I have been helping my sister get set up on a MacBook Pro. It was on Snow Leopard 10.6.8 and I then installed Lion and I think I got it up to 10.7.2. In the process it did a firmware update. Now when the computer starts up we get to the two users for the system. Clicking on either of the accounts does not bring up the option to enter the pasword and get us to the respective desktops.
I have auto login on my profile and disable auto on the security page but still need to login every time I log out or shut down.I have also noticed that the general page of the security and privacy in Syste Prefs is different on my wife Macbook air and my pro....
On a Mac Book Air and a Mac Book Pro we have had a sudden problem. The Air came with Lion installed, the Pro just got upgraded to Lion. We got a new login banner that must be displayed. It is about 10 lines long. We put it in, and on reboot it covers the login boxes for user name and password. We can't find any way to dismiss the banner and login. What can we do.Â
unable to view user login in OS X Lion 10.7.3 startup. I had made some changes in icloud settings & by mistake must have checked some option related to username & password. Also when i turn my macbook pro on, i can see the grey background with apple logo, however it does not show my image & login password space. thus i'm unable login to my system.
I have a Mini Server, 10.7.3. 8GB, SSD 256, use it for FCPX mostly. Just moved all datafiles to external disks and re-installed Lion, but now I cannot access my user account. When I started up the system after it had installed, it asked me for company name and email address, but then I cannot access my user account any more.
Do I need to re-install the system again, or how can I solve this? I don't remember what email address I used originally when I got the server and registered it, whether it was my personal or the business address, which I gave this time. Â
I do remember the login name and password that I have always used, but these don't work anymore and I have too many jobs pending this week.
Info: Mac mini, Mac OS X (10.7.3), Server 2.0Gz 8GB SSD256
I re-installed lion on my new mini to get to Setup Assistant to transfer files from my older iMac. The transfer went well, I think. However, I cannot login. I have tried no password (the way the old iMac was set up). I have tried every password that I can think of including my Apple ID password. I did not set up any password for the new computer, but it did offer a hint for a password that it wiil not accept. How in the world did it come up with a password with out my consent? and how can I access my new computer?
My Mac Pro froze and I had to turn it off and back on again. The login page appears but nothing happens when I click my username icon or the Guest icon. I can move the mouse but cant click to log into anything. Starting in Safe Mode has the same problem.
After i updated to 10.7.3, every time i boot my Mac, it plays the boot sound, but after i login there is no output devices so there is no sound on my Mac. I tried to find how to troubleshoot this issue but the only thing that i came across to solve it was restart and boot in Safe Mode and then reboot again in Normal Mode.Â
I need a permanent solution to this problem.
Info: MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3), MBP 13' early2011
I have a Mac Mini running 10.7.3 that I made the mistake of unchecking the show input menu in login window. Now I can't log in at all. I have tried to delete the "com.apple.loginitems.plist" using screen sharing, Lion in all its wisdom tells me I don't have permission.Â
I then tried to create a start up disk on one of my 2TB disks, somehow the system wasn't installed, just all the included apps. I then tried reinstalling lion on the Mac Mini, after over an hour it restarted with the same blank screen. Now when I go to the App Store Lion is no longer available to me.Â
Info: Mac mini, Mac OS X (10.7.3), 4Gb, 500Gb Internal HD, 6Tb extHD
I have a problem with OS X 10.7.3 on my MacBook Air 13'' Mid 2011:
What happens:
System hung yesterday. I tried to reboot, the macbook chimes, the apple logo with spinning gear appears, then screen with gray textured background and apple logo on top-center appears. No spinning wheel or somthing. I can use mouse cursor, but there is no login screen. I waited an hour and tried to rebbot again, but...
Rebooted Macbook Pro today after it was running a little sluggish and after reboot, the system does not show login screen. the little wheel just keeps turning. I have ran the fsck and tried rebooting in safe mode with the same result.
I have bought a reconditioned Mac Book Pro from Apple. It is running 10.7. At the login window I am asked for a password. I think this was set by the previous owner but I don't know what it is. is there a way around this?
Everytime my computer goes sleep and I wake it up, I have to login with my password. It's a user account in OS Lion, but I can't see where to turn it off. Don't know how I got it set up this way, but I just want to go right back into wherever I was last, and not have to login.Â
Info: MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3), 17", Early 2011 Model
I recently got myself a Magic Trackpad for my TV-computer(a Mac mini running 10.7.3). It seems to work fine, but there's an annoying problem. I can't use it to click on things on the login screen. When I've logged in I can click around on various items, but not on the login screen and since this computer have a couple of family accounts it's a bit annoying. I can move around the pointer so it's not entirely dead, but I can't click making it a bit hard to choose the account you want to login as.Is this how it's supposed to work or is there some setting I've missed?
