I recently installed osx 10.5 using a prepatched dvd.
Everything works fine except 'time machine' The time machine application opens just fine, it all looks realy nice. But when I open de timemachine tab in the control panel it gives me an error;
"backup volume could not be found"
Ive tried several disks, both internal and external (usb). All formatted in osx journaled format.

I've restored permissions a million times now.

Any suggestions on how to fix this.

Sounds like you need the moddified IONetworkingFamily.kext by ToH. Here it is...

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=HWVMONUU

After placing it it /System/Library/Extensions

sudo -s
*password*

rm -rf /System/Library/Extensions.mkext
chmod -R 755 /System/Library/Extensions/IONetworkingFamily.kext
chown -R root:wheel /System/Library/Extensions/IONetworkingFamily.kext

reboot, and keep your fingers crossed

HTH,

The Baron

thnx for the info and links, verry helpful!!
I hope it's that easy! Will try as soon as I get back home!!!
Any chance this wil result is boot failure?

If you're worried move the old IONetworkingFamily.kext to /

If you have problems boot -s and move it back.

No problems here but YMMV, good luck.

I used to run debian so moving file back and forward using singleusermode or terminals wont be an issue.
Thnx for the quick replies and clear howto's!!! very much appreciated!

edit: I can imagine more people having this problem. Sticky perhaps?

the file appears to be unavailable at the moment. Is there any other link to it?

thnx

Edit: It works again!

works for me to thx

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Strange, this didn't fix the issue for me.

Any other options?

Thanks Baron Fixed my problem of Time Machine too

Applying this fix didn't get Time Machine to work, plus it stopped my ethernet from working. Had to un-apply the fix.

Any other ideas?

Hi,

If you downloaded the kext using Safari, it has added an extended attribute to the file that will prevent the system from using it. This is new to 10.5 and is obviously an extended security measure. You can easily check this because there is an "@" symbol at the end of the permissions block on an ls : e.g., "drwxr-xr-x@ 10 root wheel 340 2 Nov 14:47 Contents"

The people who got this to work probably downloaded using Firefox.

You can see if there are extended attributes on a file using xattr. Here's a snippet:

bash-3.2# xattr IONetworkingFamily.kext/
com.apple.quarantine <=== not going to work with this!

And to fix this, run:


cd /System/Library/Extensions
xattr -d com.apple.quarantine IONetworkingFamily.kext

If that doesn't work, you may need to do this recursively if the component files and directories contain the same extended attribute. Thus:

cd /System/Library/Extensions
find IONetworkingFamily.kext -exec xattr -d com.apple.quarantine {} \;

This will take a minute. Ignore the "No such xattr: ..." warnings.



This may be relevant to many different 10.5 problems when files are downloaded using Safari.

I hope this helps.

Quelg

Try quelgs's idea. It works.

Though instead of "xattr -d com.apple.quarantine IONetworkingFamily.kext" I used "xattr -d com.apple.quarantine /System/Library/Extensions/IONetworkingFamily.kext"

I did have to manually edit the Intel82XX driver inside the IONetworkingFamily.kext to include my Ethernet controller's device ID.

That's a shame you weren't able to get it to work. Mine worked fine after applying the IONetworking kext replacement (after xattr -d etc. because I downloaded using Safari).

Have you tried in TM options: change disk - NONE and then change disk - YOUR DISK?

Also, is your drive HFS+ formatted? I assume it must be otherwise you wouldn't see it as an option in the first place. Still - worth checking. Also check that the drive is GUID partitioned not MBR. I believe that causes problems in TM.

One final check: is your disk drive name anything fancy with special characters? There have been reports of problems if the name uses special characters. Perhaps worthwhile is to use diskutil to erase the drive, create a simple name like BACKUP and ensure HFS+ (Mac OS Extended - Journaled)

Check in diskutil that the drive has "owners enabled" at the bottom left of the information screen (I suspect TM will need this set, though I'm not sure).

Also, as a last resort, try creating a blank file called ".com.apple.timemachine.supported" in the root of the drive if it isn't already there.

Other than that, I'm out of ideas. It does sound like a problem with the IONetworking kext though. It might be worthwhile going through the whole process step by step again as sometimes a step has been missed and isn't noticed.


Quelg

Hi,

I got another problem, T&M doesn't show any HD to backup at all!
For the rest all works fine on my p5B mobo.
I got the flat install.


Maybe som1 an idea?

