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 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 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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