Comments on: pfix v3.0 Released

By: Conti

Conti — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 00:22:35 +0000

@AVO-Electronics Yes, it does, among other things.

By: AVO-Electronics

AVO-Electronics — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 11:05:14 +0000

Hi,

Does this rebuild the caches in /library/caches/com.apple.kext.caches/startup ?

By: Conti

Conti — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 15:13:51 +0000

Brian Richmond: If you run pfix 3 without any flags it should prompt you to select from a numbered list, if you enter the number of the volume you wish to repair it will do so, for example if I run pfix without any flags from my USB Installer I am prompted with a list that includes / and /Volumes/OSx86 – being my internal drive that I wish to repair. / is number 1, /Volumes/0Sx86 is number 2, so I simply press the number 2 and then enter and it repairs the correct volume.

If it does not do this for you, you may want to double check that you have the latest version of pfix and/or download the pfix installer or myhack installer and ensure that it is installed correctly to your system path.

By: Brian Richmond

Brian Richmond — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 17:48:12 +0000

I ran Pfix 3 from the terminal with the -t command and it fixed permissions on the correct partition. Why doesn’t it do that when just clicking on Pfix? ( See my previous posting )

By: Brian Richmond

Brian Richmond — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 16:48:01 +0000

I tried to use Pfix 3 to fix permissions of an OSX86 installation on another partition ( /Volumes/Untitled 2 ) but it always reverts to the booted OSX86 partition ( / )

I used an earlier version, Pfix 2.3 which indicates that it is repairing the /Volumes/Untitled 2 partition.

Is there something wrong or does Pfix 3 always indicate that it is repairing the / partition regardless of what’s entered? If there is a problem, how may I fix it?

By: Tony

Tony — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 05:28:17 +0000

I am having the exact same problem as Geoff and Rowan and tried both of the listed methods with no luck. I receive the same message, ‘ illegal operation –q’.

Using leopard 10.5.8, but on a powerpc if this matters.

Any help greatly appreciated, thanks.

By: tan

tan — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 14:11:42 +0000

I am running on 10.5.8, similar error “kextcache: illegal option — q”

regards,
tan

By: Geoff

Geoff — Sun, 09 May 2010 20:43:22 +0000

Running 10.5.7, but I found the problem (I think), I had to put the full path in front of the utility name and use the “-t” option to get it working properly.

But I’m still getting reboots after Chameleon finishes loading all the kexts, and I think there is a “missing SMBIOS” message but the screen went by too fast.

Is SL useable on a system with a Pentium D 820 processor and Intel D945GCZ MB?

By: Conti

Conti — Sun, 09 May 2010 13:46:11 +0000

Geoff: See the reply I just posted to rowan.

By: Conti

Conti — Sun, 09 May 2010 13:44:58 +0000

rowan: What version of OS X are you running pfix on? I think prior to OS X 10.5 the -q option is not available – try using the -v 1 flag (pfix -h for usage instructions).