Unduly Noted

This happened soon after the 10.5.6 update came out. Having a stupid moment and not testing the update on one machine I wen’t ahead and upgraded them all from 10.5.5 to 10.5.6. Then I started to notice that when a user would log out it would put up the gray kernel panic screen (reboot your computer by holding down the power button in several different languages). A few solutions. The problem was in 2 folders, the frameworks and the fonts folder in ~/Library (thats /Users/username/Library). If they are deleted you can logout fine. In 1 case that would not fix it so a removal of the entire /Users/username/Library folder did the trick. Don’t worry, when you log back in 10.5 server will repopulate that folder for you.  I did it from the terminal on the server before the user logged in. Just cd into the users directory and type:  sudo rm -r Library
There are some server side tools to mass delete this, or you can just write an automator script to run at logon.