Bugs in Mountain Lion

Anyone else having these issues?
NOTES APP
The cursor vanishes and I need to quit and re-launch the app to get it back. This happens after the app has been open for a period of time.
Loss of Sound in certain apps
After my Mac is open and running for a period of time some apps no longer chime or play sounds. Taking a picture of the screen Command + Shift + 3 is one of them, MS Outlook is another, and Messages, etc. NOTE there is nothing wrong with my hardware as all other apps play sound just fine, and sounds for MS outlook and such are re-stored after a reboot. This has to be a software glitch in Mountain Lion.
No I have no re-installed my OS or done a clean install as it would probably be a waste of time since I doubt it would fix the problem. I have taken these steps and spent many hours in the past only to find out that it did not solve the problem.

Try booting into the Safe Mode. Shut down the computer and then power it back up. Immediately after hearing the startup chime, hold down the shift key and continue to hold it until the gray Apple icon and a progress bar appear. The boot up is significantly slower than normal. This will reset some caches, forces a directory check, and disables all startup and login items, among other things. If the system operates normally, there may be 3rd party applications which are causing a problem. Try deleting/disabling the third party applications after a restart. For each disable/delete, you will need to restart if you don't do them all at once.
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Parental Controls bug in Mountain Lion 10.8.2

For years I've used Parental Controls, not to restrict my daughter's web content, but to limit her time on the computer. But tonight I upgraded Mountain Lion from 10.8.1 to 10.8.2 and something broke.
Suddenly every secure web page she tries to access (to include google, gmail, amazon, etc.) fails. It says "Parental controls restricts access to secure websites".
A little hunting around turned up the following Apple Knowledge Base article: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2900 that says "https note: For websites that use SSL encryption (the URL will usually begin with https), the Internet content filter is unable to examine the encrypted content of the page. For this reason, encrypted websites must be explicitly allowed using the Always Allow list. Encrypted websites that are not on the Always Allow list will be blocked by the automatic Internet content filter."
I understand that logic however that should NOT apply to me since I'm not trying to automatically restrict her adult web content or create allowed/blocked site lists, etc. She has *unrestricted* web site access, so the Internet content filter shouldn't even be in play here.
Just to get this up and running, I did type the Admin account and password in at the prompt to let her gain access to the web pages. However that did not work. Even though it said it would now allow access - it did not.
I also tried going into Parental Controls, turning ON web site filtering, going into Custom, and adding in approved secure web sites (google, etc.) Even *that* did not work.
Everything was great until 10.8.2 came along but now her account is for all intents and purposes unusable.
Help? And thanks.

Same problem here. Apple seems to be neglecting the parental controls. First, they broke X11: http://xquartz.macosforge.org/trac/ticket/439. 10.8.1 didn't address that problem. Not only does 10.8.2 not address the X11 bug, it actually breaks secure web browsing!
Just to add a little more information, secure browsing on Safari seems to work OK for me once authorized. However, neither Firefox nor Chrome work with any secure site even after they have been authorized. Unfortunately, my daughter's school site is secure and it doesn't work on Safari so her Mac is useless for school now.
Looks like I'll have to restore using Time Machine and not update again until I know this has been addressed.
Apple, I'm not impressed.
Mike

Scrolling bug in mountain lion? - please help

Really annoying bug that seems to have developed in the last few days - can anyone help?
when looking at any window with a scroll bar the screen starts to automatically scroll in jerky steps every quarter of a second or so downwards (or upwards if I reverse the swipe direction on the mouse or trackball settings) to the end of the content without any input from me. This makes most programmes almost useless unless I enter tehm without the mouse cursor over the window.
Same problem using either trackpad or mouse so suspect its a software issue not anything on the peripheral.
fully updated system, not helped by SMC reboot or "killall Dock" terminal command which I read on another post might be helpful
anyone with similar problems or who can help me?

Not a bug, please do a SMC reset again. Follow the directions in http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3964
If that doesn't help please reset the PRAM http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1379
Or finally you may have a corrupt cache, restart in Safe Mode http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1455

Search Bug in Mountain Lion Mail

After having Mail open for a few hours, when I search for something all of the results in the left colum, which shows the sender, display my name only. I've tested this by searching by the persons name for the most recent item in my inbox, and my name still shows up regardless. If I quit and reopen mail this issue resolves itself, but as mentioned, only for a few hours. Anyone else notice this bug? I've tried to change the settings in Pref, but to no avail.

