Invalid Volume Header

Hi everyone, I have a Power G4 running Tiger and is unable to boot.
These are the messages I'm getting while running Disk Utility on the Installation Disk.
Unable to boot
Invalid Volume header
Invalid sibling link
The volume Macintosh HD needs to be repaired.
Error: The underlying task reported failure on exit.
1 HFS Volume checked
Volume needs repair
I ran it 4 or 5 times with the same resolt.
The next step was to boot in single user mode
and rand fsck -y and also fsck -fy and got
the same result as above Invalid volume header.."
In single user mode I'm able to see all files and directories but they are in read-only mode.
Nothing can be deleted in read-only mode we only
can see whats out there.
Did a df -k
root device / is 92%
devfs is 100% of is capacity 0 available
fdesc is 100% of it capacity 0 available
Need help, waited over an hour for apple support,
they were very busy.
Is there anything that can be done before
we go to the last resort "format and re-install"
Thanks in advance.
Stablerock.
Power G4 Mac OS X (10.4.7)

Hi, Stablerock.
See the "Disk Utility cannot repair the disk" section of my "Resolving Disk, Permission, and Cache Corruption" FAQ.
Good luck!
Dr. Smoke
Author: Troubleshooting Mac® OS X
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With JDK 1.5, I get the above error (invalid END header).
With JDK 1.6, it reads the file for about 5 seconds, then reports that the file cannot be opened.
Smaller jar files work fine. This jar file has two files in it, a small XML file and a large video file.
I'm running under windows XP.
Doing a jar -tvf (jdk 1.5) on the large jar file works fine.
The file was built with the jar command (jdk 1.5).
Is this a bug in the JDK?
Thank you!
-Joe
http://www.lovehorsepower.com

Sp0ttedD0g wrote:
I ran into this problem today too and found out it was due to the fact that I had a jar in my war that I was trying to deploy that had a file format of unicode instead of binary (it had been checked into source control system incorrectly). After updating the jar with the proper format (binary), the problem went away.The other reported problems are due to file size, not content.

It takes 5 minutes to startup and i have "invalid volume directory count"

I have tried 'restore disk' with install disk, does not work.
Now it takes 5 minutes to start leopard.....
Please help....
This is when i startup:
12-04-09 21:05:59 com.apple.launchd[107] (0x109840.Locum[197]) Exited: Terminated
12-04-09 21:06:04 com.apple.loginwindow[24] Shutdown NOW!
12-04-09 21:06:04 com.apple.loginwindow[24] System shutdown time has arrived
12-04-09 21:06:05 com.apple.SystemStarter[17] Stopping HP Trap Monitor
12-04-09 21:06:05 com.apple.SystemStarter[17] Stopping HP IO Monitor
12-04-09 21:11:16 com.apple.launchctl.System[2] Missing thread record (id = 7726336)
12-04-09 21:11:16 com.apple.launchctl.System[2] Invalid volume directory count
12-04-09 21:11:16 com.apple.launchctl.System[2] (It should be 62222 instead of 62224)
12-04-09 21:11:16 com.apple.launchctl.System[2] Invalid volume file count
12-04-09 21:11:16 com.apple.launchctl.System[2] (It should be 269114 instead of 269128)
12-04-09 21:11:16 com.apple.launchctl.System[2] Missing thread record (id = 7726336)
12-04-09 21:11:16 com.apple.launchctl.System[2] Invalid volume directory count
12-04-09 21:11:16 com.apple.launchctl.System[2] (It should be 62222 instead of 62224)
12-04-09 21:11:16 com.apple.launchctl.System[2] Invalid volume file count
12-04-09 21:11:16 com.apple.launchctl.System[2] (It should be 269114 instead of 269128)
12-04-09 21:11:16 com.apple.launchctl.System[2] Missing thread record (id = 7726336)
12-04-09 21:11:16 com.apple.launchctl.System[2] Invalid volume directory count
12-04-09 21:11:16 com.apple.launchctl.System[2] (It should be 62222 instead of 62224)
12-04-09 21:11:16 com.apple.launchctl.System[2] Invalid volume file count
12-04-09 21:11:16 com.apple.launchctl.System[2] (It should be 269114 instead of 269128)
12-04-09 21:11:16 com.apple.launchctl.System[2] Missing thread record (id = 7726336)
12-04-09 21:11:16 com.apple.launchctl.System[2] Invalid volume directory count
12-04-09 21:11:16 com.apple.launchctl.System[2] (It should be 62222 instead of 62224)
12-04-09 21:11:16 com.apple.launchctl.System[2] Invalid volume file count
12-04-09 21:11:16 com.apple.launchctl.System[2] (It should be 269114 instead of 269128)
12-04-09 21:11:18 com.apple.launchctl.System[2] launchctl: Please convert the following to launchd: /etc/mach_init.d/dashboardadvisoryd.plist
12-04-09 21:11:18 com.apple.launchd[1] (com.apple.blued) Unknown key for boolean: EnableTransactions
12-04-09 21:11:18 com.apple.launchd[1] (org.cups.cupsd) Unknown key: SHAuthorizationRight
12-04-09 21:11:18 com.apple.launchd[1] (org.ntp.ntpd) Unknown key: SHAuthorizationRight
12-04-09 21:11:40 org.ntp.ntpd[14] Error : nodename nor servname provided, or not known
12-04-09 21:11:43 com.apple.SystemStarter[17] Starting HP IO Monitor
12-04-09 21:11:43 com.apple.SystemStarter[17] Starting HP Trap Monitor
12-04-09 21:12:12 com.apple.launchd[1] (com.apple.UserEventAgent-LoginWindow[101]) Exited: Terminated
12-04-09 21:12:12 com.apple.launchd[110] (com.apple.AirPortBaseStationAgent) Unknown key for boolean: EnableTransactions

