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ShotgunEd
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Mar 26, 2003, 10:08 AM
 
ok i posted this in GUI because i thought themechanger had borked my mac but i've fixed that prob by running aquafix

Loginwindow still crashes on boot. Is there any way to fix this without a reinstall?
     
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Mar 26, 2003, 11:05 AM
 
I have had the same problems when I installed 10.1.5 on my old 7300/200. Sometimes when starting it did not come to the loginwindow.

Try starting up in verbose mode and see where the process stops. This could help.

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Sorry forgot to say in case you didn't know. To start in verbose mode hit cmd-V during startup.
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Mar 26, 2003, 11:14 AM
 
Originally posted by RealMadrid:
I have had the same problems when I installed 10.1.5 on my old 7300/200. Sometimes when starting it did not come to the loginwindow.

Try starting up in verbose mode and see where the process stops. This could help.

Regards.

Sorry forgot to say in case you didn't know. To start in verbose mode hit cmd-V during startup.
The crash is after the verbose part of startup.

I inspected the system log and i know for sure that loginwindow is crashing.

I'll inspect its crash log now and see what going on in there
     
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Mar 26, 2003, 11:39 AM
 
i'll tanscibe what happened in the crash log the first time i rebooted today
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********** Date/Time: 2003-03-26 09:41:01 +0000 OS Version: 10.2.4 (Build 6I32) Host: Ross-iBook.local. Command: loginwindow PID: 369 Exception: EXC_BREAKPOINT (0x0006) Code[0]: 0x00000001Code[1]: 0x8fe01280 Thread 0 Crashed: #0 0x8fe01280 in halt #1 0x8fe106b4 in link_in_need_modules #2 0x8fe12a24 in _dyld_bind_fully_image_containing_address #3 0x90005374 in _dyld_bind_fully_image_containing_address #4 0x900052cc in sigaction__ #5 0x9000f340 in signal__ #6 0x00006a74 in 0x6a74 #7 0x00004c70 in 0x4c70 #8 0x00004af0 in 0x4af0 PPC Thread State: srr0: 0x8fe01280 srr1: 0x0002f030 vrsave: 0x00000000 xer: 0x00000000 lr: 0x8fe09c38 ctr: 0x8fe3aefc mq: 0x00000000 r0: 0x8fe09c34 r1: 0xbfffc00 r2: 0x53524950 r3:0xffffffff r4: 0xffffffff r5: 0x00000240 r6: 0x0000000a r7: 0x69636174 r8: 0x696f6e53 r9: 0x8fe4c10c r10: 0x736f7572 r11: 0x00000013 r12: 0x88000441 r13: 0x00000000 r14: 0x00000000 r15: 0x00000000 r16: 0x00000000 r17: 0x00000000 r18: 0x00000000 r19: 0x00000000 r20: 0x00000000 r21: 0x00000000 r22: 0x00000000 r23: 0x00000000 r24: 0x00000002 r25: 0xbfffff4c r26: 0xbfffff48 r27: 0x0000e114 r28: 0x8fe4841c r29: 0x8fe484ec r30: 0x8fe484ec r31: 0x8fe099bc **********
     
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Mar 26, 2003, 12:49 PM
 
Originally posted by RealMadrid:
I have had the same problems when I installed 10.1.5 on my old 7300/200.
How do you manage to install OS X on a 7300? Do you have a upgrade motherboard?
     
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Mar 26, 2003, 04:46 PM
 
Originally posted by Appleman:
How do you manage to install OS X on a 7300? Do you have a upgrade motherboard?
Presumably he is using XPostFacto.
     
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Mar 26, 2003, 05:19 PM
 
Move your /Library directory (eg, to /Library.bak) then reboot.

(NB: NOT your ~/Library directory, which would only cause problems after you tried to log in).

If it works, then there is some preference or font, or something else in there that's stuffing it up. Just a matter of narrowing down which one.

If it doesn't work, then you can just move it back again.
     
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Mar 26, 2003, 06:20 PM
 
Same thing happened to me after I had changed a theme with themechanger. What I did was restarted in single user mode (hold apple-s) and typed tcfix. That did the trick for me, hope this helps you.
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Mar 26, 2003, 06:41 PM
 
Sounds like a corrupted Theme file to me
     
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Mar 26, 2003, 07:34 PM
 
LoginWindow is borking because its not finding a shared library that it needs. You can try fixing this using Brass's good suggestion. If that doesn't work, you'll need to reinstall, unless you can somehow figure out which library is missing and replace it.

I'd guess that you're missing something that one of the theme files messes with, like CoreGraphics, for example. Themes really shouldn't be modifying this stuff...
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Mar 27, 2003, 04:23 AM
 
Last time this happenned to me it wasn't aquafix i ran, it was tcfix, mjarski15 reminded me of this. I'm running tcfix at the moment and if that fails i'll try moving /Library. Thanks for all your suggestions guys. Here's crossing my fingers.

Edit: Still no dice after running tcfix, i'll trying moving /Library now.
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Mar 27, 2003, 04:38 AM
 
Originally posted by Appleman:
How do you manage to install OS X on a 7300? Do you have a upgrade motherboard?
As Anomalous guessed correctly it was XPostFacto what helped me to do the job. A and a couple of days spent ...

There must be a thread about that somewhere here in the fora. Don't have the url anymore. If you are interested do a search for 8500/180 or 7300/200.
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Mar 27, 2003, 04:52 AM
 
Originally posted by Brass:
Move your /Library directory (eg, to /Library.bak) then reboot.

(NB: NOT your ~/Library directory, which would only cause problems after you tried to log in).

If it works, then there is some preference or font, or something else in there that's stuffing it up. Just a matter of narrowing down which one.

If it doesn't work, then you can just move it back again.
No luck with that suggestion either. I'm down to two options, copying the /System folder from my dad's iBook to mine tomorrow when I get home or reinstalling. Hopefully the former will work.

Thanks everybody, if you have any more suggestions please do tell.
     
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Mar 27, 2003, 06:17 AM
 
Originally posted by RealMadrid:
As Anomalous guessed correctly it was XPostFacto what helped me to do the job. A and a couple of days spent ...

There must be a thread about that somewhere here in the fora. Don't have the url anymore. If you are interested do a search for 8500/180 or 7300/200.
Yes, I found it. However, I also own a 7200, but that babe is too old, even for XPostFacto
     
   
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