I have the same problem in 10.8. I have an email account (.domain) that forwards to my .mac account. In 10.7, with "Send new messages from account of selected mailbox" an email to .domain that was forwarded to my .mac account could be replied to with the sender being .domain. Now in 10.8, the same situation puts the sender as the .mac account. Something has clearly changed. Very annoying.
By the way, in both cases, I have one inbox with 4 accounts in it. But with 10.7 the email address it was sent to (even if it was forwarded) was used as the sender. Now it is always the account it was received in.
Not sure which one was a feature and which one is a bug.
Any thoughts on a work around (other than not forwarding) would be great.

Bug on Mountain Lion

Hello Pondini,
I don't know if you can help me, but for months I have not been able to use my Seagate external harddrive which I've used for Time Machine updates. At first I thought nothing of it, but now too much time has passed and I need to back up files. Before I go out and buy a new drive, maybe you can help. The error message I received is:
An error occurred while copying files. The problem may be temporary. If the problem persists, use Disk Utility to repair your backup disk.
I then verified and repaired volume, and got 81 pages of error feedback, beginning with the following (to give you a sample):
Detected a case-sensitive volume.
Checking extents overflow file.
Checking catalog file.
Checking multi-linked files.
Incorrect number of file hard links
Checking catalog hierarchy.
Checking extended attributes file.
Invalid map node
Checking multi-linked directories.
Incorrect number of directory hard links
Checking volume bitmap.
Checking volume information.
Repairing volume.
Next ID in a hard link chain is incorrect (id = 3167593)
(It should be 1939787 instead of 3156282)
Previous ID in a hard link chain is incorrect (id = 1939787)
(It should be 3167593 instead of 1939788)
Next ID in a hard link chain is incorrect (id = 1939787)
(It should be 1939788 instead of 0)
Previous ID in a hard link chain is incorrect (id = 1939788)
(It should be 1939787 instead of 3156282)
Next ID in a hard link chain is incorrect (id = 1939788)
(It should be 0 instead of 1939787)
Indirect node 249117 needs link count adjustment
(It should be 3 instead of 4)
Next ID in a hard link chain is incorrect (id = 3167594)
(It should be 1939789 instead of 3156283)
I have tried to navigate your website, but I don't even know where to start, since I'm not sure what my problem is. I also don't want to lose any information, especially since I haven't backed up my computer in probably 4 months. Please tell me what I should do. My back-up disk was also used to back up my old computer (also a macbook pro) in which the motherboard crashed, so i could not start my computer.. but the harddrive was fine. Each back up is named separately (from this computer and the old computer).
<Subject Edited by Host>
Hope you can help!!

I asked the Hosts to move this into a new thread, as it doesn't relate to the other one. It's not a good idea to "tack on" to a thread about a different problem.
nikki164 wrote:
Before I go out and buy a new drive, maybe you can help. The error message I received is:
An error occurred while copying files. The problem may be temporary. If the problem persists, use Disk Utility to repair your backup disk.
The file system (keeps track of where everything is on the disk) is heavily damaged, beyond repair.
I also don't want to lose any information
Your backups are far too damaged to be of any use.
Please tell me what I should do.
Short-term, you can try erasing it, per #2 in Using Disk Utility. But it may be starting to fail -- that might explain the damage to the file system.
Assuming Disk Utility can erase it, re-select it as the destination for your backups, via the Time Machine Preferences window.
Start a backup and see what happens.
Most likely, the backup will fail, or the drive will, sooner or later, especially if it's a few years old -- they don't last forever.
So, if you value your data, get a new one, as soon as possible.
Eject and disconnect the old one and put it "on the shelf" for a while, in case you need it.
Format the new one for Time Machine, per Time Machine - Frequently Asked Question #5.
Select it as the destination for your backups, via the Time Machine Preferences window.
Then start making regular backups. Consistently and regularly.
Your Mac's internal HD won't last forever, either -- that's one of the reasons you do backups. When it fails, you will lose everything you've done since the last completed backup.
And update your profile unless you're still running Leopard. It doesn't matter for this situation, but might for the next one.
EDIT: p.s.; it's late here and I'm off to bed, but will be back in the morning.
Message was edited by: Pondini

