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hookem2oo7 · May 11, 2006, 12:11 AM

I was messing around the other night, and I wanted to get into the console. I have lots of experience with *nixes and I was just going to poke around, maybe try to setup XFree or something to run on its own. so i log out, and type in >console in the user name. hooray, the login prompt...for just a second. about 3 seconds after the console is displayed, the GUI starts back up and just hangs at the blue screen (like the blue screen it shows at startup). I repaired permissions and checked over everything i could think of. Any ideas why i can't access the console? if i start up with cmd-S, it works, but that's not what i want...

Hal Itosis · May 11, 2006, 12:50 AM

Panther?

hookem2oo7 · May 11, 2006, 11:31 AM

10.4.6 on a 1.33 12" ibook g4

Hal Itosis · May 12, 2006, 03:48 AM

I dunno.
It definitely worked in Jaguar.
It definitely flaked-out in Panther (blue screen, etc.).
But Tiger was supposed to have fixed it.

:shrug:

Apple can be really annoying sometimes.
If I upgrade to 10.4.6 my K700i cell phone won't be able to sync to my Address Book.
So here I sit at 10.4.5 waiting until a fix comes through (because syncing works now),
... and the latest security updates are for 10.4.6 only.