[G4] Applejack question

[Ken Johnson]

Maybe I'm the only one who doesn't know - what is "Applejack"?

Ken

On Jan 11, 2006, at 4:06 PM, jim carbone wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I've been following this list for quite a while and know that 
> Applejack is a favorite among many users. I have it installed on my 
> two G4s (a dual 1.25 MDD and a Titanium 667mhz PB), and have used it 
> several times on both with much success.
>
> I ran it today on my PowerBook, and it's doing something that I never 
> saw it do before. I started up in single user mode, ran AJ in the 
> Autopilot mode, and after (or possibly during) the permissions repair, 
> it gets to a point where it just writes line after line of a "+" then 
> all periods very slowly.
>
> It did this once and I let it sit like this for hours. I don't hear 
> any hard drive activity, and the noisy cooling fan doesn't kick on at 
> all. Eventually, I rebooted the machine, let it boot into OSX 
> (Panther), then rebooted into Single User mode and tried again. It's 
> now doing the same thing. There seems to be an error code after the 
> "Repairing Permissions" line of malloc[186] and a description about 
> being unable to byteswap something it what looks like iTunes.
>
> I can be more specific if need be, but does anyone know what's going 
> on here?
>
> Thanks,
> --jim
>
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