Fix the GlowWorm Blue Screen of Death/No Boot/No User Login Window

Wednesday, February 13th, 2008

This goes over my experience with GlowWorm.app causing a boot error in Mac OS 10.5.1 Leopard, and what I did that fixed it.

Symptoms

  • You just installed GlowWorm.app
  • Your computer will not boot (or not reach the login window, but the mouse appears) in normal mode
    • You can boot into safe mode
    • You can boot into single user mode

The quick answer: boot into “safe mode” and run the GlowWorm unistaller.app and disable firewall; reboot.
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