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I recently updated my bios from f7 to f11 and replaced the dsdt.aml with the new one from this site. I redid all my bios settings, and now when I start up, my desktop has changed to the default background, my dock has all the default applications, and none of my login items start up. When I open itunes, I have to agree to the disclaimer again.

I am wondering if this has something to do with my SystemID fix not working anymore, so the computer is treating me as though I reinstalled on a seperate hard drive. Any ideas on how to fix this? The current fix I am using is SystemID=9840E... in my Boot.plist.

Whenever I restart my computer, it resets the dock and desktop exactly how they were before.
 
auntyjamima said:
I recently updated my bios from f7 to f11 and replaced the dsdt.aml with the new one from this site. I redid all my bios settings, and now when I start up, my desktop has changed to the default background, my dock has all the default applications, and none of my login items start up. When I open itunes, I have to agree to the disclaimer again.

I am wondering if this has something to do with my SystemID fix not working anymore, so the computer is treating me as though I reinstalled on a seperate hard drive. Any ideas on how to fix this? The current fix I am using is SystemID=9840E... in my Boot.plist.

Whenever I restart my computer, it resets the dock and desktop exactly how they were before.

What's with the SystemID fix? Does your user folder still exist?
 
Vendetta said:
auntyjamima said:
I recently updated my bios from f7 to f11 and replaced the dsdt.aml with the new one from this site. I redid all my bios settings, and now when I start up, my desktop has changed to the default background, my dock has all the default applications, and none of my login items start up. When I open itunes, I have to agree to the disclaimer again.

I am wondering if this has something to do with my SystemID fix not working anymore, so the computer is treating me as though I reinstalled on a seperate hard drive. Any ideas on how to fix this? The current fix I am using is SystemID=9840E... in my Boot.plist.

Whenever I restart my computer, it resets the dock and desktop exactly how they were before.

What's with the SystemID fix? Does your user folder still exist?

I'm thinking it isn't a system id thing. All my stuff exists but now I am getting all kinds of permission errors. Also my disks are all showing up as external and I can't run disk utility!
 
Can you just boot to the SL install disc and repair permissions?
 
I tried that and all my disks have a lock sign on them. It looks like my permissions are seriously messed up. Right now I am just really worried because even my time machine backup has a lock sign, so I might lose all my important data. This is really bad...

Please, someone help!!!!
 
auntyjamima said:
I tried that and all my disks have a lock sign on them. It looks like my permissions are seriously messed up. Right now I am just really worried because even my time machine backup has a lock sign, so I might lose all my important data. This is really bad...

Please, someone help!!!!

They have a lock sign within disc utility?
 
Vendetta said:
auntyjamima said:
I tried that and all my disks have a lock sign on them. It looks like my permissions are seriously messed up. Right now I am just really worried because even my time machine backup has a lock sign, so I might lose all my important data. This is really bad...

Please, someone help!!!!

They have a lock sign within disc utility?


Yeah. I can't repair permissions on them either.
 
Hmm...could be yes that your install thinks it's a "different" one perhaps indeed due to system ID, and has reassigned user account numbers, leading to say user 501 on old system being user 502 now, and not able to access files for user 501, or something like that....

Have you tried the reset home folder permissions option, found under reset password in utilities on the install DVD?

EDIT: ALthough if that works for your home folder contents, I guess it might not work for the Time Machine backup, so might be better to figure out the old user ID and change new account to that (no idea how to do that though), else blitz the permissions on the backup and reset them for "new" user account, using chmod command in single user mode (or sudo start of each line?).
Something like:
Code:
chmod -R -N /path_to_folder_or_file
chmod -R username:staff /path_to_folder...
chmod -R 600 /path_to_folder...
 
So, I managed to fix the permissions on the drives. I think the problem now is many of my system files have permissions errors which disk utility is not fixing. Also, all my drives still show up as external. Here is a console read from when i boot up:

10/30/10 9:55:02 AM com.apple.launchctl.LoginWindow[92] launchctl: Dubious permissions on file (skipping): /Library/LaunchAgents/at.obdev.LittleSnitchNetworkMonitor.plist
10/30/10 9:55:02 AM com.apple.launchctl.LoginWindow[92] launchctl: Dubious permissions on file (skipping): /Library/LaunchAgents/at.obdev.LittleSnitchUIAgent.plist
10/30/10 9:55:02 AM com.apple.launchctl.LoginWindow[92] launchctl: Dubious permissions on file (skipping): /Library/LaunchAgents/com.razer.DeathAdder.Daemon.plist
10/30/10 9:55:02 AM com.apple.launchctl.LoginWindow[92] launchctl: Dubious permissions on file (skipping): /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.AirPortBaseStationAgent.plist
10/30/10 9:55:03 AM blued[65] CFPreferences: user home directory at file://localhost/Users/Nick/ is unavailable. User domains will be volatile.
10/30/10 9:55:03 AM loginwindow[54] CFPreferences: user home directory at file://localhost/Users/Nick/ is unavailable. User domains will be volatile.
10/30/10 9:55:03 AM com.apple.loginwindow[54] 2010-10-30 09:55:03.544 loginwindow[54:107] CFPreferences: user home directory at file://localhost/Users/Nick/ is unavailable. User domains will be volatile.
10/30/10 9:55:03 AM com.apple.launchctl.Background[102] launchctl: Dubious permissions on file (skipping): /Library/LaunchAgents/at.obdev.LittleSnitchNetworkMonitor.plist
10/30/10 9:55:03 AM com.apple.launchctl.Background[102] launchctl: Dubious permissions on file (skipping): /Library/LaunchAgents/at.obdev.LittleSnitchUIAgent.plist
10/30/10 9:55:03 AM com.apple.launchctl.Background[102] launchctl: Dubious permissions on file (skipping): /Library/LaunchAgents/com.razer.DeathAdder.Daemon.plist
10/30/10 9:55:03 AM com.apple.launchctl.Background[102] launchctl: Dubious permissions on file (skipping): /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.AirPortBaseStationAgent.plist
10/30/10 9:55:03 AM com.apple.launchctl.Aqua[103] launchctl: Dubious permissions on file (skipping): /Library/LaunchAgents/at.obdev.LittleSnitchNetworkMonitor.plist
10/30/10 9:55:03 AM com.apple.launchctl.Aqua[103] launchctl: Dubious permissions on file (skipping): /Library/LaunchAgents/at.obdev.LittleSnitchUIAgent.plist
10/30/10 9:55:03 AM com.apple.launchctl.Aqua[103] launchctl: Dubious permissions on file (skipping): /Library/LaunchAgents/com.razer.DeathAdder.Daemon.plist
10/30/10 9:55:03 AM com.apple.launchctl.Aqua[103] launchctl: Dubious permissions on file (skipping): /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.AirPortBaseStationAgent.plist
10/30/10 9:55:03 AM com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[101] (com.apple.ReportCrash) Falling back to default Mach exception handler. Could not find: com.apple.ReportCrash.Self
10/30/10 9:55:03 AM UserAccountUpdater[104] CFPreferences: user home directory at file://localhost/Users/Nick/ is unavailable. User domains will be volatile.
10/30/10 9:55:03 AM com.apple.loginwindow[54] 2010-10-30 09:55:03.660 UserAccountUpdater[104:903] CFPreferences: user home directory at file://localhost/Users/Nick/ is unavailable. User domains will be volatile.
10/30/10 9:55:03 AM compatchecker[105] CFPreferences: user home directory at file://localhost/Users/Nick/ is unavailable. User domains will be volatile.
10/30/10 9:55:03 AM com.apple.loginwindow[54] 2010-10-30 09:55:03.812 compatchecker[105:903] CFPreferences: user home directory at file://localhost/Users/Nick/ is unavailable. User domains will be volatile.
10/30/10 9:55:03 AM lsregister[107] CFPreferences: user home directory at file://localhost/Users/Nick/ is unavailable. User domains will be volatile.
10/30/10 9:55:03 AM com.apple.coreservicesd[75] 2010-10-30 09:55:03.903 lsregister[107:903] CFPreferences: user home directory at file://localhost/Users/Nick/ is unavailable. User domains will be volatile.
10/30/10 9:55:03 AM migCacheCleanup[108] Flushing Cache Locations...
10/30/10 9:55:03 AM com.apple.loginwindow[54] 2010-10-30 09:55:03.980 migCacheCleanup[108:903] Flushing Cache Locations...
10/30/10 9:55:03 AM migCacheCleanup[108] CFPreferences: user home directory at file://localhost/Users/Nick/ is unavailable. User domains will be volatile.
10/30/10 9:55:03 AM com.apple.loginwindow[54] 2010-10-30 09:55:03.990 migCacheCleanup[108:903] CFPreferences: user home directory at file://localhost/Users/Nick/ is unavailable. User domains will be volatile.
