Re: Time Machine causing system to lock?

In article <pjtkn4lpfr6ek42d3uokudoq9d89093eqd@xxxxxxx>,
Howard Brazee <howard@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Fri, 23 Jan 2009 19:00:09 -0600, Jolly Roger <jollyroger@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

I can't figure out if you're intentionally not paying attention to the
instructions I give you or what.

Also, you should replace "admin" with the *actual* short name of your
administrative account. You can open the System Preferences > Accounts
panel and select the administrative account to see the short name.

"admin" *is* the short name for my administrative account.

The second command I told you to issue is:

cat /var/log/system.log

I did that and it produced a long list. I then continued with your
instructions.

That long list was the system log. My instructions were to:

"Examine the system and console logs (the system log in particular) and
note any I/O or disk messages. Post them here if you have questions."

And specifically, you were to be looking for messages that were time
stamped at or around the time of the problem behavior (the drive not
mounting after a restart or after connecting the drive to the computer,
for instance).

Then I checked system preferences as described above - the "Allow user
to administer the computer" is not checked off. I suppose I have 3
choices:
1. Log off to get the logon menu, and log on as administrator.
2. Give myself administrator privileges for an hour.
3. Find out why my terminal command didn't do what I expected and
fix it.

Enter both commands and it'll work.

Maybe something else is wrong then, because it didn't work.

It sounds like it *did* work, to me.

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