[X4U] Help.. login fails after showing spotlight icon

[Andrew Lynch]

Hi Folks,
   I have not been following this thread, but I have had a lot of  
experience with hangs lately.  In my case, for some reason, airport  
is hanging my system.

If you can log into the account after a safe boot (boot with shift  
key depressed), log into the account, and add activity viewer to the  
login items, at the top of the list.  Then reboot and log in.  This  
may tell you something.  If this fails, perhaps logging in as another  
user, then running top outputting to a file, then doing a fast user  
switch to the affected user might tell you something.

-Drew

On Nov 2, 2005, at 8:41 AM, Paul wrote:

>
> On 2 Nov 2005, at 12:53, Kansas Territory wrote:
>
>>
>> ANY SUGGESTIONS on how I find out what is keeping this account  
>> from logging in ?      I've been thinking maybe if I could kill  
>> spotlight or something ?  If that is what is actually causing the  
>> problem.  I guess this, only because it's the only thing that  
>> shows up.. and does nothing but give me a beach ball.
>
>
> If you have another machine around, you could ssh into the frozen  
> mac and do a top -u to see what's taking up most of the CPU. That  
> should give you some clues.
>
> Another idea, though far more silly and perhaps useless is to look  
> at your problem account's files, and see what the most recently  
> modified files are. That might also give a clue.
>
> Paul
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