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I have just installed Mountain Lion. In 30 minutes of using it, I have been logged out to the login screen roughly 12 times. All at completly random times. This is very vexing as this will make a completely unworkable environment.
Is anyone having the similar problem!? What could the issue be?
Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.7)
Happened about 6 more times since i posted this... getting out of hand actually.
I had the exact same thing. Right after applying the latest software update to enable Power Nap. I would log in, then it would restart all these previously opened apps. Once it finished opening everything, it would log out right away. I got like 1 minute each time before it would log out. I just rebooted the machine, instead of logging in again...that seems to have fixed it.
Hmmm. Have you tried reinstalling Mountain Lion?
Yes, this sounds very similar to what is happening to me, except I have rebooted my machine a number of times no to no avail.
Just about to do a reinstall.
We could be looking at a corrupt ML I dont know at this stage since no sufficient information has been posted yet. Reinstall looks to be a solid step for now
Just did a full redownload and reinstall... still having the same problem.
Right, can you try to repair disk pemissions?also is this happening in safe mode?
Just did a repair disc permisions. If it still crashes i will try to load in safe mode.
I would assume that something in that user account is not compatible with Mountain Lion which is causing it to crash. You can find out more in the logs by going to Applications/Utilities/Console
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1528
If you are unable to create a new user account because its crashing. Enable root user following that link above and see if its happening there
This seems likely... would running in safe mode answer this question for me? It just crashed after my permissions repair, so I am now running in safe mode to test that out.
yes because safe only loads apple kernels, basically it does not load any 3rd party daemons etc. That is to isolate whether this is caused by Apple software and hardware or a 3rd party app
Thank you much for your direction. So if i run in safe mode for a while without any crashes, should i create a new test user?
so if safe mode then that means that a 3rd party(most likely) is causing that crash. You can check it in the logs via the console in the utilities folder
but if it doesn't then that simply tells us that something is wrong with that user account. Creating a new user account would dive us deeper into finding what's the culprit. Whether its a user account issue or a system wide issue
Seemed to avoid the issue when running in safe mode... but created a new user and still had it log me out to the login screen.
Where next? Guessin a clean instal would be the next move, but gonna be really frustrated if that doesn't do the trick after all that work.
Mountain Lion keeps logging user out...
