Re: Classic won't start
On Mar 16, 2005, at 9:05 PM, Steve Jensen wrote: I Folks, I have an ailing Pismo. I upgraded to X.3.8 a few days ago and within two days Classic would not start. I repaired permissions several times with different apps. The Apple knowledgebase has been searched thoroughly and all the fixes I could find were tried just short of a clean install, which I am trying to avoid. I just get the warning You are running Classic without superuser (root) privileges I can boot if I login under root or with an OS9 boot disk. OSX is a little quirky, all the invisible files and folders are visible! Any ideas? This is one of the issues that can arise when you run in the gui as root. It's a bad idea. OS X is NOT like other unixes in this respect. Archive and re-install *may* work, but you may be forced to do a clean install. When you run as root in the GUI (which is it NOT designed to do!) many files that are not supposed to be owned explicitly by root do become owned by that user, leading to the errors you see. Enabling root is generally a bad idea unless you know what you're doing and have express reasons for doing so. You can run GUI programs as root, using Pseudo (google for it) , and anything can be done as root in terminal by doing sudo -s to get a root shell if you are a administrative user. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pha rmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---
Classic won't start
I Folks, I have an ailing Pismo. I upgraded to X.3.8 a few days ago and within two days Classic would not start. I repaired permissions several times with different apps. The Apple knowledgebase has been searched thoroughly and all the fixes I could find were tried just short of a clean install, which I am trying to avoid. I just get the warning You are running Classic without superuser (root) privileges I can boot if I login under root or with an OS9 boot disk. OSX is a little quirky, all the invisible files and folders are visible! Any ideas? -- Steve Jensen Photo Dynamik 2608 S. 162nd New Berlin, WI 53151 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent using the Microsoft Entourage 2004 for Mac Test Drive. -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---
Re: Classic won't start
On 3/6/2003 1:04 PM Marc at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I try to start Classic (9.1) from OSX 1.5 I get the message: Insufficient priviliges to run Classic from /System/Library/CoreServices. Correct permissions and restart. Can't find it on the support-site. I use the repair priviliges utility, but that didn't work. Marc Since I've been running Jaguar successfully, I've checked my folders' permissions: Get Info on the System Folder, its Library Folder and its CoreServices Folder. The Owner should be system with Read Write privileges. The Group should be wheel which means everyone with an admin password, and it has Read only priviledges. If you have these settings and still can't start Classic you may not have an administrating account. If your settings are different, try to change them to the above. If you can't change them, you may not have an administrating account. I hope this helps. Turtle-Bear -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
