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Furio - Sep 19, 2005 - 3:30 pm
Hi,
I'm using OSX 10.3.9. After updating to Itunes 5.0 several applications won't launch. These include Mail, Ical, Safari, Software update & Disk Utility. The applications start their launch showing the triangle in the dock but hang up. Any help with this would be appreciated.
I'm using OSX 10.3.9. After updating to Itunes 5.0 several applications won't launch. These include Mail, Ical, Safari, Software update & Disk Utility. The applications start their launch showing the triangle in the dock but hang up. Any help with this would be appreciated.
philippe99 - Sep 19, 2005 - 4:06 pm
Furio, welcome to macosx.com
May I suggest you, as a first step, the following maintenance tips ?
(1) Could you try to repair permissions
(must be admin)
Launch Applications/Utilities/DiskUtility
On the left pane, select the drive
On the right, select the First Aid (or SOS) tab
Then click on repair permissions and let run; don not worry about messages like " new permissions...."
Quit DiskUtility
Shutdown and reboot
(2) could also download Macjanitor
http://personalpages.tds.net/~brian_...acjanitor.html
and use it to run the maintenance scripts
The maintenance scripts are Unix scripts which are automatically ran on your
Mac between 02Am and 04 am..if your Mac is on at this moment.
I can advice you to run, through Macjanitor, the daily script each day, the week script each week, ..and so on
(3) Could you also download Onyx
http://www.titanium.free.fr/pgs/english.html
and use it to clean the caches. Use Onyx default choices as a first attempt.
(4) running sck Unix repair function
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).
If the 1st pass says that nothing has to be repaired, try "fsck -fy"
Option "-y" forces a "yes" response to every question of the system, which is very important because answering "no" to a fsck question will stop the process !
Option "-f" forces fsck to chack a system that this command seems to have find "clean"
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.
Regards
Philippe
May I suggest you, as a first step, the following maintenance tips ?
(1) Could you try to repair permissions
(must be admin)
Launch Applications/Utilities/DiskUtility
On the left pane, select the drive
On the right, select the First Aid (or SOS) tab
Then click on repair permissions and let run; don not worry about messages like " new permissions...."
Quit DiskUtility
Shutdown and reboot
(2) could also download Macjanitor
http://personalpages.tds.net/~brian_...acjanitor.html
and use it to run the maintenance scripts
The maintenance scripts are Unix scripts which are automatically ran on your
Mac between 02Am and 04 am..if your Mac is on at this moment.
I can advice you to run, through Macjanitor, the daily script each day, the week script each week, ..and so on
(3) Could you also download Onyx
http://www.titanium.free.fr/pgs/english.html
and use it to clean the caches. Use Onyx default choices as a first attempt.
(4) running sck Unix repair function
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).
If the 1st pass says that nothing has to be repaired, try "fsck -fy"
Option "-y" forces a "yes" response to every question of the system, which is very important because answering "no" to a fsck question will stop the process !
Option "-f" forces fsck to chack a system that this command seems to have find "clean"
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.
Regards
Philippe
Furio - Sep 19, 2005 - 4:53 pm
Thanks Phillipe,
I have tried all these options except the Disk Utility which won't run
(part of the problem) The Unix repair function does not identify any problems on the start up disk. Not sure what to do next. Is re-installing the operating system the next step? Will I lose data if I do this?
Thanks
Furio
I have tried all these options except the Disk Utility which won't run
(part of the problem) The Unix repair function does not identify any problems on the start up disk. Not sure what to do next. Is re-installing the operating system the next step? Will I lose data if I do this?
Thanks
Furio
philippe99 - Sep 20, 2005 - 12:45 pm
Furio, here is the link which explain how to uninstall iTunes and re-install it
http://discussions.info.apple.com/we...sL.6@.68b80b69
This one explains some advices about rollback to 4.9
http://discussions.info.apple.com/we...sL.7@.68b913e9
Well, in clear, re-install the OS is the secure way.
"Archive&Install" allows to keep your Documents, ... in place -well, a good backup is important-
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.h...tnum=107120-en
I've heart a lot of complaints about 5.0. that
* I'm quite sure that a 5.01 patch must arrive soon.
http://news.com.com/iTunes+upgrade+h...3637&subj=news
* you understand why, since years, either on my macs, my Dells or my Linux machines, I ALWAYS disable the automatic software and why I wait -sometimes months- before applying an update...and why I'll do, it is always through combos.
Reinstalling vs waiting ;-) ?
----------------------
Safari ??? -> you can temporarly use FireFox
Mail ??? -> you can temporarly use Thunderbird (or the Webmail access your provider gives you)
DU ??? -> Macjanitor + Onyx helps you to live with DU for a moment
iCal ??? -> -no idea for this one-
Regards
Philippe
http://discussions.info.apple.com/we...sL.6@.68b80b69
This one explains some advices about rollback to 4.9
http://discussions.info.apple.com/we...sL.7@.68b913e9
Well, in clear, re-install the OS is the secure way.
"Archive&Install" allows to keep your Documents, ... in place -well, a good backup is important-
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.h...tnum=107120-en
I've heart a lot of complaints about 5.0. that
* I'm quite sure that a 5.01 patch must arrive soon.
http://news.com.com/iTunes+upgrade+h...3637&subj=news
* you understand why, since years, either on my macs, my Dells or my Linux machines, I ALWAYS disable the automatic software and why I wait -sometimes months- before applying an update...and why I'll do, it is always through combos.
Reinstalling vs waiting ;-) ?
----------------------
Safari ??? -> you can temporarly use FireFox
Mail ??? -> you can temporarly use Thunderbird (or the Webmail access your provider gives you)
DU ??? -> Macjanitor + Onyx helps you to live with DU for a moment
iCal ??? -> -no idea for this one-
Regards
Philippe
philippe99 - Sep 21, 2005 - 2:12 am
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