Hi all,
3 months ago I became the proud owner of a brand new 12" G4 powerbook.
Now the proud owner has turned into weary user. A few weeks ago my powerbook started getting slow. The beachball started thriving on my desktop. Each time I shut down, the boot time kept getting longer. Even menial tasks like opening a finder window and browsing through the hard disk started making the beachball spin. Eventually the boot time became over an hour.
running top revealed that the fix-bindings
process kept running. I logged into single user mode and ran the update_prebinding
command. Updation failed for over 30 applications with the error message that the application has to be relinked.
So I decided to backup my data and reinstall the OS. Since I only had a Panther upgrade disk, I first installed Jaguar. This worked fine. Boot time was only around 90 sec. Then I did a clean install of 10.3. This also seemed to work fine. Then I used software update to install 10.3.2 and other available updates.. This seems to have screwed up my system again. Boot time is over 10 min and the beachball is back!
I also booted into open firmware
and used the following commands
>>reset-nvram
>>reset-all
to reset the power management unit.
A verbose login screen had the following fishy messages
1. Coul'nt find IOPlatformMonitor
2. AppleRS232Serial::start-returning false early ; connector or machine incorrect
3.mDNSplatformSendUDP sendto failed to send packet on InterfaceID 01806200 LO/4 to 224.0.0.251:5333
slot4 error -1 errno65 (no route to host)
Messg 3 was repeated multiple times..
This was causing the long boot time.
Even after the verbose boot , the blue apple screen was on for around 3-4 min before the desktop popped up
The boot time is now not increasing on shutdown (const around 12 min) and all the bindings appear to be ok now.
But the applications take a long time to launch and the beachball has made itself comfortable on my desktop
Please advise.
Thanks
3 months ago I became the proud owner of a brand new 12" G4 powerbook.
Now the proud owner has turned into weary user. A few weeks ago my powerbook started getting slow. The beachball started thriving on my desktop. Each time I shut down, the boot time kept getting longer. Even menial tasks like opening a finder window and browsing through the hard disk started making the beachball spin. Eventually the boot time became over an hour.
running top revealed that the fix-bindings
process kept running. I logged into single user mode and ran the update_prebinding
command. Updation failed for over 30 applications with the error message that the application has to be relinked.
So I decided to backup my data and reinstall the OS. Since I only had a Panther upgrade disk, I first installed Jaguar. This worked fine. Boot time was only around 90 sec. Then I did a clean install of 10.3. This also seemed to work fine. Then I used software update to install 10.3.2 and other available updates.. This seems to have screwed up my system again. Boot time is over 10 min and the beachball is back!
I also booted into open firmware
and used the following commands
>>reset-nvram
>>reset-all
to reset the power management unit.
A verbose login screen had the following fishy messages
1. Coul'nt find IOPlatformMonitor
2. AppleRS232Serial::start-returning false early ; connector or machine incorrect
3.mDNSplatformSendUDP sendto failed to send packet on InterfaceID 01806200 LO/4 to 224.0.0.251:5333
slot4 error -1 errno65 (no route to host)
Messg 3 was repeated multiple times..
This was causing the long boot time.
Even after the verbose boot , the blue apple screen was on for around 3-4 min before the desktop popped up
The boot time is now not increasing on shutdown (const around 12 min) and all the bindings appear to be ok now.
But the applications take a long time to launch and the beachball has made itself comfortable on my desktop
Please advise.
Thanks