[nflug] Problem With Perl After OS X System Restore

[Brad Bartram]

One of the very nice things you can do with two macs, is if one mac is
having hard drive problems, you can use a firewire cable to connect it as a
slave drive to another mac.  Using the good mac's operating system, you can
run disk utils on the questionable drive and get a full status report on it.

My mac never ceases to amaze me at the things I can do with it that are not
only possible, but easy.

But I still like linux for a lot of things.  (Had to keep my love for mac
appropriate to the list I'm on)

Brad


On 2/15/06, DANIEL MAGNUSZEWSKI <dmagnuszewski at mandtbank.com> wrote:
>
> 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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