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Mac OS X Terminal not logging in

Fresh5 days ago
Mar 15, 202632983 views
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I am running Mac OS X version 10.6.3 and when I open the terminal (with terminal.app or iterm) it just hangs on the login process. I've tried restarting, changing the startup command to /bin/bash, and deleting the terminal preference file. All to no avail.

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Fix for: Mac OS X Terminal not logging in

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I had a similar problem. In my case, Terminal would stall saying 'Terminal — login — 80x24' in the title. I didn't want to reinstall Terminal from OS X disk, and so I followed several different procedures, and in the end one of them seemed to have w…

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