Eric,
It was user error. (I'm much chagrined that I'm the user in
question.) Through command-line clumsiness, I managed to clobber the /
usr/lib hierarchy, and so nothing was able to work right. I re-
installed the OS, and everything's OK. I even have a working
installation of J. :-)
Thanks to everyone for the help!
Michael
On Dec 24, 2006, at 9:58 AM, Eric Iverson wrote:
It is hard to see how the J install sudo command (even with wild
typos) could cause the problems you report. There is some chance
that there was a totally unrelated hardware/OS failure that just
happened to occur when you typed that command.
Your report indicates you got "Illegal instruction" before you gave
the super user password. In that case no privileged command was
executed and it is more likely that the failure was an unrelated
coincidence.
We'll help as much as we can. Please let us know how this problem
progresses. Right now my best guess is that you have a hardware/OS
problem that is unrelated to the J install.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Manti"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, December 24, 2006 7:09 AM
Subject: [Jgeneral] Please help: installing j601c preventing
MacBook Profrom booting?
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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