> > You can try deleting /Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginwindow.plist > There's something else niggling at the back of my head about another > two files to try, but I can' remember right now. > > This is one reason to enable remote login in System Prefs > Sharing. By > the time in the boot sequence where the Login Window appears (or hangs > up in this case), you could log in via ssh and be able to do things in > the system a lot easier than in single-user mode, which requires you to > mount you boot drive to do anything to it. > > This requires the mac a) be on a network, and b) you have another > computer on the same network you can run ssh on. > > But doesn't everyone have a litter of systems laying around all > networked together in an unwieldy mass? ;-) > >> -- > Bruce Johnson > University of Arizona > College of Phar macy > Information Technology Group > > Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs > Thanks Bruce, I tried the following piece of advice about an hour ago, which worked - <you'll need to kill the Netinfo DB. boot into single user mode and type: fsck -y mount -uw / mv /var/db/netinfo/local.nidb /var/db/netinfo/local.nidb.bad rm/var/db/.AppleSetupDone Reboot> I was just going to archive and install Panther again but that just seemed like giving in.
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