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by: macdenife
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Creating Guest Account Crashes System Preferences
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Feb 28, 2008 11:05 PM
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I recently replaced an old mac mini G4 with the newest low end mac mini, the 1.83ghz core 2 duo with combo drive model.
I restored everything to the new machine with my time machine backup. Unfortunately, the guest account didn't get restored, and when I try to enable the guest account, System preferences crashes, so in order to do anything I have to force quit system prefs. After force quitting system prefs, I am unable to open applications using the dock. I have to reboot the computer in order to get anything to work again, but somehow enabling the guest account just wont work, and always crashes.
What can I do to fix this?
2006 Mac Pro 4x2.66
Mac OS X (10.5.2)
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Re: Creating Guest Account Crashes System Preferences
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Mar 4, 2008 9:17 AM
in response to: Kristian Attfield
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I have the same problem too! My machine also will not reboot properly when this happens and I have to hold down the power button to get it to reboot, even after tell Leopard to reboot from apple menu.
MBP 2.4 - 4 gigs Ram
Mac OS X (10.5.2)
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Re: Creating Guest Account Crashes System Preferences
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Mar 4, 2008 10:24 AM
in response to: Thabo Da Husky
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I managed to fix the problem by doing an archive and install without preserving user and network settings.
When I reinstalled when preserving user and network settings for some reason login passcodes wouldn't even work.
All you have to do is archive and install, and set up user accounts again: everyone's files remain in the previous systems folder.
2006 Mac Pro 4x2.66
Mac OS X (10.5.2)
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Re: Creating Guest Account Crashes System Preferences
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Mar 22, 2008 7:35 PM
in response to: Kristian Attfield
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Same problem here. Would love to see a solution that does not involve an archive and install.
Macbook, Black, 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4 GB RAM, 250 GB HD
Mac OS X (10.5.2)
iPod touch 16 GB; iPod 4G 20GB; Airport Express
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Re: Creating Guest Account Crashes System Preferences
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Mar 26, 2008 6:06 AM
in response to: Kristian Attfield
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For what it's worth - same here.
Spinning beach ball and System Preferences not responding almost immediately after ticking "Allow guests to log into this computer". After a Force Quit, no applications will launch and shutdown/restart gets into a loop that requires holding the power key down for 5 secs to shutdown the computer.
All my accounts and setting were migrated with initial keychain issues that have since been fixed - I hope!!
Simon
Mac Pro 8x3GHz / MacBook Pro 2.6GHz
Mac OS X (10.5.2)
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Re: Creating Guest Account Crashes System Preferences - solution
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Apr 5, 2008 4:40 AM
in response to: Kristian Attfield
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It happened to me also, on my imac and my MacBook Air.
It seems that user account migration somehow confuses the "guest user" machinery, which totally trashes securityd which dies of sudden death and from then on nothing works on the computer.
The solution is to do the following in System Preferences:
0. Your system guest account must be disabled (it already is if you have the described symptoms).
1. Create new standard account with name "guest" and short name "guest".
IMPORTANT: short name must be "guest" - OS will suggest "guest1", but you must edit that into "guest".
2. Enable system guest account in System Preferences (check the "Allow guests to log into this computer" switch). It will work now that "guest" name is taken.
This action will create user account with short name "guest1" with all the properties of guest (clean-up after logout etc.).
3. Completely delete standard user "guest", which you created in step 1 (check "delete all data and folder now").
4. Disable system guest account (uncheck the switch).
5. Right-click on system guest account icon and choose "Advanced" or whatever (there is only one menu item anyway) and change short name from "guest1" to "guest".
6. Enable system guest account.
Voila. You now have working guest account (well, I have it, and hopefully you will, too)...
