Fair question. The last time I tried to log in was last Thursday afternoon. I left the machine running and took a long weekend, not returning until this morning. Still had the pinwheel. In my mind 4.5 days counts as never.
The accounts are local, there is no AD. I've tried other accounts with the same results and system.log and secure.log show nothing unusual.
I'm going to try to remove the McAfee AV while in single-user mode to see if that's the problem.
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On 10/26/2010 11:00 AM, Evans, Paul wrote:
> Does anyone have any other
> suggestions before I reinstall?
What do mean by "it never goes away"? How long did you wait? 5 minutes?
an hour? (sometimes I find that when people say "never" they really
mean "10 minutes"...) One reason I ask is -- multiple people have
found that with Snow Leopard, with AD accounts, if your AD servers are
resolvable via DNS but are not accessible (e.g. from your home network),
there will be *large* delays on login. Which leads me to another question:
Is your account part of a directory service (Open or Active Directory)?
Can you login with other accounts (e.g. another domain account or a
local account)?
Have you examined logs such as /var/log/system.log and secure.log? (in
single-user mode, if necessary)
If you can login with another account, then the solution would appear to
be: restore from backup (perhaps having to delete and recreate the
account).
--
Rob
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