NeXT won't boot to GUI anymore...

[Sohrab Salehi]

Hello,

I have a NextStation N1100 running a Next Mach OS 3.0. It was working fine until I accidentally removed some files (including ncb) from the me directory. It was really stupid...

Now it won't boot into the GUI, and instead will show a terminal after showing
Loading form disk…
Loading form disk… spinning
Checking disk…
Checking for Network...

Here's what it says when I boot from the ROM Monitor with bsd command (the dates are way off):

NeXT ROM Monitor 2.5 v66
NeXT Mach 3.0: Wed Jul 29 19:43:28 PDT 1992; root(rcbuilder):mk-127 .15/BUILD/RELEASE_M68K
FPU version 0x41
physical memory = 20.00 megabytes.
available memory = 18.85 megabytes.
using 16 buffers containing 0.12 megabytes of memory
fc0 at 0x2114100
Sony MPX-111N as fd0 at fc0 slave 0
SCSI 53C90A Controller, Target 7, as sc0 at 0x2114000
QUANTUM PD210S Rev 527_ as sd0 at sc0 target 1 lun 0
Disk Label: NeXT_2.1
Disk Capacity 199MB, Device Block 512 bytes
Generic SCSI Device as sg0 at sc0 traget 7 lun 7
Generic SCSI Device as sg1 at sc0 traget 7 lun 7
Generic SCSI Device as sg2 at sc0 traget 7 lun 7
Generic SCSI Device as sg3 at sc0 traget 7 lun 7
en0 at 0x2106000
en0: Ethernet address 00:00:0f:00:e2:a5
IP protocol enabled for interface en0, type "10MB Ethernet"
dsp0 at 0x2108000
np0 at 0x200f000
sound0 at 0x200e000
root on sd0
master cpu at slot 0.

Tue Feb 15 03:50:16 GMT-0600 1994
Checking disks
/dev/rsd0a: file system clean: skipping check
Faking root mount entries
Configuring ethernet interface to -AUTOMATIC-
Using default broadcast address
The network is disabled or your computer isn't connected to it.
ifconfig: automatic address: Network is down
Setting hostname to localhost

erase ^? intr ^C kill ^U
-:tset: not found
#

I've followed the following topics, and tried the ideas to no avail:
http://www.applefritter.com/node/9778
http://www.nextcomputers.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=605&sid=916d7e5ffe0b67245e3eed5c6b256bb9
http://www.nextcomputers.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=562

I was wondering if anyone knows why it isn't showing the GUI and how may I fix that? Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Sohrab

[ober...@uni-duisburg-essen.de]

Hello,

are you sure that there didn't happen anything worse than deleten files
from 'me'?

This ...

Sohrab Salehi <sohrab...@gmail.com> wrote:
: Hello,

: I have a NextStation N1100 running a Next Mach OS 3.0. It was working fine until I accidentally removed some files (including ncb) from the me directory. It was really stupid...

: [...]
: -:tset: not found

... means, e.g., that the command tset isn't found. Either because /usr/ucb is
not in your path, or because it doesn't exist any longer as /usr/ucb/tset.

This could be due to a disk error, which would also explain, why the boot isn't
going along; something is missing. And most probably n o t only in the
'me'-home-directory.

: [...]

: I was wondering if anyone knows why it isn't showing the GUI and how may I fix that? Any help is greatly appreciated.

Have a look into the file /usr/adm/messages - if you can - and see if something
is logged there about a problem and try to verify that you harddisk is
physically intact and that no essential files are missing or unreachable
(as said, you may forget the files from the 'me'-home-directory for now).

Best of luck,
Ruediger Oberhage