P.S. I am not sure whether you need to log-in/out/restart between steps. I remember I did some of that dance, but probably it is not necessary...
imac 24
Mac OS X (10.5.2)
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Re: Creating Guest Account Crashes System Preferences
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May 28, 2008 7:49 PM
in response to: Kristian Attfield
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Thanks for the solution! That was driving me nuts. One other detail, which some might be tempted to do (like I did...) - don't change the path of the home dir from ~Guest1 to, say, ~Guest - leave it as /Users/Guest1. Inelegant, I know, but as always, form follows function.
MBP 2.4GHz, 4GB RAM, 320GB HD
Mac OS X (10.5.3)
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Re: Creating Guest Account Crashes System Preferences
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May 29, 2008 12:52 PM
in response to: cgtyoder
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In fact, you can rename the home dir safely, if you do it the way I did it.
1. Log in as guest with your new guest account.
2. Log off as guest and log in with an admin account. Disable guest account in System Preferences.
3. Check the Users directory. You will see that the guest dir (Guest1) was deleted after logging off as guest.
4. Go back to System Preferences, open the advanced settings of Guest Account and now you can safely rename the path of the home dir from /Users/Guest1 to /Users/Guest.
5. Now re-enable guest account.
6 The next time, you log in as guest, a new guest dir will be created with the correct name Guest.
That's it, you're finished.
Mac OS X (10.5.3)
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Re: Creating Guest Account Crashes System Preferences
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Jun 7, 2008 12:35 AM
in response to: j_v_t
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Brilliant! You guys are geniuses! Worked like a charm!
Mac Pro & Macbook Pro
Mac OS X (10.5.3)
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Re: Creating Guest Account Crashes System Preferences
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Jun 25, 2008 11:50 AM
in response to: j_v_t
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Ok I screwed it up. I tried to change the dir from guest1 to guest. I can switch accounts but the scren keeps blue with the cursor. No menue bar, nothing. I can only switch it of by pressing the switchoff button and selecting reboot. Any ideas?
MacBookPro
Mac OS X (10.4.6)
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Re: Creating Guest Account Crashes System Preferences
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Aug 7, 2008 12:23 PM
in response to: j_v_t
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This was driving me nuts!!!! It had never worked since the computer arrived 2 months ago. Now it does!! Thanks a million!!
MacBook Pro 15" Penryn 2.4Ghz / 2GB RAM
Mac OS X (10.5.4)
iPhone 3G 8GB
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Re: Creating Guest Account Crashes System Preferences
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Sep 19, 2008 7:56 PM
in response to: xhili.mx
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It worked like a charm in 10.5.4, but now crashes in 10.5.5 when re-enabling the Guest account at the very last step ???
iMac 24" 3.06 GHZ, 2GB/750 GB nVidia 8800 GS
Mac OS X (10.5.4)
LinkSys Router, 802.11g, Nikon D70, PBG4 1.33
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Re: Creating Guest Account Crashes System Preferences
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Nov 12, 2008 9:28 PM
in response to: Claude Cauwe
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It works up to the very last step and then the gear spins endlessly followed by force quitting System Preferences. When I try to reset the mac, I get a blue screen, spinning gear, blue screen, and so forth.
Mac OS X (10.5.1)
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Re: Creating Guest Account Crashes System Preferences
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Nov 15, 2008 12:45 PM
in response to: FreedomHammer
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I have exactly the same problem on a brand new MacBook Pro.
Opened the box, made a generic user, applied updates etc, then migrated my home folder and apps from a TimeMachine backup of my old G4 PowerBook. I then went to enable the Guest account and the system crashes.
Is there a proper fix for this? Has it anything to do with migrating my home dir across?
Fingers crossed there is an update to sort this.
Tristan
MacBook Pro
Mac OS X (10.5.5)
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Nov 21, 2008
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Re: Creating Guest Account Crashes System Preferences
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Nov 21, 2008 7:14 AM
in response to: Tristan Collins
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Me, too. Exactly the same sequence of things occurs when I try to create a guest account. Has anyone found a solution to this?
Al MacBook 13"
Mac OS X (10.5.5)
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