freezing and such..

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hi. my ibook G4, which is about a year and a half old has given me much trouble. however, i still have a string emotional attatchment and love it dearly. recently, its been freezing, which forces me to shut it down by pressing and holding the power button, which i know is not good for the computer. on occasion, it doesn;t start up and freezes at the gray screen. However, after leaving it off for a short while, it starts up fine. still, it randomly freezes and the cycle continues. what is wrong and how can i fix it?
 
You could try repairing disk permissions with Disk Utility. You could also try booting up from the Mac OS X installation disc that came with your Mac and try a repair on the disk.

To repair permissions, open Disk Utility and click the name of your hard drive in the left-hand pane. Then, click the Repair Disk Permissions button.

To verify and repair the disk, boot from the installation DVD and run Disk Utility from there. Click the hard drive name (same as above), and then click the Repair Disk button.

You cannot repair the disk when you are using it as the startup volume, so that's why you need the installation disc (the button is grayed out when you click the name of the disk/volume in Disk Utility that you are currently using a startup volume). Also, don't repair disk permissions while booted from the installation DVD.
 
If any of the messages when you repaired permissions were similar to "We are using special permissions on (...)" then nothing was repaired at all (nor does anything need repairing). Those are simply informational messages that will appear every single time you repair permissions, and do not indicate that any permissions were incorrect or that any permissions were repaired. They simply inform you that Mac OS X is using some non-standard permissions for certain files and directories, and those messages can safely be ignored. The wording of the messages is pretty self-explanatory and explicit and tell you exactly what is going on.

If a permission was truly repaired, Disk Utility will explicitly say so; something to the tune of "Permissions differ on (...)" followed by "Permissions repaired on (...)". If it doesn't explicitly say that a permission was wrong or if it doesn't explicitly say that a permission was repaired, then nothing was wrong and nothing was repaired. Pay special attention to the messages that Disk Utility tells you to see if anything was truly repaired or not.
 
ElDiabloConCaca said:
If any of the messages when you repaired permissions were similar to "We are using special permissions on (...)" then nothing was repaired at all (nor does anything need repairing). Those are simply informational messages that will appear every single time you repair permissions, and do not indicate that any permissions were incorrect or that any permissions were repaired. They simply inform you that Mac OS X is using some non-standard permissions for certain files and directories, and those messages can safely be ignored. The wording of the messages is pretty self-explanatory and explicit and tell you exactly what is going on.

If a permission was truly repaired, Disk Utility will explicitly say so; something to the tune of "Permissions differ on (...)" followed by "Permissions repaired on (...)". If it doesn't explicitly say that a permission was wrong or if it doesn't explicitly say that a permission was repaired, then nothing was wrong and nothing was repaired. Pay special attention to the messages that Disk Utility tells you to see if anything was truly repaired or not.
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Great point. I saw this myself recently, and posted a question about it on here because I was wondering what all that output was, over and over again.
 
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