[Macpartners] OS X Finder hanging proble

[John C. Welch]

On 10/7/04 5:40 PM, "Kerem B Limon" <k_limon at MIT.EDU> wrote:

> PS: BTW, this is one of the greatest shortcomings Apple refuses to fix (next
> to
> the single button mouse), thanks to the 'it's a black box, don't let the user
> know what's going on inside' philosophy. A $0.02 hard drive access LED would
> help indicate whether there is hard disk activity at the time this happens and
> whether it's continuing to get stuck on a corrupt sector or the like.

And what is that going to tell you?

That the arm is moving?

That it's reading?

That it's writing?

It's a *nix box, you're going to have nigh - constant drive "activity". Swap
files, etc. And, at login, it is normal for there to be a lot of disk
activity *anyway*

Now, as to the *problem*....

Janet...did you run fsck -fy, or just fsck -f? The difference is important.

Second...did you actually run diskwarrior on this machine by booting from a
CD? An aborted install can cause a lot of disk structure problems.

The fact that it happens with new users indicates it's completely out of the
/Users realm.

I would run a current version of Diskwarrior (at least 3.0, most current is
3.0.2) on the drive, from the DW CD and see if that does the trick.

john

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