Hi, Previous cautions aside, although important, one thing that might be going on is that a Keychain dialog is popping up that is stopping your ability to activate VO, press Escape a few times to see if that dialog will go away then try cmd-f5 or fn-cmd-f5 to get VO to start. The Root user has its uses, but as mentioned by Chris and Chris, it should only be enabled if you really need it.
Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On 2013-05-20, at 3:22 PM, Chris Blouch <cblo...@aol.com> wrote: > In a similar vein, the few times I ever needed root access was in the > terminal app to run certain commands. I never needed to log into the system > as root. Would be interesting to know what you want to do. > > CB > > On 5/19/13 1:40 PM, Chris Gilland wrote: >> Let's get a few things straight. >> >> 1. In the first place, aside what you say to appreciate the differences, >> what exactly were you trying to do that required root access, as that is >> normally strongly discouraged unless it be a very last resort. >> >> 2. Summarize for me the process that you took to enable the root account, >> as depending on how you did it... (there are several ways...) that could >> explain why Voiceover isn't working. >> >> Chris. >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: Richard Ring >> To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com >> Sent: Saturday, May 18, 2013 7:04 PM >> Subject: Root User Issue >> >>> Although one can accomplish most anything that is truly necessary on the >>> Mac as an administrative user, in order to fully appreciate the >>> difference between an administrative user and a root user, I have >>> enabled the root user. Unfortunately, when I log in as the root user, I >>> cannot turn VoiceOver on with command f5 as I might expect. When I issue >>> this command, I continue to have a silent computer. >>> Any ideas as to what might be causing this problem would be greatly >>> appreciated. >> >> You can have an off day, but you can't have a day off! ---The Art of Fielding >> Sent from my Mac Book Pro >> richr...@gmail.com >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> > > -- > ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
