Login screen shows "update needed" but no updates are available

Thanks for this explanation rgrodevant - I have just done a full re-install and was getting the double login screen.

I too had formatted as journaled/encrypted too prior to recovery.

Turned off filevault as suggested here and restarted all ok now.

I had this exact problem ever since upgrading to Mavericks. The solution for me was to go into Security/Privacy, unlock that screen, then there was a message about "some users have to put in a password to unlock". I clicked on the list of users and there was only one - mine, and it had a check mark next to it. I clicked ok and that message went away and did not come back. i logged out and there is my icon and no more "update needed"! I had ignored this issue for a long time, and I'm so glad i didn't bother to decrypt and reencrypt my entire 1TB SSD!

I had this problem too w/MacOS X Yosemite 10.10.1. I didn’t want to decrypt my FileVault disk, and fortunately I didn’t need to. Interestingly as other users have reported, I did see a message somewhere that a JavaScript update was available & did I want to install it. I said no. I can’t find anywhere to install that update again; it doesn’t show up in the App Store’s update page.

My version of the fix comes from these Apple Discussion Forums, as well as info here: http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/152271/user-update-needed-after-updatin g-to-mac-os-x-yosemite

Try the following.

1) Restart your computer. When the screen turns black, immediately hold down Cmd-R to boot to recovery mode. Go to Disk Utility, click your hard drive, and Repair Disk.

2) Restart. Login to your account. Launch Disk Utility. Click your disk & Repair Permissions.

3) Go to Apple menu: System Preferences: Users & Groups. Click your photo, choose a different picture, hit Done so the new picture saves. (In my case I also changed my password, although I’m not sure if that was necessary or not.)

4) Restart. All the Update Needed text over the names was gone, and all pictures came back.

5) Login to your account again. In Apple menu: System Preferences: Users & Groups, change your picture back to what you want. (And if necessary, change your password back to normal).

All seems good.

- Adam

I had this problem after I did a clean install on an attached FireWire disc. After the install completed and the computer had restarted, it was asking for a password but no user was specified. Problem was that I'd done the install on an encrypted disk. The password it was after was the encryption password - though that wasn't obvious from the message on the screen.

did the trick for me

Cheers

Hi Pierre.

When you say do a backup, do you mean with time machine or do you mean just put the files you want to keep on an external HDD or something.

Thanks, Greg.

bytegw

Please: at any time in the past, did you use

InstallESD.dmg (a part of Apple's installer)

instead of Install Mac OS X Lion.app?

Hi, I tried your suggestion, but it did not resolve the problem. I'll try the one marked as having solved the question.

Update: shutting of File Vault, rebooting and turning it back on fixed it for me. 20 mins for decryption and 20 for encryption on my 120GB SSD.

All I needed to do was to reset my accounts password and everything was fixed. :)

How do you get to the Security/Privacy screen to unlock if you can't get into the OS?

Thanks for any help!