[CUBE] osx stuck on login

[ivan melicoff]

I don't know anything about command lines so if anyone can give advice as if
you were talking with a band new "switcher" it would really help :) I
started using Macs in late 98 but only recently started with OSX so I don't
know much.

Anyway I think I did what you said Mike and this is what happened...

I booted while pressing CMD+s and after I got
sh-2.05a#
I typed  ln -s /private/tmp /tmp
I got this response:
ln:  /tmp/tmp: Read-only ile system
sh-2.05a#


>From where did you rename your library folder? from OS0? How did you reset
your preferences? And what mail did you restore? I use (or used)
Entourage...

thanks
ivan


on 1/15/03 6:08 PM, mike at mfoverbo at int287.k12.mn.us wrote:

> you might have problems with the symlink from /tmp to /private/tmp
> directory -- I heard rumors that safari munged that.
> 
> to restore it:
> 
> # ln -s /private/tmp /tmp
> 
> I've also had problems (earlier on in osx, around 10.1.0) with
> applications that corrupted the dock -- i'd login and it would log me
> right out again.  my situation degraded from there, and I ended up
> having to rename my library folder and reset all my preferences and
> mail by hand.
> 
> it's a bummer and it took time, but it got me back to working order.
> it might work for you too.
> 
> hope this helps,
> 
> mike
> 
> On Wednesday, January 15, 2003, at 07:48 PM, ivan melicoff wrote:
> 
>> Booted into OS9 through installation CD and deleted all safari related
>> files. Restarted into OSX and still same problems.
>> 
>> thnx
>> ivan
>> on 1/15/03 4:49 PM, Jeffrey M. Swiger at N8NOE at comcast.net wrote:
>> 
>>> While booting hold ( CMD & S ) and then Type ( FSCK -Y ) then hit
>>> enter.. Fist this will check your drive files for
>>> errors. At this point you could remove or replace the Safari Files?...
>>> What is all the trouble with Safari?..
>>> I've seen post about Jaguar and safari causing all these problems, I
>>> have no Idea why everyone is having
>>> troubles. I even tie my Newton into the Cube wirelessly and if
>>> anything
>>> is causing problems, the Cube is VERY
>>> RF sensitive! If any 70cm or 10M Signals is generated, the cube just
>>> shuts-off or reboots, It's annoying, but not
>>> much I can do about it... Check your file system, If you have to
>>> Remove
>>> it at this point, your ROOT as a default
>>> when you boot to FreeBSD this way!....
>>> 
>>> Jeff
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Wednesday, January 15, 2003, at 05:39 PM, ivan melicoff wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Hey, have a huge problem. Can't acces OS X because it gets stuck in
>>>> the
>>>> "loggin in" window.  All I can do is acces the disk by booting into
>>>> OS9 from
>>>> an installation CD but that is no help since I can'to do anything
>>>> from
>>>> there. Also this login window appeared all of a sudden I never set it
>>>> up in
>>>> the first place.
>>>> 
>>>> I am running  OS X 10.2 on a dual 1GHZ tower.
>>>> 
>>>> thansk for any pointers yoo can give.
>>>> 
>>>> ivan
>>> 
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