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Authored by: Embro on Jan 27, '03 10:50:11AM

I'm glad this worked for you but when it happened to me I did not have autologin set. So..it would stop and ask me to login, but none of my 5 accounts, including root would allow me to login. It would just cycle back to the login screen.

I ended up having to reinstall 10.2 overtop of my existing install using the archive setting to retain my users.

This fixed it but i then, of course, had to resetup all my extra things such as sendmail etc.



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Authored by: nobody on Jan 27, '03 06:21:58PM

Why not delete the /Library/Preferences/com.apple.windowserver.plist first? In most situations when I could not login anymore, the windowserver crashed at startup (only blue screen, no login-window), which was resolved after deleting its preferences file.
Also before removing the complete ~/Library Directory, you could first try to rename only the ~/Library/Preferences Directory.



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