[OT] Random Errors
[OT] Random Errors
- Subject: [OT] Random Errors
- From: Ken Mankoff <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2004 14:24:47 -0500 (EST)
Hi Group,
I'm pretty sure this is off-topic, but I don't know where else to
post. Anyway, 90% of my work is through the X11 interface, so thats
where I noticed this problem. And I sense it is a low level
filesystem problem, and this group might have some expertise in that
area.
It looks like my system has either been cracked (I think no), some
sort of random hardware failure (possible, but very hard to
diagnose) or something else (maybe/hopefully).
The symptoms are this: My scp/sftp commands stopped working. ssh
continued to work.
% ssh -V
OpenSSH_3.6.1p1+CAN-2004-0175, SSH protocols 1.5/2.0, OpenSSL 0x0090702f
I looked at /usr/bin/ and there were a bunch of files of size 0, scp
and sftp included. I figured I would try to run software update to
see if it would do anything, and nothing happened... From the xterm,
I get this:
% softwareupdate
dyld: softwareupdate truncated or malformed library:
/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/SoftwareUpdate.framework/Versions/A/SoftwareUpdate
(file is empty) Trace/BPT trap
Also, some xterm commands don't work. 'xterm' does, but 'xterm -font
10x20' does not (and it did yesterday).
sftp modified makes me think 'crack', but missing font resources
makes me think hardware. It makes sense I discovered it through ssh
because the ssh suite is one of my frequently used commands.
So I manually downloaded and re-installed the 10.3.6 update (which I
did automatically last week) and it brought sftp/scp back to life.
But there are still some 0 length files in /usr/bin (like cvs), and
softwareupdate still does not run at all.
I did an 'fsck -fy' in single user mode and nothing changed. I have
run verify & repair disk permissions in DiskUtility. Not
surprisingly, that didn't restore any files, it simply changed their
permissions. I also booted to a rescue CD and ran the apple GUI
version of fsck (Disk Repair Utility)
reset RAM/PRAM (CMD+OPT+P+R), and boot to firmware w/ a
'reset-nvram; reset-all' didn't do anything.
I think _maybe_ the latest software update did this somehow. Or at
least it turned up around then. File mods in /usr/bin are 6 Nov.
Maybe it was a fink update? Doubt it. Maybe some sort of conflict
with a 3rd party software/kernel extension? Re-booting with no exts
loaded (kext | grep -v apple) didnt' help.
Searching for the above softwareupdate error brought only 1 hit, a
Sept 14 2004 post in Italian:
http://www.macity.it/forum1/messages/4163/295166.shtml?1095951196
While I don't speak Italian, I am not happy about this:
Brutta... una libreria di sistema devastata, devi reinstallarla
dal CD.
All I can think of is a) re-seat the ram or 2) bring it to the apple
store or 3) find a more appropriate forum.
Any thoughts?
-k.
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