my User Accounts preference pane is blank?!

[jewlofthelotus]

So the other day, I was going through System Preferences and discovered that my Accounts preference pane comes up empty!! this can't be good, right?? I'm not sure how long it's been like this or what I may have done to create this problem... what sort of programs would cause this??

any ideas or solutions would be greatly appreciated!!

Thanks

 

[eric2006]

Open up terminal, and type this in:

nireport . /users uid gid name realname | awk '$1>500 {print $0}'

enter, then type this in:

ls -ln /Users

Post the output here.

Also, what users show up at the login window?

You probably have a corrupted user, this will help isolate which one.

(note: based on a previous ticket by bobw)

 

[jewlofthelotus]

here's the output:

julie:~ Julie$ nireport . /users uid gid name realname | awk '$1>500 {print $0}'
501 501 Julie Julie Cameron
601 601 friend #NoValue#
julie:~ Julie$ ls -ln /Users
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 35 501 501 1190 Aug 3 14:36 Julie
drwxrwxrwt 6 0 0 204 Feb 1 2006 Shared
drwxrwxrwx 3 601 601 102 Feb 1 2006 friend


the friend user is fresh and experienced the same thing.

 

[eric2006]

Try this:

In terminal:
sudo nicl . delete /users/friend

Press enter, log out and in, then see if it's fixed.

 

[jewlofthelotus]

hey, it worked out beautifully!

the friend account was created as an ftp user, i wonder what went wrong....

Thanks though!!

 

[lampin]

i have the blank account preferences pane too. I went through the suggestions and could find no corrupted user account. I recently enabled File Vault.