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Apr 9, 2013 6:12 PM in response to Heathen819by John Galt,Then the file isn't there.
.AppleSetupDone is a placeholder that indicates the Mac has been set up with a User account. Its absence indicates OS X should initiate the "new Mac user" setup procedure. If it is not present the Mac is going to proceed with the latter, which will not bypass anything or solve your problem.
... it keeps freezing at the choose keyboard screen.
That needs further explanation. When do you encounter it?
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Apr 9, 2013 6:19 PM in response to John Galtby Heathen819,When I power it on it begins the setup process as if it was a new computer. It goes through the choose language etc... but when it asks the keyboard I want : United States, Canada, etc.. it hangs up. It wont let me click anythin, it never moves to the next screen-- The only thing I can do at that point is turn it off.
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Apr 9, 2013 7:04 PM in response to Heathen819by John Galt,OK thanks, it appears that at least one essential component is corrupt or was removed from the operating system.
Using your original System Install DVD, reinstall OS X. If a later version of OS X is already installed, you will need to erase your entire system first.
Nothing short of that is likely to resolve it. If you have user account data on the disk and no backup, use another Mac and FireWire Target Disk Mode to archive the existing, corrupt installation so that you can migrate its user data after you reinstall (and subsequently upgrade, if required) OS X.
One last thing to try before resorting to that drastic measure is to restore the .AppleSetupDone file. That ought to skip Setup Assistant, and with any luck at all may restore the normal Login screen. To do that:
touch /var/db/.AppleSetupDone
Type carefully.
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Apr 10, 2013 9:47 AM in response to John Galtby Heathen819,Ok I will try to restore the .AppleSetupDone, do I need to reboot after i type that?
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Apr 10, 2013 9:49 AM in response to John Galtby Heathen819,That did it! Thank You so much for your help!!!
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Apr 10, 2013 8:06 PM in response to Heathen819by John Galt,OK, re-creating the .AppleSetupDone file restored the normal login screen? Is your keyboard working as well?
The reason I am asking is that you may now want to apply the appropriate "Combo" update for whatever OS X version you are using. The installer should not have stalled on the keyboard selection.
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Apr 11, 2013 8:53 AM in response to John Galtby Heathen819,It's working fine. I've lost the disks that came with it so I wouldnt be able to do that anyway unless I buy one, but I think it will be fine.
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Apr 11, 2013 11:06 AM in response to Heathen819by John Galt,You can download the Combo update for whatever OS X version you have. Updates are free.
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Jun 16, 2013 11:38 PM in response to John Galtby CJShahmeran,I had the same problem. I resolved it the same way. So far, so good.
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Apr 17, 2014 7:55 AM in response to Heathen819by bianca1981,i still have the problem it wont go past apple id keep asking me log in thts all
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Sep 5, 2014 8:02 AM in response to John Galtby joshuajj45,when i type in: touch /var/db/.AppleSetupDone
is says: Read-Only file system
is that normal?
but when i reboot it still stays in the setup procedure. And stuck at 'Another question' it just freezes.
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Jul 12, 2015 9:55 AM in response to Heathen819by ingageco,NOTE
In my experience with this, when I booted into recovery mode typing:
rm /var/db/.AppleSetupDone
Said the file didn't exist. When I rebooted, the setup screen didn't show. I logged in as the non-admin user, then looked in /var/db and the file DID exist.
Further investigation showed that in recovery mode, / references the OSX Recovery Partition, and not Macintosh HD partition. So if you boot into recovery mode and .AppleSetupDone doesn't exist in /var/db/, and the setup screen still won't show, do the following in recovery mode:
cd /Volumes
ls -l (This will show all volumes)
cd Macintosh\ HD
cd var/db
ls -la (You should now see a .AppleSetupDone file)
rm .AppleSetupDone
After this, reboot and you should see the setup screen.
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Dec 5, 2015 11:58 PM in response to Heathen819by Davidsybert1987,I'm having the same problem I factory reset my computer bc i forgot that password now I'm having the same problem it keeps freezing at the select your keyboard prompt it works up until select keyboard comes up I hit continue and that's it nothing else happens can't go back or anything could someone please explain to me what to do and I'd I got to type anything in orbwhat not tell me were to do so I don't know much about computers so so if you could put it in detail that would be awesome thanks and appreciate it