[angelmb]

I have tried this:

- verify / repair disk permissions from Tiger DVD

- start with single user mode, then 'sbin/fsck -fy' and once the system says is OK 'reboot'

- restart with ctrl + command + eject cd keys

- shutdown with ctrl + eject cd + enter keys

None of them worked, the screen remains with the by default blue desktop and the mouse pointer/cursor being shown, nothing more, nothing less.

I have an external firewire hard disk if that is needed to perform any action.

[angelmb]

I had tried to do a search about this issue with no luck, happened that search function was not working, I have tried it again and now it is working fine.

I have found this similar topic. I had installed some days ago SpeedTools ! Lets see if removing some stuff helps here.

[angelmb]

OK, deleted the start up item 'QuickBackStartupItem' and the SpeedTools software and now the PowerMac is able to reboot and shutdown.

[SSharon]

For anyone out there with a similar problem it may be because of an m-audio PCI card. It's a known issue and was fixed with the latest driver release.

[Watson]

Some software allows the kiosk mode to be set. You can check this by bringing up a terminal window and performing the following:

cp /Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginwindow.plist ~/
plutil -convert xml1 ~/com.apple.loginwindow.plist
open -a "TextEdit" ~/com.apple.loginwindow.plist

In TextEdit you should see some entries like this:
<key>Kiosk</key>
<string>false</string>
If you don't see a Kiosk "<key>" or if the "<string>" following the Kiosk key is false, then this is not the issue. On the other hand, if you do see this key and it is set to "true", you can remedy the problem by changing it to false, saving the document, and then copying the file back to the preferences folder:

plutil -convert binary1 ~/com.apple.loginwindow.plist
sudo cp ~/com.apple.loginwindow.plist /Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginwindow.plist

[clith]

A much easier way to check for kiosk mode is:

Code:
defaults read /Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginwindow kiosk

If the result is either "The domain/default pair of (com.apple.loginwindow, kiosk) does not exist" or "false", then this is *not* the issue. If it says "true" then you need to fix it as follows:

Code:
sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginwindow kiosk false

That's it!

Originally Posted by Watson

Some software allows the kiosk mode to be set. You can check this by bringing up a terminal window and performing the following:

cp /Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginwindow.plist ~/
plutil -convert xml1 ~/com.apple.loginwindow.plist
open -a "TextEdit" ~/com.apple.loginwindow.plist

In TextEdit you should see some entries like this:
<key>Kiosk</key>
<string>false</string>
If you don't see a Kiosk "<key>" or if the "<string>" following the Kiosk key is false, then this is not the issue. On the other hand, if you do see this key and it is set to "true", you can remedy the problem by changing it to false, saving the document, and then copying the file back to the preferences folder:

plutil -convert binary1 ~/com.apple.loginwindow.plist
sudo cp ~/com.apple.loginwindow.plist /Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginwindow.plist