I ran DiskUtility both to repair disk and permissions. Lots of things supposedly fixed, but still same problem
So after reading on another forum, I tried single user mode & fsck and first time got message Appears OK.
So following other postings I looked at system.log which I'll paste at the end. i'm not sure where to start with this although I see some apparent errors. I should note that 127.0.0.1 works fine from my the working system drive I'm on now. You can see it at KeepTheRubberSideDown.DOT.com/ This is a site for friends, but nothing scandalous there and is actually on a third drive. I had earlier changed out the httpf.conf for the default one figuring it might have been corrupted. Same problem although i didn't check the log then.
From the log I stripped the time and date, and name of computer to save space.
Thanks for any help.
from /var/log/system.log
syslogd: restart
mach_kernel: standard timeslicing quantum is 10000 us
mach_kernel: vm_page_bootstrap: 189401 free pages
mach_kernel: mig_table_max_displ = 64
mach_kernel: [31mC[32mO[33mL[34mO[35mR[0m video console at 0x9c008000 (1280x1024x32)
mach_kernel: IOKit Component Version 6.6:
mach_kernel: Thu May 1 21:45:00 PDT 2003; root(rcbuilder):RELEASE_PPC/iokit/RELEASE
mach_kernel: _cppInit done
mach_kernel: IODeviceTreeSupport done
mach_kernel: Recording startup extensions.
mach_kernel: Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993
mach_kernel: The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
mach_kernel:
mach_kernel: using 1966 buffer headers and 1966 cluster IO buffer headers
mach_kernel: we have cy2213
mach_kernel: USBF: 23. 89 [0x24ef400] USB Generic Hub @ 1 (0x1b)
mach_kernel: USBF: 23. 90 [0x24ef600] USB Generic Hub @ 1 (0x1b)
mach_kernel: USBF: 23. 91 [0x24ef200] USB Generic Hub @ 1 (0x14)
mach_kernel: Local FireWire GUID = 0x393ff:0xfec9e9f4
mach_kernel: USBF: 23.319 [0x24ef000] USB Generic Hub @ 2 (0x1100000)
mach_kernel: devfs enabled
mach_kernel: IOKitBSDInit
mach_kernel: From path: "/pci@f4000000/ata-6@D/@0:2,\mach_kernel", Waiting on <dict ID="0"><key>IOPathMatch</key><string ID="1">IODeviceTree:/pci@f4000000/ata-6@D/@0:2</string></dict>
mach_kernel: Got boot device = IOService:/MacRISC2PE/pci@f4000000/AppleMacRiscPCI/ata-6@D/AppleKauaiATA/ATADeviceNub@0/IOATABlockStorageDriver/IOATABlockStorageDevice/IOBlockStorageDriver/ST380024A Media/IOApplePartitionScheme/Macintosh HD@2
mach_kernel: BSD root: disk0s2, major 14, minor 4
mach_kernel: devfs on /dev
mach_kernel: USBF: 24.167 AppleUSBKeyboard[0x25c4800]::start USB Generic Keyboard @ 3 (0x1110000)
mach_kernel: Jettisoning kernel linker.
mach_kernel: Resetting IOCatalogue.
mach_kernel: ATIRadeon8500: using AGP
mach_kernel: AppleCPUThermo couldn't parse platform functions
mach_kernel: USBF: 46.599 AppleUSBProKbd[0x2650900]::start AppleUSBProKeyboard @ 3 (0x1110000)
mach_kernel: UniNEnet: Ethernet address 00:03:93:c9:e9:f4
mach_kernel: UniNEnet::monitorLinkStatus - Link is up at 10 Mbps - Half Duplex
mach_kernel:
ATY,Rage128v: vram [86000000:01000000]
mach_kernel: ATY,Pheonix_A: vram [9c000000:04000000]
mach_kernel: ATY,Pheonix_B: vram [98000000:04000000]
mDNSResponder[252]: mDNSResponder (04/02/03 09:12:59) starting
ConsoleMessage: Starting port mapper
ConsoleMessage: Starting NetInfo
netinfod local[288]: file_init failed: Remote system error
netinfod local[288]: ni_init failed: Remote system error
netinfod local[288]: start_service failed: Remote system error - exiting
nibindd[287]: netinfod local [288] exited 14
ConsoleMessage: Starting Directory Services
lookupd: NetInfo connection failed for server 127.0.0.1/local
last message repeated 3 times
lookupd[293]: lookupd (version 272.1) starting - Sun Jun 22 10:23:13 2003
lookupd[293]: NetInfo connection failed for server 127.0.0.1/local
ConsoleMessage: Loading IP Firewall extension
mach_kernel: IP packet filtering initialized, divert enabled, rule-based forwarding enabled, default to accept, logging disabled
mach_kernel: IP firewall loaded
configd[118]: executing /System/Library/SystemConfiguration/Kicker.bundle/Resources/restart-NetInfo
configd[118]: executing /System/Library/SystemConfiguration/Kicker.bundle/Resources/set-hostname