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

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On 2015-04-13 01:13:06 +0000, Your Name said:

> In article
> <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.

Check System Preferences - *Mission Control* and set the preferences 
for *Spaces* as you would like them. Though they just use the term 
*Desktop* interchangeably with *Spaces* these days.

Also check the Chrome icon in the Dock by right-clicking and from the 
pop-up menu select *Options* here you will find *Assign To: None, This 
Desktop, All Desktops*. Again choose whatever suits you.

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

That seems unlikely, unless there is some horrendous corruption in your system.


-- 
Regards,

Savageduck

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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? Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> - 2015-04-12 19:16 -0700
  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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