Target1 Posted July 26, 2010 Share Posted July 26, 2010 Howdy all, I have a vanilla 10.6.3 installation that has been running like a champ for months. I'm running OSX and most applications off a 16G SSD, and the home folder combined with all media from a 1T drive. About a month ago, I tried to log in and got the message in the topic description. Very odd. Rebooted, and everything was fine. Yesterday, I rebooted and everything was not fine. I can't get in. I've mounted both drives on another mac and repiared the disks (the OSX drive was corrupted). No go. Not sure what else to do. I can easily get at all the info, but my main computer is now disabled. Any ideas? I have an HDD sled, so mounting the drives on a MBP is a cinch. Mark Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/226493-unable-to-log-in/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
geiman Posted August 24, 2010 Share Posted August 24, 2010 If nothing else I'd get your data off your drive and reinstall; if your drive was corrupted, I would want to do a fresh format/reinstall even if the problem was fixed just to make sure everything was kosher. As for logging in, boot up into single user mode (thats a "-s" minus the quotes at boot time) and take a look at your logs to see why its not letting you login. Checkout what is in /var/log and there is another log file directory on OS X I can't remember off the top of my head. I'm not at a Mac right now so I can't find it, but google will tell you. Let us know what you find in there. (try /var/log/auth.log) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/226493-unable-to-log-in/#findComment-1536458 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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