Trouble logging into notebook

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You could post this on sage-support mailing list and see what the maintainers of the Mac app have to say about this. The reason why you get the login screen over and over again is because the Sage application/server is not shut down properly on Mac. It is always running in the background. Hence, any new Sage startup checks if a server is running, then it finds a server already running, and so it simply opens a webpage with the login screen.

A way to work around this is:

1. use the "Activity Monitor" in Mac and kill any Sage process that is running.
2. Then, start your notebook from the command line (i.e. using Terminal) with the "reset=True" parameter to reset your password.
3. From now on, it should be running properly and even if you do get the login screen (because a previous Sage app is running in the background) you should be able to login using the newly reset password.

I'm fairly certain this is fixed in sage-5.8.beta0 (and later). There was a bug where the Mac app sometimes didn't properly recognize the running server (and therefore wouldn't shut it down properly) which sounds like your problem here. If you want you can download the latest development version and compile it yourself. Or apply trac_11026-fix-parse-error.patch manually to your current version and rebuild the application. Neither is entirely trivial, but we can give you instructions if you would like. If not, you can just wait until the next release. Or I could probably send you a version of the app that I built on 10.8.2 (which I think should work on 10.6.8).