![]() ![]() Cold boot or reboot, and after the booting chime, press Command-S to enter single-user mode (command line interface).Indeed, some caches were corrupt, but Cocktail could not fix them. Logging in with the troubleshooting account, I found that right at the time of the failed login from the standard account, Console said something about Keychain. The issue remained, but amazingly only on the standard booting account, but not on another extra account created for troubleshooting. Resetting the login password (after booting from the Mac OS X DVD) did not help either. Even replaced the full Library and Desktop folders inside the user account suffering the issue from the latest Time Machine backup. I even trashed the preferences for Finder, Desktop and Dock. Repairing disk and permissions, running DiskWarrior, resetting PRAM, etc. Yet that was handy to reboot or shut down without forcing shut down. Eventually I found that pressing Command-Option-Esc and waiting some 30 seconds returned me to the login screen. At the login window prompt, I typed my username and password and pressed Enter as usual, yet only the Time Machine Desktop screen (the one with the galaxy-like picture and stars of Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard) showed. Playing with Skype and iChat, my Mac froze and I had to force shut down.
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