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Can't get OS X to boot all the way
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Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: Menands, NY
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I set an app called Granet, which monitors network load, to start at login time and now I can't get OS X to come all the way up, even after I deleted Granet. Darwin is running--I can Telnet in from another machine, but the Desktop never comes up and I end up with a blank blue screen. Is there any way I can work around this with the command line remotely? Reinstalling OS X seems like a brute force method of fixing the problem. I think what I need to do is to destroy and recreate my userid, but I'm not sure how to do it. Thanks.
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Join Date: Mar 2001
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I don't have a solution -- just a similar problem.
After running OS X for three days (smooth as glass!) I rebooted my PowerBook into X... and encountered a "Mac Blue Screen of Death" (or an "Endless Rainbow").
Booting up, OS X runs through its startup routing just fine. When the splash screen disappears and I expect the Dock, all I get is the rolling rainbow cursor. After about ten seconds, it resets to a black cursor, then another ten seconds of multispectrum limbo. I've rebooted five times and waited as long as ten minutes -- my desktop never appears.
To make matters worse, I had a hard time getting 9.1 to come back. For some reason, my Mac refused to 'bless' the old system folder long enough to reboot. Reinstalling a fresh sys fol. from the CD worked, eventually... Reinstalling X didn't help, and trashed my 9.1 folder. Again.
Anyone find a solution to this? The folks at discussions.info.apple.com don't seem to know yet.
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Join Date: Oct 2000
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hello
My OS X refuses to accept my password (it worked perfectly for 3 days, and suddenly I can't log-in)
I don't know if we have related problems, but it seems to me that this build was not properly tested before going GM.
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: Rochester, NY, USA
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Originally posted by benThinkin:
I don't have a solution -- just a similar problem.
Anyone find a solution to this? The folks at discussions.info.apple.com don't seem to know yet.
Can't say I have a solution, but I can add my experience -
My wife put her Pismo to sleep before she left work.
When she woke it up >4 hours later, the battery indicator was very low.
About five seconds later, the whole thing froze up.
After giving the three-fingered salute, I rebooted into the
same Rainbow Hell that you just described.
Crash. Burn. Hard.
Anyway, re-installing OS X over the old installation did not fix the
problem, and I had to reformat the drive, re-install everything from
scratch, and restore her Home account. Things work now.
I suspect the Power Management problems in OS X
had something to do with it. 
I forgot Apple had Discusison Boards - I'll check them before sending a bug report.
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