G5 OS X 10.4 user account corruption

[Charles Dyer]

On 14 Jan 2008, at 06:40:16, Fabian Peters wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm once more confronted with a strange condition: On startup, the  
> login panel is shown as normal, the user logs in and the login- 
> window disappears. The user-defined desktop-image appears, but  
> neither the menu bar nor the dock nor any icons on the desktop show  
> up.
>
> 2 different G5 machines have had this problem so far. For the first  
> time it occurred after a power failure but now it keeps coming back,  
> even after reinstalling the system from scratch.

That sounds awfully like a major directory problem. Did you run Disk  
Warrior or some such, or did you reformat? Either should have ddressed  
the directory problem.

>
>
> To fix the issue, I had to create a new user account via an admin  
> account on the machine. I then moved the various folders (Desktop,  
> Documents, Library...) from the old account to the new and deleted  
> the old account.
>
> The fact that even after moving the entire Library directory over,  
> the new account does not exhibit any issues makes me think this is a  
> NetInfo issue? There were no log entries that I could link with the  
> problem. Did anybody have similar issues or has some hints how to  
> check for NetInfo problems?
>
> cheers,
>
> Fabian
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