summitfor.blogg.se - Mac keyboard light locked

I press the power button to kill the machine.

The password doesn't work, I tried several times. When I start to enter my (long) password, it suddenly fils up with dots faster than I was typing. Entering the pasword is problematic, but I'm going to try. I just press a key, wait ten seconds, press another key, hope to see something happen. I did press the S key for the first letter of the username (S), so that might as well be the key that activated this. This means I press the key, nothing happens, I try again and then suddenly one account is selected.

After several tries, I could select my account using the tab key.In recovery mode, the mouse and keyboard work OK.The touchpad does not work, the mouse doesn't move. I did another boot, and then I see the startup screen with the two accounts.I just killed it, and noticed the laptop was very hot at the top of the keyboard, where the function keys are. When this happened I tried another boot, which showed a black screen with only the Apple logo on it, for 10 or 20 minutes.All disk, including OS disk, are encrypted using FileVault.Base Qi SD-card inserted, which is always connected.After that I did one or two restarts, which worked normally. I don't remember what I did to get it working. Back then I couldn't start for one day, and then suddenly it worked. I've had this problem once before, about six weeks ago. I know the password, and I know that's not the problem. I tried a restart, after which the Mac started into recovery mode. I tried pressing TAB, cursor keys, and the first letter of my account name. The touchpad is unresponsive (no movement at all), the keyboard doesn't work. Then press it agin to start up in the Recovery OS. hold thepower buttn on your Mac to shut it down.

If you're having a problem entering your password, press andOS.

I have two accounts on this MacBook (early 2015 13" retina), so I see two icons for these accounts, with the names under it. (Update: Aperture seems not related, as this problem has occured another time wihtout using Aperture.) That was the time I decided to do a restart, after which this problem appeared. I tried to reopen Aperture, but it refused, and repairing the library failed several times.

I have my Aperture photos on an external disk, which disconnected improperly because the cable disconnected. I don't know if it's related, I just mention it. Right before this problem I had Aperture open, with a problematic library. After restart, I got the login screen with unresponsive keyboard and mouse. Today I restarted my Mac after several weeks uptime.