Mountain lion finder search scroll bug

Hi all,
I've found another major bug in Mountain Lion. Previous bugs include:
https://discussions.apple.com/message/19426052?ac_cid=op123456#19426052
This bug is in the Finder scrolling function in a search window.
When searching for a file in Finder (or through Spotlight -> then clicking "Show all in Finder"), the results appear as normal. However, when scrolling down the finder window, the content keeps resetting to the top of the list, making it extremely difficult to find anything that is not displayed in the available window space.
Hope this gets noticed & fixed in the next update.
Regards

I've had this same Spotlight results scroll focus change OS bug ever since Mountain Lion. I've observed it on 3 different macbook pros, both with an upgrade to Mountain Lion from Lion, and also a complete CLEAN install of Mountain Lion on a brand new disk where I've not dragged over any system files, preferences or apps. For me, all ML exhibit this bug from 10.8 to the most current 10.8.3.
I have not edited the Search Results categories that are selected (in Preferences > Spotlight)
The only time this has not occurred is in the first 2 days of the using the clean install of ML. The scroll focus behaved correctly even with a lot of results. It's now been a week since the clean install and the scroll focus change bug is now active again since day 3. It is possible to scroll slowly with the mouse wheel/gesture and it won't always (10% of the time?) snap focus to the top.
Thanks for the reference link above, but it was not helpful to me:
https://discussions.apple.com/message/12261261#12261261
The thread refers to OS 10.6., and I did not observe this bug in that OS, or 10.7.
One recommendations is to delete the plist (preferences), but this is not a practical solution because the problem comes back quickly.
The other recommendation is to turn off calculate size of files or the Spotlight results folder. It is not possible, as far as I can see, to turn calculate sizes on in the View Options for the Spotlight results window. It is possible to turn on/off sizes as a column in the results, but this made no difference with the bug.
Other tests I've performed that did not fix the bug:
Change "Show scroll bars:" to "Always". This made no difference.
Change "Click in the scroll bar to:" to "Jump to the spot that's clicked". No difference.
Other tests that could be performed:
1) System Preferences > Spotlight: Search Results - turn categories on and off to see if that makes a difference.
And finally, this has reduced the problem to occurring only 10% of the time now!
turn off Smooth Scrolling. This is no longer a checkbox in System Preferences > Appearance in 10.8 ML, so you have to use a shell command in Terminal. If you want to explore this approach look at these two references:
http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20120726122633912
http://www.marekbell.com/how-to-disable-smooth-scrolling-in-mountain-lion/
Now I'm waiting to see if other parts of the ML OS will be negatively affected by turning off Smooth Scrolling, and then I'll decide which is worse. Bottom line, this is not a fix, but it seems to have reduced the occurrence of the Spotlight results scroll focus change OS bug.

Another Mountain Lion bug

Hi all.
I have discovered another bug in Mountain Lion.
I have Adobe Creative Suite 6 Installed (including InDesign CS6) and have had to also install my old InDesign CS4 to work with clients that use it.
I have chosen an InDesign document that was created in CS4 (and hasn't been opened in CS6) and right clicked - 'Get Info'
Changed the 'Open With' default from CS6 to CS4.
So far so good.
I then clicked "Change All", I get the confirmation message box, and as soon as I click "Yes, please change All to CS4" It immediately changes the default setting back to CS6.
If I change the "Open with" default for a file to CS4, and leave it at that, it works fine for that file,
but the "Change All" function seems to be broken.
The Change All function seems to work fine on Leopard and Snow Leopard. I haven't tried Lion, but I suspect that is where the trouble starts. (It has with other bugs.).
Any light that any of you could shed on this, or even fixes involving the Terminal and the Unix commands, would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks for your time.
Also this forum has a problem with the question form.
below it has asked me for my product - "Macbook Pro"
Then Operating System - and it gives me a choice of iOS from 4 to 7
As far as I know, Apple hasn't inflicted mobile phone operating systems on computers. yet.
perish the thought.

Change All works quite well for me for every version of Mountain Lion and on several different computers. It's not an OS X problem. You have some other problem such as possible file permissions' issues. You might try repairing ACLs and permissions in your Home folder by using the "resetpassword" Terminal command that you may access via the Recovery HD. You will not be resetting passwords, btw.
Reset User Permissions and ACLs in Lion/Mountain Lion
Boot to the Recovery HD:
Restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the COMMAND and R keys until the menu screen appears. Alternatively, restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the OPTION key until the boot manager screen appears. Select the Recovery HD and click on the downward pointing arrow button.
From the Utilities menu select Terminal. At the Terminal prompt enter: resetpassword. Press RETURN. When the window opens select your startup drive where it says "Select the volume containing the user account:" At the bottom of the window you will see, "Reset Home folder permissions and ACLs." Click on the Reset button.

Mountain Lion Bug? Notifications disrupt bluetooth audio

I just noticed what might be a minor bug in Mountain Lion.

As an update, I tried switching the main display to the MBP. Nothing changed.
However, I changed the rotation to 90 degrees and everything is back to Normal! Aside from the fact that I'm looking a 24" screen in the vertical position.

Mountain Lion bug clock

Hi,
i have found a bug in Mountain Lion.
I m a german user with 24h clock.
During normal use i see a 24h clock.
If Macbook Pro 13 logout automatic for energy safe and i have to login, the clock is swich to 12h (am pm).
After login, clock swich to 24h.
Examble:      24h Time --> 15:45 o'clock
                    before login --> 3:45 pm
                    after login --> 15:45
Regards
kafuchs

Following postings helps so solve my problem.
1.
It seems launching again
/System/Library/CoreServices/Language Chooser.app
could help solving this problem.
Give it a try
2.
Don't you just have to active the 24hour format to your whole mac? (You probably also have the 12 hour clock AM/PM in iCal). To do this, simply follow these steps:
-> System Preferences
-> Language & Text
-> Region
-> Chose Germany again and close window.
Thanks for great help in community.

Emails from one account don't appear in the Inbox of Mail since upgrading to Mountain Lion

I have a couple of email accounts - one is Gmail and one is a domain for my business. Previously Mail would show the Inbox and then a subfolder for each account under Inbox. Any messages received in the accounts would appear in both their own subfolder and also the Inbox. All my rules worked properly and life was good. Now, try as I might I cannot get my domain email account messages to show in the global/unified Inbox.
Originally the domain email folder was totally separate to the Inbox. By changing the IMAP Prefix (removing 'Inbox') I was able to get the folder at least under Inbox.
I purchased a new iMac and used Migration Assistant to move everything, therefore the problem persists. I had additional problems that my address book, rules and On My Mac folders didn't appear - but I solved that by finding the Containers folder and it is like a duplicate of Mail. I moved things from there to the Library/Mail and those particular issues resolved. But for the inbox issue, I have removed data from the Users/Library/Mail and from Library/Containers and started afresh - even deleted the Mail App and reinstalled from my original disc, but as soon as I set up the account it happens again.
Recently I have also started receiving errors when sending to use the Connection Doctor. I don't know if all this is related to a bug in Mountain Lion, the way I have things set up, or my domain/ISP.
Any suggestions on what to try, what it may be or ways around it would be great. I do have a Smart Mailbox for a Total Inbox, but of course the Rules don't work automatically on it. I'm getting sick of running Rules manually. Help please!!

I called the support service and she told me to delete my email address and re-enter it. I have no problem since then on receiving and sending emails.

Colors Oversaturated in Mountain Lion

I've just now finally upgraded to ML from Lion, and find that the colors on my display are out of kilter. The icons on my dock, for instance, are way oversaturated.
I've searched Apple Discussions and Google and seen a lot of mentions of problems along these lines, but haven't found any solutions. I've tried repairing permissions, restarting, changing color profiles, and recalibrating with Colormunki Smile.
I saw one person suggested installing something called basICColor, but I don't want to spend money on another calibration system to fix this.
I thought I'd try for a solution one last time here, and then will just downgrade back to Lion (luckily I made a clone before I upgraded).

The problem is indeed Mountain Lion. I tested numerous ways to try and narrow down the issue. While newer Macs, like an iMac I worked on while doing a bit of freelance work, don't seem to be affected, other models are. We have two Mac Pros; a mid 2010 and a late 2008. Graphics card in use makes no difference. Both models showed exactly the same issue. In all cases, I installed only what was necessary to test, and that was OS X, Photoshop CS6 and the CoCo filter. Here's what I did:
1) Installed Snow Leopard on an erased drive, then Mountain Lion, then PS CS6 and CoCo.
2) Installed Snow Leopard on an erased drive, then Lion, then Mountain Lion, then PS CS6 and CoCo.
3) Installed Mountain Lion on an erased drive from a bootable thumb drive I made from the ML download, then PS CS6, then CoCo.
4) Repeat 1 and 2 but install PS CS6 and CoCo after Snow Leopard in order to allow Lion and/or Mountain Lion to be undisturbed by the installation of PS CS6 afterwards.
5) Finally, to see if Photoshop or the filter itself was changing something, I repeated 1, 2, and 3 above without installing PS or the CoCo filter, just OS X.
In every case, Mountain Lion itself is causing the color problem. Using the same wide gamut EIZO CG243W monitor, color on both Mac Pros is fine in SL and Lion, and breaks as soon as you install Mountain Lion, even if installed on an erased drive by itself.
I even have it narrowed down to where. The Dock, any open folder specifically in Icon View, and any other app which uses the system call for color as these two OS functions. The desktop itself, icons viewed when using Command+Tab, or folders in List or Column view are correct. As is any app which does not use the broken system call.
It also doesn't matter what profile you use for your monitor in the System Preferences. The wider the color space, the more obvious the problem. Being a much smaller color space, sRGB has the least distinction, but you can see a difference even in that.
To prove that little theory, I took a handle of apps from another drive and placed them on the desktop. Then copied them into a folder, also on the desktop. With the folder open and in icon view, the color of all items in the folder is wrong. See below:
At the right is the desktop, which I made white so it would match an open folder window, making it easier to compare color. Notice how far off color is in the folder's Icon View. The Dock exactly matches this incorrect color.
Looking at the MS Word and QT Player 7 icons in particular stuck out. I thought, this looks like same shift as the sky in the picture I took in Yellowstone. Upper image is correct and how it appears in the Photoshop interface. Lower image is how it appears in the CoCo filter.
It's what started my whole focus on this problem. We use CoCo dozens of times a day in Photoshop. Because of this color issue in ML, it makes it impossible to use. That is forcing us to stay in Snow Leopard (we can't stand Lion). If not for this issue, we'd be working in Mountain Lion as our day to day OS.
So anyway, I opened the above image in PS CS6, then CoCo. Success! With no corrections applied, the color on the right was immediately off, exactly the same as the left side when viewed on the desktop. See below:
It's compounded on the left in this image since the incorrect over saturated color is now applied twice. After taking a screen shot of the above photo, I opened both in Photoshop and dragged the lower image over the upper image, then moved it over so the right side (the incorrect desktop color as displayed in CoCo) was over the incorrect color of the folder icons at the left. Turning the upper layer on and off, the incorrect color is the same, pixel for pixel.
What that proves is that CoCo is using the same broken system call as OS X does for Icon View and the Dock. A few games and other apps I have also must use the same color function as they also are greatly over saturated only in Mountain Lion.
So anyway, I've managed to pinpoint the problem. This is, without a doubt, a bug in Mountain Lion.

My cursor disappears, and now Photoshop crashes in Mountain Lion

Apple, apple, apple! PLEASE fix the obvious bugs in Mountain Lion. I am a professional using Photoshop on a Mac for the last 20 years, and now your operating system has me and MANY OTHERS in despair becasue we can't work. Lots of professionals in despair on the Adobe site.
Adobe has built to your specs, and now you have bugs. Please fix them as a matter of priority. Apparently buying the newest Photoshop - CS6 - doesn't fix this either.
1. Cursor disappears when using brushes, and changing the size of the brush. This persistent problem makes it impossible to work with brushes - like a moron is stealing your bursh every minute, rendering it invisible.
2. Upon deleting my Photoshop preferences, it was briefly fixed, then returned.
3. I tired uninstalling , then shutting down and restarting, then reinstalling Photoshop - now the whole program crashes - apparently I have discovered ANOTHER known bug in Mountian Lion. Here's a quote from an Adobe employee - at least they will talk to me -
"that's another issue -- and a bug in the OS code It was trying to draw a control, and failed when it tried to get the font size information -- we've seen that OS bug before, but I didn't realize it was still a problem in 10.8."
So now my 1,000 dollar software is rendered useless on the OS I just paid for.
Not good enough Apple. This is your sutuff up, you should fix this as a matter of urgency.

raydsr wrote:
same problem here. Mountain Lion is terrible with Photoshop and Pro Tools.
apple, please listen and fix these issues or give us back Snow Leopard.
You can go back to Snow Leopard if you wish. It is still available. Adobe are responsible for their own products and compatability, Apple are responsible for theirs. In saying that, I have had no issues with Adobe CS4 or 5 nor 6 with either Lion nor Mountain Lion. Perhaps you need to uninstall CS and reinstall.
Pete

Mountain Lion displayed previously recorded CD as Blank

Hi I have recently come across an issue (BUG) in mountain lion.
Pervasively recorded CD's from old OS now show as blank?
If you dual book into windows or put the CD into SL 10.6 information displays, but for some reason ML 10.8 displays the disk as BLANK.
I have spoke to Senior techs and apple store Geniuses who just told me that ML is not compatible with older OS?
Great thanks for that Genius diagnosis.
SOLUTION:
After a lot of searching around I figure this was not the CD's problem but rather the session language in which it was originally Recorded / Burned. I figured as it was an old disk it may have been burned with Legacy software language eg Joliet level3 or something.
To read these apparent disks in ML you need to do the following in terminal to force mount the older cd session.
1.Open terminal
2.List all volumes to determine which volume we need to force mount.
$ diskutil list
identify the CD mount identifier for the first volume mine was disk1s1. disk0 is normally your internal HD and disk1 is normally the first other drive you have inserted in your system, in this case the CD.
Note if you have other .dmg files mounted or usb drives mounted the CD may be on disk2 or disk3?
Once you determine which disk it is you want to mount the first partition of that disk.
In my case it was disk1s1.
From trial and error I figured it was normally the first s1 after the disk rather than s1s1 or s1s2
this is what you will get once you run $ diskutil list
/dev/disk1
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:        CD_partition_scheme                        *790.8 MB   disk1
   1:     Apple_partition_scheme                         658.4 MB   disk1s1
   2:        Apple_partition_map                         1.0 KB     disk1s1s1
   3:                  Apple_HFS Untitled CD             658.0 MB   disk1s1s2
Once you know the disk IDENTIFIER as disk1s1 we can force mount it using something called cd9660.fs.
3. we need to make a directory for us to mount the partition into.
$ mkdir /Volumes/tempCD
4. now we can mount the partition disk1s1 into our newly created tempCD directory
$ sudo /System/Library/Filesystems/cd9660.fs/Contents/Resources/cd9660.util -M disk1s1 /Volumes/tempCD
sudo means you will have to put the admin password in when you run this command.
You will now get a mounted CD called tempCD and you should be able to browse the files on it.
5. to unmount the CD you will have to run this command
$ sudo /System/Library/Filesystems/cd9660.fs/Contents/Resources/cd9660.util -u disk1s1 /Volumes/tempCD
In future you do not need to run the $ mkdir /Volumes/tempCD as it already exists so you only need to run mount and unmount steps 4 and 5 and of course each time you put in a new disk run step 1 to make sure you are mounting the correct partition of the correct disk.
this has worked for me and has allowed me to read old CD's that ML had decided were not compatible.
Apple if you read this why do you drop finder support for older CD's?
Good luck hope this helps people.

There is a workaround to use for strict backup purposes:
The Notes data is stored in 3 files, deep inside your Library folder.
To see the Library folder:
In Finder       Go (hold Alt/Option key) select Library,
then drill to   Containers/com.apple.Notes/Data/Library/Notes   << backup this folder.
NotesV1.storedata
NotesV1.storedata-shm
NotesV1.storedata-wal
Good luck.

Scrolling is not smooth in mountain lion

Just upgraded to Mountain Lion and the scrolling on websites with both Safari and Firefox are not smooth. Even when typing (such as just now writing this), sometimes the cursor hangs for a second. Is there a setting that can be changed to fix this or is this a bug in Mountain Lion. I saw other complaints listed a bug reporting site for Apple but when I click on that it says it is only for developers, not for users.

Solved. See this link about the runanway program AddressBookSourceSync
Re: What is AddressBookSourceSync?

How do you reset the root password in Mountain Lion?

After install of Mountain Lion on my old iMac, I could not enter administrator, no password would work, Apple support helped me go through terminal to reset root password and root as administrator . I then was able to reset myself as administrator with a new pasword. I used that paassword a few times now it wont accept it again. I dont remember all the steps to reset the root password and recover from this situation.. Can anyone help? Is this a bug in Mountain Lion?

I'm having similar issues but other concerns
1. Can't go into recovery mode since its protected by firmware password, which I don't have. All option keys sequences go into the same firmware padlock, which I don't have the apparent pin.
2. In terminal mode it didn't happen to recognize that unix command. Also since I'm just on guest would that reset for the admin or possibly the guest acct?
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