Ok...my system software is oficially F8CKED..

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in Genius Bar edited January 2014
I think I've concluded that there's something wrong with the system software on my G4. I am running 10.1.2 and have a few problems.



#1 I can't print. I installed the OS X driver software for my printer and whenever I try to add the printer, the print manager quits. Everytime.



#2 I can't update the OS. I tried updating to 10.1.4 and went through the installating process for the update and it would not let me install on my HD



#3 New problem I just discovered. Classic suddenly doesnt working anymore. It was working ine the other day...but now it just doesnt do anything...and usually I have to force quit.



WTF>?!?!?!?!?!?!!!!



[ 05-27-2002: Message edited by: TigerWoods99 ]</p>

Comments

  • Reply 1 of 8
    eugeneeugene Posts: 8,254member
    Go to /Library/Printers and delete the folder for the brand of printer you have. Then reinstall the driver.



    Don't know about your other problems.
  • Reply 2 of 8
    ghost_user_nameghost_user_name Posts: 22,667member
    Have you tried running fsck from single-user mode lately?
  • Reply 3 of 8
    tigerwoods99tigerwoods99 Posts: 2,633member
    pardon my stupidity, but what is fsck ???



    3 completely OT questions:



    What is the shorcut to make desktop icons smaller? I forget.



    My dad has a PC at work, and I was downloading music and burned it to a CD using Easy CD Creator or whatever on it. Anywayz, t won't recognize and asks me to initialize on my G4, but that will just erase everything on there. The thing is, I did this a couple weeks ago on another computer there, and it worked absolutely fine. The MP3s showed and played in iTunes. Weird. I was thinking maybe this could be due to that being an older version? I think his might be a newer version.



    And lastly, how do I make an image as the folder? I want to make my folders for my music as the CD covers.
  • Reply 4 of 8
    r. h.r. h. Posts: 56member
    [quote]Originally posted by TigerWoods99:

    <strong>pardon my stupidity, but what is fsck ???</strong><hr></blockquote>



    Well, according to the man pages:



    fsck - filesystem consistency check and interactive repair



    ...which basically means that it's a command-line utility for repairing a corrupt filesystem. If I remember correctly, MacOS X automatically fires it off in the early morning hours once-and-a-while, so if you don't leave your computer on 24/7, it never gets the chance to run. If this is the case for you, then you might consider downloading

    <a href="http://www.versiontracker.com/moreinfo.fcgi?id=10491&db=mac"; target="_blank">MacJanitor</a>. It'll help you out without requiring you to figure out the command-line utilities yourself.



    [quote]What is the shorcut to make desktop icons smaller? I forget.<hr></blockquote>



    Try clicking on the desktop and hitting Command-J. It's also under the View menu, FYI.



    [quote]My dad has a PC at work, and I was downloading music and burned it to a CD using Easy CD Creator or whatever on it. Anywayz, t won't recognize and asks me to initialize on my G4, but that will just erase everything on there. The thing is, I did this a couple weeks ago on another computer there, and it worked absolutely fine. The MP3s showed and played in iTunes. Weird. I was thinking maybe this could be due to that being an older version? I think his might be a newer version.<hr></blockquote>



    Actually, more information might be helpful, but here's what I can gleen from what you've said so far... It's possible that someone changed the defaults on that computer to not close the session -- although I don't actually know if the Mac would have an issue with that. It's also possible that you tried burning it to a CD-RW, which in my (limited) experience with EzCD-C, can be somewhat unpredictable.



    [quote]And lastly, how do I make an image as the folder? I want to make my folders for my music as the CD covers.<hr></blockquote>



    Back to Command-J again. Bring up the View Options pane, and select the window that you want to put a picture behind. The bottom of the View Options pane should have an radio-button labeled "Picture" under the header "Background." Just follow the bouncing ball.
  • Reply 5 of 8
    ghost_user_nameghost_user_name Posts: 22,667member
    [quote]Originally posted by R. H.:

    <strong>...which basically means that it's a command-line utility for repairing a corrupt filesystem. If I remember correctly, MacOS X automatically fires it off in the early morning hours once-and-a-while, so if you don't leave your computer on 24/7, it never gets the chance to run.</strong><hr></blockquote>Nope.



    Neither the daily, weekly, nor monthly cron jobs run fsck -- I don't think it would do any good if they did because I believe you'd have to basically unmount your drive to make changes. That's why you have to use single-user mode.



    That said, here's how you do it:



    * Reboot holding the command and 's' keys. You will quickly be dropped into a shell prompt.

    * Enter the command fsck -y and wait.

    * If you get the message "***** FILESYSTEM WAS MODIFIED *****" then run fsck -y again. Repeat this step until you get a message that your drive is okay.

    * Enter the command exit to continue booting up normally.
  • Reply 6 of 8
    ghost_user_nameghost_user_name Posts: 22,667member
    By the way, if you are interested in what those night-time scripts do, you can read from the /private/etc/ directory. They are appropriately named daily, weekly, and monthly.



    It's mostly rather mundane stuff like clearing temp files and rotating logs.
  • Reply 7 of 8
    pevepeve Posts: 518member
    [quote]Originally posted by starfleetX:

    <strong>By the way, if you are interested in what those night-time scripts do, you can read from the /private/etc/ directory. (...)</strong><hr></blockquote>



    aeh... sorry.

    where is that?



    <img src="graemlins/embarrassed.gif" border="0" alt="[Embarrassed]" />
  • Reply 8 of 8
    whisperwhisper Posts: 735member
    [quote]Originally posted by peve:

    <strong>



    aeh... sorry.

    where is that?



    <img src="graemlins/embarrassed.gif" border="0" alt="[Embarrassed]" /> </strong><hr></blockquote>



    /private is an invisible folder to the Mac part of OS X. You can see it with the terminal, or TinkerTool will set the Finder to display invisible folders.
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