Hi folks!
I'm posting this to 2 different lists in the hopes of hitting a bigger knowledge base. Please forgive me, I'm at the limit of my patience. The move to Panther has been an ugly one for me, and continues to frustrate me. Let me start with the machine and then the problems I've been having and what I've tried over the past weeks.
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But now, my problem is that I can't mount any network drives. I can see them, and I can attempt to connect to them, but they don't mount on the desktop or in the finder side bar. This means I can't backup. And the way this adventure through computing hell has been going, I NEED to backup!
I understand, through lots of searching, that there may be an issue with video drivers, and with more than 384 MB of RAM installed. The networking has me stumped though. Where do I go from here? One part of me wants to ditch Panther and go back to Jaguar because it worked well. But the other part of me prefers the speed and features of Panther, when it is working nicely...
Dave,
First of all, just because you ran the repair permissions utility doesn't mean that all the permissions settings on your drive are properly set. This util will only reset permissions for items it sees in /Library/Receipts. If you copied old preferences and ~/Library items it may very well be that they are incorrect. The volumes-not-mounting issue smacks of permission settings being incorrect for /Volumes. Here's what my Panther boot disk looks like:
total 8801
drwxrwxr-t 34 root admin 1156 27 Jan 15:31 .
drwxrwxr-t 34 root admin 1156 27 Jan 15:31 ..
-rw-rw-r-- 1 philburk staff 12292 27 Jan 17:14 .DS_Store
d-wx-wx-wt 5 root admin 170 22 Apr 2003 .Trashes
-r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 156 12 Sep 15:41 .hidden
-rw------- 1 root admin 65536 24 Oct 16:05 .hotfiles.btree
dr--r--r-- 2 root wheel 256 27 Jan 15:30 .vol
drwxrwxr-x 38 root admin 1292 29 May 2002 Applications
-rw-r--r-- 1 root admin 1024 27 Jan 17:14 Desktop DB
-rw-r--r-- 1 root admin 2 20 Jan 12:45 Desktop DF
drwxr-xr-x 2 philburk unknown 68 11 Nov 2002 Desktop Folder
drwxrwxr-x 13 root admin 442 23 Dec 15:30 Developer
drwxr-xr-x 2 philburk admin 68 4 Dec 10:57 Documents
drwxrwxr-x 37 root admin 1258 12 Sep 15:41 Library
drwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 512 28 Jan 13:04 Network
drwxr-xr-x 4 root wheel 136 12 Sep 15:41 System
drwxrwxr-t 7 root admin 238 7 Jan 12:00 Users
drwxrwxrwt 10 root admin 340 27 Jan 17:13 Volumes
dr-xr-xr-x 4 philburk unknown 136 24 Oct 16:07 automount
drwxr-xr-x 35 root wheel 1190 15 Nov 01:21 bin
drwxrwxr-t 2 root admin 68 12 Sep 15:41 cores
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 27 Jan 15:30 dev
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root admin 11 24 Oct 15:52 etc -> private/etc
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root admin 9 27 Jan 15:31 mach -> /mach.sym
-r--r--r-- 1 root admin 567760 27 Jan 15:31 mach.sym
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 3824080 11 Dec 19:20 mach_kernel
drwxr-xr-x 5 root wheel 170 27 Jan 15:31 private
drwxr-xr-x 61 root wheel 2074 27 Jan 15:13 sbin
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root admin 11 24 Oct 15:52 tmp -> private/tmp
drwxr-xr-x 10 root wheel 340 12 Sep 15:42 usr
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root admin 11 24 Oct 15:52 var -> private/var
You're going to need to be very careful with the settings at the root level. I would do the following: make sure the root level is fine. Go to the terminal, change to your home directory, check that your home directory permissions are set like this:
drwxr-xr-x 25 philburk staff 850 28 Jan 13:07 . drwxrwxr-t 7 root admin 238 7 Jan 12:00 .. drwx------ 24 philburk staff 816 28 Jan 11:10 Desktop drwx------ 19 philburk staff 646 7 Jan 11:07 Documents drwx------ 35 philburk staff 1190 27 Oct 08:36 Library drwx------ 5 philburk staff 170 19 Mar 2003 Movies drwx------ 7 philburk staff 238 21 Oct 14:44 Music drwx------ 24 philburk staff 816 21 Oct 14:45 Pictures drwxr-xr-x 5 philburk staff 170 27 May 2003 Public drwxr-xr-x 5 philburk staff 170 19 Mar 2003 Sites
Just to make sure I would issue the following command:
sudo chown -R [yourusername]:staff *
in your home directory. This will make sure that you own all the items in there.
I would also pull that second 256 MB chip and run it for a good couple of days and notice if there is a significant difference. Finally, stop overclocking until you have Panther stable.
Phil Burk _______________________________________________________ Systems Support Technician Wiley Publishing, Inc. Indianapolis, IN 46256 317-572-3049
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