On Sep 25, 2014, at 9:06 AM, Bruce Johnson <[email protected]> wrote:
> An odd one, I haven't run into before. > > A 2008 27" iMac was updated to 10.9.5 yesterday, and when it came back up, no > user could log in. > > It accepts the username and password, the little spinny gear starts right up, > and that's as far as it gets, never goes off the login screen. > > Verbose boot shows no unusual notices. > > Booted into recovery volume, Disk utility says the drive is OK, I even > repaired permissions, nothing unusual there. Didn't fix it. > > Was able to get to the syslog via terminal in recovery, nothing unusual at > all, in fact, nothing after the login window appears. > > Permissions look ok for the users directories. > > I haven't run Diskwarrior yet, but I'm unsure that would help, because Disk > Utility thinks the volume has no errors. > > I'm worried that the Open Directory database may be borked. Does anyone know > if that can be managed from the recovery volume, or when connected to another > Mac in FW target mode? > > > -- > Bruce Johnson Also, go ahead and run DiskWarrior. It may not find any of the usual directory issues, but it may well find "volume information" issues. I deal almost 100% with Mac problem machines, and I frequently have found that a mysterious hang during boot or similar failure to complete the boot sequence is fixed by DW correcting a volume information issue. I don't know why this happens, but my experience is that it is a cumulative error problem that seems to be triggered by too many improper shutdowns, brownouts, etc. Jim Scott Eureka, CA -- -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To leave this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "iMac Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
