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

[Kansas Territory]

On Nov 2, 2005, at 10:41 AM, Paul wrote:

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> On 2 Nov 2005, at 12:53, Kansas Territory wrote:
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>> 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.
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> 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.


I've tried this.. doesn't show much of anything going on at all..   
there are a a few processes owned by the admin account that is  
attempting to log in. But nothing appears to be heavily in use at all.


> 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.

well I've been trying to remove any Preferences and the like in some  
of the applications that were last running in this admin account.   I  
keep thinking it has something to do with the enabling all the fonts  
that I temporarily enabled using Font Book while logged into this  
account.    It was a lot of fonts. lots of disk thrashing etc.  But  
everything appeared to be working o.k.  And before I restarted that  
last time, I removed the Font Library that I had enabled.  in my  
attempt to hopefully AVOID any problems in the FUTURE with having all  
those fonts enabled.

is there some LOG FILE I could be looking at while attempting to  
start up this account..  that I could watch via an SSH session from  
another computer ?

Kansas