10/30/10 9:55:03 AM com.apple.loginwindow[54] 2010-10-30 09:55:03.994 loginwindow[54:107] Error loading /Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/HAL/DVCPROHDAudio.plugin/Contents/MacOS/DVCPROHDAudio: dlopen(/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/HAL/DVCPROHDAudio.plugin/Contents/MacOS/DVCPROHDAudio, 262): no suitable image found. Did find:
10/30/10 9:55:03 AM loginwindow[54] Error loading /Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/HAL/DVCPROHDAudio.plugin/Contents/MacOS/DVCPROHDAudio: dlopen(/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/HAL/DVCPROHDAudio.plugin/Contents/MacOS/DVCPROHDAudio, 262): no suitable image found. Did find:
/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/HAL/DVCPROHDAudio.plugin/Contents/MacOS/DVCPROHDAudio: no matching architecture in universal wrapper
10/30/10 9:55:03 AM com.apple.loginwindow[54] /Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/HAL/DVCPROHDAudio.plugin/Contents/MacOS/DVCPROHDAudio: no matching architecture in universal wrapper
10/30/10 9:55:03 AM loginwindow[54] Cannot find function pointer NewPlugIn for factory C5A4CE5B-0BB8-11D8-9D75-0003939615B6 in CFBundle/CFPlugIn 0x109902c60 </Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/HAL/DVCPROHDAudio.plugin> (bundle, not loaded)
10/30/10 9:55:03 AM com.apple.loginwindow[54] 2010-10-30 09:55:03.995 loginwindow[54:107] Cannot find function pointer NewPlugIn for factory C5A4CE5B-0BB8-11D8-9D75-0003939615B6 in CFBundle/CFPlugIn 0x109902c60 </Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/HAL/DVCPROHDAudio.plugin> (bundle, not loaded)
10/30/10 9:55:04 AM Dock[110] CFPreferences: user home directory at file://localhost/Users/Nick/ is unavailable. User domains will be volatile.
10/30/10 9:55:04 AM activateSettings[114] CFPreferences: user home directory at file://localhost/Users/Nick/ is unavailable. User domains will be volatile.
10/30/10 9:55:04 AM SystemUIServer[111] CFPreferences: user home directory at file://localhost/Users/Nick/ is unavailable. User domains will be volatile.
10/30/10 9:55:04 AM fontd[115] CFPreferences: user home directory at file://localhost/Users/Nick/ is unavailable. User domains will be volatile.
10/30/10 9:55:04 AM fontworker[125] CFPreferences: user home directory at file://localhost/Users/Nick/ is unavailable. User domains will be volatile.
10/30/10 9:55:04 AM Finder[112] CFPreferences: user home directory at file://localhost/Users/Nick/ is unavailable. User domains will be volatile.
10/30/10 9:55:05 AM SystemUIServer[111] Error loading /Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/HAL/DVCPROHDAudio.plugin/Contents/MacOS/DVCPROHDAudio: dlopen(/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/HAL/DVCPROHDAudio.plugin/Contents/MacOS/DVCPROHDAudio, 262): no suitable image found. Did find:
/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/HAL/DVCPROHDAudio.plugin/Contents/MacOS/DVCPROHDAudio: no matching architecture in universal wrapper
10/30/10 9:55:05 AM SystemUIServer[111] Cannot find function pointer NewPlugIn for factory C5A4CE5B-0BB8-11D8-9D75-0003939615B6 in CFBundle/CFPlugIn 0x11b404720 </Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/HAL/DVCPROHDAudio.plugin> (bundle, not loaded)
 
humph said:
Hmm...could be yes that your install thinks it's a "different" one perhaps indeed due to system ID, and has reassigned user account numbers, leading to say user 501 on old system being user 502 now, and not able to access files for user 501, or something like that....

Have you tried the reset home folder permissions option, found under reset password in utilities on the install DVD?

EDIT: ALthough if that works for your home folder contents, I guess it might not work for the Time Machine backup, so might be better to figure out the old user ID and change new account to that (no idea how to do that though), else blitz the permissions on the backup and reset them for "new" user account, using chmod command in single user mode (or sudo start of each line?).
Something like:
Code:
chmod -R -N /path_to_folder_or_file
chmod -R username:staff /path_to_folder...
chmod -R 600 /path_to_folder...



Yeah it really does seem as if my user id is not being recognized. I am not sure how to fix it either.
 
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