Loginwindow.app Crash

[jchaike]

Basically, my LoginWindow.app will NOT start up. If you want more detailed information, read below:

 

Alright, so my mac was working pretty well...I couldn't get things like Front Row, or PhotoBooth to open, but that was okay. I found out that my NVida GeForce 2300 GS would work well in Hackintosh, so I dug it out, and Mac booted up well.

 

I opened that OSX86 Tool, and it found the GeForce driver for me (yay!), and I installed it. I restarted my computer soon after using the OSX86 Tool to install the kext driver. After restarting, I noticed that the driver didn't really do anything. And I figured now that I have a compatible OSX Video Card, I'll try getting the Finder transparency to work. I found a download of some software that was supposed to enable the transparency in the Finder Bar, and the install failed. I figured nothing was modified.

 

I went about using my Mac for another 30-40 minutes, and decided I would try just one more time to run PhotoBooth. After trying to run Photobooth, and it appeared in my dock, start bouncing, and then disappear, I decided to go to System preferences to see what was up.

 

Even System Preferences crashed!

 

I figured, okay, nothing a good old reboot couldn't fix.

 

Man was I wrong!

 

Mac started to boot up (I am NOT dual booting, just running Hackintosh ONLY), and it took a really long time to start up. (I was not in verbose mode). I figured something was wrong, and I held down the power button until it turned off. I turned it back on and decided to run verbose mode...I promptly typed -v and verbose flew accross my screen. After a succesfull boot I starred at my mouse with a blue background for a few seconds, and to my disappointment, the screen turned black and a white "|" came up on my screen. The message said something like this:

/System/Library/Core Services/loginwindow.app/Contents/MacOS/loginwindow[xxx]	Login window application started.
Just so you know, XXX varried between different numbers like 222, 229, 249, and 256

 

Then it would go back to the mouse on the screen and then flash back to the same error message.

Some other messages came up, but disappeared so fast I was unable to write them down.

 

Because I am not running another OS with my Hackintosh, I would prefer not to restore the system and reinstall osx...

 

 

But, if anyone knows how I could fix this, or at least get some documents off of my mac, that would be cool =D

 

EDIT:

I started up the OSX disk, and did the verify disk permissions and repair disk permissions, and that did NOT work.

[quetzalcoatl2435]

Looks like the graphics driver or transparency installer messed up your system. Unless you know which specific file(s) were modified/changed, it's gonna be hard to recover...

 

To get your documents, boot with -s, plugin and mount your external disk, and copy all documents to your external disk.