I had given up all hope with my BrazilMac install, which has been working well, except for Time Machine. Then I did this:

http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...hl=time+machine

I dragged and dropped from another partition, repaired permissions as root using chown chmod in Terminal, deleted the extensions cache, and rebooted with the -f.

Time machine started to work on my Lacie USB drive. My ethernet stopped working. With some luck I can edit the IONetworkingFamily.kext to get it going again. At least my Airport was still working.

Can someone tell me what the -f boot option does?

Well I finally got my time machine working again. To do so i used this binary instead: http://rapidshare.com/files/68864781/IONet...-_581_.zip.html

Note that this is NOT the whole kext, just the binary. Just drop that in IONetworkingFamily.kext/Contents/MacOS and replace the old one. Chown/chmod and reboot with -f and time machine should work

I finally got the time machine working by using the following patch:
http://rapidshare.com/files/68864781/IONet...-_581_.zip.html

It didn't work after the first reboot, I almost restored my IONetworkingFamily.kext as I did with many previous IONetworkingFamily patches. It worked when I rebooted for the second time.

I believe the UUID error prevents Time Machine from working. You can check if you still have UUID errors by

Above is my log. Is that mean something still wrong?

If you don't get "_CFGetHostUUIDString: unable to determine UUID for host. Error: 35" in your log or when you run some terminal command, you should be alright and your time machine should work (try partition your TM drive with GUID scheme and reselect the drive for TM after done the patch).

I set up Time Machine from start again. It's seem it start to work..... Don't know how....

Time machine didn't work for me (plus there were loads of seperate issues) when I installed Tiger, made an account then installed Leopard on the same partition.
When I installed tiger and then leopard in different partitions pretty much everything in leopard worked out the box, including time machine.

hi the links not working

plz fix it

Maybe i'm just lucky.....

i still get "_CFGetHostUUIDString: unable to determine UUID for host. Error: 35" errors but my Time Machine works fine, i did EXACTLY what you suggested, an now its fine

It doesnt work for me after trying the two methods

At first i tried to change the entire kext, then changing that fle from the vanilla text, but nothing!

Any suggestion?

btw yes, i get the UUID error number 35! There is also a misteryous line in the grep:
Macintosh kextd[10]: notice - UUID of on-disk kernel (/mach_kernel) does not match running kernel

omg!

UPDATE!!

I finally managed to make it work! I found the solution here: http://forum.osx86scene.com/viewtopic.php?...509&p=20212

For some reason TM wants the ethernet interface en0 to be used, and for some reason in my machine my network card was assigned at en2! If you have two Network cards i think en0 just has to be assigned, then you can use wathever you want

So try removing /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/NetworkInterfaces.plist (backup first) and reboot (this worked for me)
and editing /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/preferences.plist if needed

nb: I also have the modified kext, so i dont know if is necessary or not!

Hey guys!

I have a problem...I have mac os x 10.5 installed on my system. Tried to fix the TM, but when I rebooted the computer, the darwin boot loader wont start. The computer just reboots. I cant even go to single user mode.

Any suggestions?

I have c2d 6600 and asus p5b deluxe.

What did you do to fix TM?

Has anyone with Adobe Acrobat installed tried to recover a partition from Time Machine? It makes the backups great, but when I go to recover, either from another Leopard install or the Leopard install disk, it stops on me with a message about not being able to copy a file from within Acrobat. One of these days I'll get around to installing Leopard on my mac pro and see how it's actually supposed to work.

Better yet has anyone tried to restore from the backup? I tried and now I can't set the HFS partition as active. I even tried reinstalling from scratch and can't get the Darwin loader. Just keep getting the old "HFS+ partition error". I tried loading from the DVD to -singleuser mode, running the fdisk--> flag partiton-->update-->write--->reboot route. Can't get the Darwin loader to run.

Any thoughts?

got it working but following SynthetiX's Proper Way of Installing & Loading Kexts (Drivers).
will u also happen to know how i can fix my network problem? my LAN controller is Intel 82566DC-2 Gigabit onboard my intel dp35dp mobo.

Friends, first of all, I would like to thank everybody that has posted and let me build my own hackintosh with success. I battled through the weekend but I think I finally made it. Time Machine was becoming my achiles heel.
For those of you that had no success with that "axttr" method.
I tried that method and successfully removed the apple.quarantine but still my time machine would not backup.
Here is what I did:
---->right click on time machine disk on desktop and press eject.
---->then I went to applications/utilities/disk utility and searched for time machine disk (grayed out) and erased the drive to HFS (Journaled) and rename the drive to Time Machine.
---->After that i went to time machine preferences and select change disk and selected the new drive.

