When I log out of my guest account, it gets stuck with a black screen and a cursor that I can move around but can't do anything except do a forced restart. In my searching, I have seen an old recommendation to remove the /Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginwindow.plist
file (that didn't work for me). I've also seen that someone disabled System Integrity Protection with csrutil disable
.
I looked in the Console after restarting and saw the following line:
Apr 24 12:45:55 my-computer com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]
(com.apple.xpc.launchd.user.domain.201.100028.Aqua):
Caller not allowed to perform action: loginwindow.1627,
action = service removal, code = 150:
Operation not permitted while System Integrity Protection is engaged,
uid = 0, euid = 201, gid = 201, egid = 201, asid = 100028
This mentions both loginwindow and System Integrity Protection. Is disabling SIP the only way to fix this?
Best Answer
How I solved this issue on Mac OS 10.13 High Sierra: