Help!!

[geesiskryst]

I don't know what happened, but a couple days ago I started to have some serious issues with my machine.

First off, I have a Powerbook G4 running Mac OS X 10.4.11

I was using Safari, when all of a sudden, I got the spinning wheel, and the application closed on me. Ever since then, I can't open any icon on my desktop, including Macintosh HD.

Most of the applications on my Dock at the bottom of my screen don't open either. I get the wheel... and then a message box saying the application closed unexpectedly.

The couple programs that are still working are iTunes, and if I open a recent file from the Apple menu, I can use Excel.

Anyone know what I did? Or how to fix it? I'm at wits end. Thanks!

 

[harryb2448]

G'day and welcome to the forums.

Step one Repair Permissions. If no joy boot from the Tiger OS install disc, please do not say you don't have it, and run Repair Disc from there. Keep us posted?

 

[geesiskryst]

I can't get access to my applications folder, thus can't use the disk utility.

When I try to open anything, the wheel spins and then nothing.

I think my install disc is in my original box in storage. I'll retrieve it tonight and hopefully get this thing rectified.


Is there another way to repair permissions?
Thanks

 

[geesiskryst]

ok. I tried to use the Mac OS Disk, and held "C" as I rebooted.

I ran the disk utility and repaired permissions.

Everything is still acting the same as before. I get the spinning wheel and then nothing.

Is it weird that Most of my programs don't work.. but iTunes works without any issues?

Please help me!!!

 

[Collin Bl]

OK try downloading and installing this - it may sort out your issue.

 

[geesiskryst]

I can't open Safari.

I can open firefox.. and a webpage will start to load.. then I get the wheel and it crashes....

 

[dcow]

run "repair/verify disk" not just repair permissions (permissions doesn't hurt but this sounds more like a corrupt filesystem/failing hdd issue)

EDIT: oh and verify the S.M.A.R.T. status as well if your drive supports it. you can check it by looking in the bottom right of disk utility when you have the root of the drive selected on the left (as in the drive its self and not the os partitons)

 

[TattooedMac]

Have you dl anything in the days before this happened ?? That could be suspect ...

 

[geesiskryst]

ok... update.


So I ran verify/repair disk, and it still said:

Verify and Repair disk "Macintosh HD"
Checking HFS Plus volume.
Checking Extents Overflow file.
Checking Catalog file.
Incorrect block count for file 1f5_data
(it should be 862 instead of 455)
Overlapped extent allocation (file 4885847)
Overlapped extent allocation (file 5031940 /Users/kennethjohnson/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music/Movies/The Dark Knight/.m4v)
Checking multi-linked files.
Checking Catalog hierarchy.
Checking Extended Attributes file.
Checking volume bitmap.
Checking volume/information.
Invalid volume free block count
(it should be 2422830 instead of 2423262)
Repairing volume.
Cannot create links to all corrupt files
Look for links to corrupt files in DamagedFiles directory.
Rechecking volume.
Checking HFS Plus volume.
Checking Extents Oerflow file.
Checking Catalog file.
Checking multi-linked files.
Checking Catalog hierarchy.
Checking Extended Attributes file.
Checking volume bitmap.
Checking volume information.
The volume Macintosh HD was repaired successfully.
Mounting Disk

1 HFS volume checked
Repair attempted on 1 volume
1 HFS volume repaired.

And then I restarted my machine and it's still doing the same thing.

As per what I might have downloaded... The only things I can remember downloading recently were some study materials for my licensing examinations... other than that??? I have no idea.. nothing I purposefully downloaded anyway.

EDIT: I checked the S.M.A.R.T. and it said verified

I'm not sure what that means though.