IBook insomnia solved!!

Hi!
Since I encountered sleep problems (iBook wont sleep until battery is low) some weeks ago, I tried to find a solution. Maybe my experiences can help some people here, so I post this.
First I tried the usual Mac-Voodoo, resetting nvram, pram and PMU.
(BTW While resetting the PMU the sleep LED of my iBook G3 flashes for some seconds. Is this the normal behavior?)
But at the end this solved nothing.
So first step is to find out if its a hardware or software problem. For that I booted into "safe mode" (press and hold left shift key). If the machine goes to sleep while in safe mode, it is a software problem. This was the case with my iBook.
So it had to be a software problem "aka malfunctioning daemon". So first step is to find out if it is a user related service or a system service.
For this I rebooted the machine and waited for the login screen. Since the machine has to sleep also when not logged in, I waited some minutes here.
If the machine goes to sleep mode while not logged in, the problem has to be a user service, if not a system service is responsible. In my case, the machine refused to sleep, so it has to be a system problem.
My theory was that some services tried to read/write data in short bursts so that the hard disk shows constant activity, preventing sleep mode.
To test this. I logged in and started the activity monitor.
It shows that in one second intervals some 900k of data was written to the disk. This was a constant operation, so this was likely the culprit of my problems.
Now I needed to find out which data was written. For that, I found a wonderful tool named fseventer (http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/%7Erpointon/osx/fseventer.html). It clearly showed that inside /Library/Cache a file named com.apple.LaunchServices-014501.csstore was created, data written and surprisingly deleted afterwards.
And thats it. Since the /Library/Cache folder can be deleted without problems (it will be restored after reboot, and probably your user icon is lost) I booted into single user mode and deleted the entire folder contents.
After some days of testing I can say that everything runs fine now.
Hopefully this small description can help others with similar problems.
regards,
Alexander
iBook G3 800MHz Mac OS X (10.4.5)

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After chosing "SRC manually mounted" instead of cdrom setup was able to find the packages.txt (list of contents) so I checked the whole "base" list. Now setup was able to unpack the pacman-package ... but there appears the next error message:
Installing packages...
/arch/setup: line 955: pacman.static: command not found
Package Installation FAILED.
so ... what now? currently I got 2 questions.
the first one: how am I solving the last error to be able to install the packages?
the second one: is my processor an 686er? I don't know if this description is the same like the intel processor description? Is this at ppc processors the same?
with best regards
Martin Schuchardt
Last edited by kruemeltee (2009-02-20 11:55:53)

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