Classic won't start

[douglyon]

Upgraded to 10.2 and now can't start classic. When logged on as 'root user' no problems. And also created a test account and no problems. I have checked the ownership of the problem account and it is as it should be. I have also ditched Classic and login p.list in the problem account library and also in the OS X Library using Admin login. Any ideas?? PLEASE!

[buc99]

Do you have a classic partition?

Do you have the most up to date OS 9 on this partition?

Only a specific brand of OS 9 will now run on 10.2 classic.

One last question.

Why use classic at all?

Just curious.

SA

[douglyon]

Using OS 9.2.2 but as I said I Classic starts ok when I create a new user so I thinks it is a permissions/priviliges issue. But I've ditched all the preferences I can think of and it doesn't resolve anything. We use classic mainly for Quark and a few other applications.

[douglyon]

Using OS 9.2.2 but as I said I Classic starts ok when I create a new user so I thinks it is a permissions/priviliges issue. But I've ditched all the preferences I can think of and it doesn't resolve anything. We use classic mainly for Quark and a few other applications.

[buc99]

First, never ever log in as root. Just a security tip for you. Log in as an administrative user.

This may not be a permissions thing. (by the way, all of those pref files were probably replaced by the OS when you rebooted, I think) It may be that OSX is now set up so that "Root"
can't load classic. I have no idea if this is true or not in 10.2. But, if you can get to it through another user, then you should be fine. Make that user an administrator if you need those kind of priviledges.


Good Luck.
SA