Your Mac won't start up in Mac OS X (Mac OS X 10.3.9 or earlier)Your Mac won't start up in Mac OS X (Mac OS X 10.3.9 or earlier)
Nothing can be more frustrating than turning on your Mac only to find
that it won't start up. Instead of seeing the Finder, you see a blue or
gray screen, an icon of a broken folder, a kernel panic, a flashing
question mark, or a computer that just sits there. What can you do?
Don't worry. It could be a simple issue that you can fix yourself.
Note: This article applies to Mac OS X 10.3.9 or earlier.
Tip: If your computer won't start at all, skip to "You see a blank,
gray screen" below.
The first step to help your Mac start up again is to identify which
symptom you see. Once you know what the symptom is, you can try to fix
it. Here's a list of the most common things you might see if your Mac
turns on but doesn't start up. Click the link for the symptom you see,
then follow the steps to fix it.
You see an empty, blue screen. You might also see a progress indicator,
which looks like a colored pinwheel or spinning disc.
A "broken folder" icon, a prohibitory sign, or "kernel panic" message
appears.
Sam Walker
Apple Specialist
You see a blank, gray screen.
A flashing question mark appears.
None of the above happens, but your Mac doesn't start up.
You see an empty, blue screen. You might also see a progress indicator,
which looks like a colored pinwheel or spinning disc
There are several different things you can try to fix this symptom. Go
through eac...
Are Mac OS X 10.5.8's iLife programs safe to use in Mac OS X 10.7.x and 10.8.x?Hi.
Someone told me that Mac OS X 10.7.x and 10.8.x do not come with iLife
like the older Mac OS X versions (e.g., 10.5.x). I did not know this!
Since my client uses iPhoto that came preinstalled on his old 2008
MacBook Pro's Mac OS X 10.5.x (10.5.8 right now), can he use the old one
from 10.5.8? Or will he need a third party replacement (needs to
import/copy the old image files) or buy a new iPhoto version for his
photo(graph)s? I recalled he did not like iPhoto and wonder if the new
one is any better.
Thank you in advance. :)
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Quote of the Week: "Every ruler...
Mac OS X Kerberos Extras updated for Mac OS X 10.3-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Just a reminder to coincide with today's release of Mac OS X 10.3
("Panther"), the MIT Kerberos team has released an updated version of
the Mac OS X Kerberos Extras that work with both Mac OS X 10.2
(Jaguar) and Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther).
The Mac OS X Kerberos Extras allow CFM-based applications, such as
Eudora and Fetch, to work with OS X's built-in Kerberos.
Older releases of the OS X Kerberos Extras will not work with Mac OS X
10.3. You must have the latest release (which was released back in
June) for it to work with Panther. However...
Cursor in Mac OS X 10.5.6 w/X11 2.2.3 and 2.3.2Hi, I know this problem has come up before, but I was unable to find a
solution that worked in the group.
The problem:
cursor,x,y,/down
or any variation results in a dead terminal and X-window. Using ctrl-
c at the terminal and then clicking on the terminal works:
IDL> cursor,x,y,/down,/device
% Interrupted at: $MAIN$
IDL> print,x,y
522 105
Using "defaults write com.apple.x11 wm_click_through -bool true" has
no effect. Installing the latest version of IDL (7.0.6) also had no
effect. The error occurs both with IDL run remotely and locally.
I've tried bo...
Mac OS X 10.3.9 to 10.3.8Is there a way to go back from 10.3.9 to 10.3.8. I have protools that
will not work in 10.3.9. Any ideas?
thx
<fromero@csudh.edu> wrote in message
news:1138070312.152531.300390@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> Is there a way to go back from 10.3.9 to 10.3.8. I have protools that
> will not work in 10.3.9. Any ideas?
>
Restore from the backup you made before you updated to 10.3.9, or reinstall
and update from your install CD.
