Leopard - strange boot up issue

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Lloyd Parsons - 05 Dec 2007 16:09 GMT

I just finished up loading Leopard in my older mac mini and while the
installation seemed to go right, it sure did take forever.

I ended up with two issues, one major, one minor

Major - my main user will crash the system everytime, hard crash and
never fails. Something in what is going on during the loading of that
user is making Leopard puke all over itself.

A dump shows something about 'stickybrain', but I haven't found where it
is coming from yet.

I've moved all the data over to a new user and have given read-write
privileges to that new user, but haven't changed ownership 'cause I
don't know how.

Minor - on boot, with whatever user, textedit is run with a blank
document named "HP Communications". I don't know why and it doesn't
seem to be causing a problem, as the printer (HP 1012) works fine.

Any ideas??

Lloyd

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MikeA - 05 Dec 2007 18:21 GMT

> I just finished up loading Leopard in my older mac mini and while the
> installation seemed to go right, it sure did take forever.
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>
> Lloyd

My guess is that the stickybrain app is set to load on startup for the
default user and stickybrain isn't compatible with Leopard. You may be
able to just delete the stickybrain app and fix the boot issue.

Just a guess,
Mike

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Tom Stiller - 05 Dec 2007 19:01 GMT

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<37859ba2-b7f9-4796-8685-f78e6a67f5fe@b40g2000prf.googlegroups.com>,

> > I just finished up loading Leopard in my older mac mini and while the
> > installation seemed to go right, it sure did take forever.
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> default user and stickybrain isn't compatible with Leopard. You may be
> able to just delete the stickybrain app and fix the boot issue.

Log in to the affected user with the shift key depressed to prevent the
user Login Items from loading. Then open System Preferences->Accounts
and check the list of Login Items, removing any which shouldn't be there.

Log out and see if a normal login will now work.

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Lloyd Parsons - 05 Dec 2007 19:10 GMT

> In article
> <37859ba2-b7f9-4796-8685-f78e6a67f5fe@b40g2000prf.googlegroups.com>,
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> Log out and see if a normal login will now work.

Arghhh!!!! I had forgot about that! :-(

I just deleted the darn user so too late...

thanks

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Lloyd Parsons - 05 Dec 2007 19:09 GMT

In article
<37859ba2-b7f9-4796-8685-f78e6a67f5fe@b40g2000prf.googlegroups.com>,

> > I just finished up loading Leopard in my older mac mini and while the
> > installation seemed to go right, it sure did take forever.
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> Just a guess,
> Mike

I had done that already.

So I examined the dump better and did a new search on 'sticky'

Found it in a few places and deleted everything that I thought would be
part of it. No joy.

So since I:
a. Have a complete, bootable backup of the pre-Leopard setup
b. Have moved all the data I care about

I deleted that user altogether.

Now I'm good, with the irritation of the HP communications issue.

thanks

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