whoops, I killed the GUI

[vincentmeanie]

so I just successfully put a new harddrive into my ibook 600, spent late hours last night reinstalling the OS and core apps,

in my leasure I brought it in to work today to bring over all my items from my old home dir, to the freshly loaded one, ( cause I had copyed them to a firewire drive)

well there was a problem doing a direct copy apparently because when I rebooted, I get a background image, and a mouse cursor, but nothing else, no dock, no topbar, nothing...

so heres the issue, I dont want to wait till I get home and spend another three hours doing a jag reinstall....

if I boot into console mode, can I delete my directory manually and have the OS repopulate a default one? or can I remove my account from the console and recreate it?

I guess the question is, if I make changes to the core OS will it get picked up by the stupid top layer gui and make it happy?

 

[zarathustra]

Re: whoops, I killed the GUI

Originally posted by vincentmeanie
so I just successfully put a new harddrive into my ibook 600, spent late hours last night reinstalling the OS and core apps,

in my leasure I brought it in to work today to bring over all my items from my old home dir, to the freshly loaded one, ( cause I had copyed them to a firewire drive)

well there was a problem doing a direct copy apparently because when I rebooted, I get a background image, and a mouse cursor, but nothing else, no dock, no topbar, nothing...

so heres the issue, I dont want to wait till I get home and spend another three hours doing a jag reinstall....

if I boot into console mode, can I delete my directory manually and have the OS repopulate a default one? or can I remove my account from the console and recreate it?

I guess the question is, if I make changes to the core OS will it get picked up by the stupid top layer gui and make it happy?

I guess you just overwrote the new home directory with the old one...

There is a default "template" that you could copy over from:

~/System/Library/User Template/English.lproj

Inside this folder you can find all the default files and folders. When it's copied over to the ~/Users folder, just rename English.lproj to your old user name (short).

On my unofficial accuracy grading scale this gets 3 bananas on a 5 banana scale.

 

[vincentmeanie]

sweet, the answer I needed, now how do I force it to boot into console? I keep trying the (apple) C on boot, but it goes and boots into the messed up profile anyway

this would be a good spot to post a bunch of know boot options

I know (apple) T is target disk mode

 

[zarathustra]

Apple-C is : boot from CD <-- not what you need

Apple-S : boot single user (console)

First run a fsck -y on the hard drive, then you need to mount the volume. It wil actually tell you what to type in as it goes through the text based boot process.

Good luck

 

[Rower_CPU]

If your login window is configured to show the username and password fields type ">console" (without the quotes) as the user and leave the password blank. This gets you into console mode.

Small correction, zarathustra, single user mode (Command + S on boot) and console mode (described above) are two different things.

 

[zarathustra]

Originally posted by Rower_CPU
Small correction, zarathustra, single user mode (Command + S on boot) and console mode (described above) are two different things.

Well aware of it, I only put it in parenthesis, because that's the wording vincentmeanie uses. I wanted to avoid confusion, but it seems there is always somebody stirring the waters....

 

[Rower_CPU]

Originally posted by zarathustra
Well aware of it, I only put it in parenthesis, because that's the wording vincentmeanie uses. I wanted to avoid confusion, but it seems there is always somebody stirring the waters....

Sorry, I'm just a stickler for details.

 

[vincentmeanie]

got it, the files went to /users/ first, which was a mistake, they needed to be in my subdir, but it all came out in the end.

much easier than a reload of the os

I did clean up by creating other account and using root access to delete pesky files.....

I couldnt have done it without the info about the template file


I am surprised, no one cared I pulled off a HDD replacement on a ibook 600

 

[vniow]

Originally posted by vincentmeanie


I am surprised, no one cared I pulled off a HDD replacement on a ibook 600

I put a 40GB 5400rpm IBM in my clamshell and noone cared either.

 

[zarathustra]

Good job, congrats, yippeee - you guys (gals) rock for upgrading your hard-drives!!

There, better?