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I've got a 2007 Macbook Pro that won't quite boot. It starts up, lets me input my password (I've got full-disk FileVault 2 on), then the apple logo appears with the spinning wheel, and after a few seconds the wheel stops spinning and nothing happens. I've tried resetting the pram/nvram, I've tried booting from my Lion install disc, I've tried booting from an old external HD with Snow Leopard on it, I've tried booting from the Lion recovery partition... the same thing happens, it freezes on the spinning wheel. I was able to get the Apple Hardware Test to run by putting in the original install disc and holding D, ran the test normally and with the "thorough" option checked, and everything passed both times. Anyone have any suggestions? Edit: I can boot into single-user mode, and can use the shell there. I'm not sure what to look for, though. The only thing that jumps out at me from the log is a line that says "AppleLMUController: smcReadKey received error 0x84 when reading key 'VRLA'>;*BUNCH OF NONSENSE*", with which my google fu is failing to help. benloran fucked around with this message at 19:56 on Nov 6, 2011 |
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Nov 6, 2011 19:29
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TACD posted:Boot up using verbose mode and you'll be able to see what's crashing or looping during that spinning gear. Thanks, I tried verbose mode and what do you know, it booted all the way. I swear I've tried rebooting this thing 20 times since it stopped working, and now I've done it twice in a row (once with verbose mode and then without) and it seems fine. Now I'm wondering if there's a loose connection internally or something. I don't really want to take it apart so I guess I'll just see if it keeps working.
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Nov 6, 2011 22:05
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TACD posted:Verbose mode also runs a filesystem check so there may have just been some minor directory damage preventing it from booting it was able to repair. You know, I think I did see a message about fsck doing something. I didn't realize that might have fixed the problem though. Thanks for mentioning that.
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Nov 8, 2011 02:25
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lazer_chicken posted:Jesus gently caress I hate the new "Duplicate" functionality. Why can't I have "Save As..." like we've had since the dawn of time? Consider the following situation in the program Pixelmator: I just tried this in Pixelmator. When I tried to Duplicate the image after I modified it, I got a popup dialog asking me whether I wanted to "Duplicate and Revert" or just Duplicate. The first option would make a copy and then revert the original to its last saved version, the second option would save the changes first, then make a copy (which is what you described happening). I guess the Lion way to do it is: Duplicate before you make changes, or hit "Duplicate and Revert" instead of Duplicate. Or copy the file in Finder before you open it. You can also go to File -> Revert Document to revert the original to a previous version after you Duplicate. Any way you look at it, though, it's definitely more steps than "Save As..." would be. Guess we just have to get used to it.
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Dec 9, 2011 19:45
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