Mystery Mess, Take a look

[leew16]

I rebotted the other night and was forced through the "Setup Assistant". I wound up lossing most of my configurations. and my root directory now looks like this!

total 32412
-rw-rw-rw- 1 root admin 6148 Jan 23 00:54 .DS_Stored
-wx-wx-wx 2 root admin 1024 Jan 5 23:10 .Trashes
-rw-r--r-- 1 root admin 82 Jan 22 17:59 ._.DS_Store
-rw-r--r-- 1 root admin 82 Jan 22 17:59 ._.hidden
-rwx---rwx 1 root admin 82 Jan 22 17:59 ._Network Trash Folder
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root admin 82 Jan 22 17:59
._TheVolumeSettingsFolder
-rw-r--r-- 1 root admin 82 Jan 22 17:59 ._etc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root admin 82 Jan 22 17:59 ._mach
-rw-r--r-- 1 root admin 82 Jan 22 17:59 ._mach.sym
-rw-r--r-- 1 root admin 82 Jan 22 17:59 ._mach_kernel
-rw-r--r-- 1 root admin 317440 Jan 23 01:11 .boxless-video
-r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 152 Sep 2 16:53 .hiddend
r--r--r-- 2 root wheel 96 Jan 22 22:30 .vol
drwxrwxr-x 29 root admin 2048 Jan 22 17:59 Applications
drwxrwxr-x 11 root admin 1024 Jan 6 22:48 Developer
-rw------- 1 root admin 11564 Jan 23 01:13 IntlDataCache.0
-rw------- 1 leewalt2 admin 11564 Jan 23 00:38 IntlDataCache.501
-rw------- 1 root admin 19720 Jan 23 01:13 IntlDataCache.sbdl.0
-rw------- 1 leewalt2 admin 19720 Jan 23 00:38 IntlDataCache.sbdl.501
-rw------- 1 root admin 6363236 Jan 23 01:13 IntlDataCache.tecx.0
-rw------- 1 leewalt2 admin 6363236 Jan 23 00:38 IntlDataCache.tecx.501
drwxrwxr-x 26 root admin 1024 Jan 20 15:48 Library
drwxr-xr-x 6 root wheel 1024 Jan 23 00:54 Network
drwx---rwx 2 root nobody 1024 Jan 22 18:12 Network Trash Folder
drwxr-xr-x 4 root wheel 1024 Oct 23 04:38 System
drwxrwxrwx 2 root nobody 1024 Jan 22 17:59
TheVolumeSettingsFolderd
rwxr-xr-x 8 root wheel 1024 Jan 23 00:54 Users
drwxrwxrwt 3 root wheel 1024 Jan 23 00:24 Volumes
drwxr-xr-x 2 root admin 1024 Jan 6 09:26 automount
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 1024 Jan 6 19:30 bin
-rw------- 1 root admin 1774 Jan 23 01:11 console.log
lrwxrwxr-t 1 root admin 0 Jan 23 01:14 cores ->
drwx------ 5 root admin 1024 Jan 23 00:29 db
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Jan 22 22:30 dev
lrwxrwxr-t 1 root admin 11 Jan 23 01:14 etc -> private/etc
lrwxrwxr-t 1 root admin 9 Jan 23 01:14 mach -> /mach.sym
-r--r--r-- 1 root admin 563484 Jan 23 00:23 mach.sym
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 3152156 Dec 8 00:40 mach_kernel
drwxr-xr-x 7 root wheel 1024 Jan 23 00:24 private
drwx------ 5 root admin 1024 Jan 23 01:01 root
-rw-r--r-- 1 root admin 0 Jan 23 01:14 root.txt
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 2048 Jan 6 19:32 sbin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root admin 58 Jan 23 00:31 sleep.out
lrwxrwxr-t 1 root admin 0 Jan 23 01:14 tmp ->
drwxr-xr-x 10 root wheel 1024 Sep 2 16:55 usr
lrwxrwxr-t 1 root admin 0 Jan 23 01:14 var ->

notice that the sym links point no where. Anyone experienced anything like this ???

[griffman]

What happens if you try to boot in single-user mode (command-S at startup) and then run disk check (fsck -y, I think, but the instructions are there on the screen in single-user mode)?

-rob.

[leew16]

Quote: Originally posted by griffman What happens if you try to boot in single-user mode (command-S at startup) and then run disk check (fsck -y, I think, but the instructions are there on the screen in single-user mode)? -rob.

Thanks Rob.

I tried booting into single-user mode (Command-S at re-boot) and was successful at fsck then mount. The first time this mess happened I hosed the hard drive. Last night I carefully removed the sym-links and recreated a couple of sym-links. Then removed some of the IntlDataCache.* files. Rebooted into my old system. I still can't understand what triggers the setup assistant to re-run. (???) I'd like to get to the bottom of this but Apple hasn't helped yet so I remain in the dark.

Walt