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Broke my computer!?!?
I'm running OSX on an old iMac (g3/233, 160 mb ram, 4 gig hd). Before running the update
I had approx. 500 of free disc space, now both my finder and my terminal are telling that
I don't have any. What the hell? Check it out:
/Users/chris% df Filesystem 512-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/disk0s5 8417312 8417312 0 100% / devfs 59 59 0 100% /dev fdesc 2 2 0 100% /dev <volfs> 1024 1024 0 100% /.vol /dev/disk1 591477 591477 0 100% /Volumes/Audio CD automount -fstab [214] 0 0 0 100% /Network/Servers /Users/chris% [remove some recent installs, such as the Python language] /usr/local% df Filesystem 512-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/disk0s5 8417312 8417312 0 100% / devfs 59 59 0 100% /dev fdesc 2 2 0 100% /dev <volfs> 1024 1024 0 100% /.vol /dev/disk1 591477 591477 0 100% /Volumes/Audio CD automount -fstab [214] 0 0 0 100% /Network/Servers /usr/local% Note that the space doesn't seem like what it should be for a 4 gig drive, and in any event it doesn't change at all after deleting things -- I removed around 20 mb of stuff to see if I could sort things out, but it doesn't seem to have helped. Oh and this is cute. Trying to remember the "human readable" flag for `df`, I try the man page. Here's what I get: /usr/local% man df man: Formatting manual page... grotty::940:fatal error: output error /usr/local% Gah! What does that mean? Don't run this update yet! I'm not sure what's wrong here (the Python install I was running may also be suspect here), but something seems to have hosed my computer. Is anyone else noticing any negative impact of this update or is it (hopefully) just me?
Broke my computer!?!?
Welp, I rebooted and things are ...marginally better. The man pages work again, and I seem to
have reclaimed some (but not all) of my disc space:
11:11:06am :chris% df Filesystem 512-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/disk0s5 8417312 7176080 1241232 85% / devfs 59 59 0 100% /dev fdesc 2 2 0 100% /dev <volfs> 1024 1024 0 100% /.vol /dev/disk1 591477 591477 0 100% /Volumes/Audio CD automount -fstab [214] 0 0 0 100% /Network/Servers 11:11:09am :chris% df -k Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/disk0s5 4208656 3588040 620616 85% / devfs 29 29 0 100% /dev fdesc 1 1 0 100% /dev <volfs> 512 512 0 100% /.vol /dev/disk1 295738 295738 0 100% /Volumes/Audio CD automount -fstab [214] 0 0 0 100% /Network/Servers 11:11:12am :chris% On the other hand, I seem to have lost a lot of my settings. Upon reboot, the dock was filled with all the default install icons that I'd removed (mail, sherlock, display settings docklet, quicktime, help, and over on the right the URL to www.apple.com/macosx & the "late breaking news" help file). Additionally, dock preferences have been forgotten, the "genie" minimize effect is back on, setiathome isn't running, mysql isn't running, apache isn't running... you get the idea. It looks like I'm going to have to reset most of my custom settings. I have no idea why they got trampled in the first place, but I guess that doesn't matter at this point. The finder is now telling me that I've got 600+mb free again (*phew*), and aside from all these glitches, it *does* seem to be running faster. That counts for something, anyway. Still, if anyone else has had any problems related to this update, I'd still love to hear about them. This is driving me nuts...
Broke my computer!?!?
Aaaaaaand now it's doing it again. What the hell? After running for about, oh, four hours
Broke my computer!?!?
A ha! Meant to check `top` before posting that, but forgot. Check this out:
Check out that sixth line, in bold: 609mb of virtual memory, apparently including 160 of
So the next question is, was the increase in ram to blame (an additional 128 mb last week),
Help! Please!
Broke my computer!?!?
you were running another app at the same time? ouch!
Broke my computer!?!?
Hey, OS X is supposed to be modern, right? Protected memory, multitasking, threaded, etc.
Broke my computer!?!?
I was listening to iTunes, surfing in OmniWeb, checking my mail, running the dnetc client in a terminal and converting a divx file to 3ivx under classic. All of this while running software update and installing the update. I have had no problems with my system.
Broke my computer!?!?
i installed it last night too, everything ran fine until i started from 9.1 and boom!! "the Mac HD disk is not readable , do you want to initialise it?" jeez, lucky i had norton to clean it up, around 11 major errors and several dozen minor ones. im still not sure if its smooth. what the hell happened? what if 9.1 had only been on that partition and i didn't have Norton? i'd be up the creek...
Broke my computer!?!? me too
10.0.3 appears to have messed up my Classic system too. No problems until tried to boot from the Classic 9.1 system on my OS X partition - no fonts, no extensions or control panels, when shutdown it warned there was no longer a valid System folder; on rebooting into OS X, the Classic System Preference no longer recognised the system 9 on the OS X partition. Fortunately I keep a separate OS 9 partition (which I try to keep immune from the OS X side, but how I wish OS X wouldn't want to keep launching Classic from that partition every now and then!) |
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