I just embarked on a 5 hour journey. I downloaded and installed iChat
AV beta on my 7500/G4 and upon the initial restart I had my first ever
kernel panic very early in the startup process (in verbose mode). I ran
Norton and it found some bad nodes, but on restart it still had panic.
I reran Norton & Techtool Pro and had no problems. I tried again with
the XPF throttled down, and then reinstalling bootx & extensions.
Finally I booted OS 9.2 and manually extracted all the iChat files, but
that didn't help. Luckily I had 10.2.6 on an external drive to boot
into, and then downloaded the 10.2.6 standalone (non-combo) upgrade and
reinstalled it upon the panic drive. I'd never installed an update to a
non-boot drive, and the optimization process took very long. Luckily it
booted after the reinstallation (my next attempt would have been the
combo reinstall if I'd still had panic.) What a nightmare. It may have
been coincidence with the iChat AV beta? In 9.2 some of the iChat files
were invisible, and I'm not certain how to trash them? When I dragged
them to the trash, it said it couldn't move them because they were in
invisible folders. I highlighted the icon, and hit "move to trash" but
got the same message. One of the invisible files was a copy of the
entire iChat application - 3.6mb. I'd sure like to ditch that for now,
and purge the system of all the iChat before any attempted
reinstallation. If anyone can tell me how to delete invisible files
that'd be nice. Thanks! Kris Tilford
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