After upgrade to lion, system reject previous account and password. Nothing I can do. Anybody help?

I have just expereinced the same issue. I have a work around for you.
If you have a Snow Leopard Install CD you can boot from that by holding the C key upon boot up or hold down the option key and select the install CD.
Once launched select continue and then select your language. You will then have access to a tools/utilities menu where you can reset passwords. You select you System Disk and you will notice that you accounts are still missing however you should have access to re-set the root account / pw. Set it to a secure password - after all this is the highest level account on your machine.
Once done - restart into lion again and login into the root account. Username root with password you specified earlier. Once logged into the system - you should still find your old user folder still intact. I would suggest re-naming this account and add suffix _original if you intend on creating a new account with the same name. The username of the folder is based on the short name you input when you create an account.
You can then go into system preferences / users and groups and create a new account with the same short name. After this - I renamed the new user account to _delete and renamed my original account to its former name by removing the _original (as i kept the same short username) Log out and login with your original account - it may ask you to sync your keychain if you have changed your password from the original - in this case provide the previous password.
This worked for me - good luck.
I agree this is unaccaptable for Apple to release an upgrade with a bug like this. Good luck - hope it works for you

Similar Messages

ICal on iMac is empty after upgrade to Lion, but okay on 4s and iCloud

I cannot figure this one out. I have an iMac on my desktop, an iPhone 4s, and a MacBook Air. I upgraded the iMac to Lion, and of course the 4s is on iOS5. I moved from mobile me to iCloud. If I access iCloud via a web browser, all of my old calendar data is there. If I check my iPhone 4s, all data is there. But on the iMac, when I launch iCal, there is no data, even though it is running the new (Lion) version.
anyone out there able to help me on this one?
thanks in advance...

FIGURED IT OUT! I had to go into iCal prefs, choose "accounts," select "add account" and choose "iCloud" as type, then put in my apple ID, etc. Boom. There they are...
weird that I had to go through this, but at least it is solved.
thanks...

After upgrading to Lion, system no longer finds my WiFi connection and has to be selected each time.

Well, the title just about tells it all! It can find the network connection, it just won't choose it automatically as it did under Snow Leopard. Any suggestions? Cheers

There have been hundreds of posts re: this issue. I suggest you begin browsing through them starting with those you should find over on the right side of this page.

After upgrading to Lion 10.7.1 - iPhoto and other programs slow to open and other problems

Am I alone - having lots of problems with 10.7.1. iPhoto is slow and when I export photos it exists iphoto then I restart and sometimes it will works. Safari is slower also. Sometimes it justs hangs and I have to force quit. iTunes is also slower to open. Almost everytime it goes to a checking library for a long time.
Should I go back to previous version? Will I lose my purchase. I do not have disks for the upgrade. I do not want to go back - I have a lot of data and always fear of losing it.
Think Apple knows about the problems or am I the only one and have some other problem?

olegz,
First, thanks for the clear graphics.
Authorization seems to be the hangup here. But instead of dealing with the complications of conflicts in authorization, which might take several weeks to months to iron out - site by site - I urge you to follow a different path.
It looks like you're using Chrome. For this site alone, use either Safari or Firefox, both of which are more likely to have plugins to deal with authorizing your site. Safari is already on your computer, but v.3 of Firefox is stable, too. Frankly, I can't tell you what specifically might be the problem here; but switching browsers will solve the immediate problem.
Sound good? Not so good? Post in this thread so that I or others can solve your problem once and for all!

Can't update Norton after upgrading to Lion...holding 3 and 2 during startup didn't correct issue (Lion is 64 bit)

how do i get my older mac to allow norton to update virus definitions...error says i need to startup with 32 bit kernel but i tried it and still can't do it (i held 3 and 2 down during startup per Apple.com instructions)

I meant to include this info from the System Profile:
Maybe easier to read:
Canon MF4400 Series:
Status:          Idle
Print Server:          Local
Driver Version:          1.1.0
Default:          Yes
Shared:          Yes
URI:          usb://Canon/MF4400%20Series?serial=0122F5200302
PPD:          Canon MF4400 Series
PPD File Version:          1.1.0
PostScript Version:          (3010.000) 550
(3010.000) 651
CUPS Version:          1.6svn (cups-327)
Scanning support:          Yes
Scanning app (bundleID path):          -
Scanning app version:          -
Scanner UUID:          00000000-3031-3232-4635-323030333032
Printer Commands:          none
CUPS filters:
capdftopdl:
Path:          /Library/Printers/Canon/CUPS_MF_Printer/Bins/capdftopdl
Permissions:          rwxr-xr-x
Fax support:          No
PDEs:
BasicSettingsPDE.plugin:
Sandbox compliant:          Yes

After upgrading to Lion, Preview (5.2.2) appears to have lost the facility to run a slide show by using my mouse to click an icon in the visible menu bar, as I could in the previous version. Can I retrieve that icon and thus that facility?

