Can’t login on new image
I have been using the past 2 days to get this working.
What I did:
- This is on a Mac Pro (latest model)
- Using the Mac Pro install disk 1
- Using InstallerChoices.xml to prevent printer drivers, languages and Bundled Software from installing
- Installing QuickTime 7.4.1 update
- Installing 10.5.2 update
- Installing LeopardGraphicsUpdate
- Installing SecurityUpdate2008-001Univ
- Using custom instauser installer, that installs a user (UID 499) as well as a StartUp script to create the user folder in /var/, as well as a preference com.apple.loginwindow.plist (so that I get name and password field to login to)
The end result is this:
- Machine boots up fine, and show login window correctly.
- I can't login to the admin account
- Trying >console, and I can now login to the admin account
- but the StartupScript have not yet run, as I'm told I do not have a home.
- Run the instauser StartupScript
- Reboot - stil cannot login
- Going to console and can login, now with a home folder
Together with all this cups is crashing all the time (about every 10th second, printing a line on the console each time), but I did not install printers (maybe this came from one of the updates).
system.log also have some "strange" lines, that i do not remember I see on a working system.
My own notes to the above:
I realise now, that maybe the QuickTime update is not needed, as it's already included on the Mac Pro image, but I have also tried with a fresh 10.5 image at first, with the same result.
The reason I give the user UID 499 and place it in /var is that I do not want it to show up in the list of users anywhere, nor in the /Users folder.
Can anyone enlighten me before I return to the old way of doing images?