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Re: Boot to blue screen -- help on a Saturday?

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<0001HW.D14F17480402580AB01029BF@news.eternal-september.org>, DaveC
<invalid@invalid.net> wrote:

> A friend has an old 2006 15² Macbook Pro with 10.6.8 Snow Leopard. 
> 
> Today he finds that it boots to blue screen then automatically boots Chrome. 
> If he quits Chrome he sees no Finder, no menus, only blue screen. 
> 
> Booted in safe mode (hold shift key), he gets to Finder and all seems normal. 
> 
> 
> In Disk Utility, Repair Disk returns ³Drive Seems OK² (paraphrase). Repaired
>  permissions. 
> 
> Rebooted: blue screen and Chrome. 
> 
> HD is 120 GB with half that available. 
> 
> What else can I suggest to him? 
> 
> He has recent backups so if nothing else can reformat the HD and reinstall. 
> 
> Thanks.

I've never bothered using Spaces (or whatever it's called these days),
so it's only a complete guess, but maybe that user account is set to
automatically run Chrome in a separate Space by itself ... although I
would have thought the menubar would still exist.

Another remote possibility is that Chrome (still set to automatically
run) has a preference setting to quit everything else.

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Boot to blue screen -- help on a Saturday? DaveC <invalid@invalid.net> - 2015-04-11 18:24 -0700
  Re: Boot to blue screen -- help on a Saturday? Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2015-04-13 13:13 +1200
  Re: Boot to blue screen -- help on a Saturday? Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2015-04-13 10:11 +0100
    Re: Boot to blue screen -- help on a Saturday? DaveC <invalid@invalid.net> - 2015-04-15 21:38 -0700
      Re: Boot to blue screen -- help on a Saturday? Warren Oates <warren.oates@gmail.com> - 2015-04-16 07:58 -0400

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