iBook (dual usb 600, 10.3.9) exhibits since Sunday an odd behaviour:
When waking it up from sleep, a gray layer appears over the complete screen, with a multilingual warning that I must restart. Nothing else but that will do, password-entering or any other action is disabled.
I tried the first lines of defense:
repaired permissions with DiskUtil and Applejack. Results: some permissions come up again and again as wrong, and even though they report as being repaired, next round they show up as faulty again
rebuilt directory with DiskWarrior
Applejack also reported itunes 7.1.1, which I downloaded the day the trouble began, as containing "malformed" elements, which could not be repaired. Possibly unrelated though, but I deleted itunes completely, though with no changes of the problem
restart from CD, no repairs necessary per DiskUtil
Does anyone have an idea what the heck this is, and what I can do to remedy the situation?
TIA,
-bautz.
When waking it up from sleep, a gray layer appears over the complete screen, with a multilingual warning that I must restart. Nothing else but that will do, password-entering or any other action is disabled.
I tried the first lines of defense:
repaired permissions with DiskUtil and Applejack. Results: some permissions come up again and again as wrong, and even though they report as being repaired, next round they show up as faulty again
rebuilt directory with DiskWarrior
Applejack also reported itunes 7.1.1, which I downloaded the day the trouble began, as containing "malformed" elements, which could not be repaired. Possibly unrelated though, but I deleted itunes completely, though with no changes of the problem
restart from CD, no repairs necessary per DiskUtil
Does anyone have an idea what the heck this is, and what I can do to remedy the situation?
TIA,
-bautz.