Filevault "did not open and needs repair" upon Login
When attempting to login my second time after installing Leopard onto my Macbook, a warning appears saying that "Your FileVault-Protected home folder did not open and needs to be repaired. Click ok to repair the folder and continue logging in. Click cancel to log in as a different user."
Naturally, I clicked OK in hopes that it would just log me in as normal.
However, when i clicked OK it says "You are unable to log in to the user account 'elizabethsherman' at this time. Logging in to the account failed because an error occurred."
I've tried restarting multiple times, but nothing is working.
My login picture has also magically changed. I don't think that correlates with the problem..
Has anyone ran into this problem or know what i should try to do??
Help!
Thanks,
Liz Sherman
Check out http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=25695 I couldn't find a comparable Leopard document.
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"Fire-vault protected home folder did not open and needs to be repaired."
I recently updated my macbook to leopard and after my laptop downloaded system updates, it had to restart but when I came to the login section and tried to login, I get this message:
"Fire-vault protected home folder did not open and needs to be repaired. Click OK to repair the folder and continue logging in. Click Cancel login to log in as a different user."
I don't have a different user so I clicked OK, but then I get this message:
"You are unable to log in to the user account "Kyle" at this time. Logging in to the account failed because an error occured."
So now I can't login and I'm a college student and need important files on my computer. Someone please help! I have class tomorrow!Sorry, I re-read your question and realize from the title you had file vault on upgraded and now it won't let you into the home folder. This is a known issue and I hope Apple produce a fix. I encountered this problem but fortunately I took a bootable image backup to a firewire drive. I booted off that as root and then opened the sparese image which is the home folder. This gave warnings but let me copy important documents to safety and also export address book and safari book marks.
If you do not have a backup I am very sorry to say you may have lost those files. It is worth backing up important college work, even if it is just to CD. I hope Apple come up with a fix for this because many of us hit this problem. Part of the reason for owning a Mac is you do not expect to have these issues. It made me feel like I had just installed XP! -
FileVault did not open home folder-- Can't login
Okay, so just today I upgraded to Leopard, after the CD finished downlaoding, I logged into my account, and the Updater wanted me to update to 10.5.1, so I did. Updater asked me to restart, and after clicking the restart button, FileVault (I have it enabled) asked me if I wanted to recover disk space (it does this all the time) I skipped the process, and my computer restarted. It brought me to the login screen, and I clicked on my account, entered my password, and then a window pops up, telling me:
"Your FileVault-protected home folder did not open and needs to be repaired.
Click OK to repair the folder and continue logging in.
Click Cancel Login to log in as a different user."
I chose okay, then waited a few hours to see if anything would happen. It didn't. This account is the only adminastrator account on this computer...
Anyone know what to do??Understand that what has happened is that your FileVaulted volume, which is simply a large, glorified encrypted sparsefile, has become corrupt and requires repair. The problem is getting access to it and performing the repair. Please understand that the following fix worked for me and may not work for you.
First, chances are you have only one user on your computer. Even if you have two, we should start fresh with a new admin user. The following steps will reset your Mac to think that is has just received a brand new setup of OSX:
1. Reboot
2. Hold apple + s down after you hear the chime.
3. When you get text prompt enter in these terminal commands to create a brand new admin account (hitting return after each line):
* mount -uw /
* rm /var/db/.AppleSetupDone
* shutdown -h now
Now, booting up your computer, enjoy the pretty light show, take a large breath, hold it for 10 seconds, then let it go. Grab a cup of coffee or a loved one and cuddle during this inspiring intro. Now, back to business. Setup your account as you would in any other circumstance. Just make sure you dont name your username the same as the one you used on this computer before. Make sure your password is longer than 8 characters as well (or so I have heard).
Now that you are inside your computer, you see that you still do not have access to your data. Lets take out the crowbar and proceed with the following steps:
4. Go to Macintosh HD/Users/ and locate the folder named the PREVIOUS administrator's account name which you cannot access. Click on the folder and go to FILE | GET INFO and under Sharing and Permissions ADD yourself as a user with Read & Write privileges.
5. Go inside this folder and perform the same command on the Username.sparseimage file as in step 4. Note the path of this file (i.e. /Users/UserName/UserName.sparseimage)
6. Go to Macintosh HD/Applications/Utilities/Terminal
7. Type: sudo hdiutil attach /Users/username/username.sparseimage -nomount
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9. Type: sudo fsck_hfs -f /dev/rdisk2s2 (rdisk2s2 being where the HFS was from step 8, adding an "r" at the front)
If fsck_hfs bails because of too many errors, just repeat until it says the FS is fine. That irks the bejeezus out of me as well, but has always worked for me so far.