After upgrading to Lion, Preview (5.2.2) appears to have lost the facility to run a slide show by using my mouse to click an icon in the visible menu bar, as I could in the previous version. Can I retrieve that icon and thus that facility?

Unfortunately not. Lion has made many adjustments to the previous system. Try opening your pdfs in keynote.

Back to my mac no longer works after upgrading to Lion

Back to my Mac no longer works after upgrading to Lion
After I upgraded my home machines to Lion, I can no longer access them from my work computer, which is running Snow Leopard. When they were both Snow leopard, it worked fine. How can I get them working again? I don't have control over the OS on my work computer. Is it necessary for me to downgrade all of my home computers to Snow leopard in order to get them talking again?
Additionally the binoculars icon appears in the menu bar all of the time. In previous versions, this would only happen when somebody connected to my machine. Could these problems be related?

OK, so further investigation has addressed the BTMM issue on a remote machine.
With all machines running lion, I was having issues trying to log in to a standard user headless machine already running. In Snow Leopard, I had no issues with this since you can log in via screen sharing using an admin login that's running a standard login. Lion allows multiple accounts to be signed in which is handy since you can now run virtual sessions. This means you can admin the remote computer without bothering the remote user.
The problem was that now logging in using admin login brings up the admin account (which makes sense) instead of the desktop to the standard login. I applied a similar solution to a problem that was related to screen sharing I found on this board. What I believe to be the fix is to add the standard user to the screen sharing user list. Then screen share to the remote account using the standard user credentials.
So on the remote computer, in System Settings->Sharing->Screen Sharing, add the standard user to be allowed access. Previously I only had admins. This may not be an ideal solution for what I'm trying to do since the remote computers primary login is the standard user to be used as a common computer, but it now works so I am happy with it.
Now my only "problem" is my AEBS complaining about my MobileMe credentials, but it doesn't appear to have an impact on BTMM performance so I'll quietly wait for a fix down the road.

Safari behaves strangely after upgrading to Lion

After upgrading to Lion, Safari is behaving strangely. When re-opening Safari after quitting, all windows from previous session re-opens. It didn't used to happen and also quite annoying. How can that be fixed? I only want my homepage to open, if I individually quit the windows by the red x-button, and then quite Safari normally, it opens up as priviously. Any ideas?
thanks

It is one of the over 250 new features of the World's Most Advanced Operating System called Resume.
If this is all that's bothering you just close all windows before quitting Safari or hold Shift when you launch Safari
If the whole resume thing is overbearing then...
Also in System Preferences > General there is a hard-to-find checkbox under "Number of recent items" you can turn off.
Also, you can hold the shift key to disable resume on a one time basis.
If you want to turn it off on a per app basis, (TextEdit is by example, replace TextEdit with the name of the app)
Launch Terminal and copy/paste this at the prompt...
defaults write com.apple.TextEdit NSQuitAlwaysKeepsWindows -bool false
Press return.
YOu can aslo accomplish this thriugh the GUI by going to ~/Library/Saved Application State/TextEdit and delete that file/
To turn off Resume globally...
chflags uchg ~/Library/"Saved Application State"
Press return
The reverse of the first one is to replace false with true.
The reverse of the second one is
chflags nouchg ~/Library/"Saved Application State"
Again, you can accomplish this through Finder by going to ~/Library/Saved Application State and deleting the folder.

