[MPA] system crash

[Jay Shaffer]

Do a single user boot (hold command S on start-up) at the system prompt 
enter "fsck -f"  this will force a file system clean up. you may have 
to repeat till you get a  " The volume appears to be OK" message then 
type "reboot" to restart your machine. If this doesn't work try moving 
all of the files out of your  user>your account>preferences folder into 
a another folder and reboot. then begin the laborious process of of 
swapping in an old preference file one at time until you find the 
offender.
Good luck
--
Jay "CLI, It's the future" Shaffer
Mac Audio Guy
mag at macaudioguy.com
http://macaudioguy.com/


On Feb 12, 2004, at 1:59 AM, Tom Dempsey wrote:

> I have been experiencing frequent system crashes over the past two 
> weeks.
> -G4iMac 1 Ghz 768RAM -  Mac os 10.3.2
>
> I think, but I'm not sure, that the crashes started when I was using 
> Digital Performer 4.12 but now every application crashes eventually.  
> I installed DP4 at the beginning of January and things were fine for 3 
> weeks.
>
> I have run Disk Utilities from the installer disk but it usually 
> crashes during repair permissions.
>
> I have run Cocktail to repair permissions and that usually crashes.
>
> I have dumped my cache files.
>
> I have logged in as a different entity but the system crashes 
> eventually.
>
> Crash formats have been:
> Application unexpectedly quit
> Gray veil with restart method
> Freezing with a spinning rainbow ball
> Freezing with white text on black - says "error: unaligned stack"
>
> These can happen at anytime and within any program - though it seems 
> that DP4 and iPhoto are the least stable.
>
> My work in DP4 has only been short MIDI sequences - under two minutes 
> and less than six MIDI tracks, nothing fancy.. Usually these files are 
> in the  100K - 500K size. However, one six track MIDI file is 2.1MB. 
> Is this file size and anomaly and if so could it be the reason for the 
> crashes?
>
> I have discussed this recently on a Mac OSX list but until now none of 
> the suggestions offered have helped.
>
> Thanks
> Tom in Skopelos Greece
>
>
>