[HazMacFan]

iBook G4 with Panther seems to only show icons and no text whatsoever. Restarted in single-user and ran fsck -fy and that didn't fix it. Tried disktil repairPermissions root_device in single-user and still didn't fix. iBook is stock with 30 GB HD with only 1.9 GB free.

Any suggestions?

[P]

Looks like your installation is corrupt, for whatever reason.

1) Back up everything immediately.
2) Try reapplying the latest combo update.
3) If that fails, Archive & Install

(it's diskutil, not disktil, but I suspetc that that was a typo)

[Big Mac]

That's too little free disk space. And that's a Finder display issue of some sort.

[HazMacFan]

Installed new OS on external FireWire drive and then Using migration assistant I moved all the user data then went back the other way. Everything seems to be working now. Thanks.