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Tom Scola - Jan 18, 2006 5:47:40 am PST #6634 of 10003

Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

I'm shooting in the dark here, but you can try rerunning the software update from the command line:

type "softwareupdate --list" to see if it wants to install anything that seems relevant.

If so, type "softwareupdate --install [name]", where [name] is the thing that showed up in the listing.

Gudanov - Jan 18, 2006 5:47:51 am PST #6635 of 10003

Coding and Sleeping

Apples-Computer: ~apple$

That means you are in what appears to be a bash shell with the current directory being the home directory of a user named 'apple'. That's all I've got.

Jessica - Jan 18, 2006 5:49:56 am PST #6636 of 10003

And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Tom, it says:

Software Update Tool
Copyright 2002-2005 Apple

Does that mean it doesn't want to install anything, or that it wants to reinstall the Software Update Tool?

tommyrot - Jan 18, 2006 5:50:33 am PST #6637 of 10003

Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Apples-Computer: ~apple$

I was tempted to tell you to type

open podbaydoor

but that'd be mean....

Jessica - Jan 18, 2006 5:51:18 am PST #6638 of 10003

And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Wait, it just added more...

Okay, it's listing the XServe Raid Driver, and the Airport.

We don't use either of those things.

[eta:

open podbaydoor

And I'd be tempted to try it, except I'm afraid of what it might do...]

Tom Scola - Jan 18, 2006 5:53:23 am PST #6639 of 10003

Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

What does "uname -v" output?

Jessica - Jan 18, 2006 6:02:40 am PST #6640 of 10003

And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

(Took me a while to copy it down)

Darwin Kernel Version 8.4.0: Jan 3 18:22:10 PST 2006; root:xnu - 792.6.56.obj~1/RELEASE_PPC

Apples-Computer:~apple$ in_delmulti -ignoring invalid imn (0x656e00x0)

NoiseDesign - Jan 18, 2006 6:06:51 am PST #6641 of 10003

Our wings are not tired

You're not actually in Safe Mode. To get safe mode you're supposed to power up the Mac and hold the shift key starting just after your hear the boot chime, then you release it when you see the grey screen with the Apple logo. It should say safe mode on the boot screen after that.

Tom Scola - Jan 18, 2006 6:07:04 am PST #6642 of 10003

Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

Huh. It looks like your computer thinks it installed the update correctly. Obviously, it didn't.

I don't know what to advise at this point, other than to boot the thing in FireWire target mode, back up the disk, and then reinstall the OS.

Jessica - Jan 18, 2006 6:08:31 am PST #6643 of 10003

And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

To get safe mode you're supposed to power up the Mac and hold the shift key starting just after your hear the boot chime, then you release it when you see the grey screen with the Apple logo.

Huh...okay, let me try that. I may have timed it wrong.

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