[P1] Unexplained Log Out

[Gary Adams]

Allan: (sorry for the mispelling previously)

As I noted, he tracked it down to the .plist file for "Scheduler," 
something iCal used. When he deleted that (target disk mode) it solved 
the problem.

Thanks.

Gary
On Jan 5, 2004, at 7:38 AM, Allan Hise wrote:

>
>
> On Mon, 5 Jan 2004, Gary D. Adams wrote:
>
>> Allan Hise wrote:
>>
>>> If he's the only user, you may have to deal with the command line to 
>>> get
>>> this to work. If he has remote login turned on, ssh to the machine 
>>> from
>>> your clamshell. Otherwise, boot into single user mode.
>>
>> He just got around to trying to create a new user and encountered two
>> problems. First, where do you have this--in "Users." Second, and this 
>> is
>> critical, he got a message that said as he put it, "can't open file; 
>> so
>> can't save."
>
> Is he in single user mode or did he ssh in?
>
> If single user mode, be sure to mount the drive first. The command to 
> do
> that is shown after starting up in single user mode, right after the 
> note
> about running fsck.
>
> In either case, I would
> 	cd /Users/<his username>
> first. (Where <his username> is his short username).
> This will put the file in his home directory.
>
> Allan