[nflug] Problem With Perl After OS X System Restore

[DANIEL MAGNUSZEWSKI]

There is actually a restore utility on the OS X install disk. From what
I gather (being a relative Mac newbie) is that the restore (which does a
repair of files and file permissions) will wipe out all OS related data
and reinstall *just* the OS. This leaves your data unaffected - for the
most part. All of my applications, data files, desktop, etc, are the
same and untouched. Apparently there are certain things, like the
Developer Tools, header files, and Perl modules, that do get removed -
and there was my problem. I reinstalled the developer tools, and I am
back to normal and able to install all the modules I need.

Thanks for the help.

-Dan

>>> peter at thecybersource.com 02/14/06 9:08 PM >>>
ptgoodman wrote:
> 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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