In a message dated Wed, 23 Oct 2002, Pete Prodoehl writes:

>
> Ok, steering back on track...
>
> I always create another user account on my OS X machines.
>
> If you see something extremely odd, reboot and log in as another user
> and verify that the problem is with the system, and not just an
> individual user's account.

Did that.  Same problem (at least with missing fonts and the inability to
drag anything in the Finder).  Even as root.

> If you're a terminal lover you can always
> boot into single user mode and see what's up as well...

Well, I can certainly do that.  But exactly what should I be looking for?
As a Unix machine, the box seems to be responding fine--it's still doing
firewalling and NAT just fine, for instance.  It's just the Mac-y stuff
that's fubar'ed.

Trey

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