Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.csd.uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!ut-emx!chrisj From: chrisj@ut-emx.UUCP (Chris Johnson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Problem with BackDrop 2.16 and GateKeeper 1.1.1 Message-ID: <17357@ut-emx.UUCP> Date: 19 Aug 89 22:45:29 GMT References: <1700@dover.sps.mot.com> Reply-To: chrisj@emx.UUCP (Chris Johnson) Distribution: na Organization: U.T. Austin Computation Center Lines: 44 In article <1700@dover.sps.mot.com> talent@dover.sps.mot.com.UUCP (Steve Talent) writes: >I just put GateKeeper 1.1.1 in my system folder and tried to >restart. My Mac crashed after loading several INITs. > >My first guess was to remove BackDrop ... it worked. > >System: Mac+, 2048K, Version 6.0.3, Multifinder >INITs: GateKeeper, AutoIdle 1.0a10, Shield 1.02 (Symantec Utilities) > >I really liked having BackDrop (two point sixteen) but I feel having >GateKeeper is more important. BackDrop replaces the gray desktop pattern >with a StartupScreen type bitmap image. > >Is there a newer version of BackDrop? ...something else that will do >the same thing? ...or could it be that BackDrop really isn't the problem? > > >-- >Steve Talent, Motorola Semiconductor Products Sector CAD >Mesa, AZ 602-994-6801, ...!{oakhill, sun!sunburn, uunet}!dover!talent This is the first mention I've heard of any INIT that will cause GateKeeper 1.1.1 problems on startup. What I'd suggest is doing the following: 1) Go to GateKeeper in the Control Panel. 2) Click on the Info/Settings slide switch to get to the settings section 3) In the "When Attacked:" area, click on the "Notify Only" radio button. 4) Close the Control Panel 5) Put BackDrop back into your System Folder 6) Reboot and see what happens. There are two possibilities: a) BackDrop will install properly and, when you get to the Finder, you'll receive warnings of privilege violations caused by BackDrop. Just grant BackDrop whatever privileges are listed and put GateKeeper back in "Notify & Veto" mode. Everything should behave normally from now on. Please let me know what privileges it needed, so I can add them to the default privilege list. b) BackDrop will continue to crash on startup. If this is the case, there's some kind of fundamental incompatibility... let me know about it. I hope this helps. Cheers, ----Chris (Johnson) ----Author of GateKeeper