Finder doesn't start

[roocker]

I really need your help!

System:
Macbook Pro 1Gen, 2GB Ram
Issue:
When booting, after Login, finder is continously starting and quitting, never showing any desktop icons or sth. like that.
What i've done
Issue appeared after installing new Safari Update. -> deleted hdd, overwritten with nulls -> recovered with time machine backup (i had serveral some small other issues, and thought it would be a good idea) (Tried two different backups, one even 2 months old, when this issue surely doesn't came up, but had the same problem)

• repaired permissions, repaired hdd without problems from leo dvd
• booting in safe mode, single user mode, verbose mode doesn't help, same problem;
• deleting the com.apple.finder.plist file doesn't solve the problem.

system log terminal

Daisy:~ flo$ tail -f /var/log/system.log
Nov 29 20:37:26 Daisy kernel[0]: CODE SIGNING: cs_invalid_page: p=836[Finder] clearing CS_VALID
Nov 29 20:37:26 Daisy kernel[0]: CODE SIGNING: cs_invalid_page: p=837[ReportCrash] clearing CS_VALID
Nov 29 20:37:28 Daisy ReportCrash[837]: Formulating crash report for process Finder[836]
Nov 29 20:37:29 Daisy ReportCrash[837]: Saved crashreport to /Users/flo/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/Finder_2008-11-29-203725_Daisy.crash using uid: 501 gid: 20, euid: 501 egid: 20
Nov 29 20:37:29 Daisy com.apple.launchd[372] ([0x0-0xda0da].com.apple.finder[836]): Exited abnormally: Segmentation fault
Nov 29 20:37:35 Daisy kernel[0]: CODE SIGNING: cs_invalid_page: p=838[Finder] clearing CS_VALID
Nov 29 20:37:37 Daisy ReportCrash[837]: Formulating crash report for process Finder[838]
Nov 29 20:37:38 Daisy ReportCrash[837]: Saved crashreport to /Users/flo/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/Finder_2008-11-29-203734_Daisy.crash using uid: 501 gid: 20, euid: 501 egid: 20
Nov 29 20:37:38 Daisy com.apple.launchd[372] ([0x0-0xdb0db].com.apple.finder[838]): Exited abnormally: Segmentation fault
Nov 29 20:37:39 Daisy login[839]: USER_PROCESS: 839 ttys000
Nov 29 20:37:44 Daisy kernel[0]: CODE SIGNING: cs_invalid_page: p=850[Finder] clearing CS_VALID
Nov 29 20:37:44 Daisy kernel[0]: CODE SIGNING: cs_invalid_page: p=851[ReportCrash] clearing CS_VALID
Nov 29 20:37:46 Daisy ReportCrash[851]: Formulating crash report for process Finder[850]
Nov 29 20:37:47 Daisy ReportCrash[851]: Saved crashreport to /Users/flo/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/Finder_2008-11-29-203743_Daisy.crash using uid: 501 gid: 20, euid: 501 egid: 20
Nov 29 20:37:47 Daisy com.apple.launchd[372] ([0x0-0xdc0dc].com.apple.finder[850]): Exited abnormally: Segmentation fault
^C

a crash log:

Process:         Finder [838]
Path:            /System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app/Contents/MacOS/Finder
Identifier:      com.apple.finder
Version:         ??? (???)
Build Info:      Finder_FE-6071900~15
Code Type:       X86 (Native)
Parent Process:  launchd [372]

Date/Time:       2008-11-29 20:37:34.714 +0100
OS Version:      Mac OS X 10.5.5 (9F33)
Report Version:  6

Exception Type:  EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV)
Exception Codes: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at 0x0000000064bc64b0
Crashed Thread:  0

