Recover from TM Backup-Computer Hangs!

[Blair230]

I am still troubleshooting this but I would appreciate any suggestions as well. Last night, my 24" C2D imac became unresponsive and had to had a force shut down. When I rebooted, I got the white apple screen for approx 10 mins.

I then booted from the Snow Leopard CD and did a complete restore from my Time machine Backup. The computer did come back but when I tried to open most programs (Safari, Mail, Itunes, iPhoto) they all unexpectedly crashed. When I looked at the crash log it mentioned something about a java webkit being missing?

Finally I got firefox to open. But the computer would hang every 10 seconds and have a spinning beach ball. It would hang for 10-30 seconds then it would just continue that cycle.

I restarted from the CD again, ran Disk Utility and repaired permissions. I tried running from my hard drive and still had the freezing/hanging issue. I then restored my HD from another TM backup (different time). But still had the same issue

I downloaded the combo update 10.6.2 on another machine, tried reinstalling that to no avail.

I currently am restoring yet ANOTHER TM backup from yesterday morning (since I know that was a good boot).
I dont think it is a hard drive issue because I do have a bootcamp partition, and can boot into that with no problems/issues.

I wanted to ask if there were any ideas of what this could be or anything else I could try? I was thinking about redownloading the java updater and seeing if that helped...

Any suggestions would be GREATLY appreciated. Thanks!!!

 

[vansouza]

How does your system behave when you just do an install and do not restore any files? In other words ... before you restore what could be problematic data...

 

[pcs are junk]

this happened to me once. apple said it was a bad backup. do a clean install of snow leopard and pull off ur files from the backup, or use an earlier backup....the one u were using is corrupted. it sucks i know, but u know..what are u gonna do.

 

[KoolStar]

Its possible to restore the TM backup and then use the disk to boot and repair disk permissions. This may fix it.

 

[Blair230]

Thanks to all who replied. I didnt get a chance to post back here. The computer is still not working...tried different backups, and all the Apple Apps Crash. Looking at the crash logs, it notes that there was a problem with webkit file in the frameworks folder. I also restored the entire frameworks folder from TM and still no joy... Tried reinstalling SL from CD and I get Install fail.

I dont know if my HD is going bad or why it is having trouble reading from the DVD...

The weird thing is I have a bootcamp partition on the same drive and it runs fine....

 

[iLog.Genius]

If Windows is working find, that's a pretty strong indication that your hardware is fine. The problem is most likely OS X and something in your backup. Your posts weren't clear but I'd suggest you do a CLEAN install and don't back anything up and then go from there.

 

[Blair230]

Thanks to everyone who responded. Just to clarify, after trying to restore from my TM backup unsuccessfully (tried 4 different restore dates), I did try 3 times unsuccessfully to do a clean install of SL.

Turns out the hard drive was bad. brought it in for service, and got a new HD covered under apple care.

Got the computer back last night, restored from my TM, and works great now.

Thanks again to all!!