Admin gone after 10.5.1 update

After upgrading to 10.5.1 my admin status has gone, there are now no admins on this computer! As I am now no longer an admin I cannot modify any settings in the control panels and also cannot install or remove any software or even mount devices, and in some case download software. It appears to also have fubarred my super user at the same time so there is now no way at all of accessing this machine.
Is there any way of resolving this that doesn't involve reinstalling the whole OS?

I'm having the same problem. I'm logged in as an administrator, yet my password is incorrect and my username is correct but only as case-sensitive.
This bug is a big issue, as I cannot change any settings on my computer as an "administrator". Can Apple at least regard this as a bug and let us know how to fix it without having to use the Leopard install DVD? At least issue another patch or something...
Any other advice or tips are greatly appreciated.

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So I have a Mac Mini server running 10.6.8. I also have a Mac Book Pro that I use to administer the server remotely. I recently upgraded to Mountain Lion, and when I did it made my server admin, workgroup manager and server settings apps in my dock turn into question marks. What gives? How do I remotely administer my server now that my laptop is running Mountain Lion? I read something about an app that's $19.99 in the app store, but it seems like the app will turn my Mac Book Pro into a server and that's not what I want. I want to be able to add new users, turn services on and off remotely etc from my laptop. Any ideas?

You can't use a Mountain Lion Mac to run the Snow Leopard Server admin tools. If you had a Mountain Lion Server, you could use the Mountain Lion Server.app on your MacBook along with the Mountain Lion version of Workgroup Manager (there is no Mountain Lion Server Admin).
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Everything gone after iOS 8.1 update!

I installed the update to iOS 8.1 yesterday - iTunes says there is a back up yesterday morning prior to my update.
After the update finally finished. It was stuck in a boot loop toggling between black screen and black screen with apple.
After plugging it in over and over to iTunes for fear my battery would die while it was in the loop, it finally entered a restore mode. It restored as if it was a new iPad. Tried to back up from iCloud, nothing available. Tried to restore from iTunes on computer, nothing. Everything is GONE with the exception of one webpage shortcut icon and my photos. in iTunes it shows the two apps I was wanting to download just before the update. They are in iTunes and ready to install.
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FIrst thing I notice, all my files on the desktop are not visible. Apparently the new update restarted in an old account - but problem is I can't open in my normal old account. I can still see and open files from the desktop, but want to go back to this user account.
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Hi,
I think that you are right. This morning I finally accepted the system software update 10.6.4 and restarted after it downloaded. When it rebooted, I had no files on my desktop except for the 2 internal hd and one external - which is to say all of the files I ordinarily keep on my desktop. So I went to the main drive and chose the users file, opened it and saw each of the listed users for the computer. I never use other accounts but am aware that they are there, and that this would be where I would find the desktop files if the were not erased. Sure enough my usual account with the home icon (let's call it USUAL) was there with 2 other previous ones, and a guest account and a shared account. On opening the USUAL account folder, I found and was able to open my desktop files. I opened system prefs and checked the accounts - no trace of USUAL but it shows that I am logged in as OLD account with admin access (from previous machine that migrated over, if I recall correctly).
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What I can't do is access the files of the other accounts with the exception of the shared one.
And I can't see the USUAL account in the accounts section of system prefs.
And as I say, I don't have my files and folders on my desktop.
I guess that's it - I could just restore from Time Machine, or I could copy the files from the USUAL account to the new desktop. But the accessibility issue of the other accounts seems odd.
And I want to keep updating my system as normal - which seems like a problem if I just restore.
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Peter

