Hey Folks, Starting on Friday night, my laptop started having mysterious 5-minute hangs. Since I had installed Java update 7 (for Snow Leopard) earlier, I thought this was the culprit. I played around some more, however, and found that if I try to open specific folders, I get a spinning beachball, and the Finder crashes. If I use the terminal to go to the folder, and then try to open an application in the folder, I get a "Bus Error" message in the Terminal, and the application acts wonky.
In the console, after the long delays, there are often three messages (in the All Messages section): kernel disk0s2: I/O error kernel kernel This makes me think my hard drive is going south, despite the fact that Disk Utility is happy with it. Question 1: Is there any way this could be a software error? Question 2: I could not run the hardware test on the computer, because booting up with the D key just paused for a while and then booted normally. I do not have my Snow Leopard install disk, however, because I was on the road and left it at my brother's house in California. Is it worth my buying a new Snow Leopard disk just to run the hardware test? Question 3: I have a 2-week-old backup (from being on the road), and today I backed up the important files which have changed [1]. Would it be best to wipe the hard drive, put the cloned image on, and then fix up the files, or is this a waste of time which could leave my system in an unbootable state? Any tips would be much appreciated, Bill [1] This is easy, because they are on their own encrypted disk images. _______________________________________________ MacGroup mailing list [email protected] http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup
