Problem with techtool deluxe

Hello all,
I am a new IMAC owner and have a question regarding techtool deluxe. I had no problems running it, but when it came to "surface scan" it was automatically skipped. I ran it again and the same thing occured. Is this normal? Am I doing something wrong?
Imac 17" Mac OS X (10.4.9) 2GHz Intel Core 2; 1 GB RAM;

Have you checked the list of items to be scanned and made sure "surface scan" was selected?
Miriam

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Repairing volume with techtool deluxe

My MBP is on the protection plan which means I have techtool deluxe. The software has found an error in the volume. The directions for the software state to restart the mac from the appple menu and hold down the C key while starting the MBP with the cd in the drive. This supposedly is going to start the MBP from the cd and start techtool deluxe's repair programs. My problem is that when I restart holding the C key my MBP just starts up normally. Am I not doing it correctly? Does C key mean the apple/cmd key? Does C key mean the ctrl key?
Has anybody ever used techtool deluxe to repair a bad volume?

Do not use TT Deluxe to repair your drive. It is not compatible with Intel Macs. Instead use Disk Utility. Do the following:
Repairing the Hard Drive and Permissions
Boot from your Leopard Installer disc. After the installer loads select your language and click on the Continue button. When the menu bar appears select Disk Utility from the Utilities menu. After DU loads select your hard drive entry (mfgr.'s ID and drive size) from the the left side list. In the DU status area you will see an entry for the S.M.A.R.T. status of the hard drive. If it does not say "Verified" then the hard drive is failing or failed. (SMART status is not reported on external Firewire or USB drives.) If the drive is "Verified" then select your OS X volume from the list on the left (sub-entry below the drive entry,) click on the First Aid tab, then click on the Repair Disk button. If DU reports any errors that have been fixed, then re-run Repair Disk until no errors are reported. If no errors are reported click on the Repair Permissions button. Wait until the operation completes, then quit DU and return to the installer. Now shutdown the computer for a couple of minutes and then restart normally.
If DU reports errors it cannot fix, then you will need Disk Warrior (4.1 for Leopard) and/or TechTool Pro (4.6.1 for Leopard) to repair the drive. If you don't have either of them or if neither of them can fix the drive, then you will need to reformat the drive and reinstall OS X.

How to repair with techtool deluxe ?

Hi friends my techtool software detected a failure in the volume structure and it says can be fixed but I do not know how.... help

You don't use TT Deluxe to repair disks. In fact you shouldn't use it at all. Use Disk Utility in your Utilities folder.
Repairing the Hard Drive and Permissions
Boot from your OS X Installer disc. After the installer loads select your language and click on the Continue button. When the menu bar appears select Disk Utility from the Installer menu (Utilities menu for Tiger.) After DU loads select your hard drive entry (mfgr.'s ID and drive size) from the the left side list. In the DU status area you will see an entry for the S.M.A.R.T. status of the hard drive. If it does not say "Verified" then the hard drive is failing or failed. (SMART status is not reported on external Firewire or USB drives.) If the drive is "Verified" then select your OS X volume from the list on the left (sub-entry below the drive entry,) click on the First Aid tab, then click on the Repair Disk button. If DU reports any errors that have been fixed, then re-run Repair Disk until no errors are reported. If no errors are reported click on the Repair Permissions button. Wait until the operation completes, then quit DU and return to the installer. Now shutdown the computer for a couple of minutes and then restart normally.
If DU reports errors it cannot fix, then you will need Disk Warrior (4.0 for Tiger) and/or TechTool Pro (4.5.2 for Tiger) to repair the drive. If you don't have either of them or if neither of them can fix the drive, then you will need to reformat the drive and reinstall OS X.

TechTool Deluxe (applecare CD) unmounted my hard drive

I'll just detail what happened, any and all suggestions would be helpful.
1. Ran Permission repair utility: everything checked out
2. Ran Disk repair utility: Catalog error found
3. Rebooted mac with techtool deluxe cd.
4. Enabled all tests (including volume structure test)
5. All tests check out fine save for volume structure: which is what I expected
6. prompted me to "repair" drive, clicked "ok"
7. After repair successfully completed rebooted mac
8. Kernel Panic upon reboot
9. After multiple reboots, restarted from Tiger install disk.
10. According to Tiger install disk, main hard drive is "unmounted" and un-journaled
11. Re-started again from TechTool Deluxe Cd
12. Ran Tests again (this time only Volume Structure) Passed
TechTool completely recognizes my hard drive, and everything on it (correct amount of space used etc. While OSX says I have nothing on it, and refuses to boot normally without the aid of a CD. What are my options at this point?

Hi Jason, and a Warm Welcome to the Power Mac G5 Forum!
There is some(!) discussion of this problem here
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=120264&start=0&tstart=0
And some stable door here
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301269
You could try (if you haven't already) using the Disk Utility on the 10.4 retail disk to Mount and Repair the boot drive
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=DiskUtility/10.5/en/duh1018.html
You may be able to use Firewire TDM to access the drive, if you have another Mac
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=58583
and try Disk Utility from there - and maybe rescue your data, if you need to.
I haven't read it all the way through... but the early posts seem to have ended in an Erase and Install of OS X; Disk Warrior did not appear to help - but is a useful Utility to have, so may be worth a try
http://www.alsoft.com/DiskWarrior/index.html
and highly-recommended by many in this Forum.
You can download and burn a current TechTool CD here
https://support.apple.com/techtooldeluxe/main?id=dl
- if you have AppleCare, of course.
Good Luck.

TechTool Deluxe 3.0.3 & Mac OS 10.4

I ran TechTool Deluxe 3.0.3 (came as part of AppleCare) on my Mac OS 10.4.3 Christmas Day. Now my Macintosh will not restart.
I just found out within the last hour that this was a BAD move: Only TechTool Deluxe 3.0.4 and higher should be run on Mac OS 10.4!
http://www.jmu.edu/computing/mac/tigertechtool.shtml
http://lists.blu.org/pipermail/macwoburn/2005-July/001333.html
I'm thinking that THIS is why my computer now fails to restart, reguardless of whatever messages the system is throwing my way.
Please advise!

Hi, Jrsy - Without removing the onus from the user completely--because it is ultimately the user's responsibility to be aware of the usefulness of any utilities h/s may choose to implement--I think that that is something about which AppleCare (Apple Support) should also be proactive. If AppleCare knowingly supplies retailers with soon-to-be-outdated (or already outdated) copies of a disk repair utility (and this is also symptomatic MicroMat's typically slow response to any Mac OS X update, not simply the move to 10.4 from 10.3, and not simply with TechTool Deluxe, but with TechTool Pro, as well), then there should be a warning included in every retail AppleCare package which apprises users of the likelihood of irreparable directory damage when using incompatible or obsolete "repair" utilities on their machines.
(It should be said that there is a KBase article [linked above] with a creation date of 1 April about this issue. ...Not that most people are particularly diligent about searching the Knowledge Base either before or after issues arise....)
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Is AppleCare's TechTool Deluxe 3.1.2 ready for Snow Leopard?

I have another year left on my AppleCare and it came with TechTool Deluxe 3.1.2. I checked the Micromat site and there is no other update.
Does anyone know if it is compatible with Snow Leopard?
Thom

It seems the current techtool deluxe apple offer for download is also incompatible with more recent models of MackBook Pro. WHen I went to download the Techtool Deluxe from https://support.apple.com/techtooldeluxe/main?id=dl I get this message:
+Note: The MacBook (13-inch, Aluminum, Late 2008) and MacBook Pro (15-inch, Late 2008) *are not fully compatible with this version of TechTool Deluxe*. The MacBook Air is fully compatible with this version of TechTool Deluxe when used with the MacBook Air SuperDrive. Please check back later for a new version of TechTool Deluxe+
Does anyone know if this update (TechTool Deluxe 3.1.3 Updater) fixes just Snow Leopard compatibility - or hardware as well?

I have an Apple MacBook on which Lion 10.7, plus all updates, are successfully installed. Can you tell me if TechTool Deluxe, normally supplied with Apple here has been now tested and found to run successfully? I have run the program to check a problem

I have an Apple MacBook on which Lion 10.7, plus all updates, are successfully installed.
Can you tell me if TechTool Deluxe, normally supplied with Apple here has been now tested and found to run successfully?
I have run the program to check a problem that I'm having. The particularly with video, and also volume structure. TEchTool Delux reports a failure for both of these components.
I am wondering if this is realistic or not, given the start-up screen for TechTool Delux mentions on start-up that it has yet to be tested fully with Lion?
With thanks, Ron.

Yes, I understand, however, he Macbook is out of its Applecare, but the TechTool it still on the machine. Does that entitle me to an upgrade in TechTool?
I suspect not, hoever, seeing I am running Lion, I am not sure at all? If you can answer this question it will help as then Imight be able to solve the problem I'm having.
Best regards, Ron

Using techtool pro found problem with "volume structure". What to do?

Using techtool pro found problem with "volume structure" and this was not fixed by TECHTOOL PRO. What do you suggest I do?

I would boot from my gray install disk (put the disk in the drive and restart holding down the C key). Then choose Utilities and run Disk Utility and click Repair Disk. As always, be sure you have a back up of your data first.

Techtool Deluxe don't works with Mac OS X 10.7.x Lion...

Hello,
i have installed Mac OS X Lion on my iMac from Late 2009 and buy it with Apple Care Protection here in Germany.
The Progam Techtool Pro does not work under Lion. Installing succesfull and display when starting an Error-Message (Techtool Deluxe not tested under Lion)
Where have any question for recommend Update. The Techtool Pro works only with Mac OS X 10.4.x too 10.6.x ...?
Thanks for Questions.
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Also, is there anyway to turn off the start-up chime? I have headphones plugged into it and with my older Mini as long as I did that I didn't hear the chimes.
Last, what happened to the up and down arrows to navigate? I usually use the mouse scroll wheel but my mother can't because of carpal tunnel (she got my old Mini).
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Regarding the start up chime, there are utilities for turning it off. You can find them by doing a Google Search however once again I'd recommend against it because the chime is an important part of the startup sequence. That being said why are you turning off the computer, please read your owners manual! If you insist on shutting down your computer rather than letting it sleep then simply turn down the sound prior to shutting it down.
In the current version of OS X Lion Apple has removed the scroll bars, You can turn them back on though in System Preferences - General - Show Scroll Bars. Lion is new and it's different, some things you may like some you may not. I would recommend reading MacWorlds review on it at:
http://www.macworld.com/article/161026/2011/07/osx_lion_review.html

Topic : Techtool Deluxe 3.1.x Uninstall/install/update problems

hi,
just bought an iMac and when I tried to install Techtool Deluxe 3.1.1 and 3.1.2 I got the same problem as described in
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1413920
when calling Apple Care I was suggested to try to install the software using another account (in the same iMac). It worked.
Does this solve the problem? Or could it happen that the application is not proper installed in my account? what happens when I remove the testing account I used to install the Techtool?
Thanks

Welcome to the Apple boards.
An interesting solution. Thanks.
If it runs under the original administrator, it should be OK.
You should ask Apple why this workaround works and why. It's obviously a bug.

Techtool deluxe problem

G'day
My new 24" imac with Gforce 130 graphics card has been acting weird; frozen shutdowns, frozen programs, photoshop not pasting correctly.
The techtool deluxe that came with Applecare shows a 'Fail' on the cards memory, but TechTool Pro shows a 'Pass'.
Micromat tells me it's possibly because the supplied TechTool deluxe is older than the card (the TT deluxe creation date is 1 April 2008).
Apples hardware test shows everything OK.
I've re-installed the OS 3 times, and it seems OK for now.
Does anyone have the same card with TT deluxe, and does it show a failed or passed card?
Regards
Santa

Have you checked the list of items to be scanned and made sure "surface scan" was selected?
Miriam

System crashes after waking; problems with distnoted, graphics chip error

I am running 10.3.9 on a Dual 1 GHz G4, with 1.5 GB SDRAM, a GeForce4 Ti 4600 LCD display, and a LaCie 1394 external drive. I have recently started to put my computer to sleep at night, rather than leaving it running 24 hours a day (I also installed sleepwatcher, to allow me to put my computer to sleep remotely, and anacron, to allow the nightly system maintenance jobs to continue to run). This was working fine for about a week, but for the last two days, when I woke my computer up in the morning, I got kernel panics after a few minutes. First some aspects of the display would start to get mangled (e.g. strange lines appearing, some text that I typed not showing up, icons in the dock looking speckled, etc.), then some applications would stop responding, and then a minute or so later I would get the feared kernel panic message ("You need to restart your computer" in multiple languages).
This problem only seems to occur after the computer has been asleep for a long time (I've only experienced it after it's been asleep for 12 hours or so, and not when it's only been asleep for a few minutes). The only thing I can think of that I've changed in the last few days is an AppleScript that mounts my external LaCie drive (using "do shell script diskutil mountDisk ...") before backing up my files - using FoldersSynchronizer - then putting my computer to sleep (before I was never UNmounting this drive, so I didn't have to mount it in the AppleScript - I was still using the script to back up the files then put the computer to sleep).
I have tried running Apple's Disk Utility (both to repair the permissions, and to repair the disk), DiskWarrior (to rebuild my startup disk), fsck, and TechTool Deluxe. None seemed to reveal any major errors except the "Surface Scan" in TechTool, which failed, presumably because of media defects in the disk (but my understanding is that fixing this would require reformatting my disk, something that I only want to do as a last resort).
My system.log shows the following, from the time I woke my computer to the time I restarted (I've highlighted some suspicious-looking lines). It seems like the problem might either be occurring in distnoted, or with the graphics chip. Any thoughts on how I can determine the cause of the problem?
Mar 28 10:58:31 localhost kernel: System Sleep
Mar 28 10:58:38 localhost kernel: System Wake
Mar 28 10:58:38 localhost kernel: Wake event 0020
Mar 28 10:58:38 localhost kernel: enableClockSpreading returned with 0
Mar 28 10:58:38 localhost kernel: AppleNMI unmask NMI
Mar 28 10:58:38 localhost kernel: Adaptec warning: Resetting SCSI bus.
Mar 28 10:58:38 localhost kernel: FWOHCI handleSelfIDInt - nodeID not valid (reset bus and retry 1)
Mar 28 10:58:38 localhost kernel: UniNEnet::monitorLinkStatus - Link is up at 100 Mbps - Half Duplex
Mar 28 10:58:44 localhost mDNSResponder[186]: mDNSResponder Waking at 1236250
Mar 28 10:58:44 localhost SymMissedTask - parent[233]: sleeptime recorded: Mon Mar 27 16:05:06 2006
Mar 28 10:58:44 localhost SymMissedTask - parent[233]: waketime is: Tue Mar 28 10:58:44 2006
Mar 28 10:59:04 localhost crontab[436]: (root) LIST (root)
Mar 28 10:59:04 localhost crontab[438]: (root) LIST (sage)
Mar 28 11:05:09 localhost crashdump: Unable to determine CPSProcessSerNum pid: 151 name: distnoted
Mar 28 11:05:09 localhost mach_init[2]: Server 0 in bootstrap d03 uid 0: "/usr/sbin/distnoted": exited as a result of signal 10 [pid 151]
Mar 28 11:05:09 localhost crashdump: Started writing crash report to: /Library/Logs/CrashReporter/distnoted.crash.log
Mar 28 11:05:09 localhost crashdump: Finished writing crash report to: /Library/Logs/CrashReporter/distnoted.crash.log
Mar 28 11:05:10 localhost kernel: Graphics chip error! Restarted.
Mar 28 11:05:15 localhost last message repeated 2 times
Mar 28 11:05:19 localhost crashdump: Unable to determine CPSProcessSerNum pid: 448 name: distnoted
Mar 28 11:05:19 localhost crashdump: Started writing crash report to: /Library/Logs/CrashReporter/distnoted.crash.log
Mar 28 11:05:19 localhost mach_init[2]: Server 180b in bootstrap d03 uid 0: "/usr/sbin/distnoted": exited as a result of signal 10 [pid 448]
Mar 28 11:05:19 localhost crashdump: Finished writing crash report to: /Library/Logs/CrashReporter/distnoted.crash.log
Mar 28 11:05:20 localhost kernel: Graphics chip error! Restarted.
Mar 28 11:05:29 localhost last message repeated 7 times
Mar 28 11:06:59 localhost last message repeated 12 times
Mar 28 11:07:01 localhost crashdump: Started writing crash report to: /Users/sacks/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/MouseWorks Background.crash.log
Mar 28 11:07:01 localhost kernel: Graphics chip error! Restarted.
Mar 28 11:07:02 localhost crashdump: Finished writing crash report to: /Users/sacks/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/MouseWorks Background.crash.log
Mar 28 11:07:11 localhost kernel: Graphics chip error! Restarted.
Mar 28 11:07:14 localhost last message repeated 2 times
Mar 28 11:07:24 localhost kernel: NVKernel::initializeChannel time out.
Mar 28 11:08:43 localhost syslogd: restart
Yesterday's crash looks similar, except that the Graphics chip error occurs 13 seconds before the distnoted error (rather than after the distnoted error), and rather than a crash of "MouseWorks Background" there was a crash of "WindowServer". A log file from a few days ago, when I woke my computer up without a crash, has one line that is now absent: Mar 23 08:48:43 nitrogen kernel: AFPSleepWakeHandler: waking up.
panic.log contains:
Tue Mar 28 11:08:55 2006
Unresolved kernel trap(cpu 1): 0x300 - Data access DAR=0x000000003AA4C34E PC=0x000000000099E54C
Latest crash info for cpu 1:
Exception state (sv=0x2CD3AC80)
PC=0x0099E54C; MSR=0x00009030; DAR=0x3AA4C34E; DSISR=0x40000000; LR=0x0099EFA0; R1=0x19D63AC0; XCP=0x0000000C (0x300 - Data access)
Backtrace:
0x0099FF28 0x0099EFA0 0x00997468 0x00988020 0x0027E650 0x00280324 0x0007AC48 0x00021668
0x0001BCE8 0x0001C0F0 0x00094318 0x00000000
Kernel loadable modules in backtrace (with dependencies):
com.apple.GeForce(3.4.2)@0x981000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(1.4)@0x4b3000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily(1.3.5)@0x4c6000
dependency: com.apple.NVDAResman(3.4.2)@0x4fc000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IONDRVSupport(1.3.5)@0x4e6000
Proceeding back via exception chain:
Exception state (sv=0x2CD3AC80)
previously dumped as "Latest" state. skipping...
Exception state (sv=0x2CDA8000)
PC=0x900078B8; MSR=0x0200F030; DAR=0xE0FA8000; DSISR=0x42000000; LR=0x90007438; R1=0xBFFEE3D0; XCP=0x00000030 (0xC00 - System call)
Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 7.9.0:
Wed Mar 30 20:11:17 PST 2005; root:xnu/xnu-517.12.7.obj~1/RELEASE_PPC
panic(cpu 1): 0x300 - Data access
Latest stack backtrace for cpu 1:
Backtrace:
0x00083498 0x0008397C 0x0001EDA4 0x00090C38 0x0009402C
Proceeding back via exception chain:
Exception state (sv=0x2CD3AC80)
PC=0x0099E54C; MSR=0x00009030; DAR=0x3AA4C34E; DSISR=0x40000000; LR=0x0099EFA0; R1=0x19D63AC0; XCP=0x0000000C (0x300 - Data access)
Backtrace:
0x0099FF28 0x0099EFA0 0x00997468 0x00988020 0x0027E650 0x00280324 0x0007AC48 0x00021668
0x0001BCE8 0x0001C0F0 0x00094318 0x00000000
Kernel loadable modules in backtrace (with dependencies):
com.apple.GeForce(3.4.2)@0x981000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(1.4)@0x4b3000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily(1.3.5)@0x4c6000
dependency: com.apple.NVDAResman(3.4.2)@0x4fc000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IONDRVSupport(1.3.5)@0x4e6000
Exception state (sv=0x2CDA8000)
PC=0x900078B8; MSR=0x0200F030; DAR=0xE0FA8000; DSISR=0x42000000; LR=0x90007438; R1=0xBFFEE3D0; XCP=0x00000030 (0xC00 - Sp
The distnoted.crash.log refers to the following exception:
Exception: EXCBADACCESS (0x0001)
Codes: KERNPROTECTIONFAILURE (0x0002) at 0x00000006
(I can post this whole log if it would be helpful.)
Any thoughts on what might be causing this problem? I will continue to test the effects of changing various aspects of my configuration, but since I can only get the problem to occur once a day (after my computer has been asleep for a while), it might take me a few days or weeks to track the problem down through blind trial-and-error.
Thanks!
Dual 1 GHz G4 Mac OS X (10.3.9) 1.5 GB SDRAM, GeForce4 Ti 4600 LCD display, LaCie 1394 external drive

