OSX Lion bricking itself? Can't Log on.

[JimboStormforce]

Well, god knows what was causing the issue, but I've reached the end of my wick! Some digging and a visit to the Genius bar has revealed that it's definitely a drive issue - whether physical or software I don't know.

Anyway, I've bought DiskWarrior, and that's chuntering away now, in the hope that I can get hold of my files from that physical drive (I've backed up the second Physical Drive already). DiskWarrior seems pretty good!

 

[viktorK]

kind of solved

Hello Guys, this just happened to me today. I was browsing and the OS bricked itself. I could solve it for myself without reinstalling the system and I have all the files only some settings are missing, but better than lose everything. Here is my way:


In single user mode I have entered the following:
/sbin/mount -uw /
Enter,
rm /var/db/.applesetupdone
Enter.

Then reboot and the welcome screen let me set a new admin account. Then I copied all my files and settings I could from the messed up account to my new and deleted the old. I even could manage to get all the Safari settings, bookmarks, etc.

I know this is not the best way, but works so far. Spent only a few hours.

I hope it helps.

Cheers,

Viktor