Crash! Help needed, please

[MPower]

Mac OS X 10.3.2
G4/350

Upon bootup, I'm dumped to the terminal (after about 5-10 seconds):

/etc/master.passwd: Not a directory
/etc/master.passwd: Not a directory
-sh: /etc/profile: Not a directory
-sh-2.05b#

Any ideas how to fix it? Tried repairing disk permissions, disk repair using Disk Utility, Norton Utilities. Nothing has worked.

Thanks,
Eric

 

[dagaz]

at the prompt type "fsck -yf" then enter. If at the end of this process you get the message "**FILE SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED**" retype the command. If/when it says everything is fine type "exit" return. During the verbose boot keep your eye out for any repeated warning or failure message.

 

[MPower]

at the prompt type "fsck -yf" then enter. If at the end of this process you get the message "**FILE SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED**" retype the command. If/when it says everything is fine type "exit" return. During the verbose boot keep your eye out for any repeated warning or failure message.

I found this on the Apple site and gave it a whirl:

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106908

This appears to have fixed the problem. Is the command you listed above a "check disk" type command, ie. should I still run it to possibly fix other things?

Thanks again!

 

[bobw]

A good idea to run fsck -f