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[2011-01-19 16:53] synchronizing package lists
[2011-01-19 16:53] starting full system upgrade
[2011-01-19 16:57] upgraded acl (2.2.49-1 -> 2.2.49-2)
[2011-01-19 16:57] upgraded chromium (8.0.552.224-1 -> 8.0.552.237-1)
[2011-01-19 16:57] Generating locales...
[2011-01-19 16:57] de_DE.UTF-8... done
[2011-01-19 16:57] de_DE.ISO-8859-1... done
[2011-01-19 16:57] de_DE.ISO-8859-15@euro... done
[2011-01-19 16:57] Generation complete.
[2011-01-19 16:57] upgraded glibc (2.12.2-1 -> 2.12.2-2)
[2011-01-19 16:57] upgraded dash (0.5.6.1-1 -> 0.5.6.1-2)
[2011-01-19 16:57] upgraded dmxproto (2.3-1 -> 2.3.1-1)
[2011-01-19 16:57] upgraded pango-perl (1.221-2 -> 1.221-3)
[2011-01-19 16:57] upgraded gtk2-perl (1.222-1 -> 1.222-2)
[2011-01-19 16:57] upgraded gdbm (1.8.3-7 -> 1.8.3-8)
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[2011-01-19 16:57] have been removed from @INC.
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[2011-01-19 16:57] upgraded perl (5.12.1-3 -> 5.12.2-1)
[2011-01-19 16:57] upgraded perl-gtk2-ex-formfactory (0.66-1 -> 0.66-2)
[2011-01-19 16:57] upgraded lib32-gcc-libs (4.5.2-4 -> 4.5.2-4.2)
[2011-01-19 16:57] upgraded gcc-libs-multilib (4.5.2-4 -> 4.5.2-4.2)
[2011-01-19 16:57] upgraded imagemagick (6.6.6.10-1 -> 6.6.6.10-2)
[2011-01-19 16:57] upgraded perl-libintl-perl (1.20-1 -> 1.20-2)
[2011-01-19 16:57] upgraded perl-event-execflow (0.64-1 -> 0.64-2)
[2011-01-19 16:57] update desktop mime database...
[2011-01-19 16:57] upgraded dvdrip (0.98.11-1 -> 0.98.11-5)
[2011-01-19 16:57] upgraded libxfce4util (4.6.2-1 -> 4.8.1-1)
[2011-01-19 16:57] upgraded exo (0.3.107-2 -> 0.6.0-2)
[2011-01-19 16:57] upgraded x264 (20101013-1 -> 20110115-1)
[2011-01-19 16:57] upgraded ffmpeg (25679-1 -> 26387-1)
[2011-01-19 16:57] upgraded libmpc (0.8.2-2 -> 0.8.2-3)
[2011-01-19 16:57] upgraded gcc-multilib (4.5.2-4 -> 4.5.2-4.2)
[2011-01-19 16:57] upgraded perl-error (0.17016-1 -> 0.17016-2)
[2011-01-19 16:57] upgraded git (1.7.3.5-1 -> 1.7.3.5-2)
[2011-01-19 16:57] upgraded gmp (5.0.1-1 -> 5.0.1-2)
[2011-01-19 16:57] upgraded gstreamer0.10-ugly (0.10.16-1 -> 0.10.16-2)
[2011-01-19 16:57] upgraded gstreamer0.10-ugly-plugins (0.10.16-1 -> 0.10.16-2)
[2011-01-19 16:57] upgraded gtk-xfce-engine (2.6.0-1 -> 2.8.0-1)
[2011-01-19 16:57] upgraded lib32-libpng (1.4.4-1 -> 1.4.5-1)
[2011-01-19 16:57] upgraded libjpeg (8.0.2-1 -> 8.3.0-1)
[2011-01-19 16:57] upgraded libx11 (1.4.0-1 -> 1.4.1-1)
[2011-01-19 16:57] upgraded xfconf (4.6.2-2 -> 4.8.0-1)
[2011-01-19 16:57] upgraded libxfcegui4 (4.6.4-1 -> 4.8.0-1)
[2011-01-19 16:57] upgraded mplayer (32663-1 -> 32792-1)
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[2011-01-19 16:57] upgraded popt (1.16-2 -> 1.16-3)
[2011-01-19 16:57] upgraded orage (4.6.1-1 -> 4.8.0-1)
[2011-01-19 16:57] upgraded pcre (8.11-1 -> 8.12-1)
[2011-01-19 16:57] upgraded perl-event (1.13-2 -> 1.13-3)
[2011-01-19 16:57] upgraded perl-xml-parser (2.40-1 -> 2.40-2)
[2011-01-19 16:57] installed thunar-vfs (1.2.0-1)
[2011-01-19 16:57] upgraded squeeze (0.2.3-3 -> 0.2.3-4)
[2011-01-19 16:58] upgraded sudo (1.7.4.p4-1 -> 1.7.4.p5-1)
[2011-01-19 16:58] upgraded terminal (0.4.5-1 -> 0.4.5-2)
[2011-01-19 16:58] upgraded thunar (1.0.2-1 -> 1.2.0-1)
[2011-01-19 16:58] upgraded thunar-volman (0.3.80-1 -> 0.6.0-1)
[2011-01-19 16:58] upgraded udisks (1.0.2-1 -> 1.0.2-2)
[2011-01-19 16:58] upgraded unrar (4.0.3-1 -> 4.0.4-1)
[2011-01-19 16:58] upgraded vlc (1.1.5-2 -> 1.1.5-3)
[2011-01-19 16:58] upgraded vlc-plugin (1.1.5-2 -> 1.1.5-3)
[2011-01-19 16:58] upgraded xf86vidmodeproto (2.3-1 -> 2.3.1-1)
[2011-01-19 16:58] upgraded xfburn (0.4.3-1 -> 0.4.3-3)
[2011-01-19 16:58] upgraded xfce-utils (4.6.2-3 -> 4.8.0-1)
