I know I'm a bit off this time from the "Saturday Mobile" but I just had to submit a report concerning the fact that the OSX Software Update on Tiger crashed the whole login-system on my iMac!What happened was that as I was normally checking all the necessary security updates and everything on the Software Update, and as I was left with the login-window after the reboot, I couldn't log into my account anymore! When I selected the user, typed in my password, I was revealed the desktop briefly, but then abruptly slammed back into the login window.
It lets me to get in via another account (but with less privileges), and I can open up a terminal and log in as the user that I was supposed to log in in the first place. I can then open up Disk Utilities to run the Disk Permissions -test, etc. but that doesn't help. I also booted the system up from the OSX-installation-discs, took away passwords, tried the Disk Utility functions once more. Tried also some safe-boot instructions to do some magic tricks that I found from the net for this, but no deal. (You'll find a lot of stuff about this issue by Google under: login loop osx tiger problem)
So now I'm left with two options:
1. Use the another account. Somehow lift its privileges to a super-user level, move all the privileged material from under the closed account to the one that I would be using from then onwards. Delete the ex account.
2. Trying to install the OSX from the installation discs: Can I install the OSX
into a specific earlier created partition and leave the other partitions intact, thus saving the data? See I'd want to install the OSX from scratch but I'm afraid that the install will wipe out everything on these partitions.. They say you can do it, but better to take a backup first. I agree, but 500GB data to be stored somewhere, buying a new disc for this, oh man, where is my IT-support?Apparently we need Steve J. back from his major sick-leave.
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