I had to hold the power button on my PowerBook g4 with leopard on it and now when I log in, the menu bar won't load and os x just tells me spotlight quit unexpectedly. This keeps happening and I'm having to reinstall the os each time. Can this be resolved?
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[Urgent] had to force shutdown now os x wont boot
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Hold down a Shift key while it is starting up. That boots Safe Mode.
OS X: What is Safe Boot, Safe Mode?
OS X: What is Safe Boot, Safe Mode?
Even then, the menu bar won't load.
Does the Dock load? If so, launch an application - it sounds like Finder itself has become corrupt. (I've had Finder *CRASH* on me a few times, so that I get symptoms similar to yours, but it relaunches fine on reboot. And you can get the menu bar to load by simply launching another app, which allows for a proper shutdown.)