I recently purchased a late G5 tower (2.0 dual core, 10.5.6) and set it up in my office, connected to my network with my old G4 tower. Everything was going well until I starting adjusting folder and file permissions to allow me to copy files/folders over to the G5.
The G5 froze, and upon a hard restart, won't go past the grey Apple screen with the spinning thingy.
While viewing the status during a safe boot, I can see where the machine gets hung up and repeats the same text over and over:
Apr 24 11:57:47 ROBERT-AUSTIN-Power-Mac-G5 com.apple.launchd[1] (com.apple.mDNSResponder[45]): posix_spawnp("/usr/sbin/mDNSResponder", ...): No such file or directory
I can't get beyond this point in the safe boot, which is where I'm assuming it gets hung up in the normal startup sequence.
I've checked the hardware with Disk Utility (from the syst. disk) and it says everything is OK, but if I try to repair permissions from within Disk Utility, it gives me an error:
Disk permissions repair: "First Aid Failed. Disk Utility stopped repairing permissions on "Macintosh HD" because the following error was encountered: The underlying task reported failure on exit."
I've also tried resetting the PRAM (didn't change anything), and used FSCK during a single user boot (it said the hardware was OK). I can't seem to get the machine to go into Target mode, where I had hoped to be able to see the files from my G4.
I'm about out of ideas. Any help from the experts here would be greatly appreciated. I'm just a graphic designer, so my technical skills only go so far...
Thank you in advance!
The G5 froze, and upon a hard restart, won't go past the grey Apple screen with the spinning thingy.
While viewing the status during a safe boot, I can see where the machine gets hung up and repeats the same text over and over:
Apr 24 11:57:47 ROBERT-AUSTIN-Power-Mac-G5 com.apple.launchd[1] (com.apple.mDNSResponder[45]): posix_spawnp("/usr/sbin/mDNSResponder", ...): No such file or directory
I can't get beyond this point in the safe boot, which is where I'm assuming it gets hung up in the normal startup sequence.
I've checked the hardware with Disk Utility (from the syst. disk) and it says everything is OK, but if I try to repair permissions from within Disk Utility, it gives me an error:
Disk permissions repair: "First Aid Failed. Disk Utility stopped repairing permissions on "Macintosh HD" because the following error was encountered: The underlying task reported failure on exit."
I've also tried resetting the PRAM (didn't change anything), and used FSCK during a single user boot (it said the hardware was OK). I can't seem to get the machine to go into Target mode, where I had hoped to be able to see the files from my G4.
I'm about out of ideas. Any help from the experts here would be greatly appreciated. I'm just a graphic designer, so my technical skills only go so far...
Thank you in advance!