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Forced to log-on twice?

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jarop

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Oct 16, 2011
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Hi all, long time lurker first time poster,
Recently I've been experiencing a weird issue with my notebook, and i'm not too sure what the first point of call should be to troubleshoot. Every time I log into my machine (high-end 2010 MacBook Air '11), it will without fail get me to log on twice. Basically it works as follows:
1) Boot up machine and it takes me to login screen (there is only one user accout on the PC)
2) Put in credentials - here it processes something for a while before my machine reboots
3) Takes me back to login screen without any acknowledgement of what happened
4) Login again and it takes me into my profile fine (at the normal fast speed you'd expect from the MBA)

I'm currently on 10.7.2 but I've been experiencing this also on 10.7.1.

My apologies if I've posted this in the wrong forum
Thanks
 
jarop said:
Hi all, long time lurker first time poster,
Recently I've been experiencing a weird issue with my notebook, and i'm not too sure what the first point of call should be to troubleshoot. Every time I log into my machine (high-end 2010 MacBook Air '11), it will without fail get me to log on twice. Basically it works as follows:
1) Boot up machine and it takes me to login screen (there is only one user accout on the PC)
2) Put in credentials - here it processes something for a while before my machine reboots
3) Takes me back to login screen without any acknowledgement of what happened
4) Login again and it takes me into my profile fine (at the normal fast speed you'd expect from the MBA)

I'm currently on 10.7.2 but I've been experiencing this also on 10.7.1.

My apologies if I've posted this in the wrong forum
Thanks
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Open up the console app ( under utilities ) and check for problems. You can send in some things to apple if necessary.

Have you tried fixing disk permission problems?
 
17/10/11 9:08:19.073 AM Dock: ERROR: Failed to find child 8a of 6d
17/10/11 9:08:19.074 AM Dock: ERROR: Failed to find child 8b of 6d
17/10/11 9:08:19.081 AM Dock: ERROR: Failed to find child 8e of 6d
17/10/11 9:08:19.082 AM Dock: ERROR: Failed to find child 91 of 6d
17/10/11 9:08:19.082 AM Dock: ERROR: Failed to find child 92 of 6d
17/10/11 9:08:19.085 AM Dock: ERROR: Failed to find child 93 of 6d
17/10/11 9:08:19.086 AM Dock: ERROR: Failed to find child 94 of 6d
17/10/11 9:08:19.087 AM Dock: ERROR: Failed to find child 97 of 6d
17/10/11 9:08:19.089 AM Dock: ERROR: Failed to find child 9f of 6d
17/10/11 9:08:19.089 AM Dock: ERROR: Failed to find child a3 of 6d
17/10/11 9:08:19.093 AM Dock: ERROR: Failed to find child 3 of 6d
17/10/11 9:08:19.095 AM Dock: ERROR: Failed to find child 4 of 6d
...
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That's an extract of the ERROR from the console log. It's much longer.

How would I troubleshoot the disk permissions?
 
What happens when you open System Preferences > Users & Groups > Click on Login Options > Change Automatic Login to your name.

Reboot.
 
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