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From: Jolly Roger on 18 Jun 2008 11:51
In article <DtudnYXWh7Y_rcXVnZ2dnUVZ_g2dnZ2d(a)speakeasy.net>,
Norm <NOSPAM(a)gmail.invalid> wrote:

> Not sure if I'm supposed to be looking at the Console Messages or the
> system.log.
>
> At any rate both of them have long strings of: The process has forked
> and you cannot use this corefoundation functionality you must exec ( )
> to debug
>
> Right after it crashed, the Console Message says: launchctl:Please
> convert the following to
> launched:/etc/mach_init.d/dashboardadvisory.plist
>
> Also I noticed it still has the name of the internal hard drive that I
> used for a time and switched back to MacBookPro. Not sure why the other
> name shows on the log now when I changed it last night. hmmm.
> >
> > If a particular application is crashing, you may find a crash log in
> > /Library/Logs/CrashReporter/ or /Users/you/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/.
>
> I can't get into my Library when booting into another account.
>
> > (Feel free to post the logs here if you need help understanding them.
> > I'll be glad to take a look and tell you what I see.)
> >
> > Also, have you tried starting up in safe mode?:
>
> Yes and the same freeze after I put in my password and it begins booting
> into my account and then the cursor freezes and then that dialog about
> wanting the keychain password.

*sigh*

<rant ignore="optional">
You know, I think it's a noble effort, on Apple's part, to try to
migrate people's information from older Macs to newer Macs; but man...
when it goes wrong, it really goes horribly wrong!
</rant>

At this point, I'm thinking you'll be better off deleting the migrated
account, creating a brand-new account, and then copying your documents
and so on over from the old Mac to the new Mac with a Firewire cable.
This will almost certainly be faster than trying to unwrangle the mess
Apple's migration assistant has caused.

So what I would do is log in as an administrator, use the Accounts panel
in System Preferences to delete the bad account, create a brand-new
account, log into it, connect a Firewire cable between both machines,
reboot the old machine while holding down the T key to boot it in
Firewire Target Disk Mode, and then copy your documents over to the new
account. Use caution when selecting wwhich files you'll copy over. I
recommend you refrain from copying files from /Users/you/Library
whenever possible. Try to restrict yourself to copying from Desktop,
Documents, Movies, Music, Pictures, Public, and Sites.

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