Programs Freezing

[kovachjon]

When I try to open simple programs, such as Quark Installer, some aspects of the System Preferences, and Adobe Photoshop, they just freeze, and I have to do a Force Quit on them. I cannot get any further.

 

[Satcomer]

Have you yet Repaired Permissions with Disk Utility? You can do this by moseying over to Applications->Utilities->Disk Utility.

 

[kovachjon]

I did repair the permissions, and I am still having the same problems.

 

[bobw]

Run 'FSCK';

To run fsck, you first need to start up your Mac in single-user mode. Here's how:

1. Restart your Mac.

2. Immediately press and hold the Command and "S" keys.

You'll see a bunch of text begin scrolling on your screen. In a few more seconds, you'll see the Unix command line prompt (#).

You're now in single-user mode.

Now that you're at the # prompt, here's how to run fsck:

1. Type: "fsck -y" (that's fsck-space-minus-y) (without the quotes)
(If you're running Panther, v 10.3, then type this "fsck -f"

2. Press Return.

The fsck utility will blast some text onto your screen. If there's damage to your disk, you'll see a message that says:

***** FILE SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED *****

If you see this message--and this is extremely important-- repeat running fsck. It is normal to have to run fsck more than once -- the first run's repairs often uncover additional problems..

When fsck finally reports that no problems were found, and the # prompt reappears:

3. Type: "reboot" to restart,

or type "exit" to start up without rebooting.

4. Press Return.

Your Mac should proceed to start up normally to the login window or the Finder.