single user mode

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i push cmd-s and it opens single user mode but exits straight away help meeeee

white mac 10.6.8-OTHER, Mac OS X (10.6.8), none

Posted on Nov 7, 2015 4:09 PM

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Answer 1

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Look in /private/var/root for one of the following:

.bash_profile

.bash_login

.profile

.bashrc

They do NOT exist by default for the 'root' account, but if one was created, it is possible that it is causing single-user-mode to exit.

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