Last week I decided to delete everything on my disc and install Lion on clear disc. But before that I created an Time Machine disc and copied everything to it. I did the installation proces. Everything's worked fine until I turned my MBP off and on again. It has asked me for a password (to log in). It was (and still is) very strange because on this computer I had only one password and it's incorrect! I can't log in, I can't change settings! Every time if I want to use my computer I have to use Snow Leopard's installation disc and reset password. But it's even stranger. After I do this (every time!) the password is still incorrect (if I for example want to change settings or reboot my MacBook).
Info: MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2010), Mac OS X (10.7.4)
When I startup and login with an local standard user account I imediatley need to logoff and go back to the loginscreen.....we need this in case of using Filevault2 and AD Networkaccounts?Â
So there was a power outage in my house while I was using my iMac, so it switched off. Now that I have power, when I try to turn my iMac on, nothing happens. I've made sure it's plugged in properly, and still no luck. What's wrong with it? Do i need to take it to an Apple store?
Last week I decided to delete everything on my disc and install Lion on clear disc. But before that I created an Time Machine disc and copied everything to it. I did the installation process. Everything's worked fine until I turned my MBP off and on again. It has asked me for a password (to log in). It was (and still is) very strange because on this computer I had only one password and it's incorrect! I can't log in, I can't change settings! Every time if I want to use my computer I have to use Snow Leopard's installation disc and reset password. But it's even stranger. After I do this (every time!) the password is still incorrect (if I for example want to change settings or reboot my MacBook).
Info: MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2010), Mac OS X (10.7.4)
Intermittent "forgetting" of most LogIn items.As I recall, this problem began in the later iterations of Snow Leopard and I posted somewhere in here about it, but I can't find that earlier discussion now.The problem is this: occasionally most login items will not load. I check System Preferences > Accounts > Login items and find that most of the items that were there are no longer listed. When it starts happening, it happens more often than occasionally. After a period of time, the problem goes away for a somewhat longer period of time.I Option-Go in the Finder to Library > Preferences and (1) delete the PLIST files for apple.com.loginitems and for apple.com.systempreferences then (2) open System Preferences > Accounts > Login items and re-populate the list then (3) restart.I have tried a shortcut of saving copies of the newly-written PLISTs and replacing the removed PLISTs with them before re-starting, but "something" else in the system has apparently stored the information and the same absences show up, so I have to go through the one-by-one repopulating of the list.
Does anyone have a solution beyond the steps I have listed here? Sometimes I want to get to work but have to go through that increasingly infuriating process of re-setting login items.I'm thinking there must be some other file that makes the "complete" PLISTs that I have saved and re-copied back into the Preferences folder match the incorrect list that was created on the incorrect startup. It is comparable to saving a revised word processor file but, when re-opened, it is the pre-revised version.
Info: Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4), 320GB internal, 10GB Ram, Seagate 400GB Firewire, Iomega 160 USB
I have a Mac Mini Lion Server which is running open directory. I have several users which I created a while ago and they are able to login to the server from both Lion and SL clients. I created a new user account today and for some reason I am unable to login using the new user account from a SL computer. I've been able to login using a lion client, but SL, no dice. Â
I have a machine running 10.7.4 that I want to be able to access via sftp/ssh.Â
I can login into the machine in terminal using either ssh or sftp. I cannot however login to the machine from finder via sftp. I am just told the username/password is wrong.Â
Equally I cannot login to the machine from certain clients on my android phone (the main reason I need sftp)Â I can however login from cyberduck on the other machines I have, and from some clients on my android phone.Â
When a mac is denied access it gives authentication failed as the reason, when a android client is denied access it gives network communtaction issues as its reason for failing, not authentication. From memory these issues started when smb broke for me in 10.7.3.Â
I have a mid-2010 MacBook Pro and I've noticed several freezes on the login screen: it gets on the login screen and the multicolored spinning ball appears and you are not able to authenticate.. The only thing you can do is to force a shutdown with the power button. I always see this messages before the forced shutdown:Â
29/06/12 21:53:05,000         kernel         NVDA(OpenGL): Channel exception! exception type = 0x6 = Fifo: Parse Error 29/06/12 21:53:05,000         kernel         IOVendorGLContext::ReportGPURestart
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Info: MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4), 8 GB RAM - 256 GB OCZ Vertex 4 SSD
I am trying to use the Apple-approved method of changing a user account short name. This involves enabling the Root User, logging in as root, and then perform a few simple steps. I've done this many times before successfully on many different Macs. However on this particular MacBook Air, while I can enable root and enter the appropriate password via the "Other" choice at the 10.7 login screen, logging in as root fails. Here's what happens: