Cannot Log in after Leopard update

I updated to Leopard. The installation was completed, but now I click on my name to log in, enter my password, and then the log in screen appears again. I repeat the process and it is a continuous loop? The DVD is still in the system. I cannot log in? What can I do?

If your CD is still in the drive, you need to restart your computer while holding the "C" key. You may need to hold the key for a couple minutes. This will bring up the installation again. You will need to indicate that you want to Archive and Install under Options when you upload. On a side note, it is my understanding that you can hold your mouse button while restarting your computer and that will act as your eject button for the DVD drive if you can't get into your system. But, the archive and install does work!

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Cannot log on after software update

Hi All -
Not sure what happened, but I installed the latest software update from Apple (iTunes 7.7 and a security patch). When I rebooted, I got the log-in screen, which never happens. I tried to log into the main user account, the log-in box just shook. I tried the other user account (which is never used) and it didn't work either. The passwords are correct. I found some help for the same issue in Leopard, and followed it, but that didn't work, as I was getting "Segmentation Faults" messages.
This is the first real issue with my computer in the 5 years. But I am definitely frustrated. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
- Greg

Hi Greg, and a warm welcome to the forums!
Could be many things, we should start with this...
"Try Disk Utility
1. Insert the Mac OS X Install disc that came with your computer, then restart the computer while holding the C key.
2. When your computer finishes starting up from the disc, choose Disk Utility from the Installer menu. (In Mac OS X 10.4 or later, you must select your language first.)
*Important: Do not click Continue in the first screen of the Installer. If you do, you must restart from the disc again to access Disk Utility.*
3. Click the First Aid tab.
4. Click the disclosure triangle to the left of the hard drive icon to display the names of your hard disk volumes and partitions.
5. Select your Mac OS X volume.
6. Click Repair. Disk Utility checks and repairs the disk."
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106214
Then Safe Boot from the HD, (holding Shift key down at bootup), run Disk Utility in Applications>Utilities, then highlight your drive, click on Repair Permissions, reboot when it completes.
The usual reason why updates fail or mess things up, is if Permissions are not fixed before & after every update, with a reboot... you may get a partial update when the installer finds it doesn't have Permissions to change one obscure little part of the OS, leaving you with a mix of OS versions.
Some people get away without Repairing Permissions for years, some for only days.
If Permissions are wrong before applying an update, you could get mixed OS versions, if Directory is the slightest messed up, who knows!
If many Permission are repaired, or any Directory errors are found, you may need to re-apply some the latest/biggest updates.
May even need to do an Archive and Install if you have room on the HD...
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107120
I only use Software Update to see what is needed, then get them for real via...
http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/
That way I can wait a week or so, check the forums for potential problems, and get Permissions & such in order before installing.

MobileMe cannot log in after Lion update

Note, This is my first post here, as i have never had a problem with any of my mac devices for over 6 years.
iMac 27 core duo 8GBram. after upgrading to Lion, waiting for spotlight to re-index, etc. evrything seemed fine, until i tried loggin into mobileme. Validation Error. ok, I reset all keychinas. No luck. opened a new user, no luck. strange part is... iDisk loads fine, email works perfect, even my contacts are being sent to all my devices, ipad2, iphone 4 x2.... still cannot log into mobileme through preferences. tried for 2 days. validation error... WTH?
anyone with any ideas? went through all the standard procedures.. but i am not very IT minded.
thank you kindly for any suggestions,
m. flowers

First try booting while holding down the 'shift' key to boot into 'safe mode'....you will still be prompted for your password....I am hoping it will be accepted there...
If not follow the instructions in this link...
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1274
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Cannot log in after Leopard upgrade on G4 powermac, please help

Hi all,
After reading numerous threads, still I cannot find an answer!
I installed Leopard on my Powermac g4 1.25 DP but I am not able to log in. I can only select the user "other". I have tried resetting the root password and tried to login with username "root" and password "what i previously selected" , but it did not work. All it does all the time is "wiggle" and return to the login screen.
- Is it helpful to do a reinstall of Leopard using Archive and Install?? I read this solution works for iMacs.... Does it work for a Powermacs too??
- Is it helpful to also change the "user" password (and not only the System administrator (root) password)???
- Is it helpful to revert to Tiger and change my password there, before installing Leopard??
- When I reset a password in the utility menu on the install disk, I type and retype the password. Should I then click "reset" or "safe"???
I hope anyone here can solve my problem or at least answer a few of my questions. Thanks in advance!!
Thomas

That sounds like you're starting up in Safe Mode every time. Try this:
Hold down the power button continuously till the machine powers down (should take between 5 and 10 seconds).
With the machine powered off, press the power button once briefly and let go, then immediately hold down both 'Command' and 'R' on the keyboard. Keep them held down until you see the grey cloth background, then you can let go.
You should end up in the Recovery Disk. In which case, as I mentioned in my previous post, choose 'Disk Utility' and repair disk.

U410 - cannot log in after Windows Update following Factory Restore when timezone is not UTC-8.

Steps to reproduce error:
1. Use OneKey recovery to restore initial factory settings.
2. On the Windows initial configuration screen select a timezone ahead of UTC-8, such as UTC (London)
3. Log in to Windows, open Windows Update control panel and click "Install Updates"
4. Reboot computer to complete updates.
5. On login screen attempt to login or shutdown the computer.
Result:
Computer is stuck with only desktop wallpaper and mouse pointer visible. No response to any keys. Pressing the power button sleeps the machine. Pressing it again wakes the machine back to the stuck state.
I have reproduced this problem 3 times using initial restore each time.
Wordaround:
Before beginning the factory restore process, set the system clock back by 24 hours. After the factory restore completes, set the system clock back to the correct time.
Alternatively, wait 24 hours between a factory reset and attempting to install Windows updates.
Analysis:
This problem is caused because of the way that Windows stores the time. It assumes that the system clock is set to local time rather than UTC. When you use the OneKey recovery system it does not know what timezone the system clock is set to, and so it assumes that it is set to UTC-8. If it is in fact set to UTC, OneKey Recovery creates files with a timestamp 8 hours in the future. This causes Windows Update to fail.
Solved!
Go to Solution.

chinnybob wrote:
Steps to reproduce error:
1. Use OneKey recovery to restore initial factory settings.
2. Log in to Windows, open Windows Update control panel and click "Install Updates"
3. Reboot computer to complete updates.
4. On login screen attempt to login or shutdown the computer.
Result:
Computer is stuck with only desktop wallpaper and mouse pointer visible. No response to any keys. Pressing the power button sleeps the machine. Pressing it again wakes the machine back to the stuck state.
I have reproduced this problem 3 times using initial restore each time.
İ assume you're refering to yesterdays updates.
Yes some systems have problems at times dealing with the updates.
You can boot into Safe mode,use system restore to an earlier point(before you installed the updates)
then install 2 updates at a time,
and rebooting.
That way you should be able to see,which one is causing the problem.

Cannot log in after security update

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Unable to Log In After Software Update

Hello:
After running Software Update, I am unable to log in.
I found the following support article:
Mac OS X 10.5: Unable to log in after an upgrade install
Article: TS1543
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1543?viewlocale=en_US
However, upon step 8 of the instructions, the following error appears:
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This is actually after an update (not an "upgrade"), so I'm not even sure these are the appropriate steps.
This is the second time that I have been unable to log in after an update. The first time, I attempted to reset the password with the installation DVD; however, this resulted in "No LDAP Master" errors and I installed Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard Server on a second internal drive and configured everything again. After setting everything up on the second install, I was going to reformat the first boot drive. Unfortunately, I'm just back to where I started after running the updates. I'm not sure if having two volumes with Mac OS X Server installed makes a difference in the instructions in the article mentioned above or not.
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If so, I'll just do that; however, I am hoping that the Single User approach might somehow avoid "No LDAP Master" errors again.
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baltwo:
Thanks! I think a week would have gone by before I realized this on my own.
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Cannot log&capture after upgrading to Leopard...

Hi,
I'm using FCP 5.0.4 on PowerBook G4 1.67GHz PC
I recently upgraded from Tiger 10.4.11 to Leopard 10.5.6
Now it seems like I cannot Log&Capture anymore. When I press command-8, FCP shuts down and I get a message: The application Final Cut Pro quit unexpectedly.
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Identifier: com.apple.FinalCutPro
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Report Version: 6
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Cannot Log In After Update to 10.6.6

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I need your support to solve a "mistery". I remember a similar post 4 or 5 months ago but in this case issue was solved with the next patch.
I have been installing several leopard updates and now I can't connect me to my wireless lan. Leopard cannot understand my password.
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Cannot log in after archive and install

Hello, everyone. ive been searching the support pages of the apple site for an hour and i cannot seem to find a resolution to this...
I just peformed an archive and install ad now i cannot log in. i think this happened once before and i called apple support and i was told to log in as root. the problem i am having is that the login window does not give me the option to change the user field, it only allows me to type a password. every time i type my password, the login screen shakes. so even if i wanted to type root into the user field, i cant. any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. thank you.
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