10.4: Prevent hang after login of Active Directory User

Apr 18, '06 05:54:00AM

Contributed by: Anonymous

Symptoms: Spinning beachball after login, only Desktop picture is shown, no menu bar except the Spotlight bar, no Dock available. Local users can easily login, remote login via ssh still possible.

Solution: It turned out that some Login Items caused the problem. The login items were AFP-mounted network shares. Disabling them by removing them from the loginwindow.plist file of the specific user(AutoLaunchedApplicationDictionary) and subsequent boot into safe mode (to remove caches) resolved the problem.

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