Warning to OS X 10.2 users

[patgund]

If you see the "10.2.5 is now available" message, wait before installing.

I just got my system back up and running after three hours. Seems something hoses permissions in the system, causing it to boot normally until just after the login screen, at which point you have a blue blank screen.

Growl. As much as I like OS X, there were times that booting w/o extensions was handy......

Comments

[angelique69.livejournal.com]

Gods! That sucks! Glad to hear you got it fixed though. Blessed Be, Angelique

[presenze.livejournal.com]

Like, there's no "boot single user mode" in OSX? Huh.

[ag-unicorn.livejournal.com]

Ooh...how droll.

Apple sells more machines...by becoming Micro$oft.

Not a recommended mentor to follow, Steve. Bill is not your friend.

[patgund.livejournal.com]

Oh, I could throw it into Open Firmware and access the command line via Darwin, and I had full CLUI access. However, it seems like the finder in Aqua's GUI was hosed, which means it wasn't booting the main GUI. ( I was able to activate X11 and use X-Windows though). Restoring the finder via my iBook and running the repair cron jobs seem to have fixed the problem. Annoying.

[patgund.livejournal.com]

(Laugh!) It wasn't that bad. First time actually I had a update hose my machine. Go figure. Now, getting one of our lab's XP (spit) boxes up and running after a service pack update was a pain in the rear. Gag. Would rather put the researcher on Win2k, but she likes XP's Fisher-Price interface.

The main problem is after 2 years of using OS X, I'm still trying to merge almost 20 years of Mac OS experience with 5 years of Unix experience. This is like making love to an alien - nothing works quite like you think it should at times.

[angelique69.livejournal.com]

Reminds me of the joke about the aliens, Captain Kirk and Yomen Rand where the alien female keeps pulling Kirk's ears and slapping him. *Grins* Blessed Be, Angelique