permissions & crashes |
November, 15, 2002 2:21 PM |
yeh |
I've noticed that my G3 (powerlogix) upgraded 8600 would crash about once a day. When I checked the permissions of the /etc/daily it was set as 444 only. I chmod the script to 755 and now the mac has stopped crashing on a daily basis. I was curious, since I'm running 10.1.5 how do I run the disk utility? In 10.1.x it wont allow me to run disk utility if I'm booting off the same volume. Thanks. |
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RE: permissions & crashes |
November, 18, 2002 4:58 PM |
gregoryy |
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Apple had two versions of a utility to fix permissions. Jaguar puts it right in the Disk First Aid panel. And it is imperative to run after almost any/every installer it seems now. Essential. Drive10 is imperfect and until there is Disk Warrior 3.0; a full 10.2.2 CD available; etc. you need a 2nd volume or drive with OS X installed. But you can run Repaiir Permissions on the boot volume. you can run fsck by shutting down Aqua and then you are in the command line, do it there, works great. No need to boot from CD. Or keep running fsck until it is clear, then "reboot" and do not continue with the current boot process. |
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RE: permissions & crashes |
November, 18, 2002 2:06 PM |
yeh |
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Does fsck fix the permissions as well? I was under the impression that FSCK only fixes problems w/ the file structure. How do I repair the permissions in 10.1.5? |
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RE: permissions & crashes |
November, 15, 2002 8:27 PM |
powderhaus |
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here is what the macaddict mag says to do "for major disk errors, you can run Apple's fsck utility. Boot into single-users mode, type /sbin/fsck -y and press return. Mac OSX will check your diskif possable. Sometimes a single passdoesn't fix every problem on the disk; you may need to run fsck repeatedly." How this helps |
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RE: permissions & crashes |
November, 15, 2002 8:23 PM |
powderhaus |
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isn't fsck the same thing? Just boot into single users mode and enter fsck / (you may have to tell it to mount, but there is some text just above the blinking thing that should tell how to do this.) |
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RE: permissions & crashes |
November, 15, 2002 7:55 PM |
Tony.Scaminaci |
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I don't remember if 10.1.5 had the permissions fix built into Disk Utility, but 10.2.x does. You can repair permissions on the OS X boot volume but you still can't perform disk repairs on the boot volume. |
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RE: permissions & crashes |
November, 15, 2002 5:52 PM |
marcush |
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That's the problem and it is pretty much insurmountable. You either have to boot off of the OSX CD and run the Disk Utility that way or boot into 9.x.x and run Disc Warrior or Norton Utilities. Neither of those options will solve a permissions problem though. |