[plug] [offtopicish] os-x wierdness

[rpowersau at gmail.com]

I agree with Craig.

Last time my imac starting doing weird things I reinstalled everything
several times. Each time it worked for a while then went weird again. Turned
out to be the hard drive was dying a slow death.



On 9/29/05, Mr Shayne <shayne at guild.murdoch.edu.au> 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
>
> When it finished, the account wouldnt accept the password, so I dropped in
> the magic disk, changed the password, and rebooted again
>
> NOW when I log in, rather than going to the aqua shell thingee it does, it
> just drops out to the blackscreen/white writing console and asks me to log
> in there, and onwards to the csh (or tsh or whatever it is. It aint bash
> tho).
>
> Any idea how to tell an account "No. I really do want to use the gui!"???
>
> The mac shop guy said "replace the logic board". But if "replace the logic
> board" was the answer to all mac problems (as the techs tend to claim)
> then the logic board has a lot to answer for. Regardless the other
> accounts are fine, so I suspect the macshop guy is a pleb.
>
> Any advice would be way apreciated.
>
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Regards,
Russ
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