MacQuestion

[ceagle]

I 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^

Comments

[artfulreggie.livejournal.com]

Eek! I've no idea what's wrong. It looks like there's something going wrong in the io namespace... perhaps try disconnecting any odd IO devices like cameras, scanners, "new" mice/keyboards (if it's an old system) and try rebooting then. It's a heck of a long shot, though. :/

[c-eagle.livejournal.com]

heheh.. *wags tail* Was toying with that idea, but I sorta hate to take a chance on breaking her luck-streak in that she has everything (except the printer) running off a hub (mouse and keyboard too.. amazing!)
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!*