I hope someone can help out here ... this is the first time in a while that my mac has baffled me.
A few days ago it froze (not even the spinning icon) while doing nothing of partiular interest. I figured this was because the hard disk was near full. I hit the restart button. The boot sequence was normal until just before the desktop appears. I logged in fine and that splash screen disappeared, but nothing replaced it -- the computer just sits there, without any audible disk activity, apparently trying to log me in for hours on end. Figuring that this was a disk space issue, I restarted in single-user mode with command-S and cleaned out ~/.Trash and some other files so that I now have close to 1G free. Restarted and same behavior. Thinking that I was now in trouble, I re-installed 10.2.8 from the CD. Ran the Repair Permissions and Disk Repair utilities, too. No change in behavior. I even tried removing ~/.cshrc, thinking that might be referencing a corrupt file or the like upon login. No dice and now I'm out of ideas.
If anyone has thoughts on how to fix/diagnose this login issue, I would be much obliged. Thanks in advance.
A few days ago it froze (not even the spinning icon) while doing nothing of partiular interest. I figured this was because the hard disk was near full. I hit the restart button. The boot sequence was normal until just before the desktop appears. I logged in fine and that splash screen disappeared, but nothing replaced it -- the computer just sits there, without any audible disk activity, apparently trying to log me in for hours on end. Figuring that this was a disk space issue, I restarted in single-user mode with command-S and cleaned out ~/.Trash and some other files so that I now have close to 1G free. Restarted and same behavior. Thinking that I was now in trouble, I re-installed 10.2.8 from the CD. Ran the Repair Permissions and Disk Repair utilities, too. No change in behavior. I even tried removing ~/.cshrc, thinking that might be referencing a corrupt file or the like upon login. No dice and now I'm out of ideas.
If anyone has thoughts on how to fix/diagnose this login issue, I would be much obliged. Thanks in advance.
