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Whole system logs itself out on me!?
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Just 30 seconds ago I was browsing the main MacNN frontpage in Safari, and had MSN Messenger and Mail open, when suddenly the screen goes blue and then reappears at the log-in screen. I've logged in and everything seems fine, but wtf??? Running 10.2.8. This happened to anyone else? Anything I should do? It's not a sign of, like, the logic-board being about to die or something is it?
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The loginwindow process died for some reason. That process is responsible for keeping a user logged in -- if it dies, you are unceremoniously logged out, as you experienced.
It can just randomly happen (just as any other program can experience a glitch), if it happens a lot, I'd try a reinstall of OS X, and possibly check for bad RAM.
It's very, very unlikely that a logic board fault is the problem (not impossible, but highly unlikely).
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Hi, I have a similar problem but for my case, I cannot login to my accout. I have two accounts (for me and my wife) and I can login to my wife's. From the login window, I pick my user name, then typed the password, then turned into blue screen briefly as usual, then got back to the login screen again. I tried the safe boot mode and then tried to login but sitll gave me a same result. Any Idea? I may have to reinstall the OSX? I am using version 10.2.8 as well. Both of the existing accouts have admin rights. Please help! Thanks.
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This happened a lot to me while I was running Jaguar. Probably two to three times a month. However, with Panther this has never happened to me.
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Originally posted by yokoyama:
Hi, I have a similar problem but for my case, I cannot login to my accout. I have two accounts (for me and my wife) and I can login to my wife's. From the login window, I pick my user name, then typed the password, then turned into blue screen briefly as usual, then got back to the login screen again. I tried the safe boot mode and then tried to login but sitll gave me a same result. Any Idea? I may have to reinstall the OSX? I am using version 10.2.8 as well. Both of the existing accouts have admin rights. Please help! Thanks.
Use your wife's account to enable the root user, log in as root, and delete the loginwindow.plist in your Users/(username)/Library/Preferences folder. At least, I think that might work. If that doesn't try trashing the root-level loginwindow.plist at /Library/Preferences.
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