Re: Login password refusal

On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 17:55:21 +0000, Andy Hewitt wrote:

Michael H. Phillips <mhp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 17:12:19 +0000, Andy Hewitt wrote:

Michael H. Phillips <mhp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I've had a nasty crash with my G4 PowerBook, OS 10.4.11. Now, when I start
up, I am presented with the login screen, I enter the password and the PB
shakes its head and refuses. Apart from doing a fresh installation of the
OS, is there anything else I can try?

Have you tried booting from the install disc and doing a 'Repair
Permissions'? (run Disk Utility)

Yes, though I didn't mention it. I also ran Disk Warrior which reported a
slew of problems but fixing them made no difference.

Ooh, nasty :-(

I had a similar thing happen once, which resulted in a text only login
(Unix style), and it wouldn't login. I ended up doing a fresh install,
and then allowing it to migrate my older user account, after which it
all worked again.

You weren't doing an application install by any chance were you?

I was. Installation of Adobe Illustrator had just begun. The screen went
black and the speakers screeched. Why do you ask?

I tried creating a new user account in root. Trying to log in to the new
account, again the password was not recognised.

I tried re-installing the OS using archive and install, but the installation
failed half-way through...twice.

I tried re-running the combo update to 10.4.11 but still the password was
rejected.

Eventually I reformatted the HD and did a fresh installation of OSX. So I'm
up and running again.

Now I see that one of the RAM sticks has shrunk from 256MB to 128MB! If I
boot into OS9, the startup process warns that one of the RAM sticks is faulty
(OSX doesn't). I've replaced that with a known good 128MB stick and all seems
well. I wonder could the crash have damaged the RAM or is it more likely that
the RAM caused the crash?

It was an interesting evening.

--
Michael

mhphillips at gmail dot com

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