[X4U] Problems booting into User

[Mark Des Cotes]

On 1-Feb-07, at 3:52 PM, John Baltutis wrote:

> On 01/29/07,  Mark Des Cotes <mark at astroprinting.com> wrote:
>>
>> A co-worker is having a problem with his OS 10.4.8 Mac. When he
>> reboots, the system only goes so far then stops. Everything goes
>> smoothly until his blue desktop background shows up and a little icon
>> for Spotlight appears in the top right of the screen. The Spotlight
>> icon appears in a small 2cm white menu bar but the rest of the menu
>> bar isn't there. I did successfully boot into the login window by
>> holding the shift key. If I choose his account I get the same
>> problem, but if I choose one of the other two accounts they boot
>> fine. Once booted into one of the other accounts I can then
>> successfully switch to his account by using Fast User Switching. If
>> we switch to his account this way everything seems to work fine. Any
>> ideas what might be causing this or what I can try?
>
> Since there's no problem booting into the other accounts, then the  
> problem's
> some conflict within his user account. Probably the simplest thing  
> to do is to
> login into one of the other accounts (one which is an admin  
> account), turn off
> FUS, delete his account, selecting the save user data option which  
> will store
> his current user folder into a disk image and save it to a Deleted  
> Users folder
> within Users, recreate the account using the same username/password  
> combo, log
> into it, mount the saved disk image, and slowly transfer the data  
> and settings,
> logging out and back in until the conflict is identified, and  
> eventually
> deleting the saved image.
>

Thanks John, I'll give that a try.