Hi,
We're starting to see a number of cases being raised internally about some of our Macs (all on macOS 15.1.1) having intermittent login issues. Our devices are bound to AD and our users have been logging on fine for some time but now we're starting to get issues. Sometimes the logins are fine. Sometimes they take ~10 mins and sometimes they appear to stall completely (waited over 2.5 hours in testing) even on the same device. The login screen appears to freeze (the time doesn't change) and you eventually get the spinning beachball. SSH is still working and you can run a "jamf policy" successfully. "Screen Sharing" reports that the user who has attempted to log into the device is the active user when you connect.
Can anyone share some tips as to how we would start to investigate this sort of issue let alone resolve it???
Thanks
Stuart
Intermittent login issues on macOS 15.1.1
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The XML is further up the thread so you could import that instead. Like I said not sure if its actually working or its just coincidence.
Happy Friday all!
I have been battling with Defender onboarding/network filter popups on our Intel Macs (long story), but an unrelated discovery has stemmed from this config profile swamp..
For years I have deployed a config profile across all labs which sets a dynamic message on the LoginWindow. Cool. That setting (annoyingly) has other things that must be set & get forgotten about (Options, Access, Script).
It seems that unticking the following two settings (in the Options section) have drastically improved the login speed of new user accounts:
- Disable Apple ID setup during login
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Disable Siri setup during login
Limited testing so far, but I suspect these 2 settings may be clashing with newer Profiles I created to Skip Welcome To Mac Setup Assistant Screen when Apple started ramping up this crazy behaviour in Sonoma (every time the OS got an update).
Tests so far have gone from logins of 3-4min hanging on LoginWindow, + very sluggish behaviour at the Desktop → 30-60 second login, & responsive when at the Desktop!
Just thought I’d put my findings out there, in the hope it helps others..
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