Freezing in single user mode

[deanneneedshelp]

I have been trying to read Personal ancestry Files, and had downloaded an application to help me do this. I decided I didn't want the application and so I deleted it, and before I emptied the trach, my computer froze. I powered down, then rebooted, the desktop loaded then while my computer was asking my me if I was sure I wanted to delete the files, it forze again. SInce the, it has been stuck on the blue screen countless times, spinning on the Apple screen. I found out how to check my disk, as I do not have my OSX CD, with fsck -fy, and after a few tries, the systme says the Hardrive appears to be ok, (this is after it said it was modified, I ran it a few more times to be sure). NOw I was trying to back up my computer one last time from single user mode, so I could start using the Ulantu disk, as I don't really have any other options. NOw my computer freezes as sson as I type anything after the fsck come up ok.


Please help. I thought I had a good plan. I have no idea what to do here, other than what I have been able to google...I ought I could simply use the unix lines that I found to help me and backup but I cannot even do that now. Maybe I am out of memory?

My machine is an iBook G4, running OS 10.5.4 I believe. I installed the latest updates recently.

[eric2006]

It looks like the program has nothing to do with your issue, you appear to have a hard drive issue. However, you mention that you ran fsck successfully. Corruption of the system seems unlikely if you have issues on the unix level as well. Make sure you have a good amount of free space. Do you have another Mac you can connect to? If so, utilize firewire target disk mode to delete some files off, and have enough free space (2 GB would be a bare minimum). If you have your original installation disks, try running the disk/permissions check from that, as well as the hardware test.