Hello all- This has *nothing* to do with fink whatsoever; I just thought that you would be the best to ask about this. It is **very** long-winded; I wanted to try to include all relevant details.
Last night, our neighborhood experienced a power flicker (I don't think it was a surge, but it would have been caught by our protector anyways). Our iMac running OS X 10.1.5 was asleep at the time and restarted because of it. As has happened during other flickers, a floppy disk icon with a blinking question mark came up and the computer constantly tried to read from the CD-ROM drive (which had a normal, non-bootable CD in it). I ejected that CD and stuck the OS X install CD which came with the iMac (containing 10.1.0) in and pressed and held 'C'; it booted to the installer. I selected "Open Disk Utility" and disk utility came up as it has before. However, it took about 10 minutes and was still looking for drives. My drive had appeared at the left, however, the progress bar on the sheet was still running. I did a force-reboot and opened disk utility again; the same thing happened. After this, I got a home-made OS 9 / TechTool CD. It contained OS 9.2.1 and TechTool 3.0.5. When the computer booted, my OS 9 desktop came up along with my HD. The date was incorrect; I used the control panel on my HD to set it correctly. I ran several tests using TechTool, but nothing was repaired that I can remember. On volume structure, it said that errors were found with the catalog file, but not enough memory was available to repair it. I set the Startup Disk control panel to OS X; it successfully booted into single-user mode. After running 'fsck -y' I typed 'exit' and it booted, but slowly. I realized that it probably needed a reboot; as the reboot button on the login window is disabled, I logged in as '>console', used my admin account, and typed 'sudo reboot'. The computer came back up, just as slowly as before. The after logging in (graphically), the 'Logging in..." progress bar must have been going for a full minute before my desktop popped up. After (painfully slowly) killing Classic, everything was still going very slowly. I opened Process Viewer and sorted by CPU percentage. With it sampling every second, 'TruBluEnvironment' was taking by far the most CPU time: jumping from 10% to 30 to 60 to 80 at times and back down. In preparation for another restart, I opened System Preferences and the Classic panel. The panel said that Classic was running, and I *know* that I had stopped it! After pressing 'Stop', and turning off Classic auto-start, the computer seemed mostly at normal speed! I logged out to go to church. When I came back, things were still running at normal speed. However, there were/are still other problems that didn't happen before (hence this email): 1. When running an app for the first time (since the crash), it loads very slowly, but runs fine and loads fine after the first. 2. When sleeping and waking from sleep, there is about 3 more seconds of drive activity than normal. 3. In Jedi Knight II demo, the splash screens (but not the game or main menu) are 'stretched' across the screen. 4. Vendetta [vendetta.guildsoftware.com], which I just downloaded yesterday (and which worked *perfectly*), refuses to even start. The 'updating' window doesnąt even show; an arrow never appears under its icon in the dock. I downloaded another copy from the website, but the same thing happened. What could be causing the disk utility hang and the problems above? I'm worried about my baby... :P Thanks for reading this! -- -- sinclair44 Optimism: "If you see a light at the end of the wormhole, it's probably an explosion from the death of another borg cube." Pessimism: "If you see a light at the end of the wormhole, it's probably a photon torpedo." [Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force] Realism: "If you see a light at the end of the wormhole, you're eyes are going to hurt." ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
