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Authored by: Pip on Mar 03, '03 07:22:02PM

i spent two days troubleshooting this on my iBook (progress bar would spin endlessly while trying to log in with nothing else happening)...i just renamed /Library/Caches, rebooted, and all was well again.



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/Library/Caches: more details
Authored by: Pip on Apr 03, '03 11:45:19PM

I've gotten several emails about this, so I figured i'd clarify a bit (all commands are without the quotes):

Boot in single user mode and issue a 'mount -uw /' command to mount the root filesystem as writable.

To rename the /Library/Caches directory, enter 'mv /Library/Caches /Library/Caches.bad'

At that point, reboot (with the 'reboot' command) and see if it works.

I hope this works for you: if it doesn't, feel free to send me an email



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/Library/Caches
Authored by: dschreffler on May 01, '03 10:53:52PM

This solved the problem I had. Thanks!

My symptoms were;
OSX started up fine. Any user who would log in would freeze after entering their password, and attempting to log in. The "logging in" bar would spin forever.

This was somehow caused by system freeze up during install of new version of iTunes. Forced me to power off as the force quit would not respond.



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