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Comment on And… shut out of Lion. by Devin

Devin — Wed, 30 May 2012 18:07:35 +0000

Excellent solution! I had a user come in this morning with this problem and after hours of failed solutions and internet searches, this fixed the problem.

We also use Casper to manage systems, so I’m not sure if that’s a common factor to this problem.

Comment on Quick way to insert Emoji on OS X. by Sean Taylor

Sean Taylor — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 23:30:06 +0000

I’ve been looking all over the net trying to find a way to get into what used to be called “character palette” in earlier OS X. You just answered my question. Bless you.

Comment on And… shut out of Lion. by mrmengo

mrmengo — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 15:42:01 +0000

You totally rock! The combined brain power of the internet is awesome!

This error AuthorizationRef returned an error 100022 was driving me nutz combined with the log in issue.

Many thanks!

Comment on And… shut out of Lion. by Kevin

Kevin — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 12:42:46 +0000

Same for me too —

On my bad system, it looks like this:
ls -l /var/audit/current

ls: /var/audit/current: Invalid argument
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 0 17 Mar 22:01 /var/audit/current

Which basically means it is a corrupt symbolic link.

It seems to me that one of the Disk Repair or Repair Permissions routines should have found and fixed this…

Should look like this:
ls -l /var/audit/current

lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 40 9 Mar 14:26 /var/audit/current -> /var/audit/20120309142654.not_terminated

After removing the file and rebooting all my users could once again log into the system.

It would be nice to know how this file got corrupted!

Comment on And… shut out of Lion. by rob

rob — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 11:37:34 +0000

I had the same problem and this worked for me!

My hero!

Comment on And… shut out of Lion. by Scot With One T

Scot With One T — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 23:25:41 +0000

What spanking timing, Shawn G. You saved the day! This happened to me this morning and I was prepared to reinstall. I can confirm that removing the file called “current” worked and I was able to startup and login without any problems.

I booted from the recovery disk (hold Command-R while powering on) and selected the disk called “Recovery”.
From the menu click on Tools -> Terminal, this opens up a shell window.

The name of the disk I installed Lion on is “rootdisk”. If you don’t know your disk name, you should be able to see it once you’re in the /Volumes directory. I followed the steps from Shawn G (the # is the prompt, don’t type that):

# cd /Volumes
# ls
rootdisk

# cd /Volumes/rootdisk/var/audit
# ls -la current
-r–r—– 1 root wheel 11351 Oct 14 2010 current

Its not a symlink! Whack that thing and reboot:

# rm current
# reboot

Comment on And… shut out of Lion. by Shawn G

Shawn G — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 22:23:15 +0000

For anyone else having this issue, I believe I have figured out a quick and easy fix. You need to gain access to the OS either through SSH from another box, by booting in Single User or through target disk mode. Check the /var/audit folder and look for a file named “current”. This is supposed to be a symbolic link to the latest file in the folder, however on every machine I have seen with this infliction it is actually just a regular file. If you delete this file (Remember to remount / as RW if you are in single user mode) you can then reboot the system and log in normally. There is nothing else you need to do to resolve this.

In my case, the file was introduced by mistake through the use of JAMF Casper to deploy software to a workstation.

Comment on Kona Brewing Koko Brown by mindflayer

mindflayer — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 19:00:37 +0000

My local Wegmans in Dulles. It is tasty!

Comment on Kona Brewing Koko Brown by SkorcherX

SkorcherX — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 18:25:21 +0000

Where did you find this?!

I have been waiting all year for it, and I still don’t see it at my local grocers.

Comment on Port City Tidings ale by Bells Winter White Ale « mindflayer.net

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