huge leopard problem, please help with setup assitant

Virusyn · Dec 22, 2007

Hello,
I came home from work today, installed an update, as a restart was required, I proceeded to restart. Here is when the problem started, as I try to log back in, it keeps asking me to complete the osx setup assistant, the original setup I did when I installed my leopard. I will complete the assistant then click done, then try to login and the same assistant keeps popping up over and over again??? what on earth is going on, i have a lot of important stuff on my hdd I consider to be very valuable. How do I reinstall to tiger without losing anything? thanks guys I really appreciate the help.

Kash · Dec 23, 2007

After doing a little searching on Google, I found this solution for your problem.

Give that a try and see if it solves your problem. Could definitely keep you from having to revert to Tiger or reinstalling Leopard if you decide to order new discs instead.

goobimama · Dec 23, 2007

This would also give you a good opportunity to think about getting a Time Machine drive. Cause while you can get out of this one, you never know when the next update might take you down....

Virusyn · Dec 23, 2007

i got out of the problem thanks to Kash's post, heres a link with the description if anyone else gets this problem while updating.

http://www.tuaw.com/2007/12/15/tuaw-tip-getting-out-of-setup-assistant-****/

Virusyn · Dec 23, 2007

the starred out letters says the opposite of heaven, idno why they cant let us post ****..cheers

baggss · Dec 23, 2007

Virusyn said:
the starred out letters says the opposite of heaven, idno why they cant let us post ****..cheers

Because of the word filters. Profanity of any sort is not allowed on the boards. It's a courtesy to all members.

TGDr-aka-RG · Jan 10, 2008

Virusyn said:
Hello,
I came home from work today, installed an update, as a restart was required, I proceeded to restart. Here is when the problem started, as I try to log back in, it keeps asking me to complete the osx setup assistant, the original setup I did when I installed my leopard. I will complete the assistant then click done, then try to login and the same assistant keeps popping up over and over again??? what on earth is going on, i have a lot of important stuff on my hdd I consider to be very valuable. How do I reinstall to tiger without losing anything? thanks guys I really appreciate the help.

Hello, I had exactly the same problem, in addition could not start up from Tiger disk, or external firewire drive. I booted in safe mode (boot with shift key down), and then... the updates which had supposedly been installed proceeded to install themselves. After this, everything was back to normal.

Hope this helps!