You cannot continue logging in at this time...

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You cannot continue logging in at this time...

I have a Panther Server (10.3.9) which has developed the following habit recently. When you logon at the server with the Administrator account it displays the following message:

"You cannot continue logging in at this time. There is a problem that prevents you from logging in at this time. Please contact your system administrator for help."

It does continue to log in and generally appears to operate normally. I've seen this message reported previously, but always on client computers not on the server itself. The server is operating as a standalone server.

There are no apparent errors reported in the system log.

Does anybody have any suggestions as to what this may be related to? I'd like to fix it before it leads to something more serious.

Quicksilver, Mac OS X (10.3.9)

Posted on Jul 12, 2006 11:52 AM

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Answer 1

Jul 12, 2006 3:45 PM in response to Chris Goodwin

Try resetting your password, verify that your disk is not full, and run a Repair Permissions just to be safe. Are you using LDAP for login authentication?

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Answer 2

Jul 12, 2006 11:21 PM in response to paultelford1

Hi,

Thanks for the suggestions - I've done the repair permissions and verified the disk as OK as part of a routine check when I first noticed the problem, and there's plenty of free space (>40Gb). LDAP isn't active as it's not used for account management. I haven't tried the password reset yet as it does allow you to log in - just gives this warning message saying you can't! May try this later when I'm next at the machine and can take it down briefly.

Chris

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Answer 3

Jul 15, 2006 2:49 AM in response to Chris Goodwin

Just to follow up on this....

It looks like it was related to a hardware problem - Apple Hardware Test reported a problem on the logic board related to a PCI ethernet card. Moved the card to a different slot and all seems well (at the moment!).

Chris

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