denalijb Posted December 6, 2006 Share Posted December 6, 2006 So I have 10.4.8 installed. Everything was working fine. I installed Adobe CS2 for mac. Installed fine. Once installed, it lauched the updater. I had to reboot in the middle of it because it hung. It came back up and finished the updates. Ever since then, Finder won't start. So I can't get a Termial window, which blows. Nor can I do much about it. Is there a way to see what it's doing at startup? I think the adobe app is crashing finder. Any help appreciated. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/35071-so-finder-stopped-loading-on-boot/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rammjet Posted December 6, 2006 Share Posted December 6, 2006 At boot of OSX, as soon as the screen turns black, press and hold F8 key. When command prompt appears, type-v. Read the messages. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/35071-so-finder-stopped-loading-on-boot/#findComment-249006 Share on other sites More sharing options...
denalijb Posted December 6, 2006 Author Share Posted December 6, 2006 nothing unusual. I can log in just fine. The dock comes up, but the bar on the top never shows up and I can't launch a finder window. I think it's adobe version Cue. How can I uninstall an application without Finder? Is there a boot option that I can use a console window? -S is read only right? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/35071-so-finder-stopped-loading-on-boot/#findComment-249009 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rammjet Posted December 6, 2006 Share Posted December 6, 2006 Boot using -s. At the command prompt, type "mount -uw /" (no quotes) to mount drives. Access your OSX partition at: /Volumes/(name-of-OSX-partition)/ Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/35071-so-finder-stopped-loading-on-boot/#findComment-249012 Share on other sites More sharing options...
denalijb Posted December 6, 2006 Author Share Posted December 6, 2006 Thanks Rammjet. How about what gets loaded on startup? Is there a way to edit that? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/35071-so-finder-stopped-loading-on-boot/#findComment-249013 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rammjet Posted December 6, 2006 Share Posted December 6, 2006 Really depends on what it installed. Hard to say really. Try booting with -x for safe mode. Might give you a GUI o work with. Try reading install.log at /var/log Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/35071-so-finder-stopped-loading-on-boot/#findComment-249015 Share on other sites More sharing options...
denalijb Posted December 6, 2006 Author Share Posted December 6, 2006 I was able to get a terminal window up, but nothing useful really. It's definitely the adobe app. And I can't get rid of it. Well... I guess I'm stuck. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/35071-so-finder-stopped-loading-on-boot/#findComment-249023 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rammjet Posted December 6, 2006 Share Posted December 6, 2006 Single user mode (-s) is basically Terminal: mount -uw / cd /Volumes/(your-OSX-partition)/var/log more install.log Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/35071-so-finder-stopped-loading-on-boot/#findComment-249028 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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