Jaguar dies after 60 seconds...

[olbert]

- I'm running 10.2.8 on a twin G4 with 2 drives. It's been stable for ages althought there's been a few spinning beachballs recently.

I installed some language packs yesterday (Korean, Chinese) from the install CD and rebooted. Since then it boots up fine, desktop comes up and everything works for about 60 seconds, then it locks up and it's spinning beachball until reboot by button. i just tried running disk repair form the install CD. I did manage to connect the boot drive by firewire to my laptop and copy some files over this morning but that isn't working any more either.

I can install Panther on it but am concerned it might be an HD issue. Anyone had a similar problem and know of a solution?

Thanks

 

[Zammy-Sam]

welcome to the forum, olbert
There are two steps you should take before considering reinstall:
1. repair permissions (boot with the panther DVD and enter the disk utility section)
2. setup a new account and see if your system acts correctly.
Post your results

 

[olbert]

Thanks for this - I successfully repaired permissions and created a new user, and rebooted. My previous login user is still very sluggish with spinning beachballs - the new user seems faster.

Should I delete the old user? Any tips on how to clean up?

Thanks again!!

 

[olbert]

- further to the above, now I can log in as a junior user but can't act as administrator. (Works fine in this mode)

I can no longer log in as admin, the system just hangs on the login screen.
I'm contemplating doing a clean install of 10.3 - will this be ok with my recently repaired disk permissions and this scenario? ::alien::