cannot find /etc/masterwd

[the_painless]

hy people,

 

i've just installed JaS 10.4.8 on my brandnew Dell M90.

A had a few problems with the installation, but now it's done.

 

But now i get the following error when i boot up the notebook:

"/etc/master.passwd: No such file or directory"

 

Does anybody know how to solve this?

 

thanx in advance!

 

EDIT:

OK, i just found out why it does not find /etc/master.passwd - the whole etc-folder is missing! why ever that happend...

 

i thing i'll install the whole thing again....

 

did anybody else had problems with this release??

Edited March 17, 2007 by the_painless

[erbic]

WAIT. You can fix this.

 

The reason the whole etc folder is missing is because it's not actually in the root directory of the hard drive. Instead, a symbolic link (alias) is created to /private/etc, and the system sees that as a folder. Somehow, the symlink either was deleted or was never created in the first place.

 

You need to boot up in Single-user mode and re-create the symlink.

 

Boot up your system and hit F8 right before the gray apple screen would show up. At the Darwin boot prompt, type -s and hit enter.

 

A bunch of code should scroll down the screen, and you'll be left at a command prompt with root access. Then do this:

 

/sbin/fsck -fy (this makes the system verify your root volume)
/sbin/mount -uw /  (this mounts your root filesystem with read-write access; don't forget the space between -uw and /)
ln -s /private/etc /etc   (this creates a new symbolic link from /private/etc to /etc)

 

You need to check if the other UNIX symlinks are still intact, so do this:

 

 cd /
ls

 

You should see etc, tmp, and var in the list. If you don't, you need to re-create the tmp and/or var symlinks by doing:

 

ln -s /private/var /var
ln -s /private/tmp /tmp

 

After all this, reboot. Everything should work.

Edited March 18, 2007 by ErBiC