Authentication Window

Hi

I have installed Snow Leopard 4 times now and each time i get too a point that I cannot see the authentication window. First thing first. When i installed it everything was ok, i installed some software and after some time when i wanted to install something using Installer but when i get to the last part where i click install it just blinks that it acknowledge the mouse click but nothing happend (there should be an authentication window for user password but it doesn't show). The same is with locks. There are some locks in different parts of System Preferences (like in accounts) and every time i click on one i get a message authenticating (and again the authentication window should show up) but after a second or two it returns to "Click the lock to make changes.". Anybody had similar problem? It only accrues in Snow Leopard. I have tried an upgrade on Leopard aswell as a Erase and Install no difference.

Aluminium MacBook Late 2008, Mac OS X (10.6)

Posted on Sep 1, 2009 12:44 PM

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Oct 9, 2009 8:01 AM in response to ofrost

Hi my good friends,


Are there another possible causes or solutions to this problem? I have exactly the same problem but I think it is not the keyboard layout the cause at least in my case. Snow Leopard chooses the correct keyboard layout the standard *"ANSI 102 keys US and Others"* . Also I heard that a possible cause could be duplicate fonts. I opened Font Book and clicked *"Select Duplicate Fonts"* and found some duplicates (shows a yellow triangle next to them) and then clicked *"Resolve Duplicates"* Well, that didn't do the trick neither.

Please let's keep the brain juices flowing to see if we can fix this problem for real. Thanks very much 😉

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