A collection of articles, ideas, and rambling from a guy who wrote some software that one time.

Sunday, July 25, 2004

where flap the tatters of the symlink

As soon as I got to New York, my sister's laptop immediately died. Why is it that wherever I go, problems follow me?

Has anyone ever had /etc spontaneously disappear, on a mac? /private/etc stayed in-tact, but /etc disappeared. It seems something else has gone wrong too, since at the phase of boot where you're supposed to see a big grey apple, instead we see a big grey universal "No" sign. (Circle with a slash through it.)

reflect, repent, reinstall

4 comments:

deeptape said...

That's new to me. /etc/ is just a sym-link to /private/etc on my system, tho...

J

deeptape said...

Also, can you log in with single-user mode?

glyf said...

Couln't even boot, so that was sort of a non-issue.

An "archive and reinstall" seems to have fixed it with no loss of system services.

glyf said...

Yeah. /etc just vanished. /private/etc didn't, for some reason. I am confused.