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Join Date: Apr 2002
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I tried installing some fonts, and now this. The computer stops responding, so I wait about five minutes then shut it off. I turn it back on, and once it gets to the blue Mac OS X screen with the progress bar, there is no progress bar and it just sits there. I've zapped the PRAM, that didn't work. Is there anything else I can do before having to reinstall?
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If you can boot into 9, try running disk warrior (or if you have it on a cd, boot off of it).
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Try starting up in single user mode (hold down Command-S as it starts up) and deleting the fonts using rm and then running fsck -y. Then pray .
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I did that and it says the drive is fine. Is there anything else I can do?
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Ok, now the OS X screen disappears after about one second. I just have the spinning rainbow wheel on a blue background.
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This is just getting more strange. I have a blue background, normal curser. The brightness/volume keys work, the eject works, but nothing else. And when I hit the power button, I get the window that asks if you want to sleep or restart or shut down, but in a different font. And that's all I can do.
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Where did you install these fonts? It sounds like some nasty, nasty, conflict.
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In System->Library->Fonts
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Originally posted by el lindo:
In System->Library->Fonts
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
Never do that! Firstly, you must have had root privileges to do that, which is a bad, bad thing. This System folder should almost never need to be changed. Like I said, boot into single user mode, and remove those fonts as quickly as you can.
If you want to install fonts for all users, put them in /Library/Fonts, otherwise if you just want them, install them in ~/Library/Fonts.
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I did both of those before and the fonts wouldn't show up. Someone around here told me to put them where I did. Regardless, I booted from the OS 9 cd, deleted the fonts. Not sure what to do in single user mode, though. Disk First Aid thinks the drive is fine.
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You didn't remove all fonts out of that folder did you?
The OS needs at least LucidaGrande and LastResort (and maybe others of the standard fonts) to run.
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Nasrudin sat on a river bank when someone shouted to him from the opposite side: "Hey! how do I get across?" "You are across!" Nasrudin shouted back.
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No, I left the ones that were originally there.
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Re-run the OS X installer; it'll overwrite any hosed files with fresh ones (and leave your home directory intact).
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Originally posted by Oneota:
Re-run the OS X installer; it'll overwrite any hosed files with fresh ones (and leave your home directory intact).
But then you have to re-install any system updates (which of course is irrelevant if you're running Jaguar)...
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I realy don't know if this will help, but it can't hurt:
Before trying to re-install all the system, try that:
Boot on the MacOS X install CD
Donc click next but go in the menu to launch Disk Utility
Select your main partition
Click "Repair permissions" (it's somewhere in the Disk Utility... I don't exactly remember)
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Originally posted by noliv:
I realy don't know if this will help, but it can't hurt:
Before trying to re-install all the system, try that:
Boot on the MacOS X install CD
Donc click next but go in the menu to launch Disk Utility
Select your main partition
Click "Repair permissions" (it's somewhere in the Disk Utility... I don't exactly remember)
It�s not needed to boot from the install disc to repair permissions.
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"It�s not needed to boot from the install disc to repair permissions."
I think you must boot from the CD to repair privs if you cant start of your disc at all
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The real MacMicke�
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After trying seemingly everything, I had to do a complete reinstall. Not a huge deal I guess; everything was backed up. Just annoying, really. Needless to say, that's the last time I'll do anything in the System folder for a while.
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