I just got a call today. One of our schools had 3 emacs do this out of the
box, not connected to the network. None of the usual fixes worked here
either.
The last time this happened, I was able to get our local SE to get me the
latest DVD. The ones I restored with this have been stable so far. Of
course, this was before I learned about deleting the loginwindow plist. But
that's another story. (I should've known something like this would have
come up - My summer was too quiet)
Later
Curt
On 8/25/05 8:35 PM, "David Colville" <email@hidden> wrote:
> I have seen this where someone managed to disable access through
> Workgroup Manager to the loginwindow application and it's preference
> files...?
>
> I have no idea how they managed to do this but in Workgroup I found
> that they had prevented access to all local applications, and also
> defined to "deny applications in this list" and left the loginwindow
> app in there... Taking it out of that list resolved it...
>
> I know it's obscure circumstances but you never know ;-)
>
> Cheers
> David
>
>
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> On 26/08/2005, at 9:51 AM, Ball, Dan wrote:
>
>>
>> Mark,
>>
>> I tried those things but the issue comes right back. I can't roll
>> out 300 clients and have 2 or more do this on every reboot, thats
>> just crazy! I'm not sure whats doing it, it I seen a 10.3 client
>> do it the other day, the machine had bad RAM in it but 10.4.x does
>> it no matter what.
>>
>> Crazy!
>>
>> Thanks for the response,
>>
>> Dan
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Mark Spidle [mailto:email@hidden]
>> Sent: Thu 8/25/2005 8:19 AM
>> To: Mathieu Mauser; Ball, Dan
>> Cc: email@hidden
>> Subject: Re: 10.4.x hangs at Blue Screen with Spinning Gear on boot
>> right before the login window shows
>>
>> Try ssh ing to the machine while it is at the blue screen. Then
>> kill the
>> loginwindow process. Most of the time this will bring you to the
>> loging
>> window.
>>
>> If this does not work. Try removing /Library/Preferences/
>> com.apple.loginwindow.plist and restart.
>>
>> This has worked for me in the past. This still doesn't explain why
>> it is
>> happening, sorry.
>>
>> Mark
>>
>> Mark Spidle ACTC, ACHDS
>> Programmer/Analyst
>> The Des Moines Register
>> 515-699-7015
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>> From: Mathieu Mauser <email@hidden>
>>> Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 15:26:42 -0700
>>> To: "Ball, Dan" <email@hidden>
>>> Cc: "email@hidden" <client-
>>> email@hidden>
>>> Subject: Re: 10.4.x hangs at Blue Screen with Spinning Gear on
>>> boot right
>>> before the login window shows
>>>
>>> Not sure what it has to do with how they're bound, but we're bound to
>>> OD. Seein a lot of blue screen boot ups. A real problem. dp G5s
>>> using
>>> Xsan, as well. Maya, Shake, etc... I always thought it was bad
>>> startup
>>> items, but maybe bad DNS, relating to OD binding. Hmmm
>>>
>>> -x
>>>
>>> On Wed, Aug 24, 2005
>>> at
>>> 05:31:17PM -0400, Ball, Dan wrote: > > Has anyone seen this with
>>> 10.4??
>>>
>>>>
>>>> I have been able to reproduce the problem with fresh installs of
>>>> 10.4 and
>>>> with an upgraded client that was 10.3.9 then upgraded to 10.4
>>>> then to 10.4.1
>>>> then to 10.4.2 happening with all versions.
>>>>
>>>> The clients are bound to both Open Directory and to Active
>>>> Directory, I have
>>>> tried both first in the search path and it doesn't make any
>>>> difference.
>>>>
>>>> Anyone else seeing this? Our DNS is working strong and
>>>> correctly, had some
>>>> issues I thought that was it but everything is back to normal now.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>> Dan Ball
>>>> Pittsburgh Technical Institute
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