Software :: Mac OS X Stuck On Blue Login Screen

Aug 31, 2010

My Mac OS x is stuck on the blue login screen. I have tried unplugging, cmd-alt-p-r which still takes me to the login screen, held down until I heard the chime three times as suggested but went to login screen. Tried going in to safe mode by holding down shift key at start up still took me to login screen. Tried to fix with boot disc and nothing comes up. By the way I wasn't really doing anything. Was checking my emails but hadn't even clicked on one when the screen totally froze. When I powered down it came back to email page. I had to force a shutdown several times and no can't get past login screen.

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// reboot and power on

[SIZE="2"][FONT="Tahoma"]Jan 6 21:19:02 users-imac-g5 shutdown: reboot by user:
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I've narrowed down my options.

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I have already tried booting in Safe Mode, deleting loginwindow.plist without success.

Process:         loginwindow [52]
Path:            /System/Library/CoreServices/loginwindow.app/Contents/MacOS/loginwindow
Identifier:      loginwindow
Version:         ??? (???)

[code].....

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