OS X Lion: Deleted user account reappears; or, cannot use automatic login for a certain user account. I have never had this issue. I guess it is more common when people use Migration Assistant.
After 10.7.2 (Oct 12, 2011) Guest…: Apple Support Communities. Interesting way to trap someone. I wonder if people are going to be suspecting Guest accounts now on corporate machines.
Thanks 9700pro.
System Preferences > Energy Settings > disable the “automatic Grafik-Mode-Switch”
This fixes a lot of other Problems, including yours.
:-)
(Maybe you have to boot in SaveBoot, to change this)
via Lion crashing regularly at login screen: Apple Support Communities.
Solved the issue…
After reading the system logs using Console app, I found out that when you have “allow users to reset password using apple id” enabled in user account, it seems like on startup my mac keeps on trying to verify the account is a safe account with apple servers or something, and that keeps it locking up and throwing a beach ball attack…
I simply deleted the associated apple id in the user account, and also unchecked the “allow users to reset… using apple id” option, and the problem seemed to go away.
Nice work Ke Sun. You put us mac techs out of business.
via Beachballing on login screen: Apple Support Communities.
This is concerning. Parallels has often caused system problems during system upgrades. It looks like Fusion is the clear winner for system stability and my new recommendation. Tom figured out the issue:
recentitems.plist was the culprit.
via 10.6.8 upgrade – loginwindow crashes -…: Apple Support Communities.
How To: Add contact information to your Macs login screen. Nice instructions for Onyx, and also for a second program mentioned in the comments. This might be a nice way to help protect your investment. Another way to modify your startup screen to login with Active Directory is here.
Kiraly has the solution.
Open Activity Monitor, and find the loginwindow process running for the user. Force quit it. You will then have to authenticate as an admin user. This will log out the user and terminate all of his running processes.
WARNING: This will cause the other user to lose any unsaved work, and could also cause corruption of any files the user has open. Proceed with caution.
via Apple – Support – Discussions – Logout other users ….
Apple – Support – Discussions – SCREEN SAVER AND SHOW TIME …. JXR says:
In SL,why does the clock now appear at random places on the clock face,where as in leopard the time appeared where it normally does ie. 3:00pm would be at the 90 degree spot,6:15 would be at the180 degree spot?
The solution seems to be this:
well, after a DL of 10.6.6 and eventually choosing a screen saver I was pleasantly surprised to see the ”floating clock” location problem solved. Thank you APPLE.