Leopard 10.5.2 Upgrade To 10.5.4 Login Freeze
As I could not find the problem or the "solution" to this anywhere, I wanted to post it to help others.
We purchased a MacBook Pro 15" for our COO and I was tasked with connecting it to our Windows AD environment. Binding to the network worked well, but I was attempting to configure mapping of our network drives (yay for the automator ... that's not so automatic) and ran into the freeze that occurs when trying to change Login Items (BTW, turning off parental controls does NOT fix this). At this point, I checked for an OS upgrade and found that the current OS is 10.5.4 and the system is running 10.5.2, so I installed the new OS Version.
After the OS Upgrade to 10.5.4 (which appeared to go fine) when I attempted to login with my domain information as I had previously done, the computer accepted the credentials, began processing and then froze with all of the buttons on the login box disabled. I could not abort the process so I powered down the computer.
At this point, I re-booted and experienced the same issue again, so I re-booted into safe mode and the computer would not pass the blue screen and the power button would not work, so I removed the battery. When re-booting into normal mode, it accepted credentials without issue.
Although I can't proove it (the error log was not helpful), my feeling is that this has to do with the combination of network binding and the Airbook connection. I had a lot of trouble configuring the airbook connection and even when it appears to connect, it has in fact connected to the DHCP of the wireless AP instead of the DHCP installed on the PDC. Make sure that you disable DHCP on a wireless AP if you are trying to use it to connect to a domain network.
Moral of the story: Unbind a macbook before you upgrade the OS (or at least make sure your airbook connection works properly first!)
BTW: I have yet to solve the freeze that occurs when you attempt to change login items, does anyone know if 10.5.4 will solve it?
You might try downloading it from here...
http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/macosx1052comboupdate.html
...and install it manually.
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