what is this error message?
Hi all, I have been having probs with my iBook for a couple of weeks now where it just sits on the grey screen with the spinning gear. I cannont start in safe mode, hardware test reveals no errors, disk utility says that HD and permissions are fine, clearing the PRAM didnt help, I cannot do an archive and install as there is not enough room left on my HD. I can start in single user mode but cannot remove files as super user (su) or by using "chmod" to change the file permssions, "sudo" doesnt work either for "rm <file>" or "rmdir <folder>". Also, i cant login to my user account (login) because it says that user doesnt exist. I have also run "fsck -yf" and "mount -uw" and this doesnt help either.
I just tried to boot into verbose mode and it stopped. here are the previous lines so that you may be able to tell me what is going on:
Creating RAM Disk for syslogd
hdik: IOKit timed out waiting for driver to load: error e0002d6.
hdik: attach fail: error e0002f0
syslogd: cannot create /var/run/syslog: Read-only file system
syslogd: child pid 113 exited with return code 1
Creating RAM Disk for Crashreporter
hdik:IOKit timed out waiting for driver to load: error e0002d6.
Launching Crash Reporter
com.apple.SecurityServer: database /vardb/CodeEquivanceDatabase opened READONLY (R/W failed errno=30)
com.apple.SecurityServer: error writing entropy file /var/db/SystemEntropyCache
com.apple.SecurtiyServer: Entering service
Can anyone tell me what this means? I would like to avoid doing a format and install if possible and the bad thing is i dont know anyone else that owns a mac so that i can direct link them.
Any advice or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
rossco
iBook G4 Mac OS X (10.3.9)
iBook G4 Mac OS X (10.3.9)
iBook G4 Mac OS X (10.3.9)
I just tried to boot into verbose mode and it stopped. here are the previous lines so that you may be able to tell me what is going on:
Creating RAM Disk for syslogd
hdik: IOKit timed out waiting for driver to load: error e0002d6.
hdik: attach fail: error e0002f0
syslogd: cannot create /var/run/syslog: Read-only file system
syslogd: child pid 113 exited with return code 1
Creating RAM Disk for Crashreporter
hdik:IOKit timed out waiting for driver to load: error e0002d6.
Launching Crash Reporter
com.apple.SecurityServer: database /vardb/CodeEquivanceDatabase opened READONLY (R/W failed errno=30)
com.apple.SecurityServer: error writing entropy file /var/db/SystemEntropyCache
com.apple.SecurtiyServer: Entering service
Can anyone tell me what this means? I would like to avoid doing a format and install if possible and the bad thing is i dont know anyone else that owns a mac so that i can direct link them.
Any advice or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
rossco
iBook G4 Mac OS X (10.3.9)
iBook G4 Mac OS X (10.3.9)
iBook G4 Mac OS X (10.3.9)
