pmac00 Posted May 19, 2007 Share Posted May 19, 2007 dear all, I've been messing with my macbook (the black one), and now it won't start OS X anymore :-( these are the relevant things that happened (I think), and some of the error messages I'm getting: ----------------- - earlier: changed the ethernet MAC address using ifconfig - put in USB key (2 FAT partitions) - moved a directory (about 100MB) from the 2nd partition to the trash - emptied the trash - when this took forever: - killed the Finder, expecting it to restart (guess I shouldn't have done that..) - when it didn't: rebooted the machine (shutdown -h now, turned it back on) - then it was stuck on the Apple logo and spinning wheel, booting in single user mode gave, repeating forever: memberd[95]: dsFindDirNodes returned -14071, count = 0; memberd[95]: dsFindDirNodes returned -14071, count = -1610603584 memberd[95]: Coulnd't find root user. Sleeping and trying again. - fsck reports that the disk is fine, and I can normally mount it and access files Other errors in the system log: launchd: com.apple.nibindd: exited abnormally: Trace/BPT trap launchd: com.apple.nibindd: respawning too quickly! throttling launchd: com.apple.nibindd: 1 more failure without living at least 60 seconds will cause job removal launchd: com.apple.nibindd: will restart in 10 seconds ... kextd[62]: kextd_watch_volumes: couldn't set up diskarb sessions kextd[62]: giving up on diskarb; auto-rebuild disabled ... mDNSResponder: mDNSPlatformSendUDP sendto failed to send packet on InterfaceID 01809200 lo0/4 to 224.0.0.251:5353 skt 9 error -1 errorno065 (No route to host) 2880049724 ... SystemStarter[100]: application services (123) did not complete successfully SystemStarter[100]: IFC (124) did not complete successfully ... SystlmStarter[100]: The following StartupItems failed to properly start: SystemStarter[100]: /System/Library/StartupItems/FibreChannel SystemStarter[100]: - execution of Startup script failed SystemStarter[100]: /System/Library/StartupItems/AppServices SystemStarter[100]: - execution of Startup script failed SystemStarter[100]: /System/Library/StartupItems/IFCStart SystemStarter[100]: - execution of Startup script failed SystemStarter[100]: The following StartupItems were not attempted due to failure of a required service: SystemStarter[100]: /System/Library/StartupItems/Metadata ---------------- If anyone has a clue, please help! many thanks, Patrick Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/51502-forever-spinning-wheel-couldnt-find-root-user/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oracle67 Posted May 19, 2007 Share Posted May 19, 2007 On restart press "C" to chose where to boot. You can Reinstall or to use a backup. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/51502-forever-spinning-wheel-couldnt-find-root-user/#findComment-368604 Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmac00 Posted May 23, 2007 Author Share Posted May 23, 2007 I managed to fix the problem: it was related to compiling openssl (0.9.8e) from source, which I needed for the Perl module Crypt::SSLeay. At some point I moved libcrypto*.dylib and libssl*.dylib from /usr/lib to a temporary directory, to make sure the linker would use the static libraries from openssl, but I forgot to move them back.. So as a result, lots of programs depending on these libraries failed. I hope this info is useful for someone in the future... Patrick Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/51502-forever-spinning-wheel-couldnt-find-root-user/#findComment-370710 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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