Darwin Login Screen

[cali]

Help! I have a MacBook. Everything was running normally today, then iTunes crashed and wouldn't re-open, so I went to restart. The finder menu option wouldn't come up so I forced restarted. When it came back up, before I had the chance to type in my password, it went to a blue screen, then the Darwin black and white console screen. I typed in my login, hit enter, but it wouldn't take the password. Nothing but the enter key works at the Password stage.

I've done some searching and other people have had the same issue, but I haven't seen a solution. Can anyone help?

Thanks so much in advance!

Cali

 

[cfr]

Since you don't mention trying this, start by booting from the OS X install DVD. Put the DVD in and then restart holding down the 'C' key. You'll get a bunch of questions about what language you prefer and stuff before the Mac OS X install screen comes up. You don't want to install, but you do want to use some of the utilities here. I think there is a utilities menu, if not look under the menus for the options you want. You want to open Disk Utility. Once that is open, choose your hard drive (i.e. select it) and choose "repair disk" - it is under "first aid" I think. Repeat this step until you get a message saying the volume is OK. If you have several partitions, you might want to repeat this for the others. Then repeat this with "repair permissions". Reboot the machine and see if that helps.

- cfr