MacQuestion
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ceagleI was working on a (system X) Mac that exhibits the following error consistently every time it is shut down or restarted...
Any ideas what's happening and what could fix it?
EDIT: (provided as help to anyone else who might encounter this)
The Maintenance functions cured it!! :D
Took a while to find it though... the commands
sudo periodic [daily weekly monthly]
are generally useful with most versions of System X being run these days, but this customer wants to keep using 10.1.5 which gives them some dialog box options on their giant format printer that 10.4.x does not, so they wanna keep it.
The command for maintenance on pre 10.2.x systems is
sudo sh /etc/[daily weekly monthly]
instead. I used to know this, but couldn't remember the exact phrasing, and it was harder to find this go 'round, with the passing of time I guess.
These earlier systems also don't have easy ways to fix permissions, so luckily Apple provides a permissions fixing tool (which did keep crashing toward the end, but I guess maybe it helped some, unless the sudo tools did it all).
Anyways... good to have a happy customer! ^v^
Any ideas what's happening and what could fix it?
EDIT: (provided as help to anyone else who might encounter this)
The Maintenance functions cured it!! :D
Took a while to find it though... the commands
sudo periodic [daily weekly monthly]
are generally useful with most versions of System X being run these days, but this customer wants to keep using 10.1.5 which gives them some dialog box options on their giant format printer that 10.4.x does not, so they wanna keep it.
The command for maintenance on pre 10.2.x systems is
sudo sh /etc/[daily weekly monthly]
instead. I used to know this, but couldn't remember the exact phrasing, and it was harder to find this go 'round, with the passing of time I guess.
These earlier systems also don't have easy ways to fix permissions, so luckily Apple provides a permissions fixing tool (which did keep crashing toward the end, but I guess maybe it helped some, unless the sudo tools did it all).
Anyways... good to have a happy customer! ^v^
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Date: 2007-12-20 11:54 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-12-20 12:53 pm (UTC)I found two programs that perform the Permissions-Fix and Crontab Maintenance that they implemented in ver 10.2.x but haven't tried those yet.
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Date: 2007-12-20 01:12 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-12-20 02:18 pm (UTC)It's the first G4 tower and only has the two usb ports. She has a Tiger OS laptop right next to it, so she actually was uber-happy when I got things to work on that for her that she was relying on the G4 for.. so she doesn't rilly need the G4 now, but it's sorta the principle of the thing.. *patterpatpat* May try that though, but I think I'll try the maintenance trio of fixes (fsck, cron, permissions) and if those don't work, prolly just upgrade her system. Unless she decides to junk it :> *hugs ya tanx!*
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Date: 2007-12-20 02:38 pm (UTC)That's rilly awesome advice, critta! ... I actually upgraded another customer to that last week and it went really well! (even though it did take about 3 hours on a second gen iMac).
I run Jaguar on my clamshell and Panther on my Ivory TiBook, and have been fairly pleased with both OS's, although the 800mhz machine itself is a living legacy to forced-crippling :D
A friend excellently set me up with a 500mhz powerbook to replace it, and I practically want to kneel to its greatness. Flawless, Quiet, a True 6 hour battery, a sheer joy compared to the 800.
I actually bought 10.0.0.0.0 in the box brand new for $69 when it came out *hehe* ... the disk has come in handy for forgotten passwords when the other startup disks have failed, so it was a worthwhile purrrchase :9
And Apple gave us all Tiger when we worked at the WWDC one year. *cheerps and applauds*
I love the box for Leopard. Just dunno if I wanna spend all that money getting all new programs and completely kiss Classic g'bye yet :/
Finally decided to shred my lemon-recalled iBook this week. It was sitting around only getting used for downloading my camera pix every few months, but the NEW motherboard (which had been flaky every since they replaced it anyway) finally just won't boot it anymore. I couldn't even sell it on eBay last time I tried.. LOL :D $1,400 paperweight... hehe!
*hugs* Thanks for weighing in on this posting, and letting me yak a bit about what's been goin' on in the computery world over here ^v^ .
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Date: 2008-01-02 07:25 am (UTC)I've heard many people say that this should be a turnaround with better integrity coming back, and in most cases this seems to be true so far. I have heard of a few complications still, but not many serious ones... here's hoping it truly is a turnaround!
Odd stuff with those Adobe quirks.. glad ya had yer bases covered there! *scritcha*
Considering doing a clean install to see if that *might* fix some things on an ole G3 laptop... it does seem to run fine with extensions off... but hours and hours of switching things around looking for the conflict, nothing seems to work. Wanna clean it off anyway to see if I can use it as a bare machine for taking to work :>
oh! p.s. ...I did get that 10.1.5 issue solved for the client... amazingly it really was just permissions and maintenance issues easily solved by terminal-issued commands (even though one set kept crashing 3/4 of the way thur, it still fixed it after a force quit) .. wheeee! Happy New Year, bud! :D
memory access exception?
Date: 2007-12-20 12:08 pm (UTC)MLD
Re: memory access exception?
Date: 2007-12-20 12:54 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-12-20 04:22 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-01-02 07:27 am (UTC)Thanks for peekin' in, mister lion! :}
It took a bit of research, but I was finally able to solve the customer's issue... wheeeeeeoooooot! *wag*
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Date: 2007-12-22 10:22 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-01-02 07:28 am (UTC)