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phobos · Jan 23, 2004, 03:06 AM

Hello everybody. This problem is something new for me!!. When I choose to shut down after a while it throws me to the unix black screen with the white letters saying
bootstrap_look_up()failed(ipc/send) invalid destination port

What is this thing??? I type then the shutdown command and it gives me another series of text that's I guess some options for when your machine will shutdown. But because I don't know what to type I type again man shutdown to see the manual. Although it says formating page and you expect to see the entries it drops again the bootstrap.... line again.
So what exactly is going on here? Why all of a sudden I'm ending up on a command line??
I repaired permissions. It repaired quite a lot of things including man entries but other than that it didn't solve the command line thing. Any ideas???
Thanks in advance

dwishbone · Jan 23, 2004, 07:04 AM

have you tried booting into single user mode and running the repair utitilty fsck?
boot up holding down "S" and follow the instructions.

other than that had you followed basic troubleshooting steps...eliminating the fact a recent application installation could have caused it? did this problem just come out of the blue or is there anything you think that could have caused it?

phobos · Jan 23, 2004, 07:45 AM

I'll try the single user mode to see if it solves anything.
The only thing I can imagine that caused this problem is that I most of the times ran out of swap space. I get the warning that I don't have enough space on my boot disk. I remember that a lot of time before this sort of thing would delete alot of preferences and change permissions but I thought that this was solved in panther.
Anyway I'll try the single user mode and see what happens next.

dwishbone · Jan 23, 2004, 08:14 AM

how much hard drive space did you let it get down to? i would recommend...just for safety's sake...dont let it get to less than a gig. you need swap space and room for VM. i suppose its possible it got so low and it "accidentally" wrote over part of the OS...but i doubt it.
i hope fsck works for you. its fixed alot of my weird OS X problems before.