mattmule said:Hi, I just came across this forum. I have a G5 dual 2 GHZ machine and have the same exact problem now that I've decided to update to OS 10.3.4 from 10.3.3. It will get to the lighter gray screen, with the Apple logo and the spin wheel, and that is it (aside from all of my G5 fans slowly coming on and sounding like an aircraft getting ready for take off). I tried to boot with the Panther OS CD and repair the disk and the permissions...nothing. I tried to do the "fsck -y" and then reboot, and nothing still. I have tried it quite a few times and the last time it finally said that it didn't have to fix anything really and stated earlier:
If you want to make modifications to files,
bootstrap_look_up () failed (ipc/send) invalid destination port
run '/sbin/fsck -y' first and then '/sbin/mount -uw /'
so I didn't do this yet, because I have no idea what that is. I was curious if anybody was able to fix the problem started in this thread, or had other suggestions. When I did "command v" I got the same thing as stated before when other users tried it:
bootstrap_lookup () failed (ipc/send) invalid destination port
/etc/rc: line 160: bootstrap_look_up: unbound variable
Please help me if you can, it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for the posts and suggestions before too.
I ended up getting my Panther CDs and Archive/Installing. it fixed it.