macbook nekochan login loop

[hamei]

Was outside several days last week, tried to use the Assist's Macbook. Could go to nekochan and login. Then as soon as I tried anything it looped me right back to the login screen. This is an Intel Macbook, about 13." Whichever OS X came on it a year ago, using Safari.

Anyone else have this happen ? No trouble with Fireflop on either Windows or irix. Cookies on, Javascript on, nothing I can think of that would do this ?

[zmttoxics]

Was outside several days last week, tried to use the Assist's Macbook. Could go to nekochan and login. Then as soon as I tried anything it looped me right back to the login screen. This is an Intel Macbook, about 13." Whichever OS X came on it a year ago, using Safari.

Anyone else have this happen ? No trouble with Fireflop on either Windows or irix. Cookies on, Javascript on, nothing I can think of that would do this ?

You should turn on console or the Safari developer tools and see what they say. Also, what version or OSX / Safari? 2.x and 3.x aren't nearly as web compliant 4.x.

[josehill]

Anything suspicious in /var/log/system.log ?

[hamei]

How to get to a terminal in OS X ? It's in chinese as well, so life is not so easy

We'll be off to luoyangang wednesday, will try again there. Thanks for the hints.

[zmttoxics]

Terminal.ap is in: Applications -> Utilities (so is Console, which you can use to view system.log etc).

[josehill]

One quick thing to try -- it won't solve the problem on your existing account, but it might get you back on the web faster if you're pressed for time. If you have admin access, try creating a fresh account and seeing if the new account has the same problem. If the new account works, your old account probably has corrupted prefs or caches somewhere.

[ShadeOfBlue]

If the new account works, your old account probably has corrupted prefs or caches somewhere.

You could also try resetting Safari with the "Reset Safari..." option from the Safari menu.

[josehill]

You could also try resetting Safari with the "Reset Safari..." option from the Safari menu.

Cool. I never noticed that before.

I must be getting old. I remember the days when I would try every menu item on a program, just to see what each one did. A long time ago, it seems.

[hamei]

You could also try resetting Safari with the "Reset Safari..." option from the Safari menu.

What does that look like in chinese ?

[Alver]

Hamei: you could also install firefox for OSX.

Now, all kidding aside, I think I've seen similar issues on my linux box, long ago. Can't remember offhand which sites or browsers. There has to be a rather trivial fix, if it had been hard to fix I'd remember...

[zmttoxics]

You could also try resetting Safari with the "Reset Safari..." option from the Safari menu.

What does that look like in chinese ?

Im not sure what it looks like in chinese, but here is a screen shot of the english location...

[recondas]

What does that look like in chinese ?

Was the assistant on strike <or just worried you'd fubar her Mac Book>?

[hamei]

Was the assistant on strike <or just worried you'd fubar her Mac Book>?

The latter. If she's anywhere near when I touch the precious MacBook it looks like the Rumble in the Jungle.

[josehill]

Is the problem that you get bounced back to the Nekochan login screen or the Mac OS X login screen? I thought you meant the latter, but now I'm thinking that you meant the former. If so, the Safari reset option mentioned earlier looks like a good one. You might also check to see if there are any plug-ins installed that might be causing a problem.

[kforbz]

Hi all,

Having the same problem on my iMac running 10.5.8 and safari 4.0.3. Keeps looping me back to the login screen.
i.e. I get the successful login screen, then 2 secs later re-directed to the login screen again.

I've tried the Safari reset and no luck so far.

Typing this on my Mini 9, 10.5.6 and Safari 3.2.1.

[edit] Firefox 3.5.3 works !