[nflug] Problem With Perl After OS X System Restore

[ptgoodman]

Hi Daniel,

The only times I've had my Macs simply refuse to boot ( once with the 
Classic OS with Power Computing 604e system and once under OS X and a G4 
Power Mac) ), the system disk turned out to be bad. Both systems would 
boot sometimes, sometimes not. The OS X system is extremely robust. I 
know this will be painful, but I would suggest a complete reformatting 
of the system disk, mapping out bad blocks. It may turn out that the 
disk has to many bad blocks allow reformatting. Alternately, you could 
get Norton Ultilities or Alsoft Diskwarrior to check the disk for 
problems. If the hardware test check out, then it's a hardware problem. 
If you can get the Mac to boot at all, before trying the above, you 
might run Disk Utility under Applications/Utilities, checking the 
S.M.A.R.T. Status---that can tell you if the disk is starting to fail. 
Long shot, but desperate time call for desperate measures.

Good luck,

pete


DANIEL MAGNUSZEWSKI wrote:

>All,
>
>Although this is an OS X question, its still a *nix question ;-)
>
>Recently, my Mac decided that it wasn't going to boot up, and wasn't
>getting past the grey apple/spinning gear screen. I called Apple support
>and after a series of random attempts to get it to boot, they advised me
>to do a restore of the OS with the install CD. I was running version
>10.3.9, and my install CD was version 10.3.7. So I did a system restore,
>then upgraded to 10.3.8, then to 10.3.9 and installed the updates. All
>my data and applications were available and running no problem. Last
>night I tried installing some Perl modules, and I got an error saying
>that it could not find the file "perl.h" within the $PERL_LIB/.../CORE/
>directory. The file didn't exist in the directory, but when I did a
>locate for perl.h it said that it was in the /System Restore
>1/$PERL_LIB/.../CORE directory. The file was not in this directory
>either. In addition to this, the system could not find any of my make
>programs.
>
>Has anyone ever run into this problem before, or know why this would
>happen after the system restore? 
>
>Thanks!
>
>-Dan
>
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