found drama

UPDATE on yesterday’s post. The compiled notes:

• …not sure how it started but: published a poster-size thumbnail set to PDF – – and iPhoto went “pinwheel” – – and then when I tried to Cmd+Option+Esc my way out of it, Finder pinwheeled as well; Malkovich went totally unresponsive so I did a hard reboot w/ the power switch
• Malkovich wouldn’t come back up (hung on the grey Apple screen)
• tried to Cmd+S into Single-User Mode but it wouldn’t go (hung on grey Apple screen)
• unplugged all the peripherals (stripped it down to the white factory keyboard and mouse)
• still wouldn’t boot (hung on grey Apple screen)
• Cmd+S’d into SU mode but the keyboard went unresponsive (couldn’t enter text)
• dropped the install X.4 install DVD into the drive and rebooted+C off the DVD
• ran Disk Utility > Repair Permissions; got stick w/ the progress bar approx. 75% of the way through
• reboot+C off the DVD
• ran Disk Utility > Repair Disk; failed (said something about “the underlying task failed” after three tries)
• ran Disk Utility > Repair Disk; failed (said something about “the underlying task failed”)
• ran Disk Utility > Repair Disk; claimed success
• told it to reboot off the HD volume but it hung (again) on the grey Apple screen
• reboot+C off the DVD
• Disk Utility > Verify Disk; claimed to all look OK
• reboot off the HD into Single User mode
• # fsck -fy (said everything came out OK)
• reboot off the HD volume (hung on the grey Apple screen for about an hour)
• re-installed w/ Archive & Install option
• OS X reinstall worked (but shouldn’t have had to resort to that!)

FALLOUT

• minor: lost User Account login pictures
• major: lost MySQL install & all DBs
• moderate: lost Tomcat install
• minor: PHP had to be re-enabled
• major: iTunes Library got corrupt? lost?
  • the Library file was still there and the music was all still in Shared
  • …but iTunes didn’t see any of it…
  • …copied the Library file over from another user account but lost some playcounts etc.
• moderate: had to reinstall Xcode tools
• minor: had to reinstall iTunes Applescripts
• moderate: had to reinstall iTunes visualizer plug-ins

SIGHS OF RELIEF…

• all user account data were still intact
• did NOT need to re-install all my apps
• did NOT need to re-install fink

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