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  • September 24, 2012
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Hi guys I'm on 10.8.2 and I have noticed since 10.8 now and again I am getting a grey screen where the login window should be.

I am finding I have to reboot about 3 times to get the login screen.

Has anyone else experienced this?

Think I'm going mad now

Best answer by tkimpton

No I'm using a different encryption system.

Thanks Eric you were correct it is a conflict with a Config Profile.

I created a profile of a loginitems plist and this seems to screw it up. Also managing the login Window didn't help.

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    • Anonymous
    • September 25, 2012

    Did you enable FileVault? You might want to reference this StackExchange discussion: http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/63289/grey-login-screen-after-enabling-encryption

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    • September 25, 2012

    No I'm using a different encryption system.

    Thanks Eric you were correct it is a conflict with a Config Profile.

    I created a profile of a loginitems plist and this seems to screw it up. Also managing the login Window didn't help.

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    • tkimpton
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    • September 29, 2012

    Hmmm the problem has resurfaced and I have to reboot 3 times. I'm not managing the login Window and more.

    Anyone know the command to see what profiles as installed. There may be old ones stuck in there (yes I know system preferences)

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    • September 29, 2012

    Tim,

    If you look @ ```
    man profiles
    ``` I think some commands there will list the installed profiles, BUT IIRC they only show the UDID's of the profiles. Not an easily readable name. Might be wrong though.

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    • tkimpton
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    • September 29, 2012

    Thanks mate. I blatted the profiles and all is good. I think i was trying to do too much with mcxtoprofiles.

    My new approach is going to create Config Profiles via the JSS Web gui and anything else script it.

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    • tkimpton
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    • October 1, 2012

    hmm off the network with zero config profiles and still happening.

    Its pointing to a script. Glad atleast its not a config profile. I think i would start turning loopy if it was lol.

    I renamed a directory for my local scripts and all is good:)

    Rebuild time me thinks!

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    • January 26, 2015

    Hi tkimpton,

    I am experiencing this in my environment now. We noticed this after upgrading to 9.62 JSS. Symptoms are the exact same, but on 10.9.3 iMacs.

    I removed the MCX configurations, which set screen saver loginwindow and ByHost. Seeing if that helps.

    Wondering how your environment is now, and if anything else you did?

    Thanks...

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