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[2011-01-19 16:58] upgraded xfce4-battery-plugin (0.5.1-2 -> 1.0.0-1)
[2011-01-19 16:58] upgraded xfce4-clipman-plugin (1.1.3-1 -> 1.1.3-2)
[2011-01-19 16:58] upgraded xfce4-cpufreq-plugin (0.0.1-7 -> 0.0.1-8)
[2011-01-19 16:58] upgraded xfce4-cpugraph-plugin (1.0.0-1 -> 1.0.1-1)
[2011-01-19 16:58] upgraded xfce4-datetime-plugin (0.6.0-1 -> 0.6.1-1)
[2011-01-19 16:58] upgraded xfce4-dev-tools (4.6.0-1 -> 4.8.0-1)
[2011-01-19 16:58] upgraded xfce4-eyes-plugin (4.4.0-5 -> 4.4.1-1)
[2011-01-19 16:58] upgraded xfce4-fsguard-plugin (0.4.1-1 -> 1.0.0-1)
[2011-01-19 16:58] upgraded xfce4-mixer (4.6.1-1 -> 4.6.1-2)
[2011-01-19 16:58] upgraded xfce4-mount-plugin (0.5.4-3 -> 0.5.5-1)
[2011-01-19 16:58] upgraded xfce4-mpc-plugin (0.3.5-1 -> 0.3.6-1)
[2011-01-19 16:58] upgraded xfce4-netload-plugin (0.4.0-5 -> 1.0.0-1)
[2011-01-19 16:58] upgraded xfce4-notes-plugin (1.7.7-1 -> 1.7.7-2)
[2011-01-19 16:58] upgraded xfce4-notifyd (0.1.0-2 -> 0.2.0-1)
[2011-01-19 16:58] installed upower (0.9.7-2)
[2011-01-19 16:58] upgraded xfce4-power-manager (0.8.5-1 -> 1.0.3-1)
[2011-01-19 16:58] upgraded xfce4-quicklauncher-plugin (1.9.4-4 -> 1.9.4-5)
[2011-01-19 16:58] upgraded xfce4-screenshooter (1.7.9-1 -> 1.7.9-2)
[2011-01-19 16:58] upgraded xfce4-session (4.6.2-2 -> 4.8.0-1)
[2011-01-19 16:58] upgraded xfce4-settings (4.6.5-1 -> 4.8.0-1)
[2011-01-19 16:58] upgraded xfce4-systemload-plugin (0.4.2-5 -> 1.0.0-1)
[2011-01-19 16:58] upgraded xfce4-verve-plugin (0.3.5-1 -> 1.0.0-1)
[2011-01-19 16:58] upgraded xfce4-wavelan-plugin (0.5.5-1 -> 0.5.6-1)
[2011-01-19 16:58] installed gnome-panel-bonobo (2.32.1-1)
[2011-01-19 16:58] upgraded xfce4-xfapplet-plugin (0.1.0-6 -> 0.1.0-7)
[2011-01-19 16:58] upgraded xfce4-xkb-plugin (0.5.3.3-2 -> 0.5.3.3-3)
[2011-01-19 16:58] upgraded xfdesktop (4.6.2-2 -> 4.8.0-1)
[2011-01-19 16:58] upgraded xfwm4 (4.6.2-1 -> 4.8.0-1)
[2011-01-19 16:58] upgraded xineramaproto (1.2-1 -> 1.2.1-1)
Before the update the time was shown correctly. I included the pacman.log from the update. If I type acpi in my terminal it gives
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Battery 0: Discharging, 52%, discharging at zero rate - will never fully discharge.
Edit:
I found this thread:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=109318
When I enter acpi -p instead of acpi -b the time is shown. How can I make the applet now displaying the remaining time?
Edit2
An update of the battery applett fixed it
Last edited by McFlow (2011-01-24 09:21:04)

OK, I got it.
In case someone else has this problem. The Trash and Removable Media icons were checked in Desktop Settings/Icons, but none of them showed up on the Desktop. The reason turned out to be the way how I started up xfce: instead of
exec ck-launch-session xfce4-session
in my .xinitrc, it should be
exec ck-launch-session startxfce4
startxfce4 is a script wrapper for xfce4-session, which also sets some env variables...
Thanks anyway
Last edited by Leonid.I (2011-01-22 17:00:11)

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Thanks for posting Steve, I still have to deep-read these links you provided but I feel like the answer might be there...
Yesterday, in the meantime, I was in a hurry so I just decide to re-install Acrobat from scratch wich blew away the issue.
Seems like Acrobat 9.0.0 does well with MacOs 10.6.1
As far as I have reade in the links, I understand that there will be no more PDF Printer in the future, am I right?
And, I was just wondering, if it is so, we wont have to use Distiller anymore?
Guess I have to invest sometime on this.
Thanks!

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