Blue Screen at startup

boot to single user and examine /var/log/system.log

there may be some clue in there, before the current boot messages, regarding why the previous boot failed to turn the corner to the login panel.

Thanks for the quick reply.
Here's what I found:
It seems the loginwindow justs keeps crashing. What would cause that?
This system.log error repeated a number of times over 5mins.
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/var/log/system.log

Apr 6 15:18:08 localhost crashdump: Crash report written to: /Library/Logs/CrashReporter/loginwindow.crash.log
Apr 6 15:18:09 localhost init: getty repeating too quickly on port /dev/console, sleeping

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Here's the loginwindow.crash.log
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/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/loginwindow.crash.log

Date/Time: 2003-04-06 12:40:44 -0500
OS Version: 10.2.4 (Build 6I32)
Host: localhost

Command: loginwindow
PID: 327

Exception: EXC_BREAKPOINT (0x0006)
Code[0]: 0x00000001Code[1]: 0x8fe01280

Thread 0 Crashed:
#0 0x8fe01280 in halt
#1 0x8fe0329c in load_library_image
#2 0x8fe06134 in load_images_libraries
#3 0x8fe05b28 in load_dependent_libraries
#4 0x8fe026f4 in load_executable_image
#5 0x8fe01410 in _dyld_init

PPC Thread State:
srr0: 0x8fe01280 srr1: 0x0002f030 vrsave: 0x00000000
xer: 0x00000000 lr: 0x8fe0a064 ctr: 0x8fe3aefc mq: 0x00000000
r0: 0x8fe0a03c r1: 0xbffffbd0 r2: 0x2200428c r3: 0xffffffff
r4: 0xffffffff r5: 0x000000e9 r6: 0x0000290a r7: 0x726e6f20
r8: 0x66696c65 r9: 0x00000000 r10: 0xbffff94b r11: 0x00000026
r12: 0x88004442 r13: 0x00000000 r14: 0x0000dfbc r15: 0x00000000
r16: 0xbffffed4 r17: 0x00000001 r18: 0x00001614 r19: 0x00004280
r20: 0x00000001 r21: 0x00000000 r22: 0x00000000 r23: 0x00000000
r24: 0x0008f838 r25: 0x00000002 r26: 0x00000002 r27: 0x00000000
r28: 0x91e008c8 r29: 0x00000000 r30: 0x8fe484d8 r31: 0x8fe09ecc

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Any thoughts?

thnx,
rob

can you boot into safe mode by holding down shift at start up?

Yes, I can...and I have. I tried mv /Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginwingow.plist loginwindow.plist.old
...along with all of the other suggestions by Apple and other sites.

The log suggests that the loginWindow is crashing at startup. Is there a way I can edit a file in Single-User mode to set 'autologin'?

I'm about to just re-intstall 0S X, OS 10.2, OS 10.2.3. Every since I installed that recent 'Security Update', I've had this problem.

What next?


rob

do you only have one user account on this unit? you may try booting off an os 10.2 cd and wipe all the user settings for your accounts back to factory defaults. whenever a user for my company screws up any kind of user settings, passwords, etc etc i just do that. it will not erase the data on the hd. you can choose that option by doing a custom install. other than that i cannot offer much more help. good luck

Yes, just one account. I'll try that.

But, booting from the OS 10.2 CD boots right into the install. I don't see any of my drives on the desktop to be able to wipe the user account out.

?


rob
thanks for the help.

when you boot off the os 10.2 cd and start to run the install as normal when you get to the screen to select which drive you want to install it on there is a customize button towards the bottom. click on that and go through the customize options.

I'll do that. Thanks again.


rob

Originally posted by tlarkin
do you only have one user account on this unit? you may try booting off an os 10.2 cd and wipe all the user settings for your accounts back to factory defaults. whenever a user for my company screws up any kind of user settings, passwords, etc etc i just do that. it will not erase the data on the hd. you can choose that option by doing a custom install. other than that i cannot offer much more help. good luck


I've been having the same problem as the original poster. I was curious if this solution would delete my Entourage mail and mail settings? Its really the only thing I want to keep.

yes it probably will (im not 100 percent sure) so export all your entorauge settings to a back up file and when you reinstall it, import them back in. in outlook (the pc version) they are .pst files i have never backed up the mac version so i am not sure what they will be.