without having to reinstall everything.
Since only Apple stuff goes in /System, the archive install option on the
10.2 disk should move the /System folder and reinstall all the system files
without
You should be able to re-install without having to reinstall everything.
Since only Apple stuff goes in /System, the archive install option on the
10.2 disk should move the /System folder and reinstall all the system files
without disturbing everything else.
Ian
On 10/24/02 12:29 PM, Trey Harris
In case anyone wonders (or cares), I ran DiskWarrior last night, and after
twelve hours (!) of repair, my machine came back behaving much more
nicely. At the very least, I could once again use the Finder. I also ran
the Disk Permissions Repair.
Unfortunately, the fonts are still all missing
On 10/24/02 12:41 PM, Trey Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a message dated Thu, 24 Oct 2002, Ian Ragsdale writes:
You should be able to re-install without having to reinstall everything.
Since only Apple stuff goes in /System, the archive install option on the
10.2 disk should move the
On 10/23/02 10:54 AM, Puneet Kishor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
don't know how you can solve this one, but for the future...
get a $150 refurbished, external 40Gb firewire hd and Dan Kogai's most
excellent, free psync (written in Perl!!! of course) configured to
run on shutdown. If your
On Wednesday, October 23, 2002, at 11:38 AM, Puneet Kishor wrote:
y'know geoff, methinks you are right. There was a shutdown folder in
OS 9...dunno if it is in OS X. I actually just run the script
manually, but I am sure in Unix there are shutdown scripts... I
haven't explored in OS X, but
Geoffrey F. Green wrote:
On 10/23/02 11:40 AM, David Wheeler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wednesday, October 23, 2002, at 08:38 AM, Puneet Kishor wrote:
y'know geoff, methinks you are right. There was a shutdown folder in
OS 9...dunno if it is in OS X. I actually just run the script
Man, how these things take a life of their own. The original message was
about help with a crashed OS X box. My suggestion was to backup using
psync... now we have this thread...
ok...
Jonathan Baumgartner wrote:
On Wednesday, October 23, 2002, at 11:57 AM, Puneet Kishor wrote:
I use an
Ok, steering back on track...
I always create another user account on my OS X machines.
If you see something extremely odd, reboot and log in as another user
and verify that the problem is with the system, and not just an
individual user's account. If you're a terminal lover you can always
On Wednesday, October 23, 2002, at 01:12 PM, Trey Harris wrote:
In a message dated Wed, 23 Oct 2002, Bruce A. Burdick, Jr. writes:
You could have a bad hard drive. That might explain the behavior you
are
seeing. Wiping the drive and reinstalling OS X may work. But if it's
the
drive, you're
At 2:44 PM -0400 10/23/02, John Siracusa wrote:
On 10/23/02 2:17 PM, Dan Sugalski wrote:
Something in freeciv leaks memory badly, both on the X side *and* on the
Window Server side. (I've seen the WindowServer process have 250M+
mapped in,
which on a 384M system is a lot)
That's (probably)
On Wednesday, October 23, 2002, at 02:17 PM, Dan Sugalski wrote:
At 2:12 PM -0400 10/23/02, Trey Harris wrote:
Yeah, but this whole episode was presaged by a
spinning-beachball-of-death
attack. One of those where a seemingly innocuous click on a menu
starts
the spinning ball in one app, and
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?
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
In a message dated Wed, 23 Oct 2002, William H. Magill writes:
There is a version file that gets clobbered which prevents the GUI from
starting up.
/System/Library/CoreServices/SystemVersion.plist
Not my problem--the file I have and the file you posted match, but thanks
for the
In a message dated Wed, 23 Oct 2002, Charles Albrecht writes:
At 11:48 AM -0500 10/23/2002, Puneet Kishor wrote:
if you do turn off the computer, then either remember to run psync
before turning it off, or figure out how to have it run automatically
on shutdown.
Although SystemStarter,
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