[G4] Crying Uncle!

[John Erdman]

Hardware: 400 MHz Sawtooth. 704 MB RAM. Two internal HD's and one 
Firewire drive.
System: OSX 10.3.9

I'm looking for some suggestions of what to try next. I'd like to avoid 
reinstalling the OS if possible.


After moving we finally got our DSL account set up. Not having 
braodband I've put off updates. And since I again have a hi speed link, 
I updated some software as suggested by Software Update.
Latest iTues, Quicktime, Java Security, and 3 Mac security updates. 
2005-06, -07, -08.

All seemed well except at the end, I got a message that I'd have to 
download and reinstall the Security Update 2005-07. All others seemed 
good to go.

When it restarted, start proceeded normally until it was just about to 
give me my desktop picture, when still with the blue background, The 
progress bar essentially stopped while the text under it read "Login 
Window Starting."   And there it hung. Nothing I've tried has done any 
good. Fortunately I have a backup of my system on my Firewire drive so 
I'm not completely S.O.L.

There's a crashlog called loginwindow.crash.log but I don't know enough 
to understand what it's trying to tell me.  Here the beginning of it.


Host Name:      G4.local
Date/Time:      2005-10-09 20:31:51 -0400
OS Version:     10.3.9 (Build 7W98)
Report Version: 2

Command: loginwindow
Path:    
/System/Library/CoreServices/loginwindow.app/Contents/MacOS/loginwindow
Version: ??? (???)
PID:     371
Thread:  0

Exception:  EXC_BAD_ACCESS (0x0001)
Codes:      KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS (0x0001) at 0xa258a43c

Thread 0 Crashed:
0   dyld 	0x8fe0e83c lookup_symbol_in_library_image + 0x108
1   dyld 	0x8fe0de78 lookup_symbol + 0x308
2   dyld 	0x8fe0c1f8 resolve_undefineds + 0xc0
3   dyld 	0x8fe112d8 link_in_need_modules + 0x88
4   dyld 	0x8fe0166c _dyld_init + 0x264

PPC Thread State:
   srr0: 0x8fe0e83c srr1: 0x0000d030                vrsave: 0x00000000
     cr: 0x24000228  xer: 0x00000000   lr: 0x8fe0e750  ctr: 0x8fe383d0
<snip>


Any ideas anyone?