Help! Deleted *windowserver* files by mistake can't boot!

The paths (for my three) are:

/Library/Preferences/com.apple.windowserver.plist

and (x2):

/Users/myName/Library/Preferences/ByHost/com.apple.windowserver.(hexadecimal Nº).plist

So you would need:


mv /Users/myName/.Trash/fileName


followed by a space, the destination path, and return

x 3

myName is your short name. Forgive me if you knew all that and only needed the paths.

This must be related to something else, because trashing the windowserver.plist files will only lead to new files with default settings after a restart.

Either you have trashed/moved other files, or, an other unrelated error has happend.

If you think, you have trashed more then those plists, boot from your installation CD and reinstall the OS.
Nothing should be changed by this procedure. All missing files will be replaced.

If you are able to get into single user mode with CMD-S,
try a:
<pre>
tail -n 1000 /var/log/system.log | more
</pre>

that will print the last 1000 lines of the system-log to the terminal.
maybe you then find a reason for the problem.

From those two lines, it is difficult to make a guess:
The first line, I have no Idea,
The third line probably means you had forced the shutdown of the system by pulling the plug/holding the power button.

The second line looks like the windowserver it not running.
If this is, because you maybe trashed/moved a file by accident, and you cannot locate the reason, a reinstall should fix it.