Single user displayed in login window after reboot

I've done a clean install of OSX 10.10 on my family Macbook Air.  We have two users created on this device: Parents (an admin user) and Family (a standard user).  We'll normally just use the Family account for most of our work, and only rarely log into Parents. In the Login Options, we have List of Users set as our Display Login Window preference.
Since moving to 10.10, after a reboot of the device, the Login Window only displays the Parents user - even though prior to the reboot, the previous user may have been Family.  This is the case whether I log out of Family or not, prior to shut down of the computer.
The only way I can log into Family from that point is to first log into Parents, then either: explicitly log out or select "Login Window" from the top right drop down menu.  In either case, the Login Window then appears displaying both users (in the latter case indicating that Parents is still logged in).  From there I can log into Family as normal.
Am I doing something weird here or is this a bug?

Yes I did.  Good thought.  That hadn't occurred to me.
File Vault is a nice to have, but would rather fix this problem, if there is a tradeoff.  What options do I have?
Cheers

Similar Messages

  • Stuck in a "loop" at the login window after upgrading to Leopard

    I bought a new iMac Oct 26. It contained Tiger, and included a disk for installing Leopard. I easily got the machine up and running using Tiger, but last night I attempted to install Leopard. When the installation was complete, I tried to get it running. A screen asking for my password came up. I keyed that in and hit logon. Back came the screen asking for the password. To make long story short, I tried everything I could last night, and then called Apple Support this morning. Took quite a while, but I was back in business this afternoon. The technician who helped me sent me the email copied below describing the solution. Perhaps it will help someone else? Romelle
    Hello from Apple!
    Charles at Apple Service & Support thought that you might find this article useful. We hope that it helps resolve your technical issue.
    Link: http://www.info.apple.com/kbnum/n306965
    Mac OS X 10.5, iMac (Late 2007): Stuck in a "loop" at the login window after upgrading to Leopard
    Issue or symptom
    After installing Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard on a 20-inch or 24-inch iMac (Late 2007) computer, you may not be able to log in at the login window. Your login name and password are apparently accepted, but after a blue screen appears for a few seconds, the login window reappears instead of your desktop.
    Products affected
    20-inch or 24-inch iMac (Late 2007) computer with 2.0, 2.4, or 2.8 GHz processors
    Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
    Solution
    If Leopard is installed
    Start up from the Leopard Install DVD and perform an Archive and Install installation (and select Preserve Users and Network Settings).
    After the Archive and Install is complete, you should be able to successfully log in. Use Software Update to install any other updates.
    Important: Install the iMac Software Update 1.3 for Leopard after the Archive and Install is complete.
    If Leopard is not yet installed
    If you have not yet installed Leopard on your 20-inch or 24-inch aluminum iMac computer with a 2.0, 2.4, or 2.8 GHz processor running Mac OS X 10.4.x, but previously installed the iMac Software Update 1.2, you should install the iMac Software Update 1.2.1 (Tiger) or later, before installing Leopard.
    Thank you,
    Apple

    If Leopard came pre-installed and this is a new machne, then the disks that came in the box should let you archive install preserving users & network settings. The disks have a grey label, and if you get more than one use disk #1 for this procedure.
    Hold down the "option" (also known as "alt" on the new keyboards) key when starting up with disk #1 in the optical drive. Select the install disk icon on the grey screen and click the arrow. Then when you get to the "select destination pane, click the options button after selecting your hard drive as the destination. In options A& I preserving should be checked by default, if not, select them. Click "ok" to dismiss the options pane, then run the installation.
    If this does not work for you, call apple support. They want everything to work. Be patient, they are real busy these days.
    Slim

  • The annoying login screen after rebooting App server

    Is there a way to disable to login prompt after reboot the App server? IE offers
    to remember it, but it doesn't. Thanks for any info!
    Dinesh

    Hi,
    I have answered a similar question in How to logout an user when the browser is closed?
    Thanks,
    Sharmila

  • I booted up this morning to find my voice over feature active. A black bar was at the lower left corner of my screen. When I began to click on the users in my login window it would not respond. All that I saw was the black bar saying authentication busy.

    I booted up this morning to find my voice over feature active. A black bar was at the lower left corner of my screen. When I began to click on the users in my login window it would not respond. All that I saw was the black bar saying authentication busy. I was not able to restart, I was not able to switch users, I was not able to shut down. I decided to manually shut down my Mac.  when it booted back up I was looking at the disk utility screen. When I clicked on repair or race it indicated that my hard drive had already been arranged. I was looking at completely formatted drive and I was having to either restore from Time Machine or reinstall lion. I had a back up but why did this happen?

    A possible workaround could be to have the horizontal scroll bar visible all the time.
    <pre><nowiki>body { overflow-x: scroll !important; }</nowiki></pre>
    * Stylish: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/stylish/

  • 2012 MB Pro 13" came with Lion - nearly new, second owner. Stopped responding yesterday in the middle of work. Forced quit, booted up single user, ran fsck -fy, mount -us /, reboot. Stuck on grey apple screen with spinning wheel forever now. Please help

    2012 MB Pro 13" came with Lion - nearly new, second owner. Stopped responding yesterday in the middle of work. Forced quit; reboot stuck on grey apple screen. Booted as single user; ran fsck -fy; mount -us /; reboot. Still stuck on grey apple screen with spinning wheel.
    Any advice please?
    Thanks

    Run through this list of fixes, your solution is there
    Step by Step to fix your Mac

  • Booting using single user to run appljack - can't reboot after

    I have a newbie question and hopefully someone can answer it.
    I am a long time windows user and recent Mac convert but I am having problems understanding Mac's commands in single user mode.
    I logged into single user mode to run applejack and now everytime the computer starts it goes directly back to single user mode. According to the applejack documentation on the web it should reboot and start in normal mode after running but this is not happening! everytime it finishes and reboots it goes back into single user mode.
    How can I stop this from happening?
    Thanks!

    Restart your machine with the Option, Command, P, and R keys held down; if a setting in your firmware is causing your computer to boot into Single User mode, doing this will clear it. If this doesn't work, post back with the complete text of the messages that appear when you enter Single User mode.
    (10885)

  • User accounts dissapear from login window after upgrade

    I upgraded a MBP from Tiger 10.4.11 to Leopard--standard upgrade (not archive & install). It looked like everything went well, but upon reboot, there are no accounts listed, only 'Other'. Both Admin accounts on the machine seem to have vanished as far as the login window is concerned. All accounts are still on the machine in terms of data/user folders; with files intact (viewed them via target disk mode). Machine has around 90GB of data so would like to avoid having to do an archive & install on top of this--hoping there is a quick fix for this. Any ideas?
    Message was edited by: rhkarma

    can you log in as root using "other"? use [this link|http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1278] to reset the root password if you haven't set up one.

  • No keyboard at login window after logout

    Hello all,
    I'm just starting state testing and have been presented with a problem.  When a student logs out of a machine in order to log into the testing account the login window won't accept input from the keyboard.
    Bacground and details:
    We have labs of computers using workgroup manager and open directory for management.  In a normal lab the machine will boot to a login window.  This is so that the preferences will be refreshed before a student logs in.  The student will login as a local user (student) and procede to do whatever for the day. 
    We have recently started state mandated testing.  I have set up an OD account which is very locked down and keeps the student on track while testing.  This requires someone to log the normal user out and login as the OD user.  This is where the problem arises.
    About 50% of the time the keyboard will no longer funtion after logout.  No keys of any sort work. The mouse still works.  Even keystrokes through ARD do nothing.  A end user is then required to reboot the system in order to do ANYTHING.  This is not ideal for elementary kids.
    From my digging in log files and poking around i noticed that the loginwindow process was hanging or crashing.  If i kill the process the login window blinks and then works just fine.  I'm sure i could write a logout script that drops a process into the background to kill the loginwindow process after so many seconds, but thats messy.  Has anyone seen this?  Any thoughts or solution? Only happens on a logout, never on an initial bootup.
    I have found that 95% of these issues occur on Mac Mini's.  I can consistantly replicate the issue on a mini.  If i clone the mini to a macbook, i no longer have the problem (using carbon copy cloner).  So either the hardware is part of the issue or the clone fixed something in the process.
    OSX 10.5.8
    /var/log/windowserver.log  (on logout)
    May 02 16:27:30  [252] kCGErrorIllegalArgument: CGXSetWindowListTags: Operation on a window 0x6 not owned by caller loginwindow
    May 02 16:27:32  [252] CGXRestartSessionWorkspace: session workspace exited for session 256 ( on console )
    May 02 16:27:32  [252] loginwindow connection closed; closing server.
    May 02 16:27:33  [352] Server is starting up
    May 02 16:27:36  [352] CGXMappedDisplayStart: Unit 0: no display alias property
    May 02 16:27:36  [352] kCGErrorFailure: IOHIDSetCursorEnable returns -536870208
    May 02 16:27:36  [352] kCGErrorFailure: Set a breakpoint at CGErrorBreakpoint() to catch errors as they are returned
    May 02 16:27:36  [352] CGXPerformInitialDisplayConfiguration
    May 02 16:27:36  [352]   Display 0x41dc9d00: VirtualDisplay Unit 0; Vendor 0x756e6b6e Model 0x76697274 S/N 0; online enabled built-in (0,0)[1280 x 1024], base addr 0xb0021000
    May 02 16:27:36  [352] AGCAttach: Couldn't find any matches
    May 02 16:27:43  [352] kCGErrorIllegalArgument: CGXSetWindowListTags: Operation on a window 0x2 not owned by caller SecurityAgent
    May 02 16:27:45  [352] kCGErrorIllegalArgument: CGXOrderWindow: Operation on a window 0x2 not owned by caller SecurityAgent

