Thanks Peter - In the end he used a copy of Super-Duper to make a
backup to his iPod, then did a clean install of 10.4.
The migration app pulled everything off the pod and apparently all is
now well. Thanks for the information though. :)
Cheers,
T.
On 06/05/2005, at 8:21 AM, Peter Hinchliffe wrote:
This sounds very much like a kernel panic.
Running disk restore gives him the above error messages.
Interestingly the issue doesn't manifest when logged into his
girlfriends account.
There's your clue. The problem is constrained to his account. The
text explanations of error codes are at best often misleading, and
at worst just plain wrong. There may be problems with the hard
drive, but it is doubtful that they are behind the kernel panic.
Disk restore is reporting problems, but it is not really clear just
what those problems are. You best bet is to get a copy of Disk
Warrior to do the job.
The kernel panic is related to something in your friend's user
account. Start with login items (ie, remove them all, then start
adding them back one by one until the problem occurs again, logging
out and back in each time). If it's not with login items, the
problem will be more deeply-seated, and could be anything from a
corrupt .plist file to a bad font in the user account.
Solving this involves creating a new user account for himself and
moving all his treasured items across to it. Check out
www.tidbits.com for their excellent eBook, Take Control of Users &
Accounts in Panther, for a great guide on doing this. The best $5
you will ever spend.
