Suspecting the hard drive, I ran Disk Utility on it from another startup disk. The Disk Repair option found, among other things, a large number of orphaned nodes (inodes?) whose names started with "temp" and repaired them. Whatever it did, it seems to have fixed my problem. Thanks.
On Dec 13, 2005, at 2:21 PM, Terry Jones wrote: > Hi Bill > >>>>>> "Bob" == Bob Ippolito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Bob> I'm guessing either you have some GIGANTIC directories, bad > sectors on > Bob> the disk, or that it's doing getdirentries on some remote > Bob> filesystem.. AFP, NFS, WebDAV (or .mac) maybe? > > You might also want to bring up /Applications/Utilities/Disk > Utility.app > and click on the drive (the parent of any volumes you'll see > listed). What > is the S.M.A.R.T. status displayed as at the bottom? > > I don't know how to interpret the status, but if it doesn't say > 'Verified' > you may have a drive problem. The above was suggested to me by a > friend at > Apple when I ran into a problem perhaps related to yours. Eventually I > found that a system .h file had some kind of disk error. It was > slowing and > breaking compiles. I moved it aside, got a copy of the file from > elsewhere, and everything has been fine since. (My SMART status was > Verified btw) > > Terry _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig
