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malique · Apr 28, 2003, 07:30 PM

Oh F***, maybe I trashed my system... everything is running ok but my general settings in system preferences are GONE and my mouse settings are doubled in the downmost level!

Where's the plist for that so I can trash em?

Help!

It appeared after I had to force-quit QT6.2 installer (it was stuck).

gorickey · Apr 28, 2003, 07:34 PM

Have you restarted?

Run "fsck-y" in single user mode after the hard reset you had?

malique · Apr 28, 2003, 07:36 PM

Originally posted by gorickey:
Have you restarted?

Run "fsck-y" in single user mode after the hard reset you had?

sorry, I am not familiar with that process. I ran disk utility btw.

gorickey · Apr 28, 2003, 07:40 PM

Well, first try a fresh restart.

If that doesn't work, restart and hold "command+S"...that will kick you into a terminal looking screen where when prompted you can enter "fsck-y"...that will run a file system check on your computer and try to fix any system errors. Run that command over and over again until it says "XXXX disc appears to be OK"...then simply type "reboot" and your system will reboot as normal.

malique · Apr 28, 2003, 07:59 PM

Originally posted by gorickey:
Well, first try a fresh restart.

If that doesn't work, restart and hold "command+S"...that will kick you into a terminal looking screen where when prompted you can enter "fsck-y"...that will run a file system check on your computer and try to fix any system errors. Run that command over and over again until it says "XXXX disc appears to be OK"...then simply type "reboot" and your system will reboot as normal.

thx, but all that I got was UNKNOWN COMMAND. I cd'ed around a bit but... no way. there was a line saying I had to run it like /sdir/fsk -y" or the like and I did - but same: unknown command.

I am not shure this will do the trick aynway :-(

gorickey · Apr 28, 2003, 08:04 PM

Hmmm, odd man...only thing I can think of is maybe you typed in the command the wrong way? It has to be exact:

fsck -y (note the space)

fsck-y (won't work)

malique · Apr 28, 2003, 08:06 PM

Originally posted by gorickey:
Hmmm, odd man...only thing I can think of is maybe you typed in the command the wrong way? It has to be exact:

fsck -y (note the space)

fsck-y (won't work)

I tried it that way - but it seems I forgot the "c" ;-)))

coming back later...
other ideas anyone?

Sarc · Apr 28, 2003, 08:26 PM

it sounds as if your general prefs got it's permissions screwed ... just "Repair Permissions" using disk utility.

Spheric Harlot · Apr 28, 2003, 08:26 PM

had the same problem here a little while ago, after I'd installed the uControl preference pane.

remove all your third-party Preference panes from /Library/PreferencePanes/ .

Quit System Preferences, reload it. Should be okay now.

Quit System Preferences again; now drag the stuff back to /Library/PreferencePanes/ (I ended up moving the third-party stuff to ~/Library/PreferencePanes .

German localisation here too, btw.

HTH.

-s*

malique · Apr 28, 2003, 09:01 PM

Originally posted by Spheric Harlot:
had the same problem here a little while ago, after I'd installed the uControl preference pane.

remove all your third-party Preference panes from /Library/PreferencePanes/ .

Quit System Preferences, reload it. Should be okay now.

Quit System Preferences again; now drag the stuff back to /Library/PreferencePanes/ (I ended up moving the third-party stuff to ~/Library/PreferencePanes .

German localisation here too, btw.

HTH.

-s*

"unfortunately" I reinstalled my system. but the bug remained. I deleted

com.apple.preferencepanes.cache

and reloaded system prefs - then it was gone.
DLing 10.2.5 now and that's it. thanx to everyone for participation.