    >kCGErrorIllegalArgument: CGXSetWindowListTags: Operation on a window 0x2 not owned by caller SecurityAgent
    In those cases there may be threads and/or processes trying to do things with windows that they don't own. In other words, some programmers may have goofed up a little bit someplace.
    But might try the one Helpful marked post here...
    https://discussions.apple.com/thread/987826?start=0&tstart=0

  • Stuck in login window after upgrading to Mavericks

    I am unable to login with my (admin) account after upgrading to Mavericks yesterday.
    This was very unfortunate considering that I didn't backup my data !!
    On reboot (I do not remember whether it was the first or second time) I couldn't login anymore as I usually did.
    I tried different procedures (entering secure mode, repair permissions, reinstall 2 times Mavericks) but cannot solve the stuck.
    Then I thought it could be a nice idea to create a new admin user and followed this instructions (http://www.hackmac.org/tutorials/how-to-create-a-new-administrator-account/).
    After that I was able to login with the new user, I backed-up my data but I was still in stuck on login window with the old user.
    I tried to delete
         com.apple.loginwindow.plist
         com.apple.recentitems.plist
    from /Users/XXX//Library/Preferences/ and tried to restart but nothing.
    Now I wonder how my old and important user can start working again.
    Thank you very much.
    Giuliano

    Restart and hold down the Command and R keys during startup.
    On top, in the Menu Bar click the Utilities item then select Terminal.
    In the Terminal window, type resetpassword and hit Return.
    The Password reset utility launches/
    Reset password.
    Restart

  • Server Intermittently refuses to display local login window - screen saver

    Occasionally the local login window refuses to appear after the screen saver has been activated on my 10.5.8 Server, resulting in my inability to access the interface at all afterwards. Other symptoms of the problem are that remote logins (ssh) are also no longer possible because passwords aren't accepted for any user. The password prompt is simply displayed repeatedly in the remote user's terminal until the tries are used up, and this happens whether or not the password was entered correctly. In other words remote login is no longer possible because no password is accepted. Because of this, the computer must be forcibly restarted to achieve recovery, which has to be done locally, of course, by either holding in the power button or disconnecting power to the computer. The log entries that seem to coincide with the occurrence of the problem appear to refer to a screen saver crash. The next workaround solution I intend to try is to prevent screen saver activation altogether. What are possible causes for this? Thanks.

    Removing the following two files and reinstalling the latest server combo update were recommended by the article to which you referred.
    ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.desktop.plist
    ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.preference.desktopscreeneffect.plist
    I performed those steps and am still observing in order to establish whether or not they have provided a complete remedy. I haven't observed any occurrences of the problem since performing these steps, but the problem is quite intermittent, and the server remains configured to restart once every 24 hours. My next step is to remove the scheduled restart configuration so that the server runs continually. If the problem hasn't returned at all after a few weeks of continuous operation, then I'll consider the question answered. Thanks!