After upgrade to Lion from Snow Leopard, my computer cannot shut down without using the on/off button in right side corner

Hi i have a macbook pro 15" from feb 2011. With snow leopard.
After upgrade to Lion, i canot shut down or restart.
I have to use the "on/off" bottom. in the right side of dashboard.
Have anyone any solution for that problem ?
Brian Steen

brian steen wrote:
I have once instlled a kind of antivirus, but i have removed it from programs to trash.
Gotcha, Bingo, Bazinga!
Moving the antivirus to trash does not delete or disable some parts of the application.
How to remove the remaining parts of the application depends on the application as the different AV-Systems place there parts at different places and use different preference files.
At first check if the AV is still listed in the startup items (System Settings - Accounts - your account - startup items) and remove them from that list.
Lupunus
PS ... about your Canon printer -> https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2657947?start=0&tstart=0
Message was edited by: lupunus (PS added)

After upgrading to Lion, the Finder will increase the virtual memory while using external HD

after upgrading to Lion, the Finder will increase the "virtual memory size" while using external HD. I check it using Activity Monitor and found that "Finder" wll increase the "Virtual Memory Size" and "Private Memory Size". and then after a while. the system told me my HD is full and hanging there.
My External HD is 1TB. and I have installed new version Paragon NTFS for Mac V.9.01. I am not sure it is related or not.
but I attached my external HD. the "Finder" will start to increase the "Virtual Memory Size".
please help out this case and solve this issue.
thank you !!!

The one has nothing to do with the other. Virtual memory size and Private memory size are used by developers to analyze their software. it has nothing to do with anything related to the user.

I can't hear sound after upgrading to lion

I have this little annoying problem with my iMac after upgrading to Lion OSX. After waking up my iMac I can't hear any sound from internal speakers, ie: only video on Youtube, but no sound, but whilst pressing volume up/down button I can hear beep. When it happens So I have to restart system everytime it happens. Anyone any ideas or maybe someone out there has the same problem?

I'he double checked everything, only 1 output device (internal speakers). As I said before, it is weird because I can play iTunes and can hear "beep", but neither youtube sound, nor game sound or internet radio seems to be working, no sound whatsoever. But this time system didn't go to sleep, it has just happened suddenly.... Restart again then!

After upgrading to lion my web server won't run

after upgrading to lion my web server won't run

From System Prefs clicking on Web Shareing wont start.
From the terminal attempting to run httpd gives me:
iBookWiz:~ steve$ sudo httpd
httpd: Syntax error on line 117 of /private/etc/apache2/httpd.conf: Cannot load /usr/libexec/apache2/mod_fastcgi.so into server: dlopen(/usr/libexec/apache2/mod_fastcgi.so, 10): image not found

After upgrading to lion 10.7 I can no longer use my canoscan 9950f, why?

After upgrading to lion 10.7 my canoscan 9950f scanner is no longer recognized. Have I lost thye use of this scanner by going to 10.7?

Not likely. Make sure the scanner is still available in System Preferences > Print & Scan. You might have to delete the old scanner and add it again if your computer cannot "find" it.
Before you do that, and while you are in Print & Scan, see if you can get it to scan by selecting the Scan tab.
In Lion, all scanning functions have been relegated to Preview, the Print & Scan preference pane, and Image Capture.

After upgrading to Lion internal mic does not work with Facetime

After upgrading to Lion internal mic does not work with Facetime. The mic is picking up sound as noted in System Prefs. This was working just fine before the updgrade. Facetime works OK on my iPod.

you have in french a tutorial to recreate your partition here
Rebuild partition with Recovery HD lion after upgrade to 10.7.2
i tested, it's work !
For your wifi problem:
Try to change your setup of wifi, look this table given by apple:
I changed my wifi setup wep to wpa and it's work !

After upgrading to lion I can use my printer HP Laserjet 1200

After upgrading to lion I can no longer print to the copier on our local network. Tried everything but did not work. Please help

If you just upgraded to Lion, you get 90 days of complimentary support, so don't be bashful. Call 'em. I called Apple support and they resolved this specific issue. We first verified that a newly created Admin account could create and edit Address Book. When it did, we rightly assumed corruption in the Address Book Library files.
Here are the steps from that point.
Back up your Address Book: From Address Book, choose File > Export and choose Export vCard to a desitnation of your choosing.
Close Address Book.
From the Desktop, Hold Option and click Go in the menu at the top of the screen.
Choose Library. If this is not an option, you are not pressing the Option key or you are not an Admin.
Expand the Application Support folder and drag the AddressBook folder to the Trash. Close window.
Open Address Book and import your address book vCard.
Lion has changes that remind me of Windows 2000 where folders are hidden even to Admins. Apple is purposefully hiding files and folders they don't think anyone should be seeing. If you want Admin priviledges you had in Leopard or earlier versions, you need to upgrade to a Root user...highly not recommended.

After upgrade to lion, system reject previous account and password. Nothing I can do. Anybody help?

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for