[plug] [offtopicish] os-x wierdness

Craig Ringer craig at postnewspapers.com.au
Thu Sep 29 18:02:25 WST 2005


On Thu, 2005-09-29 at 16:59 +0800, Mr Shayne wrote:
> Sorry for the offtopic to main list, but I know theres a few appleheads 
> here who might have an answer.
> 
> After a machine we have (800mz emac) started making wierds all over the 
> place with random crashouts and the like, and after doing the usual sys 
> permission checks etc, I reinstalled wt archivie OS X10.2 on the machine

[snip]

> Any idea how to tell an account "No. I really do want to use the gui!"???

Well, first, I suggest completely clean-installing the system. Boot a
Linux/PPC disk or something, and erase the entire HDD after making a
complete back-up. Re-install the OS. If that still doesn't work, you
probably do have a hardware problem.

--
Craig Ringer




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