{"id":2018,"date":"2003-12-10T15:31:08","date_gmt":"2003-12-11T07:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/12\/10\/panther-bug-dragging-system-to-the-trash\/"},"modified":"2019-12-06T14:38:46","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T22:38:46","slug":"panther-bug-dragging-system-to-the-trash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/12\/10\/panther-bug-dragging-system-to-the-trash\/","title":{"rendered":"Panther bug: Dragging \/System to the trash"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:12689,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.mrbarrett.com\\\/mt\\\/archives\\\/2003_12_10.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20060329032828\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.mrbarrett.com\\\/mt\\\/archives\\\/2003_12_10.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-12 01:07:24&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-09 20:45:46&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-14 16:13:40&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-14 16:13:40&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>It looks like Damien Barrett may have discovered a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mrbarrett.com\/mt\/archives\/2003_12_10.html\" title=\"Mr. Barrett: Serious Panther Bug?\">potentially disastrous bug in Panther<\/a> (Mac OS X 10.3) &#8212; apparently one can drag the <code>\/System<\/code> folder to the trash, which then freezes the computer. Upon reboot, since the System is now in the trash, the computer can&#8217;t boot up.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  Panther apparently allows admin users to drag the folder \/System to the trash, which then will immediately cause the Finder to go into a spinning pizza of death (SPOD). Your only option is to shut down the computer. And then because the System is in the trash, the computer is rendered unbootable!!!<\/p>\n<p>  I don&#8217;t remember being able to do this in Jaguar. Shouldn&#8217;t the OS give a warning like &#8220;You don&#8217;t have sufficient priveleges to do this.&#8221; Shouldn&#8217;t the only user capable of moving the folder System be the root user?\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now, many people are going to immediately react by wondering just what in the world would prompt anyone to even try dragging the System directory to the Trash. As stupid as that seems, one never knows what people will try, or do by accident, and the OS really should be far more intelligent about how it handles this (such as not even allowing it in the first place).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently one can drag the Panther \/System folder to the trash, which then freezes the computer. Upon reboot, since the System is now in the trash, the computer can&#8217;t boot up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2039],"tags":[65],"class_list":["post-2018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}