I've been having this issue for a while where I come to open the Terminal and I'm met with this:
Login incorrect
login: _
I've already deleted the com.apple.terminal.plist to no avail. The really interesting thing is that sometimes it works, maybe 1 in 50 times. I literally have no idea what might be causing it and after searching the web for the better part of half a day it seems everyone else's issues are fixed when they delete the plist file.
How do I sort this out? I've tried running different shells (bash and zsh), but I still get this log in screen.
Also when I use Activity Monitor, I can see there is no shell running just the login.
Best Answer
What worked for me was:
~/Library/Preferences/
, then press enter.com.apple.Terminal.plist
and rename it (using highlight and then single click) tocom.apple.Terminal.OLD.plist
.Note that the file might also show up in Finder as
com.apple.Terminal
if you do not show extensions by default.