Thread 0 Crashed:
0   dyld                                0x8fe21e40 strlen + 16
1   dyld                                0x8fe1ef99 _simple_vesprintf + 49
2   dyld                                0x8fe1efc9 _simple_vsprintf + 39
3   dyld                                0x8fe019b8 dyld::throwf(char const*, ...) + 56
4   dyld                                0x8fe13892 ImageLoaderMachO::resolveUndefined(ImageLoader::LinkContext const&, macho_nlist const*, bool, ImageLoader const**) + 1170
5   dyld                                0x8fe16c54 ImageLoaderMachO::doBindExternalRelocations(ImageLoader::LinkContext const&, bool) + 356
6   dyld                                0x8fe181c4 ImageLoaderMachO::doBind(ImageLoader::LinkContext const&, bool) + 196
7   dyld                                0x8fe0d3d0 ImageLoader::recursiveBind(ImageLoader::LinkContext const&, bool) + 112
8   dyld                                0x8fe1056e ImageLoader::link(ImageLoader::LinkContext const&, bool, bool, ImageLoader::RPathChain const&) + 238
9   dyld                                0x8fe051ae dyld::link(ImageLoader*, bool, ImageLoader::RPathChain const&) + 158
10  dyld                                0x8fe07a5c dyld::_main(mach_header const*, unsigned long, int, char const**, char const**, char const**) + 2716
11  dyld                                0x8fe01872 dyldbootstrap::start(mach_header const*, int, char const**, long) + 818
12  dyld                                0x8fe01037 _dyld_start + 39

Thread 0 crashed with X86 Thread State (32-bit):
  eax: 0xffffffff  ebx: 0x8fe1e8ba  ecx: 0x64bc64b1  edx: 0x64bc64b0
  edi: 0x00000000  esi: 0x00000000  ebp: 0xbfffe2b8  esp: 0xbfffe24c
   ss: 0x0000001f  efl: 0x00010286  eip: 0x8fe21e40   cs: 0x00000017
   ds: 0x0000001f   es: 0x0000001f   fs: 0x00000000   gs: 0x00000037
  cr2: 0x64bc64b0

Binary Images:
    0x1000 -   0x40dfeb  com.apple.finder 10.5.6 (10.5.6) <2b3f5dd5a6a0cc001c9d5680c6ee66e9> /System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app/Contents/MacOS/Finder
  0x4e5000 -   0x4f0fff  com.apple.Collaboration 26 (26) /System/Library/Frameworks/Collaboration.framework/Versions/A/Collaboration
0x8fe00000 - 0x8fe2da53  dyld 96.2 (???) <7af47d3b00b2268947563c7fa8c59a07> /usr/lib/dyld
0x90003000 - 0x90013ffc  com.apple.LangAnalysis 1.6.4 (1.6.4) <8b7831b5f74a950a56cf2d22a2d436f6> /System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/LangAnalysis.framework/Versions/A/LangAnalysis
0x90028000 - 0x90035fe7  com.apple.opengl 1.5.7 (1.5.7) <db835aeb1ffca9f5b5647dd0829a5b2c> /System/Library/Frameworks/OpenGL.framework/Versions/A/OpenGL
0x90036000 - 0x90061fe7  libauto.dylib ??? (???) <42d8422dc23a18071869fdf7b5d8fab5> /usr/lib/libauto.dylib
0x90062000 - 0x90194fff  com.apple.CoreFoundation 6.5.4 (476.15) <e2869ad6dc1dd289f21b305b0bea9158> /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreFoundation.framework/Versions/A/CoreFoundation
"~/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/Finder_2008-11-29-203734_Daisy.crash" 168L, 23787C

I just don't know what to do now, i really need my macbook for studying, please help!

 

[BittenApple]

Have you tried reinstalling OS X from anything else than the TM image?

 

[roocker]

no not yet. I want to avoid this step. My Time Machine Backup worked fine serveral times before.

Ram should be ok, tried with 3 different. HDD seems to be fine, put it into an external case and checked it with another macbook, runs perfectly fine and fast.

 

[BittenApple]

You'll eventually may need to do this. I'm pretty sure you can also reinstall OS X and then just use your Time Machine Backup to restore it to your mac.

Also have you installed anything lately that would cause this?

 

[roocker]

Ain't it the same if i reinstall leopard and than do the time machine backup, and just restoring via tm backup?

I'm not sure, but i really don't think that i have installed anything lately.
What I think is strange, and which, in my opinion only could be caused by an hardware error is that i really wiped my hdd, and restored with a backup one month old, when i didn't had that problem. That really sounds wierd to me...

no other ideas? Then i'm trying the reinstall.