Ecco2 Posted September 27, 2009 Share Posted September 27, 2009 Hi there, I'm running a vanilla install of SnowLeo 10.6.1. Everything works perfectly. Except that all volumes I mount show up as a folder on my desktop. That includes disk images I download, my internal hard drives, or any usb thumb drive I've tried. I know that in the end volumes are actually folders from the file-system point of view. Yet usually they show up with different icons (grey, white or orange). I tried repairing permissions on my system, and rebuilding my kextcache. Didn't fix it. In particular I checked and re-checked IOStorageFamilly.kext, and its permissions looks just fine… Do you guys have an idea about how I could fix this ? Thanks !! Actually I might be onto something : when I run "Disk Utility", I get this error message in system.log : Sep 27 12:35:37 Jack com.apple.kextd[10]: Kext com.apple.iokit.IOStorageFamily not found for client path request. Sep 27 12:35:37 Jack com.apple.kextd[10]: Memory allocation failure. … Don't know what it means yet though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RustyShackleford Posted September 27, 2009 Share Posted September 27, 2009 Hi there, I'm running a vanilla install of SnowLeo 10.6.1. Everything works perfectly. Except that all volumes I mount show up as a folder on my desktop. That includes disk images I download, my internal hard drives, or any usb thumb drive I've tried. I know that in the end volumes are actually folders from the file-system point of view. Yet usually they show up with different icons (grey, white or orange). I tried repairing permissions on my system, and rebuilding my kextcache. Didn't fix it. In particular I checked and re-checked IOStorageFamilly.kext, and its permissions looks just fine… Do you guys have an idea about how I could fix this ? Thanks !! Actually I might be onto something : when I run "Disk Utility", I get this error message in system.log : Sep 27 12:35:37 Jack com.apple.kextd[10]: Kext com.apple.iokit.IOStorageFamily not found for client path request. Sep 27 12:35:37 Jack com.apple.kextd[10]: Memory allocation failure. … Don't know what it means yet though im having the same problem......bump Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rik26 Posted September 28, 2009 Share Posted September 28, 2009 im having the same problem......bump I have (had,I hope) the same problem too... What distro have you used? The Universal one? It seems that only this distro shows the hard drives as folders during the installation process. I think I solved but I'm not sure... I installed Liteicon on SL (a program used to change icons, work on SL also). In this program there is an option that clears the system cache.. I tried this, rebooted the system and magically hard drives were reported correctly. I don't know why but.. it seems to work. I usually use leopard and I've not logged in SL yet, but I hope that my hard drives will be displayed properly the next time. I'm sorry for my English... PS Let me know if it works... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aesop69 Posted September 29, 2009 Share Posted September 29, 2009 Hi there, I'm running a vanilla install of SnowLeo 10.6.1. Everything works perfectly. Except that all volumes I mount show up as a folder on my desktop. That includes disk images I download, my internal hard drives, or any usb thumb drive I've tried. I know that in the end volumes are actually folders from the file-system point of view. Yet usually they show up with different icons (grey, white or orange). I tried repairing permissions on my system, and rebuilding my kextcache. Didn't fix it. In particular I checked and re-checked IOStorageFamilly.kext, and its permissions looks just fine… Do you guys have an idea about how I could fix this ? Thanks !! Actually I might be onto something : when I run "Disk Utility", I get this error message in system.log : Sep 27 12:35:37 Jack com.apple.kextd[10]: Kext com.apple.iokit.IOStorageFamily not found for client path request. Sep 27 12:35:37 Jack com.apple.kextd[10]: Memory allocation failure. … Don't know what it means yet though Do you have a UUID kext with your boot UUID # in it? When I installed SL from within Leopard I had that problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ecco2 Posted September 29, 2009 Author Share Posted September 29, 2009 For some reason, after installing PC_EFI 10.3 and rebuilding both Extensions.mkext (/Extra an /S/L/E), the problem went away ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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