10.4.2 won't boot

[PhoneNewbie]

Hi,

When I boot my G5 running 10.4.2, it starts booting, flashes for a second the Mac screen that normally shows the status bar of things loading, and then goes to the blue background with my mouse pointer and stops.

I booted to the install DVD and checked the disk/permissions and all appear to be good. any thoughts on what might be causing the problem? Only recent change was the installation of suitcase 10. Thanks!

Stu

 

[nrb501]

Sounds like something is causing a hang on startup - try booting in safe mode and remove the last software to be installed (use the programs uninstaller if you can)

Instructions on Tiger's safe mode here

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107392

 

[nrb501]

And

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107393

 

[PhoneNewbie]

So I've tried safe mode to no avail...hangs at same place. I can boot into Single User mode command line and that's fine but when I run the command to boot into graphical single user, I get the following errors:

cupsd's bootstrap server port not found (five times)

in_delmulti - ignoring invalid inm

/system/library/frameworks/applicationServices.framework/Frameworks/ATS.framework/Support/ATSServer: (-43) Failures everywhere, trying one last time, switching to old FODB cache code

And hang...

In single user mode, I don't see anything under /library/startupitems. Any thoughts? Thanks!

Stu

 

[ObviousTroll]

How did you upgrade to 10.4? It sounds like the install is damaged.

You might need to get your data off the drive and re-install 10.4.