Hosed, I say
October 18th, 2004
Well, that’s it—my iMac’s 10.2 installation is now well and truly
hosed. For the last week the Finder has been suffering random crashes
deep in system code, in functions like
ALI_GetAliasDataFromAliasPtr and
LSBundleFindWithNode. Now I can’t even log in (the Finder
crashes too soon), although Erin’s account still works.
Not sure what happened—Disk First Aid reports all clear on the
disk; memory checks out too. I guess it’s time to comb through and
back up some 20 GB of files (shh!) and do a full erase-n-install.
All in all, several hours I don’t have. Whee! (On the plus side,
my PowerBook is still running like a dream.)