On Jan 28, 2004, at 10:05 PM, Eric J. Leopold wrote:
On Jan 28, 2004, at 8:13 PM, John Wilson wrote:
If you enable fast user switching you can log into the new account without logging out.
On Jan 28, 2004, at 6:50 PM, Eric J. Leopold wrote:
On Jan 28, 2004, at 2:19 PM, Nancy Haitz wrote:
I reinstalled Panther and still the problem remains of not being able to logout, reboot or shutdown.This is a long shot, but try running Repair Permissions from the copy of Disk Utility that resides on your system, rather than from the CD. Repair Permissions gets its info from the Receipts folder on your hard drive and that may be the problem.
I have Panther on another disk so I "forced" my startup disk to a functioning Panther disk and ran Permissions. There were items that were repaired. When I rebooted to the ailing disk, the problems were still there. I tried DiskWarrior 3.0 again and the disk had to be rebuilt. It's about 74 % full and I get nervous about disks that full. But after DW the problem of not rebooting, and no shutdown are still present. I guess I need the equivalent of a clean install. But re-installing Panther didn't help either.
My next plan is to download the updater for DW and burn a DW 3.0.1 with their instructions and give that a spin.
Have you tried creating a new user (being sure to check the box to "allow user to administer this computer") and seeing if the new user has the same problems? It could be something with your user files and not the whole system.
Just a thought
Thanks for that. I can create another account without limitations on use but I can't log out of my account. My only option is to force restart to another CD and shutdown from that.
Eric
I tried that thanks. But the change user, Log Out, Restart, and shut down don't work.
Eric
This exercise revealed that the CD player of my G3 can't play certain CDs. The player will boot most disks else how could I be typing this Email in Panther? However music CDs burned with Toast on this G3 will play on other Macs and CD players except the CD player of the G3. But how can an ailing but working CD player be related to the logout or restart? Unless the Panther install was 99.999 % OK but the 0.001 % failed install causes this problem? Maybe the next update will fix it?
Eric
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