Re: Disk First Aid running on every boot

In article <1r4tb8y.1wddfmc8xcol8N%liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid>,
 liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid (Liz Tuddenham) wrote:

Knezzen <contact@unixfiles.org> wrote:
 

In article <vj525a$18c4$1@dont-email.me>,
 super70s <super70s@super70s.invalid> wrote:
 

On 2024-12-08 19:58:35 +0000, Knezzen said:
 

In article <vintageapplemac-3011240518390001@192.168.1.134>,
 vintageapplemac@gmail.com (scole) wrote:
 

As subject, every time I boot this machine up lately the Disk First
Aid
alert appears telling me the computer didn't shut down properly and
then
it scans for errors. Thing is, I shut the computer down correctly
every
time!
 
Machine is PowerMac G4 MDD 1.25Ghz, OS9.2.2, hard drive is a 256GB SSD
hooked to a Sonnet Tempo SATA PCI card.
 
Any ideas why this keeps happening? It has done it before in the same
way over the years, there'll be a period where it boots fine and then
a period where it always runs Disk First Aid, and then it'll go back
to booting fine for a time for no rhyme or reason... I have a
relatively fresh install on the machine now, a couple of months old,
and it was booting straight into OS9 for a while before this started
happening again. I have done no recent software installs that
correlate with it beginning, either.
 
I can disable Disk First Aid from ever running at start-up, is that
recommended or cautioned against?

 
From my experience I started getting this *all the time* when I moved
from rotating storage to SSD's in my machines about 10 years ago or so.
 
Something about how a volume is flagged as "dirty" in Mac OS 9.2.2 is
problematic when using more modern storage solutions. I tend to just
disable the boot check in the "General Controls" control panel and keep
an eye on my volumes with Disk First Aid twice a year or so.
 
-Theo

 
Wonder if you could just compress Disk First Aid into a self-extracting
archive and use it when needed, that's what I do with apps that don't
behave like I want them to. If it froze the machine on start up for
some reason though that wouldn't work.

 
It's not really using the main Disk First Aid application, it's a on
boot control of the filesystem independant of it. Running Disk First Aid
manually works fine, and the on boot check runs fine. The problem is
that it keeps appearing every boot for some reason, despite the system
shutting down correctly.

 
Just a remote possibility:  have you checked to see if there is
something in the Startup Folder that shouldn't be there?

I think it's more of a flag not being unset on the filesystem when using
a SSD (it's not possible to unset it at all?). It's replicatable on a
fresh install of Mac OS 9.2.2 on my machines that have SSD's (TiBook,
MDD, Kanga).

-Theo