kennmoo wrote:
I have tried 'restore disk' with install disk, does not work.
what exactly doesn't work?
boot from the leopard install DVD and repair the startup disk (repair disk, not permissions) using disk utility.
Now it takes 5 minutes to start leopard.....
Please help....
This is when i startup:
12-04-09 21:05:59 com.apple.launchd[107] (0x109840.Locum[197]) Exited: Terminated
12-04-09 21:06:04 com.apple.loginwindow[24] Shutdown NOW!
12-04-09 21:06:04 com.apple.loginwindow[24] System shutdown time has arrived
12-04-09 21:06:05 com.apple.SystemStarter[17] Stopping HP Trap Monitor
12-04-09 21:06:05 com.apple.SystemStarter[17] Stopping HP IO Monitor
12-04-09 21:11:16 com.apple.launchctl.System[2] Missing thread record (id = 7726336)
12-04-09 21:11:16 com.apple.launchctl.System[2] Invalid volume directory count
12-04-09 21:11:16 com.apple.launchctl.System[2] (It should be 62222 instead of 62224)
12-04-09 21:11:16 com.apple.launchctl.System[2] Invalid volume file count
12-04-09 21:11:16 com.apple.launchctl.System[2] (It should be 269114 instead of 269128)
12-04-09 21:11:16 com.apple.launchctl.System[2] Missing thread record (id = 7726336)
12-04-09 21:11:16 com.apple.launchctl.System[2] Invalid volume directory count
12-04-09 21:11:16 com.apple.launchctl.System[2] (It should be 62222 instead of 62224)
12-04-09 21:11:16 com.apple.launchctl.System[2] Invalid volume file count
12-04-09 21:11:16 com.apple.launchctl.System[2] (It should be 269114 instead of 269128)
12-04-09 21:11:16 com.apple.launchctl.System[2] Missing thread record (id = 7726336)
12-04-09 21:11:16 com.apple.launchctl.System[2] Invalid volume directory count
12-04-09 21:11:16 com.apple.launchctl.System[2] (It should be 62222 instead of 62224)
12-04-09 21:11:16 com.apple.launchctl.System[2] Invalid volume file count
12-04-09 21:11:16 com.apple.launchctl.System[2] (It should be 269114 instead of 269128)
12-04-09 21:11:16 com.apple.launchctl.System[2] Missing thread record (id = 7726336)
12-04-09 21:11:16 com.apple.launchctl.System[2] Invalid volume directory count
12-04-09 21:11:16 com.apple.launchctl.System[2] (It should be 62222 instead of 62224)
12-04-09 21:11:16 com.apple.launchctl.System[2] Invalid volume file count
12-04-09 21:11:16 com.apple.launchctl.System[2] (It should be 269114 instead of 269128)
12-04-09 21:11:18 com.apple.launchctl.System[2] launchctl: Please convert the following to launchd: /etc/mach_init.d/dashboardadvisoryd.plist
12-04-09 21:11:18 com.apple.launchd[1] (com.apple.blued) Unknown key for boolean: EnableTransactions
12-04-09 21:11:18 com.apple.launchd[1] (org.cups.cupsd) Unknown key: SHAuthorizationRight
12-04-09 21:11:18 com.apple.launchd[1] (org.ntp.ntpd) Unknown key: SHAuthorizationRight
12-04-09 21:11:40 org.ntp.ntpd[14] Error : nodename nor servname provided, or not known
12-04-09 21:11:43 com.apple.SystemStarter[17] Starting HP IO Monitor
12-04-09 21:11:43 com.apple.SystemStarter[17] Starting HP Trap Monitor
12-04-09 21:12:12 com.apple.launchd[1] (com.apple.UserEventAgent-LoginWindow[101]) Exited: Terminated
12-04-09 21:12:12 com.apple.launchd[110] (com.apple.AirPortBaseStationAgent) Unknown key for boolean: EnableTransactions

Invalid volume file count and directory count

My wife's macbook pro started shutting down by itself randomly, so i performed Disk Utility Verify Disk and found these errors:
Invalid volume file count
(It should be 800651 instead of 800653)
Invalid volume directory count
(It should be 191005 instead of 191003)
The volume Macintosh HD needs to be repaired.
Error: Filesystem verify or repair failed.
As i do not have the Mac OS Leopard disks physically with me, I target-disk started her mac on my mac, and use my mac to run Disk Utility on her hard-disk, and repaired the disk without problems.
However, this is the 3rd or 4th time this has happened. After the 1st time, i figured something is causing it, so i checked this forum, and found that for some, the Blackberry Messenger app causes programs, so i promptly uninstalled it fully (including associated system files) and this problem didnt come back for a while.
Or could this be a sign the hard disk is physically failing soon? It is out of warranty now. We have regular TimeMachine backups. We are actually kinda waiting out until the new line of macbook pro's come out.. (hopefully in June at WWDC)
Any suggestions as to how else to address this? Thanks!
Laptop stats: MacBook Pro 15"
2.4 GHZ Intel Core 2 Duo
2 GB RAM
HDD: 250GB
Graphics: NVDIA GeForce 9400M VRAM 256MB
OS: Mac OS Leopard

Well, the disk errors are due to corruption caused by the random power downs, so focus on getting that issue solved first. What's the stats on the battery?

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