please help with login troubles after upgrading!!

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jhogeterp

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I just upgraded from os 10.1.x to 10.2 and can't get myadministrative user to boot. It will take my passoword, get into my normal os x desktop, and then send me back to the where I select which user account I want to log into.

This might have something to do with a norton file called symfs.kext that I told the system to fix.

Can someone please help!! I am dead if I can't get into that user account.

ps. right now I am in guest, so that works fine.
 
Have you enabled root? Log in as root, delete the Norton stuff and maybe do a clean install after saving the files, settings etc.
 
thanks for your reply. I am trying to log into the root account but it doesn't seem to be working. I tried the netinfo route, and the terminal root. the netinfo manager says that the root is enabled, but it won't let me delete the the norton files
 
do you have a recent backup of your files etc? = would you be scared of doing a completely clean new install of 10.2?
 
try again as root ... set the permissions of the norton files to 777 and then rm them. if it's just the norton causing problems, that should remove it ...
 
I deleated that symfs.kext file, and all Norton programs. It still won't work.

I stops booting when it brings up "cpu monitor", which i have as a startup item. Think this would have anything to do with it? If so, can I take that off startup as root?
 
Alright, log in as root again, and then edit the file /Users/user_name/Library/Preferences/loginwindow.plist

Look for where it says cpu monitor - it'll have the whole path to it. If it has a bunch of characters above it and the label "AliasData" delete that as well. Here, I'll give an example, here's what one of my startup items looks like:

Code: 
{dict}
              {key}AliasData{/key}
              {data}
              AAAAAAFoAAIAAQtEcmVhbXN0YXRpYwAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAC3
              bROgSCsAAAAAHosMVGVybWluYWwuYXBwAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
              AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAs
              cba0pcYAAAAAAAAAAP////8AAAEgAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACVV0
              aWxpdGllcwAAEAAIAAC3bUvgAAAAEQAIAAC2tOwWAAAAAQAIAAAe
              iwAAABwAAgAvRHJlYW1zdGF0aWM6QXBwbGljYXRpb25zOlV0aWxp
              dGllczpUZXJtaW5hbC5hcHAAAA4AGgAMAFQAZQByAG0AaQBuAGEA
              bAAuAGEAcABwAA8AGAALAEQAcgBlAGEAbQBzAHQAYQB0AGkAYwAS
              ACNBcHBsaWNhdGlvbnMvVXRpbGl0aWVzL1Rlcm1pbmFsLmFwcAAA
              EwABLwD//wAA
              {/data}
              {key}Hide{/key}
              {true/}
              {key}Path{/key}
              {string}/Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app{/string}
{/dict}

Edit Note: I changed all < to { and all > to } - I guess the board thought I was trying to do html code. Just keep that in mind ;)

You would delete that whole block of text.

I'd like to note that 10.1.x and 10.2.x have a slightly different way of writing to this file, so if yours is still in the 10.1.x version of it, it'll look a little different.

Alternatively, you could rename the file to something else, and then none of the login items would run.
 
I deleated every program in the loginwindow.plist file and it sitll doesn't work. Could have anything to do with classic starting up at login?

by the way, thanks for helping me with this.
 
Hmm, it could be classic. You said you had another login that worked? You could try logging into that one and trying to start up classic to see what happens.
 
yeah it is wierd. I Have 2 logins.
1) guest
2) jhogeterp


I can log into guest, but when I log into "jhogeterp" it starts to boot, and then it shuts down and brings me back to the login screen.

Classic does work when I log in as guest. I can't figure it out.
 
Just in case anyone is wondering. The problem I has was with the "com.apple.LaunchServices.plist" Preference located in /users/userName/Library/Preferences.

I found this through good old trial and error. So much fun!

Thanks for your help guys.
 
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