Mac OS X wouldn't run applications!!!

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stallo

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I have posted this quuestion at macfixit two times, but noone seems to answer me...
Hi, I reguraly use Mac OS 9.2.1 because it suits my needs better that OS X, but when I tried to boot from my OS X harddrive it wouldn't run any mac os x native applications. Whenever I try to run one, TextEdit launches and thats it. Some applications launches, but they doesn't finnish and they wouldn't quit (even when i force quit it) What to do? I use Mac OS 10.1
 
Powermac G3 400 mhz, 448 RAM... And Mac OS X have been working for at least 4 months before i got that promblem... Disk First Aid didn't find anything... Classic apps and most carbon apps run without any problems
 
I have only one account, but ill try creating a new one... by the way, i read somewhere that you should type something into the console after installing new applications... i have never done that, is it possoble that that might cause mac os x to not behave itself?
 
I believe they're talking about prebinding.To do this, you would launch Terminal and type:

sudo update_prebinding -root /

Although not doing this wouldn't prevent applications from running. Running this command sometimes makes then run a bit faster though.
 
thanks Jadey.
But I'm still having problems. After deleting the LS filesi tried to run internet expolrer. it lasunched as normal, and i thought my problems were over. But when i tried to run quake 3 i got the same textedit launch, and when i tried to open explorer again, it didn't work anymore.
Logging on as a new user i created, everything seemed to be ok. But my old user doesn't work. Any suggestions?
 
some applications, like exploer and terminal have never been moved or modifyed in any way, they all live where they did after i installed OS X, quake 3 for OS X was downloaded from the internet and put in my games folder, but there were no installer included, so i guess i can put it anywhere without any problems...
 
oops... already tried the perbinding thing, it dosen't look like anything got worse, but when i tried to prebind again, it discovered the exact amount of applications that could need to be updated.
Anyway, Disk Utility didn't find any problems and norton utilities 6 is as far as i know, not compatible with os x, right? Do you have any disk utilities to recomend?
Is it posible to manually (from mac os 9) copy the user data from my old profile to a new one, as that one seem to work?

And I just wanted to say thank you for all the help you have given me so far

Ruben
 
Check the that /var is linked properly to /private/var

Unfortunately if there was a filesystem problem, fsck may fix it but have a broken inode.

If you see a links like this at /:

var ->

Then its gubbed, its easy to get out of though,

cd /
rm var
ln -s /private/var var

There maybe others like it.

I recently lost some fuctionality, but was able to regain it by re-making the links. It looked to me like the Installer had gibbed the links.
 
id like to try Toadstools solution first

but how do you check the that /var is linked properly to /private/var?

if i simply type "/" in to the termainal window, i get an access denied error. if i try "\" it returns merly -> or nothing when i try in single user mode.

please explain it step by step, as command promts scares the fun out of me:)
 
yup, everything looked normal. so i tried to go with the manual copy of my documents, etc... and i wanted everything to be right this time so i also copied the preferences folder, and guess what? i reproduced the same error on the new user. guess the problem was caused by a corupt prefs file... im hunting it down right now. Well anyway, I want to express my gratitude again, thanks to everyone that helped

Ruben
 
it was the "com.apple.LaunchServices.plist" file that somehow had gotten corupted. Everything was ok after I deleted this file.
 
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