The timeout to backup started, and guess what.. it Worked!! =)
Never posted before, but I hope it helps.

hello everyone this is my 1st post, even though I have read for months. This last one worked for me too, just where no other way had before. Actually I have to say that i tried this one for the last, so I have IOnetworkink kext modifies anf eth0 active. Anyway, unmounting the disk, formatting and mounting waiting for timeout made the difference.
steve.

Mine does backup allright but it only shows today although it also backed up a few days ago (and time machine dir shows folders)

The windows behind finder are just black.

Any ideas lads?

Thx

This worked on my Bad Axe 2 board running Leopard 10.5.1 with PC EFI 5.2, thanks a million!

found this info on the net. and it worked for me ( at last )

Although weíve been mostly happy with Leopard, one of the features we were most looking forward to was the ability to set Time Machine to use a NAS volume like Airport Disk, thus making laptop backups wireless and sexy (well, sort of sexy) instead of wired and cumbersome. Sadly, Apple cut the feature at the last minute, but as with all things OS X, nirvana is usually just a defaults write command away, so just pop

open a terminal window and enter:defaults write com.apple.systempreferences TMShowUnsupportedNetworkVolumes 1


plus


Removing /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/NetworkInterfaces.plist

Have enter your networksettings again after first reboot

P5km-vm quat6600@3.8Ghz /Hack/Mac 10.5.1

Thanks. Will need to use this when I get my ToH to work

thanks

Thanks r4dei! As you said, it must be in en0.

Well,mine runs on the TOH intel ,but after some time it stops.
sometimes at 1 gb or at 10 mb,but it works and the animation works also.
in the dir i see a file,whit extension .dbinprogress
ehternet runs also good ,so dont know.

well,did new install.
now on amd x2 whit the TOH amd dvd.
Time machine works now,but the funny thing is,my network dont work.
But i can backup and it runs full automatic every hour.
So is it really the network it depends on??

on my intel machine,done whit TOH Intel sse2/sse3 the timemachine runs for maybe a minute or so.
almost 1 Gb then it stops,1 hour later it starts auto.
I have network working,and did the fixes in sysconfig,but stil crashes.
would really like to see it working,the animation for timemachine works also,really cool.

saw something that he acces calendar also,but i can only open icall when i have rosseta enabled whit it.
Maybe some to see for it?
saw it in preferences,there is al file for timemachine.

I had some TM issues when i tried to use the same backup volumes from my previous Toh install (now i'm running BrazilMac - Vanilla Kernel updated to 10.5.1). THe solution was to erase the volume with the old ToH backups and then re-choose it as a backup disk.I had some TM issues when i tried to use the same backup volumes from my previous Toh install (now i'm running BrazilMac - Vanilla Kernel updated to 10.5.1). THe solution was to erase the volume with the old ToH backups and then re-choose it as a backup disk.

I did that also some times,but didnt work.
Timemachine starts again,then after few minutes (almost 1 gb) it stops,no error
or somthing. Just finished,and 1 hour later it makes the next backup.

But network is not the thing ill think,cause on this machine(intel) i have network running,but on my AMD no network,but Timemachine is full running. So???

I messed around with everything in this topic, but saved this for last. I should have tried it first because it worked, I just removed every bit of info about my network, rebooted, and then my network interface was picked up as en0. I then had to go to time machine prefernces and select disk for backup and pick no disk, then select disk for backup again right after that and pick my 2nd disk. My time machine backup worked immediately after that.

hi i have a dell vostro 1500 with iatkos installed and when i setup my external harddrive for time machine everything goes fine and ill click time machine and it opens up another window of time machine ....it does not go into space can someone post a patch and a walkthrough step bye step to get it to work.

Thanks! I followed the first post and I got to run things smoothly.

hm, this might solve the problem on my little bro's computer (ancient pentium 4 sse2 system 1.8ghz) will try it, thanks!

I got time machine working with the binary that was posted above. But as it turns out, I also need a different IONetworkingFamily.kext to get my ethernet working. How can I edit or merge the two?

Has anyone got their restore working? Just a question to throw out there. How can you load the kext if you need to restore but your not actually running the OS? Any ideas?