10. Type: sudo fsck_hfs -frd /dev/rdiskXsY
This will rebuild the catalog file, which was my problem.
Now, finally, go back to that path where you found your sparsimage file, double-click it, enter your password and you just may be able to read the data! Success!!!
If you are smart, like I am at this very second, back up the data immediately to DVD. Once you have your backups, reinstall everything and just drop your data back in. Make it clean!
Remember, FileVault is a bitchen feature! But if you are ignorant enough, like I was, not to back up your data, whose fault is that? Cheers! -
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Skype app not working and needs "repair"
Hello, just wondering if anyone else has had this issue. But yesterday I tried to use my Skype app on my Sony Vaio (I'm running Windows 8.1) and it just hung there for a few minutes, it was just the skype screen with the logo on it. I turned away then noticed that the app had closed, so I clicked it again and the same issue happened. Figuring 3rd times the charm I clicked it, only this time I got a notification from my computer saying that the app couldn't open and to go to the Windows Store. Once i get there it says that the app needs to be repaired, so I press the repair button, and I get the little green dots at the top that show that its working. After a few minutes, I get a notification saying that the Skype app has been installed, so when I go to my start screen and press on it, it says the same thing, that the app can't open and to go to the Windows Store. So I left it alone, this morning when I turn on my laptop I have a blue square with no Skype logo instead of the usual Skype app, I click on it and the process starts over. For some reason it just isnt repairing...is anyone else having this issue or can help me solve it? :/
skype is always showing me online when i was not really please repair it.
a.estrada wrote:
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You charged me for the $19.99 which I need to be credited back. I would appreciate your resolving and advising me of such.
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You can try the 'report a problem' page to contact iTunes Support : http://reportaproblem.apple.com
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I can't open Firefox.
From the menu bar, select
▹ About This Mac
Below the "OS X" legend in the window that opens, the OS version appears. Click the version line twice to display the serial number. If the number is missing or invalid according to this web form, take the machine to an Apple Store or other authorized service center to have the problem corrected. -
Form did not open with webutil.
Dear All;
I am using Webutil for loading and uploading the files on local drive, it was running good through Oracle Application server on client side.
My Orcale Application Server Detail is given below: (Before Installing the Patch)
OS: Windows Server
Version: 10.2.0.2
But I have install the patch on appllication server but after installing this patch those forms in which I have used webutl did not open and hang up the whole applixcation.
My Orcale Application Server Detail is given below: (After Installing the Patch)
OS: Windows Server
Version: 10.1.2.3.0
Please provide me solution of this problem, my forms are not open. Thx. in advance.
Edited by: zahid9999 on Oct 22, 2010 11:10 PM
Edited by: zahid9999 on Oct 25, 2010 9:54 PMDear;
I have take the help form your post and also from this post that I have found it.
After upgrading OAS to the latest patch 3 ( 10.1.2.3 ) we ran into a problem while using WEBUTIL. When using a webutil component from within our forms application , an exception is Thrown in to the java console and nothing seems to happen in the Form itself.
The error message thrown :
Exception in thread "AWT-EventQueue-3" java.lang.NoSuchMethodError:
oracle.forms.handler.IHandler.getApplet()Ljava/applet/Applet;
at oracle.forms.webutil.common.VBeanCommon.init(VBeanCommon.java:281)
at oracle.forms.handler.UICommon.instantiate(Unknown Source)
at oracle.forms.handler.UICommon.onCreate(Unknown Source)
at oracle.forms.handler.JavaContainer.onCreate(Unknown Source)
at oracle.forms.engine.Runform.onCreateHandler(Unknown Source)
at oracle.forms.engine.Runform.processMessage(Unknown Source)
at oracle.forms.engine.Runform.processSet(Unknown Source)
at oracle.forms.engine.Runform.onMessageReal(Unknown Source)
at oracle.forms.engine.Runform.onMessage(Unknown Source)
at oracle.forms.engine.Runform.processEventEnd(Unknown Source)
at oracle.ewt.lwAWT.LWComponent.redispatchEvent(Unknown Source)
at oracle.ewt.lwAWT.LWComponent.processEvent(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.Component.dispatchEventImpl(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.retargetMouseEvent(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.processMouseEvent(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.dispatchEvent(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForFilters(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForFilter(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(Unknown Source)
This is due to the fact that the frmwebutil.jar used in a earlier version is not compiled against the new OAS 10.1.2.3 frmall.jar version. As a result this exception is thrown.
