Won't Log Out

My 15" MBP will not log out successfully. This started after the latest security update, at least thats when i first noticed it. It sits at one blue screen, then flickers to another with the loading icon. It seemingly does this forever and never actually logs out. Anyone got any thoughts? Thanks

It appears my MBP doesn't have a log in screen all together. When i enable user switching and chose to go to the log in screen it just sits there at a blue screen. I won't dare chose to not auto log in because of the fear it will not boot anymore.

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Hello,-
My MBP won't log out of my user account. It just sits at a white screen with the apple logo. I have to reboot it (several times) to get back
to my user accounts.
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Don’t be alarmed by the seeming complexity of these instructions — they’re easy to carry out. Here's a brief summary: In each of two steps, you copy a line of text from this web page into a window in another application. You wait about a minute. Then you paste some other text, which will have been copied automatically, back into a reply on this page. The sequence is copy; paste; paste again. That's all there is to it. Details follow.
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Note: If you have more than one user account, Step 2 must be taken as an administrator. Ordinarily that would be the user created automatically when you booted the system for the first time. Step 1 should be taken as the user who has the problem, if different. Most personal Macs have only one user, and in that case this paragraph doesn’t apply.
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☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
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I can't find a valid post for this sort of thing, but it ends here & now.
There is no reason that is acceptable to the users of Skype, that should continue to allow it's program "Skype" to forcibly keep us logged in, be it as online, away or otherwise.
No, it is not acceptable to force us to have to go thru endless solutions to try an fix something that used to work correctly before microsoft took over Skype.
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[Your label system for making posts doesn't allow the proper tags as I know them to be, so I threw in all the ones you forcibly listed as I couldn't make this post any other way. Fix that crap too skype.]
I'm not going to read this post after this point, me the starting person. This is an effort to try an get the people who manage this program to take notice & do something acceptable to OUR demands NOT what they feel is a solution.
Perhaps a flame war will result, hate for my name, god knows such things are common place when someone tries to do something good, not to mention all the idiots who lack reading comprehension skills an cannot understand the posts as they are written vs what they "want to read".
I hope this gets the ball rolling for the intended solution, the users must rally to this cause or it will never happen, we will continue to be forced to "deal with it" an we shouldn't have to as some of us are CASH PAYING CUSTOMERS! an our demands should be taken more seriously otherwise we can/will/an should take our biz somewhere else as that is the only thing that seems to grab a stupid companies attention.
Have at it guys, make e'm work for the money they think they've earned!
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Hi, Waterdust, and welcome to the Community,
THE PROBLEM - Skype will not log us out & keep us logged out when we close the program on ANY platform.
The concept of "closing the program" seems to have changed or evolved with the increasing use of smart phones, combination smartphones and tablets called "phablets," and tablets, which if I recall sales trends correctly, have overtaken laptop and desktop sales. I have been either an observer of or a participant in Skype's on-line Community since approximately 2007-2008, in other words, before the current Community platform was launched in 2011. Over the years, many people have posted about their wish that when they clicked the "X" at the top right of the Skype for Windows software client, or the red dot in the Mac OS environment, that single-click action would a.) close the program, and b.) sign out of Skype.
I prefer the long-standing procedure of the two-step (one more click or tap does not phase me in the least) close and/or quit routine. I appreciated this on my Windows computers and laptops, and now even moreso on my BlackBerry devices (Q10 and Classic), iPhone 6, and iPad. I like the convenience of Skype running in the background while I use the handheld device for other tasks, as well as not having to worry about accidentally signing out of Skype.
Much to so many other posters' chagrin, Skype employed a two-step sign-out and program closure - long before Microsoft or even eBay entered the picture!
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I confirm that when I set my status or presence setting to "Invisible" (or, "Offline") on all instances where I have Skype signed on (first click or tap), and then proceed to sign out (second click or tap) and close the software (third click or tap), I am logged out of the Skype service, and my status of Invisible shows this. I appreciate the status settings resolutions are apparently work-in-progress, and that it seems to have been a long time to settle this.
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