[plug] [offtopicish] os-x wierdness

Mr Shayne shayne at guild.murdoch.edu.au
Thu Sep 29 16:59:33 WST 2005


Sorry for the offtopic to main list, but I know theres a few appleheads 
here who might have an answer.

After a machine we have (800mz emac) started making wierds all over the 
place with random crashouts and the like, and after doing the usual sys 
permission checks etc, I reinstalled wt archivie OS X10.2 on the machine

When it finished, the account wouldnt accept the password, so I dropped in 
the magic disk, changed the password, and rebooted again

NOW when I log in, rather than going to the aqua shell thingee it does, it 
just drops out to the blackscreen/white writing console and asks me to log 
in there, and onwards to the csh (or tsh or whatever it is. It aint bash 
tho).

Any idea how to tell an account "No. I really do want to use the gui!"???

The mac shop guy said "replace the logic board". But if "replace the logic 
board" was the answer to all mac problems (as the techs tend to claim) 
then the logic board has a lot to answer for. Regardless the other 
accounts are fine, so I suspect the macshop guy is a pleb.

Any advice would be way apreciated.

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