The solution to this is to extract the orginal complid “frmwebutil.jar” from the OAS 10.1.2.3 installation files and overwrite the frmwebutil.jar currently used. To extract the GOOD frmwebutil.jar browse threw the installation path towards this point “Disk1\stage\Patches\oracle.developer.forms.builder\10.1.2.3.0\1\DataFiles\”
Extract the this jar as followed :
$ORACLE_HOME\jdk\bin\jar xf webutil.2.2.jar frmwebutil.jar
Rename the frmwebutil.jar0 to frmwebutil.jar and overwrite the current version used which most likely can be found here “$ORACLE_HOME\forms\java”.
This solved the problem for me !
Thx................................ -
I had a repair done on my MacBook Pro and had to have a new hard drive installed. The Apple Auth Repair Shop then updated the OS from 10.6.8 to 10.7.5. Now my iPhoto v 9.2.3 will not open and it sounds like it will not work with this OS. Can you please advise?
You may need many other updates to retain compatibility with Lion. I suggest you reinstall Snow Leopard. Unfortunately, you will need to erase the drive first. Be sure to backup your data if you haven't done so already.
Clean Install of Snow Leopard
Be sure to make a backup first because the following procedure will erase
the drive and everything on it.
1. Boot the computer using the Snow Leopard Installer Disc or the Disc 1 that came
with your computer. Insert the disc into the optical drive and restart the computer.
After the chime press and hold down the "C" key. Release the key when you see
a small spinning gear appear below the dark gray Apple logo.
2. After the installer loads select your language and click on the Continue
button. When the menu bar appears select Disk Utility from the Utilities menu.
After DU loads select the hard drive entry from the left side list (mfgr.'s ID and drive
size.) Click on the Partition tab in the DU main window. Set the number of
partitions to one (1) from the Partitions drop down menu, click on Options button
and select GUID, click on OK, then set the format type to MacOS Extended
(Journaled, if supported), then click on the Apply button.
3. When the formatting has completed quit DU and return to the installer. Proceed
with the OS X installation and follow the directions included with the installer.
4. When the installation has completed your computer will Restart into the Setup
Assistant. After you finish Setup Assistant will complete the installation after which
you will be running a fresh install of OS X. You can now begin the update process
by opening Software Update and installing all recommended updates to bring your
installation current.
Download and install Mac OS X 10.6.8 Update Combo v1.1. -
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After installing the 64 bit version of itunes my iphone still won't sync. I get the explantation that I mobile driver application did not download and i need to remove and reinstall itunes (which I have done numberous times). Any help?
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Download and save a copy of the iTunesSetup.exe (or iTunes64setup.exe) installer file to your hard drive:
http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/
Download and install the free trial version of WinRAR:
http://www.rarlab.com/
Right-click the iTunesSetup.exe (or iTunes64setup.exe), and select "Extract to iTunesSetup" (or "Extract to iTunes64Setup"). WinRAR will expand the contents of the file into a folder called "iTunesSetup" (or "iTunes64Setup").
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Hi,
Bootup holding CMD+r, or the Option/alt key to boot from the Restore partition & use Disk Utility from there to Repair the Disk, then Repair Permissions.
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A few months ago I purchased Snow Leopard, but realized too late that I already had Snow Leapord. What I need is Snow Lion upgrade. I did not open the software. Will they refund refund this or exchange it for the Snow Lion upgrade? Thanks!
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There is no Snow "LION". there is Lion and now Mountain Lion buit both of those are Download Only from the Mac App Store. You need to have Snow Leopard 10.6.6, .7 or .8 to have the Mac Apple store link on your Mac.
To get Lion you need to call the Apple Store, 1-800-MYAPPLE, and order it. They will send you a download code to your Apple ID Email address so you can download it from the Mac Appl Store.
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I am not able to launch FF everytime i try to open it, it says FF has to submit a crash report,and restore yr tabs. I even tried doing that and the report was submitted too, but still FF did not start, and the problem still persists, please help me solve this issue
'''(in English)'''Hi Danny,
Per my understanding that you can't get the expect result by using the expression "=Count(Fields!TICKET_STATUS.Value=4) " to count the the TICKET_STATUS which value is 4, the result will returns the count of all the TICKET_STATUS values(206)
but not 180, right?
I have tested on my local environment and can reproduce the issue, the issue caused by you are using the count() function in the incorrect way, please modify the expression as below and have a test:
=COUNT(IIF(Fields!TICKET_STATUS.Value=4 ,1,Nothing))
or
=SUM(IIF(Fields!TICKET_STATUS=4,1,0))
If you still have any problem, please feel free to ask.
Regards,
Vicky Liu
Vicky Liu
TechNet Community Support
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