Hello All, I haven't moved to panther yet on my unsupported beige g3 desktop. What I'm experiencing on Jaguar, 10.2.6 all of a sudden are a bunch of problems. Basically, my computer is no longer usable. I can log in after I force restart but I can't logout or restart or shutdown. The screen just goes blank with the default blue OS X background and hangs. And while I'm logged in, I can't run any applications except the Finder. Everything hangs. I can't get System Preferences to launch either for the most part. I have a WD 200 GB hardrive and I"ve run Norton 6, and Diskwarrior, as well as the Disk Utility from the installer CD. All state that the drive is fine. I've reinstalled Jaguar and preserved and imported users but then I haven't been able to apply the combo update that brings it to 10.2.6 b/c after it's almost finished, the screen saver comes on and then the computer hangs there.
In root I was able to run Safari and not much else. Now I can't since I've reinstalled probabaly b/c Safari requires an udated Jaguar. In the last reinstall, I was able to create a new user and that's the one I'm in now. I am able to run IE, but still can't launch System Preferences or iTunes. Basically, nothing happens when I click on them except they just say "Application Not Responding" in the dock. I think this started when I was trying to make a disk image with DiskCopy of a children's cd that I recently purchased. Disk Copy crashed and the computer has not been the same since. I remember message regarding the following path: ./private.... Now, why is there a user represented by a period? Does this indicate anything. One question I have is if I reinstall Jaguar and do not preserve the users, that would mean that I lose all my documents right? Has anyone seen this kind of behaviour? Sorry if this was all a bit off topic since this old beige is still officially supported by Jaguar. By the way, I am able to run OS 9 in this computer still. My drive is not partitioned. The computer has run great until now. (though a bit slow of course). Thanks and happy new year! -Felix -- Unsupported OS X is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Unsupported OS X list info <http://lowendmac.com/lists/unsupported.html> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive <http://www.mail-archive.com/unsupportedosx%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