Greg
How do yu restore from a backup on a mac? Also, if I reinstall from
the CDs wont that remove my applications?
G.T. wrote:
> <fro...
Mac OS X 10.6.3 reportsInstalled it on my Mac Pro just now and haven't noticed any issues so
far. I did notice a couple of interesting-but-seemingly-minor things in
my system log following the update:
Mar 30 11:10:04 macpro com.apple.kextd[10]:
/System/Library/Extensions/ScreenflickAudio.kext does not declare a
kernel dependency; using com.apple.kernel.6.0.
Mar 30 11:10:23 macpro com.apple.launchd[1]
(0x100300fa0.anonymous.nohup[99]): Bug: launchd_core_logic.c:8301
(24003):0
Mar 30 11:10:23 macpro com.apple.launchd[1]
(0x100300fa0.anonymous.nohup[99]): Switching sessions is not allowed in
...
Does an app run Mac O X 10.4 when it has been built on Mac OS 10. 3+Hello.
I don't have Mac OS X 10.4 yet, my application is built on Mac OS X 10.3.9,
does
The application can run properly on Mac OS 10.4 ?
Thanks
ming
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Hi Ming,
Yes, almost everything should work without modification. I only found
one thing in Tiger that worked differently than Panther, and it was easy
to fix once I got a complete report of what was going on.
HTH,...
KLCacheHasValidTickets does not report the principal (Mac OS X 10.6.3)I=92m having a similar issue with KLCacheHasValidTickets. I have a valid V5=
ticket in the default cache, and yet
KLBoolean fValid;
KLPrincipal principal;
klerr =3D KLCacheHasValidTickets(NULL, kerberosVersion_V5, &fValid, &princi=
pal, NULL);
Returns fValid is true, klerr =3D=3D 0, but principal is null.
Am I missing something? Documentation looks like it should tell me what the=
default credential cache=92s principal was (presuming it was still valid).
-nh
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Mac OS X 10.3.7 upgrated to 10.3.9 won't bootHelp -
I successfully upgrated my system 10.3.7 to 10.3.9 but it will not now
completely boot.
Hardware: G4 400 AGP with original 30gb hd plus 120gb hd partioned into
three 40 gb sections.
History:
I copied the 10.3.7 system from the 30gb hd to one of the partitions.
I applied Apple's updates to 10.3.8 then 10.3.9 from the 30gb system to
the one in the partition. All went well according to the packages. I
then selected the system in the partition as boot system and rebooted.
The system went to boot, the grey screen appeared with the dark grey
Apple logo and the rotating 'sunburst...
Matlab crashes on Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.3Matlab r2009b crashes on snow leopard 10.6.3 whenever I try to resize the gui frames; for example. with the default layout, if I try to drag to make the command window wider, it crashes.
I tried creating another user account on my mac and using matlab in that account; I didn't have this problem there. So I guess it's something in my account that's screwing things up, but couldn't find out exactly what it is...
The java log and matlab dump files' content are attached below; thanks in advance for any help!
%%%%
below is the java.log.XXXXX
Operating System: Da...
cpio-2.5.90 and Mac OS X 10.3.6I successfully compiled cpio-2.5 on Mac OS X a long time ago in 2002 but the
latest cpio-2.5.90 does not compile. Any ideas? Thanks, PaulN
#############################################################################
Making all in src
if gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I. -I.. -I../lib -g -O2 -MT userspec.o
-MD -MP -MF ".deps/userspec.Tpo" -c -o userspec.o userspec.c; \ then mv -f
".deps/userspec.Tpo" ".deps/userspec.Po"; else rm -f ".deps/userspec.Tpo";
exit 1; fi
userspec.c:75: error: parse error before '(' token
userspec.c:77: warning: da...
gvim (v. 6.3) problems on Mac OS X (10.4)Hello,
A couple of gvim problems (version 6.3):
I would like to toggle between two files vi-style, using Ctrl-^
(i.e., control shift 6), but it doesn't work. (:e# does work.)
