I wonder what's going on: Yesterday, this G4 Mystic still worked normally, logging into one user account automatically at startup. Today, startup takes a lot longer, and at the end I'm asked to enter user name and password. I'm the admin for this Mac, but none of the user names/passwords work. Also, when a user logged off, previously, the login window came up as a list of icons to click on; one only needed to enter a password, not the username. This has now changed to this box asking for entry of both. The three guest accounts on the Mac had/have no password assigned. I had quick user switching activated. Ah yes, we're talking 10.4.11
I've checked the boot partition with DiskUtility, which says it's OK. I've repaired permissions, which were partly broken, but the bootup behaviour hasn't changed after that. Then I've copied a backup copy of the boot partition onto the harddisk with CCC (after starting up from the backup harddisk), but the bootup behaviour is still the same. My conclusion: the problem is not on the harddisk, because I cloned the backup disk's boot partition to the internal HD. The big question: what else can it be? -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