  • Two users...login window...

    hey folks!
    would anyone know if there is a way to switch users without having to go through the login window/password thing. my hubby and I each have our own accounts and often switch between one and the other. is there a way that, once we've both provided our user names and passwords, that we could just switch from the main toolbar drop down menu, and not be required to retype our passwords? i recall seeing Jobs do this when he was showing off iWeb in his keynote speech intro-ing the new MacTels and iLife 2006, but it could just have been a hack they came up with... any suggestions?
    cheers,
    Briggie

    1105/3551
    Hi Briggie,
    There (should be) is no way to defeat this security step.
    "I recall seeing Jobs do this when he was showing off iWeb in his keynote speech intro-ing the new MacTels and iLife 2006, but it could just have been a hack they came up with..."
    Of course you can create new user accounts with no password.
    I think even if you change an existing account's password (into none), after a reboot they then will skip as well the login window when switching users.
    If you decide to use passwordless accounts, I would use only Standard accounts, and leave the Admin ones their password.
    Cheers,
    Axl

  • MacBook Pro late 2013 does not show login window after waking from sleep

    MacBook Pro late 2013 does not always prompt for login, but opens directly to desktop, even though security settings are setup to prompt for password after 5 minutes. Up to now, this only has happened on battery, machine goes to sleep or lid is closed, 10 minutes pass, lid is opened and desktop is shown instead of lock screen. Console shows, that the machine was actually sleeping (10 min no log entries) and also does not show any error in regards to login window.
    This behaviour occurs randomly and I could not track down any root cause/behaviour, yet. Sometimes everything behaves as it should.
    Any ideas?
    Thanks
    marcus

    Count me in, I have the same issue, and from what I read here, it looks like a Yosemite/SSD related issue ?
    I'm not 100% sure if it started when I put a SSD in my old iMac 2009 (as a fusion drive) or if that's after that when I upgraded to Yosemite...
    I did disable auto poweroff like suggested in another thread : Mac freeze during the night sleep.
    sudo pmset -a autopoweroff 0
    We'll see if it helps.
    It happens toughly a couple of times a week.

  • How can i turn off the login window after every start of itunes?

    Hi,
    i updated my itunes to the latest version 10.5.1
    Now, after every program start, the login window appears and asks me for my apple password.
    This really *****, does anybody know how to turn this off?
    Thank you in advance,
    bernheimer

    Found a solution to go back to my previous itunes version,
    if you are interested search for my other posting.
    regards
    Bernheimer

  • Launch a scheduled bundle at login window (after WOL awake)

    Hi,
    We want to launch a bundle for some workstations at a specific date and time. That will be run at night when no user are logon (using WOL to awake the computer). I'm trying to setup a test bundle that launch c:\Windows\notepad.exe and nothing.
    There's specials settings to get this to work ? Is it because the computer is still at the Login window ?
    The real bundle will copy some files and launch .vbs scripts. That can work ?
    Any clue or step by step explanation will be very appreciated.
    Regards,
    Patrick

    So I have to test my package by copy a file or modify a reg key or something like that ?
    Does, in the System context, Netware volumes can be access (for the source of the files)?
    Yes, it's ZDM 7. In fact, one of the thing done in the process it's to uninstall some apps including Zenworks agent (to be upgraded to ZCM 11).
    Originally Posted by AndersG
    Ppellegr,
    > We want to launch a bundle for some workstations at a specific date and
    > time. That will be run at night when no user are logon (using WOL to
    > awake the computer). I'm trying to setup a test bundle that launch
    > c:\Windows\notepad.exe and nothing.
    You need to associate it to the workstation. Also note that stuff that
    run in the system context cannot show anything on screen. This is ZEN 7
    btw?
    Anders Gustafsson (NKP)
    The Aaland Islands (N60 E20)
    Have an idea for a product enhancement? Please visit:
    http://www.novell.com/rms

  • No login window after 10.9.3 update

    Hi,
    after 10.9.3 update installation I don't see login panel after installation. I cleaned NVRAM, I runed my MBP in safe mode and nothing.
    Only coursor and screen with apple.
    Please, help me, I can't work

    Same thing happened to me.
    Boot up holding (Command S)
    < Screen will be black, when you see the lines of code end, you can start typing >
    *After every line hit return*
    mount -uw /
    cd /Library/Preferences
    mv -r com.apple.loginwindow.plist oldlogin
    reboot

Maybe you are looking for