When you say that your PowerBook prompts for a login and password, this is the OSX login screen, i.e. graphical, as opposed to a text-only login screen? Are you able to use Preferences->Accounts->Set Auto Login, or is that grayed out (i.e. you're the only user)?
If the latter, you might try creating a new user temporarily, but make sure that your current user is set to auto-login.
On Wednesday, November 19, 2003, at 04:18 PM, Nolan J. Darilek wrote:
Hello. I'm encountering a very odd situation, and am hoping someone here can duplicate this to assure me that I'm not insane, point me in the right direction, etc.
About a month or so ago, I made a fresh install of OSX 10.2 and installed Fink. Everything worked fine until I tried to install, using apt and the stable binary distribution, w3m-el. This installed the launch package. As soon as launch installed, OSX began prompting for a login/password when booted, which it didn't before. This seemed odd to me, as I didn't think Fink tweaked my boot sequence at all. Yet when I removed w3m/launch, the problem went away. Furthermore, when I configured my system to update from CVS and, eventually, rsync, the updated launch package worked fine and I wasn't prompted for a password.
I've done a "fink selfupdate" recently, and the behavior began again. My powerbook now prompts for a login and password when booted. Before, the situation was very cut-n-dry, as I'd installed few packages and could simply "dpkg --purge" until the problem went away. But I now have dozens of packages installed, and I'm not sure which is the cause, or even *if* Fink is at fault. I'm not as familiar with OSX as I am with Linux, and I realize Fink doesn't affect the boot sequence in any way, but my experiences with launch seem to hint that there are factors in play that I'm not familiar with. I've tried removing launch, but that hasn't solved the problem. My next step is to completely remove and reinstall Fink, being much more selective about my selfupdate/update-all habits, but I'd like to see if anyone has any other suggestions, as the notion that Fink is at fault for this seems very far-fetched to me.
Also, and I don't know if this helps, but I've noticed that certain pieces of state aren't being saved over reboots. Specifically, my sound volume used to be saved fine, but it now seems to be set to the same value on startup, regardless of whether it is maxed out, deactivated completely, etc.
Any suggestions? Can anyone else duplicate the issues with the current stable release and copy of launch?
Thanks.
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