Hi Godfrey, I have no idea what could have caused my problems, but if you hear anything please let me know. After eliminating the users with the log-in problem, I noticed the machine goes to the desktop much faster on the remaining and new user accounts. The somewhat slow startup seems to have preceded the installation of 10.3.9. So the problem may have been due to an existing condition that was in some way exacerbated by the upgrade. Perhaps it was caused by a file on one of the user accounts I deleted. I'll probably never know. Paul
> On Apr 21, 2005, at 3:49 AM, Paul Stenquist wrote: > > > You may want to wait a while to upgrade to system 10.3.9 if you have > > multiple user accounts. Apple may be coming out with a bug fix. I did > > the upgrade two days ago, and three of the five user accounts on my G4 > > dual 1.25 were rendered useless. (Fortunately the Administrator's > > account was intact.) Log in to the three affected accounts was > > impossible. I spent three hours on the phone with Apple techs > > yesterday, and they talked me through a variety of attempted repairs > > from Terminal, all to no avail. Fortunately OSX allows for the > > deletion of accounts while saving any desktop files, mailboxes, etc. > > So I was able to delete and reconstruct the accounts. Apple techs had > > no explanation but seemed to agree that it had something to do with > > the upgrade to 10.3.9. I upgraded the system on my I-book G3 700 as > > well. That computer has only two user accounts and no problems were > > experienced. > > Paul > > Interesting. In my last contract job at Apple, I had about twenty user > accounts on one machine running a late engineering build of 10.3.9 and > had no problems. That was the same cpu you're running ... I wonder why > you had such a problem. > > Godfrey >
