[G4] Freezes on Login

[Daniel Brieck Jr.]

Ray,

Check in your System Preferences  under accounts and see if the short  
name of you admin account was changed too? If it was just the Name  
that was changed then you can easily change that back to your  
original name.  The short name according to Apple's built-in help  
system can't be changed unless you create a new account with that  
name.  But I seem to doubt that is 100% true that the short name  
can't be changed there has to be away around that. But let us know if  
your short name was changed too...


Daniel J. Brieck Jr.



On Oct 24, 2005, at 10:56 PM, Raymond E. Hardy wrote:

> Wayne,Daniel,Steve,&Ron,
> Thanks for the suggestions. I booted with my earlier Panther disc, ran
> repair permissions, finally reinstalled  OSX 10.3. On the restart  
> it booted
> normally but wouldn't accept what I thought was the password. I  
> restarted
> and used the Reset password in the drop down menu under Installer. The
> password works now but only under the Name - System Administrator.  
> I'm happy
> - but heck how can I change the Name for Login? Somehow before this  
> trouble
> I was never asked to LOGIN - must be a way to reset things to the  
> old way -
> right?
> Thanks to you all.
> Ray
>
>
>> Can you start up with a boot cd os install, and do a repair  
>> permissions?
>> Is there more than one account on the computer, if so does it happen
>> to all accounts or just one?
>> As a general rule I usually have more than one account on a computer,
>> that way I can troubleshoot if it's an account problem or a general
>> os problem.
>>
>> On Oct 24, 2005, at 3:59 PM, Raymond E. Hardy wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>> I have a G4 Quicksilver running Panther. After "Login Window
>>> Starting"(several minutes) it won't get beyond entering "Name and
>>> Password"-seems to freeze and then gives you the login window again.
>>> Tech Tools says there is nothing wrong with things it checks - any
>>> ideas
>>> would sure be appreciated.
>>> Ray Hardy