On Wednesday, October 23, 2002, at 01:12 PM, Trey Harris wrote:
Trey,In a message dated Wed, 23 Oct 2002, Bruce A. Burdick, Jr. writes:You could have a bad hard drive. That might explain the behavior you areYeah, but this whole episode was presaged by a spinning-beachball-of-death
seeing. Wiping the drive and reinstalling OS X may work. But if it's the
drive, you're not out of the woods.
attack. One of those where a seemingly innocuous click on a menu starts
the spinning ball in one app, and then over the next minute or two, the
spinning ball "spreads" to every other app, you can't logout--you can't
pull up a logout dialog--attempts to ssh in never respond, etc. This
happens with some regularity to me, and the only answer seems to be to
just powerdown. Am I the only one who sees this? It must happen once a
month or more, though it seems to be somewhat rarer with Jaguar than it
was with 10.1.
*That's* what caused the hour-long fsck, I think--cycling power on a
running machine. Maybe there's disk problems too, but I don't want to
think about that yet...
I would try two things before doing anything drastic like wiping that drive. Boot the machine with a DiskWarrior CD and run that utility. If there are any problems with the HDD they'll be gone. Period. Then I would open Disk Utility and run the repair privileges utility. If anything's wacky with the base system (and it is in your case) this will reset the privs to their installed state. If you're not familiar with this util, it'll only touch the Apple-installed stuff on your box, not anything in /Users or other apps you've installed.
Good luck.
Phil Burk
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