Log in loop after update to 10.6.8

Hi, After updating to 10.6.8 on my iMac 27" 2.93 I'm in a login loop. Booting gets as far as the dock appearing then I get a blue screen and am back on the log in screen. Any ideas on how to resolve this? TIA

Posted on Jun 26, 2011 9:18 AM

62 replies

mac_vet

Level 1

0 points

Aug 7, 2011 3:50 PM in response to mynzapint

Just to add another login-loop to the list. Here it's an iMac 20" / 2,66 GHz running Mac OS X 10.6.8.

I am not owning/running Parallels.

Today I couldn't get back into the system from the screen saver. No login window appeared after moving the mouse or hitting some keys. So I force quit the iMac and restarted it. When I tried to login into my user account I experienced the login window loop as described here earlier.

I did repair the rights and checked the hard drive for errors. I tried to rename the Preferences to Preferences_old, I tried to remove loginwindow.plist and com.apple.loginitems.plist. I tried to use another Keychains folder from my time machine backup. But everything failed. So I am preparing to set up a new user account.

Mar 9, 2012 7:22 PM in response to mac_vet

Same problem, tried all these ideas not luck, MacBook 2.16, Version 10.6.8, main account causes logon loop, backup account works fine.

Spotlight index has been running for 5 days and no actual rebuild. This has to be something simple as it only effects the admin account I used to do the update and not other admin account.

This thread has been closed by the system or the community team. You may vote for any posts you find helpful, or search the Community for additional answers.