[plug] [offtopicish] os-x wierdness

[Mr Shayne]

Thanks for all these ideas. Its possible there is slow death occuring, 
however I've restored sanity by microsurgery of a new accounts 
/usrers/x/library and the original one. I must admit, the old "It either 
works or it doesnt" thing with macs is still intact. Respect for this 
beasty.

However yes, its a high time this machine got a more regular backup 
schedule. Its rather likely theres something deeper at play.

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Freedom's just another word for something new to regulate

On Thu, 29 Sep 2005, rpowersau at gmail.com wrote:

> 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.
>
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> 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
>