After a little experimentation, I've managed to narrow the problem down a little, but still haven't resolved it. My computer still crashes almost every time I wake it up after a long sleep (multiple hours). Things work fine for a few minutes, but then some aspects of the display start to get mangled (e.g. strange lines appearing, text becoming distorted, etc.), then some applications start crashing and the system hangs. Sometimes I get a kernel panic, but not always - but I always need to reboot to solve the problem.
The errors in the system log files differ from crash to crash, but the one thing that seems to be consistent is that I get a "Graphics chip error". Is this usually a hardware problem, or can it be due to a software problem? Sometimes this graphics chip error is the first error to occur, although sometimes an application will crash a few seconds before the graphics chip error is recorded in the system.log.
In my original post, I suggested that the problem might be due to an AppleScript that mounts an external drive. I have since determined that this is NOT the cause of the problem.
Any thoughts on what might be going on?
Here's the relevant part of the system log file from today's crash:
From /var/log/system.log:
Mar 31 13:52:18 nitrogen kernel: System Sleep
Mar 31 13:52:24 nitrogen kernel: System Wake
Mar 31 13:52:24 nitrogen kernel: Wake event 0020
Mar 31 13:52:24 nitrogen kernel: enableClockSpreading returned with 0
Mar 31 13:52:24 nitrogen kernel: AppleNMI unmask NMI
Mar 31 13:52:24 nitrogen kernel: Adaptec warning: Resetting SCSI bus.
Mar 31 13:52:24 nitrogen kernel: FWOHCI handleSelfIDInt - nodeID not valid (reset bus and retry 1)
Mar 31 13:52:24 nitrogen kernel: UniNEnet::monitorLinkStatus - Link is up at 100 Mbps - Half Duplex
Mar 31 13:52:30 nitrogen mDNSResponder[159]: mDNSResponder Waking at 19764350
Mar 31 13:52:30 nitrogen mDNSResponder[159]: -1: DNSServiceRegister("Bill's Mostly Celtic Music", "daap.tcp.", "local.", 3689) failed: Client id -1
invalid (-65549)
Mar 31 13:52:30 nitrogen mDNSResponder[159]: -1: DNSServiceRegister("iTunesCtrl5DC89B66EC5DD60B", "dacp.tcp.", "local.", 3689) failed: Client id
-1 invalid (-65549)
Mar 31 13:52:30 nitrogen SymMissedTask - parent[240]: sleeptime recorded: Thu Mar 30 17:58:59 2006
Mar 31 13:52:30 nitrogen SymMissedTask - parent[240]: waketime is: Fri Mar 31 13:52:30 2006
Mar 31 13:52:50 nitrogen crontab[659]: (root) LIST (root)
Mar 31 13:52:50 nitrogen crontab[661]: (root) LIST (sage)
Mar 31 13:57:07 nitrogen kernel: Graphics chip error! Restarted.
Mar 31 13:57:24 nitrogen last message repeated 19 times
Mar 31 13:57:24 nitrogen crashdump: Started writing crash report to: /Library/Logs/CrashReporter/WindowServer.crash.log
Mar 31 13:57:24 nitrogen crashdump: Finished writing crash report to: /Library/Logs/CrashReporter/WindowServer.crash.log
Mar 31 13:57:25 nitrogen kernel: Graphics chip error! Restarted.
Mar 31 13:57:31 nitrogen last message repeated 42 times
Mar 31 14:00:00 nitrogen CRON[667]: (root) CMD ("/Library/Application Support/Symantec/Scheduler/SymSecondaryLaunch.app/Contents/schedLauncher" 1 "/Applications/Symantec Solutions/LiveUpdate.app/Contents/MacOS/LiveUpdate" " " "oapp" "aevt" "exAG" "-update LUdf -liveupdatequiet YES -liveupdateautoquit YES")
Mar 31 14:00:00 nitrogen /Library/Application Support/Symantec/Scheduler/SymSecondaryLaunch.app/Contents/schedLauncher[667]: launch for id = 1 event = oapp result = 0
aped[186]: Attach denied: super-user process, for LiveUpdate[674]
aped[186]: Attach denied: super-user process, for loginwindow[686]
aped[186]: Attach denied: super-user process, for SecurityAgent[690]
aped[186]: Attach denied: super-user process, for IRTool[710]
aped[186]: Attach denied: super-user process, for loginwindow[836]
aped[186]: Attach denied: super-user process, for SecurityAgent[839]
Mar 31 14:01:55 nitrogen sudo: sacks : TTY=ttyp1 ; PWD=/private/var/log ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/sbin/shutdown -r now
Mar 31 14:01:55 nitrogen shutdown: reboot by sacks:
Mar 31 14:01:57 nitrogen syslogd: exiting on signal 15
Mar 31 14:08:44 localhost syslogd: restart
Dual 1 GHz G4 Mac OS X (10.3.9) 1.5 GB SDRAM, GeForce4 Ti 4600 LCD display, LaCie 1394 external drive

