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Urgent! I should wait HOW long?
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Join Date: Nov 2001
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Just booted up my Mac this morning and during the startup it has apparently frozen with the progress bar half-way across and the text,
"Starting network time syncronization"
under the progress bar.
I'm running 10.2.4, have 1.5 GB of RAM in my QS 933, everything has been going very smoothly for months. I run fsck -y once a week yadda yadda yadda....how long do I wait before I force a reboot. I just don't want to corrupt the system.
Thanks in advance.
P.S. Writing this from my iBook (thank god for redundancy).
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Join Date: Jul 2001
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well if you net connection is down this sometimes takes a minute - basically it should boot relatively soon though.
If it completely hangs, just do the whole fsck thing and ou shouldn't have any huge errors or anything.
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Gave it an hour. Nothing.
Forced a restart and ran fsck. Found and fixed a bunch of stuff.
Rebooted. I'm lucky. Everything appears to be working.
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I use to have this kind of problem... but just when I restart my G4 in a bad mood... When X crashes... (that didn't happen usually but it happens)...
wes
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This is why I enable journaling on my drives.
No more filesystem damage.
No more weird system behaviors.
No more "fsck".
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The server made a boo boo. (403)
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Nov 2001
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Originally posted by starfleetX:
This is why I enable journaling on my drives.
No more filesystem damage.
No more weird system behaviors.
No more "fsck".
Sounds good. What is journalling? Where/how do I enable it? Thanks.
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Join Date: Aug 2002
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May I ask what is "fsck"?
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FSCK is a self-diagnostic/repair utility built into OSX which runs only on the boot up drive and is only accessible when you start up your computer with COMMAND-S held down.
Wait for the computer to run through its startup, eventually you'll arrive at a prompt.
Type in "fsck -y" and watch as your Mac checks itself out. If you've never run it, it will probably find some things in need of tweaking. Run the program over again if it has modified your disc. Stop running it when it tells you your disc is OK.
You can then type in "reboot", to restart your machine, or type in "continue". I usually reboot.
I don't know what journalling is, though. Sounds good.
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