bardx86 Posted November 2, 2006 Share Posted November 2, 2006 could someone give me direction on copying the loginwindow.app from a old version to the proper location from within darwin/terminal or whatever will work. thanks bard Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/31972-copy-from-terminal/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rammjet Posted November 2, 2006 Share Posted November 2, 2006 sudo cp -Rf /Volumes/(name-of-other-OSX-partition)/System/Library/CoreServices/loginwindow.app /System/Library/CoreServices/ Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/31972-copy-from-terminal/#findComment-223699 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bikedude880 Posted November 2, 2006 Share Posted November 2, 2006 You need to either a) do it from another os x install on the same comp or follow these directions: 1) Boot into single user mode (-s) and wait for the prompt to show up 2) Type in fsck -fy && mount -uw / 3) Wait for this to finish and it should show you the prompt again. Type in: sudo rm -R /System/Library/CoreServices/loginwindow.app Then: sudo cp /path/to/replacement/loginwindow.app /System/Library/CoreServices/loginwindow.app 4) Repair disk permissions sudo diskutil -repairpermissions (I think that's the command) 5) Reboot and test it out. Hope this helps! (And I hope I typed those commands correctly XD) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/31972-copy-from-terminal/#findComment-223702 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bardx86 Posted November 2, 2006 Author Share Posted November 2, 2006 Well i tried that but it seems that the command thinks the loginwindow.app file is a directory and will not copy? bard edit: I tried a couple of other filename.app files and they do not copy either. Is the cp command the right one to use for this? add the sudo cp -Rf to it and it finally copied but system now will not boot, lol. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/31972-copy-from-terminal/#findComment-223777 Share on other sites More sharing options...
McSkywalker Posted November 2, 2006 Share Posted November 2, 2006 You may want to try this: Copy your loginwindow.app into desktop. Then, reboot from installation DVD. Open terminal and type (But know that I didn't verify this. You may ruin your installation. First backup the original one from your system.) sudo rm /Volumes/(name of your OSX partition)/System/Library/CoreServices/loginwindow.app cd ~/Volumes/(name of your OSX partition)/Desktop sudo mv loginwindow.app /Volumes/(name of your OSX partition)/System/Library/CoreServices/ sudo chown -R root: wheel /Volumes/(name of your OSX partition)/System/Library/CoreServices/loginwindow.app sudo chmod -R 755 /Volumes/(name of your OSX partition)/System/Library/CoreServices/loginwindow.app Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/31972-copy-from-terminal/#findComment-223798 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bardx86 Posted November 3, 2006 Author Share Posted November 3, 2006 Sweet finally got it. thanks bard Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/31972-copy-from-terminal/#findComment-223837 Share on other sites More sharing options...
McSkywalker Posted November 3, 2006 Share Posted November 3, 2006 Cool Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/31972-copy-from-terminal/#findComment-223845 Share on other sites More sharing options...
helob Posted November 3, 2006 Share Posted November 3, 2006 I tried using the !0.4.7 Jas version of loginwindow.app but result is the same. Nothing showing after clicking "About this Mac". What should I do next? Thanks Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/31972-copy-from-terminal/#findComment-224085 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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