Leopard won't boot

[Mackie]

Finally managed to install Leopard. However, it stalls at startup at the gray apple logo.

 

Had a look at it with Verbose mode. It stalls with "Localhost directory service - launchd could not load com.apple.DirectoryService - exiting this instance with error 1102".

 

In Safe Boot mode it gets to the blue screen and stalls there. What should I do?

[John the Geek]

Boot into Single-User Mode by holding Apple and S at startup.

 

- Type mount -uw to connect to your drive

- Then cd /Library/Preferences/DirectoryService

- Now type rm *.* to delete those specific preferences

- Type shutdown -r now to restart and hopefully boot up.

 

If you are bound to an active directory you'll need to re-bind, but otherwise you should not notice a thing.

 

=)

 

 

EDIT: These commands are Tiger-specific, but should work on Leopard too. Don't type rm *.* unless you are certain you are in the DirectoryServices folder!! That command deletes all files in a folder... whatever folder you're in at the time.

[Mackie]

John,

 

Thanks, but there is no such directory.

[xfsasx]

Im running leopard right now and this is what i got in terminal:

 

xfsasxs-macbook:/library/preferences/directoryservice xfsasx$ ls -l

total 56

-rw-------  1 root  admin  404 Sep 23 16:19 ContactsNodeConfig.plist

-rw-------  1 root  admin  333 Sep 23 16:19 ContactsNodeConfigBackup.plist

-rw-------  1 root  admin  274 Sep 23 16:14 DSLDAPv3PlugInConfig.plist

-rw-------  1 root  admin  249 Sep 23 16:14 DSRecordTypeRestrictions.plist

-rw-------  1 root  admin  383 Sep 23 16:14 DirectoryService.plist

-rw-------  1 root  admin  404 Sep 23 16:19 SearchNodeConfig.plist

-rw-------  1 root  admin  333 Sep 23 16:19 SearchNodeConfigBackup.plist

[Mackie]

Last login: Sat Oct 14 16:14:44 on ttyp1

Welcome to Darwin!

caracas:~ mackie$ ls /Volumes/Nomad/Library/Preferences ls -l

ls: -l: No such file or directory

ls: ls: No such file or directory

/Volumes/Nomad/Library/Preferences:

SystemConfiguration com.apple.xgrid.agent.plist

com.apple.ByteRangeLocking.plist com.apple.xgrid.controller.plist

com.apple.dockfixup.plist

caracas:~ mackie$

[AriX]

Er... you can't type ls and than ls again

 

try ls /Volumes/Nomad/Library/Preferences

[Drunlade]

I have the same issue, hangs on blue screen part. However, the folder mentioned does not exist.

[Mr.C.Tippins]

I've tried installing the WWDC seed 3-4 times now. Got it to boot once then when I ran software update it wouldn't boot.

I am getting a kernel panic while still on the grey Apple screen.

 

Haven't looked at verbose or single user mode but will be doing that tonight.

 

Any one have any thought in the meantime?

 

Cow