I can't copy and paste with my 3-button mouse (actually
a Kensington optical scrolling mouse, with the scroll wheel
doubling as the middle button). I have tried setting
mousemodel to both "extend" and "popup", but neither
solve the problem.
Any help would be much appreciated.
(I recently upgraded from OS X-10.2, where I was running
gvim v. 6.1, and did not have these prob...
[wx 2.5.3, mac os x 10.3.7, gcc 3.3] problem regarding wxGenericDirCtrlhi all,
currently i am trying to make a wxGenericDirCtrl list files and
not just directories. The wxDIRCTRL_DIR_ONLY flag is *not* set,
but it just shows directories and no files at all except symlinks.
is this a bug, a feature or just my goofiness?
please let me know ...
tia + kind regards,
krystian
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Hi,
Is there a simple way to get the screen image in a wxGLCanvas i...
Bus Error asprintf. OS X 10.3.6. gcc 3.3Hi,
I don't seem to be able to get asprintf to work when compiling under
OS X.
Using the following code:
#include <string.h>
#include <stdio.h>
int main() {
char **w;
asprintf(w,"fooo");
printf("%s\n",*w);
return 0;
}
and compiling using gcc with the -lc and -Wall flags, I get no erros.
The program runs spitting out a Bus Error. The same code on a Linux
machine gcc 3.2.2 compiles and runs as expected.
Any help would be great.
Neil
On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 09:18:27 -0800, Neil Dunn wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I don't seem to be ab...
Has anyone mentioned that the Mac OS X 10.3 vi is Vim 6.2The Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther) default vi is now Vim 6.2
This is different from before when it looked like the default vi was nvi
or something similar.
I've been off-line for a few days, so I don't know if I missed a posting
on this.
Bob Harris
...
Apple Mac OS X 10.6 support & compatability with Python 3 ?I've been given a MAC AIR laptop with OS X 10.6 "Snow Leopard".
On my desktop I dual boot with XP - Ubuntu and have Python on both.
Unfortunately all my Python programs are written on Windows XP and
I heavily rely on WConio for console I/O.
Called Apple tech support. The technician had never heard of Python,
ascertained the MAC AIR does not come preloaded with Python and
did not know if Python 3 would run under OS X 10.6. This was "beyond"
their expertise.
Does anyone have experience with OS X ? Could I use WConio in a
Windows emulator ? I have no experience with MACs and am debating
whether to send this back before opening.
Thanks. Dave WB3DWE
On Dec 16, 2009, at 12:41 PM, pdlemper@earthlink.net wrote:
> I've been given a MAC AIR laptop with OS X 10.6 "Snow Leopard".
> On my desktop I dual boot with XP - Ubuntu and have Python on both.
> Unfortunately all my Python programs are written on Windows XP and
> I heavily rely on WConio for console I/O.
> Called Apple tech support. The technician had never heard of Python,
> ascertained the MAC AIR does not come preloaded with Python and
> did not know if Python 3 would run under OS X 10.6. This was "beyond"
> their expertise.
Sounds like the tech you spoke to was a knucklehead.
http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man1/python.1.ht...
mathematica 6.0.3 and mac os x 10.5.5 crashes?
has anyone else being having frequent crashes with mathematica 6.0.3
and mac os x 10.5.5? i'm not sure if the latest leopard update 10.5.5
has anything to do with this problem, afaik that's the only thing that
has changed on my machine recently.
i've also been getting a lot of spinning color wheels of death? i
really hope wolfram people are getting crash reports from apple.
is 6.0.3 the most recent mac os x version? i couldn't find that
information on the wolfram website.
Mitch
---------------------------------------------
Process: Mathem...
repeated useless pauses in Eudora 6.0 and Mac OS X 10.3All,
I'm using Eudora 6.0 on a G4. After upgrading from Jaguar to Panther
(10.2.x to 10.3.x) Eudora has started pausing for 4-5 seconds every
other minute or so. The rainbow pinwheel spins even though there's
nothing it needs to be doing at that time. (It only checks mail every 15
minutes, while this behavior is much more frequent.)
