Jag stalls at Login--Don't do what I did!

[Dantasic]

Yesterday I installed a preference pane called Visage, that allows custom login backgrounds to be installed. Things seemed to work as advertised through several reboots, and I had a nice Happy Mac icon on my login screen. At some point today, I ran the Disk Utility and repaired permissions (related???). Just afterwards, I rebooted, and the normal gray apple appears along with the usual startup messages. Then, at the point where I normally expect to see the login screen, only the default background appears--no login screen, though! I can move the cursor around and click on the screen, but any keypress (or combination) results in a beep, and nothing but the beep;-).

I'm writing the author of Visage next, but thought I'd spread the word here NOT to do what I did!

If anyone has ideas about how to recover the default login screen, through rebooting to 9.2 or otherwise, I'm all ears. Removing the Visage preference pane wasn't enough, by itself. Hopefully the author will have a few ideas. Does anyone think this calls for a reinstallation of OSX?

Thanks,

Dan

 

[Dantasic]

BTW--I did search on these forums and saw that the problem has occurred for others, generally as they were installing themes. The advice from cclear seems to be best:

-----following is quoted from a relevant post from cclear-----

I ran into the same problem... freaked me out for a while... because I couldn't get back into OSX...

So I had to boot into OS9 from a CD.. and I replaced the orginal .tiff file that I had put in its place... ( I had made a backup of the orginal, so I just put it back...)

bighairydog is correct, they changed the login setup so you can't just change the .tiff for the whole panel... all the .tiff is the little blue apple... so you can't change the login panel as far as I know, just the login background...

/System/Library/CoreServices/loginwindow.app/Resources/loginpanel.tiff

This file needs to be the orginal one for the system..

-----end quotation-----

I found the .tiff in question, but have nothing backed up to replace it with...;-(

Guess the reinstall is going to be needed after all, unless I hear back from the author with a solution or unless any of you kind souls could make the .tiff in question (from OSX 10.2) available...pretty please?