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Beachballing on login screen

Hi, I just installed Lion and I have noticed something very frustrating doing login.

I am using a mid-2010 MBP. Lion is a clean install.

When I startup my computer, I can see the login screen fine, but I get a never ending spinning beach ball when I try to do _any_ of the following:

1. Click in the password field.

2. Move the cursor around the screen for a while.

3. Start typing on keyboard without moving the cursor.

The beachball would not stop, and prevents my cursor from moving after it starts spinning. I am forced to reboot with ctrl+command+power button.

The only way I could get around this is to have my computer auto-login, but I really don't want that since it's a portable...

I never had this problem with Snow Leopard. I have re-clean-installed Lion three times, and still I have this issue.

Please help! Thanks!

Posted on Jul 20, 2011 1:39 PM

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Ke Sun Author

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Posted on Jul 20, 2011 4:22 PM

Solved the issue...

After reading the system logs using Console app, I found out that when you have "allow users to reset password using apple id" enabled in user account, it seems like on startup my mac keeps on trying to verify the account is a safe account with apple servers or something, and that keeps it locking up and throwing a beach ball attack...

I simply deleted the associated apple id in the user account, and also unchecked the "allow users to reset... using apple id" option, and the problem seemed to go away.

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Aug 6, 2011 8:46 AM in response to Ke Sun

Hi,

I also have a Mid 2010 MacBook Pro, and have also been having this issue. I have tried some of the things suggested on here, but no luck.

Its been frustrating, as I also have a 2009 Mac Mini, which is running fine after the upgrade to Lion, so I have been trying to think what do I do different with my MacBook. The only difference I could think of was VMware fusion. So last night I uninstalled it to see if it made any difference, and so far I have managed to login everytime without it locking up on me, even with leaving it 5 minutes and then coming back to it and trying to login!
Sorry if thats no help to anybody else still having this issue, but it seems to have improved things for me (so far), so I thought I would share. Many thanks for you help.

Regards

Ian

Nov 2, 2011 3:32 PM in response to Ian Billings

HI I had a same problem. I went to apple store for genius help, i told them about the issue and i showed them latest update released by apple for freezing video issue. Then they got my laptop and replaced my logic board and now everything working fine so far and i feel better in battery life tooo.. and till now i didn't had any crash in any applications.. so far so good.....

Feb 1, 2013 1:50 PM in response to Ke Sun

I have the problem too, and You gave me the hint to solve this! :-)

With theese steps You can bring the Mac back to work:

Disconnect the internet.
Put Your Mac to sleep.
Wake up the Mac.
Login.
Connect Your Mac with the internet again.

After waking up the Mac You will be able again to login. ;-)

Beachballing on login screen