eScrib
Aug 12, 2003, 08:48 AM
I just stepped into the 1990s yesterday and got DSL.
I had been putting off doing some of the software updates since I knew highspeed access was coming. Things like the recent airport update, the latest security update, X.2.6, Quicktime 6.3, iTunes 4.0.1, etc.
OK, so I selected what I wanted to update through Software Update, clicked install and walked away.
I came back, rebooted my machine, and it restarted fine.
I logged in under myself, and the stuff hit the fan.
My background came up, but the hard drive began to click. Very loud, and there was a pattern. Click, cli-cli-cli-click... It did that for about 3 second, and then repeated itself over and over and over...
I let it do that for about 30 seconds...
I then did a hard reboot, booted into single-user mode and ran fsck -y...
It came back with an invalid file count and thread problem. The exact errors escape me. fcsk could not fix the problem!
So I ran Diskwarrior 3 and everything got fixed through that app. I then booted back into single-user mode, ran fsck and the disk came back clean.
I then rebooted back into X, tried to log in under root and got the same click-cli-cli-cli-click sound over and over. Same place after logging in as before.
What can I do? I didn't run any firmware updates, just regular software updates. I tried to do an archive and reinstall, and the installed crashed; said there were "errors". Probably related to whatever is going on.
I really don't want to to a fresh install, but it's looking more and more likely.
Is it possible that the Finder got hosed?
What is the best way to minimize downtime? Anyone have any suggestions?
Thanks!
I had been putting off doing some of the software updates since I knew highspeed access was coming. Things like the recent airport update, the latest security update, X.2.6, Quicktime 6.3, iTunes 4.0.1, etc.
OK, so I selected what I wanted to update through Software Update, clicked install and walked away.
I came back, rebooted my machine, and it restarted fine.
I logged in under myself, and the stuff hit the fan.
My background came up, but the hard drive began to click. Very loud, and there was a pattern. Click, cli-cli-cli-click... It did that for about 3 second, and then repeated itself over and over and over...
I let it do that for about 30 seconds...
I then did a hard reboot, booted into single-user mode and ran fsck -y...
It came back with an invalid file count and thread problem. The exact errors escape me. fcsk could not fix the problem!
So I ran Diskwarrior 3 and everything got fixed through that app. I then booted back into single-user mode, ran fsck and the disk came back clean.
I then rebooted back into X, tried to log in under root and got the same click-cli-cli-cli-click sound over and over. Same place after logging in as before.
What can I do? I didn't run any firmware updates, just regular software updates. I tried to do an archive and reinstall, and the installed crashed; said there were "errors". Probably related to whatever is going on.
I really don't want to to a fresh install, but it's looking more and more likely.
Is it possible that the Finder got hosed?
What is the best way to minimize downtime? Anyone have any suggestions?
Thanks!