10.5.4 Fast User Switching Problems

[MarkW19]

Ever since "upgrading" to 10.5.4 yesterday, fast user switching has been having problems. Randomly, when I change to another account (all are password protected), it will just instantly log me out, without even trying to close apps etc. - it literally takes it a second to log out, then I have to go back in and log in from scratch.

Normally, it keeps everyone logged in, with the orange tick beside logged-in users (it logs me out, then the tick goes). Sometimes it's OK, sometimes this happens.

Has anyone been having the same problem?

 

[yadmonkey]

You're not alone. Check out this thread on Apple's forums. Apparently Apple is aware of it and working on a fix.

 

[MarkW19]

You're not alone. Check out this thread on Apple's forums. Apparently Apple is aware of it and working on a fix.

Nice one, thanks for that. I'll keep an eye on that thread!

 

[yadmonkey]

Well here we are almost a year later and it's still happening in 10.5.7. I thought it was a thing of the past, but it happened to me three times today.