Cocktail

can anyone help me figure how to disable the single user boot. i used Cocktail and I must have checked that box that enables single user boot because I restarted and now I receive this on a black screen at startup after the white/grey apple screen. So I would just like to know how I can be able to login and disable this feature of Cocktail, or if I can do it from this...

now that you mention it, I used cocktail to tweak some of the interface settings but probably didn't shut down the machine before I went on vacation and so totally forgot. duh. ...

I have recently purchased a Lacie Mini Hard Drive+Hub 250GB to use with my Mac Mini PPC G4 1.42Ghz. Since using this device, the computer suffers a repeated Kernel Panic which seems to be in the FireWire driver stack. The problem is that after the OS has been up and running for a fairly long time (usually anything up to a day), a Kernel Panic occurs. I restart the system and...

Problem: Dock, expose, cmd-tab switching freeze. It's like the processor is getting killed (very slow performance), except it's not. cannot logout or shut down - must do manually (holding power button) problem occurs randomly, even with no programs running. Normally within an hour or two it happens and I have to force powerdown to restart. Activity Monitor shows nothing...

I have ran tests from Techtool to disk utilty and memory tests. Ran programs like Cocktail to clear logs etc. ...

Try using one of these programs to clean out logs and caches first; Cocktail Onyx Yasu Repair Permissions using one of these, or Disk Utility in your Utility folder. Reboot off your OS X disc and run Disk Utilities to Repair Disk.

You might want to use a program like Onyx, Yasu or Cocktail to perform basic maintanance on your machine. ...

For the past few problems I have been having some really bad problems with OS X. I don't have an entire day that I can devote to wiping out my hard drive, reinstalling OS X along with all of my apps and am hoping someone can help me fix this. Here is a list of problems that I have: When selecting Apple then Restart it just logs me out When going to Apple then About This Mac...

gh single user mode and ran disk repair again. No errors found this time. Problems still happening. I've done the trash mail prefs tricks. Didn't work. I had Cocktail already installed and ran that, followed by a reboot. Things worked fine. ...

Also this one... TinkerTool System http://www.bresink.com/osx/TinkerToolSys.html which I really like. jb