Hi,
I fired up my Turbo Mono Slab after some time but I will not fully boot. It is stuck while building the initial desktop. Sometimes it shows a beachball then, sometimes no mouse cursor at all. Some icons are shown when it freezes.
I booted into single-user mode and found console.log in /tmp. It says:
TimeMon[182]: An uncaught exception was raised
TimeMon[182]: DPS client library error: Connection closed unexpectedly DPSContext b0c28, data 0
TimeMon[182]: Exiting due to Window Server death
So I guess the display postscript server hangs or crashes which is why display output freezes.
Any idea what I can do to reset this situation and let the machine boot fully again? Maybe I have to reset some config file?
Ok, it turned out that this was probably due to bad RAM.
Unfortunately my repeated tries, boot-ups and fsck's left the system on the disk in a corrupted state. These old filesystems are really fragile.
Hello Bobo : This might work but it sounds like it may have gone to far .... if you need to recover anything
from the drive
You can try a surrogate disk ..... as the boot drive NeXTSTEP installed scsi2sd will work as well, jumper
the drive in trouble higher than the boot drive with any luck it mounts
it and lets you login from the main drive , from here you can try and repair it.
Don't initialize as it will say it is damaged , choose repair , open console
app to see what is happeneing in the back ground ..... if repair works drive will appear
Copy the stuff you need onto a surrogate drive....
You can then do a build disk to rebuild the trouble drive and copy stuff from new boot drive to repaired fresh installed drive
This command replaces the corrupted netinfo stuff...
mv /etc/netinfo /etc/netinf.old
cp -r /usr/template/client/etc/netinfo /etc/netinfo
and reboot
Best Regards Rob