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I will let someone else help with the J library
dly
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On 24-Dec-06, at 12:09 PM, Michael Manti wrote:
Any help with the following would be appreciated.
After typing
sudo mv j601/libj601.dylib /usr/lib/.
into the terminal--per
http://www.jsoftware.com/help/user/install.htm--Ireceived the message
Illegal instruction
My Mac was then unable to start up any new apps----even Terminal and
Application Monitor. So, I then attempted to reboot. Unfortunately, 20
minutes later, and my MacBook is still spinning its wheels. Fans are
whirring. The screen displays the Apple logo and the wheel that
indicate
start-up. But the process fails to reach the login screen. This is
not a
happy situation.
This is the first incident of this kind that I've experienced in my
four
years of owning Macs. Does anyone know of any solutions? Because I
can't log
into my system, I don't have the version numbers at hand, but I just
recently updated both Mac OS X and the firmware via Software
Update, so I'm
almost certainly running the latest versions.
Thank you in advance,
Michael Manti
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