Data Recovery AFTER TechTool Deluxe "Repair" ?

Hello,
I have a PB from Fall 2005 (1.5 Ghz, 512 Ram, superdrive, 80 GB) running 10.4. Recently, performance really started to lag, so I began diligent monitoring and ordered an external HD to perform a more comprehensive backup. For the last week, although SMART status was verified on the internal HD, I've been running on a bootable external drive (that was too full to perform a full backup of the current system). When the new external drive arrived yesterday, I installed 10.4 onto a fresh partition and prepared to copy all my files over from the internal drive. Of course, in the midst of this process, but before I could begin the file transfer, the internal drive decided to die and list SMART status as failed. From previous TechTool and other diagnoses, I believe the issue was just a horribly corrupted directory rather than any real physical damage (despite being forced to use numerous hard shut downs due to a stalled, all-but-frozen system in the recent past).
Now, here's the crux of my question: I ran TechTool Deluxe (the version that is packaged with Apple Care) and again it reported a bad directory. I had to safe boot on the external drive to get the computer to complete log in, otherwise it stales as it "searches for local drives." So the drive was not mounting, but it was recognized by both Disk Utility and Tech Tool. Feeling that it was my only option, I decided to go ahead and let Tech Tool repair the volume structure. Tech Tool was "successful" but now I am left with a hard drive that mounts but only shows my applications and library folders, along with a folder full of gibberish index files. No system folder, no users folder.
Is there a way to step back from this repair? Apple Support suggested trying to use Disk Utility again to verify the disk, but I'm highly dubious. I've heard of Alsoft DiskWarrior and ProSoft's Data Rescue II--but I don't know if either are something that will work after-the-fact now that Tech Tool has done its damage. I also talked to Drive Savers and they're quoting $500-2400, with $1600+ the cost of anything approximating full recovery.
Any suggestions on methods, preferred vendors, etc? I've backed up sporadically and have fresh copies of most of my key documents, and 75-90% of my music, but I'd lose all my photos and my crucial contacts, emails, and calendars.
I've done some searches and found slightly similar issues to my particular problem (ie http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=1150247?).
I'll be monitoring this closely if I left any details out that would help in providing a recommendation.