It's starting to get really annoying. Any ideas whether upgrading to the
latest version of Eudora (6.2 the last time I checked) will end this
behavior?
Thanks.
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Steve Caine
(Remove the other white meat to reply.)
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Re: mathematica 6.0.3 and mac os x 10.5.5 crashes?On 9/22/08 at 5:28 AM, mitch@lemma.ca (Mitch Murphy) wrote:
>has anyone else being having frequent crashes with mathematica 6.0.3
>and mac os x 10.5.5?
I am using version 6.03 of Mathematica on my G4 PowerBook with
10.5.5 without seeing any crashes.
>i've also been getting a lot of spinning color wheels of death?
I am not seeing this.
>i really hope wolfram people are getting crash reports from apple.
I doubt this happens. If the crash forces a reboot and the
dialog that sends a crash report to Apple comes up, I am fairly
certain Wolfram doesn't get th...
How do I install GMPY 1.11 on a Mac with OS X 10.6 and Python 3.1?Ok, so I got a MacBook Air.
Has OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) and Python 2.6.1 already installed.
So I install Xcode, download macports and download gmpy-1.11rc1.
Following the instructions in mac_build.txt, I do the following:
- sudo /opt/local/bin/port install gmp
This works fine.
Then I do
- python setup.py install
This also works (a few warnings, but nothing looked serious).
Python 2.6.1 (r261:67515, Jul 7 2009, 23:51:51)
[GCC 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5646)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more i...
cc65 on Mac OS X 10.3.x?I just dusted off my old AIM 65, (a late 1970's early 1980's SBC), I
though it might be interesting to make a small controller device using
an SBC, and since I uses to do 6502 code many, many years ago, and I
still have the AIM 65, I thought I could use it as the development
platform.
Anyway, I was looking around and I found an open source c comiler for
6502 and it will work on UNIX, so it sounded like a good match, maybe do
the program in c instead of assembler.
Anyway, I downloaded the compiler source, applied the patches the source
and compiled it. I seems to compile OK, but now ...
Pbuffers on Mac OS X 10.3.xIn my quest for hiding the platform-specific details of pbuffer
manipulation in my engine, I am now trying to get this to work
on the Macintosh. The Apple documentation is not enough
to help me over the rough spots (may05devdoc.dmg and its
associated OpenGL pdf)--a verbal description of the order of
calls and what they do, but not a single code sample to go with
it. Sorry, Apple folks, but some of us are not mind readers. I
downloaded the sample Xcode project, GLCarbon1ContextPbuffer,
but found it quite awkward and hackish--the pbuffer code and
application code are intertwined. A cleaner s...
KLAcquireInitialTickets(NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL) returns klParameterErr (19276) on Mac OS X 10.6.3Is this a known issue, or is it subtle user error? From the documentation, =
it does not appear that I have to provide anything to the function, not pri=
ncipal, ticket options, or out principal or out credential cache.
Thanks in advance,
nh
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Undefined symbols compiling wx2.6.3 samples/minimal app on Mac OS X 10.4Hello
I successfully built WX2.6.3 on my Mac running OSX 10.4 I used this
build to successfully build wxRuby (which appears to run fine).
However, today I felt like trying WX using C/C++ and stumbled across
http://www.wxwidgets.org/wiki/index.php/Mac_OS_X_And_Xcode_For_Beginners
Since I already had WX itself built I followed only the part of "SPECIAL
INSTRUCTIONS FOR OSX 10.4/XCODE 2.4/wxWidgets 2.6.3" for compiling
samples/minimal (including adding the given Info.plist).
I needed to replace the reference to library wx_mac (which did not
exist) with -lwx_mac_adv-...