RyanB

I am getting a black screen at startup with a message:
Darwin/BSD (G-5s-computer.local) (console)
login:

everything was fine, but I kept getting font conflicts between a font in my system folder and fonts I was loading in suitcase, so I deleated all the fonts in the system (which I thought may not be a good idea, but did it anyway) then I re-started and this is what I got the balck screen with (what looks like) unix code.

Help would be great! Thanks!
RyanB [img]tongue.gif[/img]

[ August 05, 2004, 10:37 PM: Message edited by: RyanB ]

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RyanB

Oh yeah, it is a G-5 1.6 gig, 1gig ram, running 10.3.2

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RyanB

Oh yeah, it is a G-5 1.6 gig, 1gig ram, running 10.3.2

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RyanB

Does anyone have any info/ideas on this?
I am really desparate to get back to work!
Thanks [img]smile.gif[/img]

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RicktheChemist

Did you check with Extensis about the conflict?

http://www.extensis.com/en/support/product_support.jsp?_dyncharset=ISO-8859-1&id=300005&x=21&y=8&%2Fextensis%2Fcontent%2Fknowl edgebase%2FKBSearchFormHandler.search=Search&_D%3A %2Fe xtensis%2Fcontent%2Fknowledgebase%2FKBSearchFormHa ndler.search=+&_DARGS=%2Fcommon%2Fsupport%2Findex. jsp

Perhaps they had a solution to the problem...

Cheers,

RtC

P.S. Just trying to help [img]tongue.gif[/img]

dthompson101

You have gotten a shell login. You can try to login with your username and password and then type logout and see if it brings you to the Mac OS X GUI login window.

This usually only happens when you had made some changes to the system folder Fonts folder. In fact, I would go so far as to say that removing system fonts from the /System/Library/Fonts folder will stop most applications from working properly.

You need to get the fonts that you have removed from your system folder back into the system folder on OS X.

If you are running 10.3, then you can disable the fonts in the system folder through font manager located in /Applications

See these links here: FONTS, FONTS2

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RyanB

Thanks Folks,
I followed RtC's advice (before I got Davids) and re-instaled OSX (without reformating) and things seem to be back to normal
I am updating to SuitcaseX1 hopefully it will be beter able to diagnose and manage conflicts.

Ryan

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RicktheChemist

Cool.. good stuff.. I will also read those links posted.

Cheers,

RtC

RicktheChemist

Well.. interesting.. I've never heard of this one before..

So, you're not Kerneling at startup but you've modified your system folder? I would recommend re-installing the system WITHOUT re-initializing the disk.. can anyone second this?

If that does not work, you'd have to clean install the system to get you back up and running...

And oh.. don't mess with the system folder...

Cheers,

RtC