Can't login after upgrade to 10.6.8

Hi Eric

Thanks for your suggestion, unfortunately I can't boot from the DVD, in fact none of the startup key options seem to have any effect (almost as though the keyboard isn't being recognised at powerup).

If I boot with the OS disc in the drive and press and hold the C key the disc gets ejected and I'm back to the Logon loop.

I've tried doing this with the original wireless keyboard and a USB keyboard but it makes no difference. Both keyboards work once the Logon Screen appears and I can enter the user password without issue.

Hi Eric

Thanks for your continued help

I borrowed another 10.6.4 DVD and have now managed to install 10.6.4 and update it to 10.6.8 and no longer have the logon loop issue. I've also verified/repaired the disc and repaired the file permissions successfully.

Time Machine has restored the desktop, all the music files are there, Photo's are there and Google Picassa runs, but little else.

Safari complains I have the wrong version of OSX and will not run so I can't browse the net (typing this on my laptop)

iTunes reports it requires 10.7.5 or later as do most other apps I've tried.

Fortunately Finder works, I've run the Software Update and it says I have the latest updates.

If I click on 'App Store', the store opens ok but the only Upgrade option I now see is to Yosemite, if I select that the App Store screen gives a spinning pointer and never does anything, I have to force quit through finder to get out of it.

any suggestions as to what to try next?

thanks

Bob

Hi Eric

We're about 8 hours out of sync (I'm in the UK)

I skipped a step today and went back to basics (probably a bad move)

Wiped the disk, installed 10.6.4 then upgraded to 10.6.8 but instead of doing the Timemachine restore at this point I downloaded ( 4 hour d/l for me) and installed Yosemite hoping doing a restore from Timemachine would now work with a later version OS.

alas Yosemite doesn't seem to allow restoring from an earlier OS unless I'm missing something.

Am now reaching a stage of despair 😟

Hi Eric

Final update:

After more digging I discovered Migration Assistant, ran it and it has restored all apps,files even the mail works - unbelievably happy 🙂

Just added some more Ram to take it up to 12GB think my sister will be pleased to have her machine back.

As you could probably tell I'm not a Mac user so this has been a steep learning curve for me with a few hair wrenching moments.

Thanks for all your advice, really appreciated.

Bob