[OT] Faulty Java update for OS X (10.8)?

[Chris]

On Friday, 25 October 2013 at 12:40:10 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2013-10-25 10:36, Chris wrote:
>> On Friday, 25 October 2013 at 06:54:32 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
>>> Install it again and see.
>>
>> Thanks. I had already tried all of the above. Disk utility, 
>> single user
>> mode (with fcsk -fy etc), safe mode or whatever, you name it.
>>
>> I had to restore it from my Time Machine backup and it works 
>> fine (only
>> lost a few files I had backed up elsewhere anyway). All I know 
>> is that
>> it happened after the Java update 7u45.
>
> What did the verbose mode say?

Once it said in single user mode.

HD seems to be ok.
HD has been changed.

I ran fcsk -fy again (as recommended) and it was fine. Disk 
Utility also said it was fine.

I cannot think of anything else that could've wrecked my Mac, 
except for the Java update.