Hi,
Thanks for your comments. I actually have not been able to boot from the "repaired" drive. It no longer mounts and disk utility reports it had a "fatal hardware error." I can still mount fine from either of my two external drives. Here's the current update. I downloaded the demo of Data Rescue II from Prosoft and am letting it performa thorough scan of my hard drive. It was about 2 hours from completion after 10 hours of scanning when I left for work this morning. If it turns up anything, I'll go ahead and buy the full version. If not, unless this board turns up anything else, yes, it looks like DriveSavers (or a similar alternative?).

OS X 10.5.x AirPort Dropout Issue - Problem with Apple

I am posting this as a new topic in the hope that Apple will take urgent action to resolve these AirPort dropout issues with OS X 10.5.x.
Yesterday, I installed setup a new 40GB partition on my firewire drive and installed OS X 10.5.2 (from my original installation dvd) and did all updates (via Software Update) to arrive at an up-to-date OS X 10.5.5. Only stock standard OS X 10.5.5 installed now.
Some interesting observations along the way:
1. After installing 10.5.2 the AirPort network kept dropping out or stalling.
2. Installed following updates:
- AirPort Utility (5.3.2)
- QuickTime (7.5.5)
- iLife Support (8.3)
- iTunes (8.0)
- Remote Desktop Client Update (3.2.2)
- Java For Mac OS X 10.5 Update 1 (1.0)
I did not update to OS X 10.5.5 at this time.
3. Restarted and AirPort network stable and fast.
4. Ran Software Update again - installed:
- Front Row Update (2.1.6)
- Mac OS X Update Combined (10.5.5)
5. Restarted and AirPort network stable and fast.
6. Ran Software Update again - all software up to date.
7. Repaired permissions with Disk Utility.
Everything has been going fine with connections to the internet with Safari - until this morning.
My 'clean' OS X 10.5.5 installation is now suffering from the same AirPort network dropouts - no 3rd party applications installed. Ran OK for a day, but after being shutdown for 5 or 6 hours, the problem arose following startup this morning.
Conclusion:
1. AirPort problem with OS X 10.5.x; or
2. AirPort problem with new 17" MBP; or
3. Problem with AEB 802.11n (gagabit ethernet); or
4. Problem with DSL modem or ISP connection.
Comments on item 1 - think I have conclusively eliminated 3rd party software.
Comment on item 2 - no problems indicated by TechTool Delux or TechTool Pro 4; works OK via ethernet connection.
Comment on item 3 - previously did factory reset and textbook setup on AEB. Connection via AEB 802.11g relay and remote work fine.
Comment on item 4 - fact that other computers connect OK and this computer can connect OK via ethernet rules out problems with DSL modem and ISP.
Draw your own conclusions, but I am now certain the problem is clearly with Apple.

Hello,
looks same to me.
the log says:
kernel AirPort: Link Down on en1
kernel unable to collect channel list from hal;(...)
my AEB is just 2 ms away from the MacBookPro, the AEB is brand new.
In the moment I have an ethernet cable going from the router through the house, because the AEB is unrelyable. I used all the tricks people posted and said it would solve the problem, which is not the case for me. Dropouts just continue.
With the old ufo-style extreme there was no problem at all.
So please Airport developers put effort to solve the problem and suffering of users.
thanks

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I ran Techtool Deluxe after having installed OS X Lion. When it gets to the Video Ram test it quits. If I disable this test all is fine. What's wrong with testing video ram on OSX Lion?
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