Unable to Reboot After Latest Apple Updates (SA-2011-06-23-1 and Security Update 2011-004)

First try restarting your system with the original DVD that came with your MacBook. Then run Apple Hardware Test, if all of your hardware checks out okay your need to run disk utility on your hard drive to repair it, also repair your permissions.

I had the same issue. And is Partly fixed now.

I had to reboot using my Mac OSX DVD After 10 minutes or so waiting for the system to boot from the DVD. I was able to run the Disk Utility. I repaired the disk and disk permissions. I also run the Apple Hardware Test and everything was OK

After running both repairs I was able to login again to my computer. But it still take longer to boot than normally does.

I've a 2011 27" Core i7 iMac with 16 GB RAM.

I also run the Apple Hardware Test and everything was OK.

Please anyone installing the 10.6.8 OS X update report if is having any issues.

Thanks.-

Mate, you are not alone. I have got exactly the same error. My MacBook Pro was perfectly fine before installing the patch. Now it cannot be booted properly. I called Apple Hotline in Hong Kong and the support engineers only asked me to reinstall SL from DVD. The so-called Senior Support Advisor (King Yeung) even refused to escalate my complaint to his manager or the complaint department. This is the second times that I have experienced similar problem and last time I did an archive installation that spent a lot of my time and I will not do it again this time. I will trash that HK$30'000 dollar machine. If anyone is interested to buy, drop me a note.

I have 2 iMacs....A mid-2010 Model, and a new 2011 Model. I am friendly with an Apple Consultant, and he told me to run "Applejack" before and after every update. Well, I did this time, and I have no problems booting up with either machine.

If you can get Applejack installed on your machine, when you start up, hold down the 'Command' and the 'S' key until you get a Linux type response. After it stops, type in 'applejack' and hit 'a' for auto. It will take you through 5 steps. After it is finished, hit 'h' and it will shut down. Then try and see if it will boot up. The first time, it may take a while. After that, it should boot up quicker. I hope that helps.

"Any issues"? Oh yes - the box is bricked and won't even boot from the "original DVD". MacBook Pro Intel Core i7, 8GB RAM, 500GB SSD drive.

Thanks, Apple! This time you really got me.

Thanks for posting about the latest "update" issue. I think I narrowly avoided this; I selected the Security Update 2011-004 in Software Update, got the spinning disc symbol and waited about 30 min. but nothing had happened.

Basically, it locked up my machine before the update even began. No other programs would run and it wouldn't shut down. I had to shut it down by holding the power button.

After reading these posts, I'm definitely NOT going to update anytime soon. I depend on my Macbook Pro for work and would really be screwed if it was bricked.
 By the way, I'm running 10.5.8, 2.33 Intel Core Duo, 2 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM.

I bought it in 2004, take it everywhere, and use it for graphic and web design - still works great!

I am having he same problem on two MacBook Pros. I found if I remove the wireless mouse, I have no trouble. This isn't the solution, but does pinpoint the problrm.

-anndefen

Well After reinstalling the whole OS X and updating again to 10.6.8 and Restoring from my 360GB time machine backup.!

I finally understand what is my problem and why my computer takes so long to boot!

it's my 4TB DROBO UNIT! If it's conected to me iMac when it reboots then reboots take like 10 to 20 minutes.

If I unplug it while rebooting my computer restart reduces dramatically to 1 o 2 minutes.!

Thanks apple!😠

Same issue. The update never finished installing on my MacBook Pro, and (after several hours) I gave up waiting and tried to reboot. Now just sits at the Apple logo screen. Managed to run Hardware Check from the Snow Leopard CD - no problems found. But I can't seem to boot now from that CD or the install CDs that came with my iMac (10.5.2).

I'd reinstall OS X - if I could.

Any thoughts?

Same wake up problems (to external display through DVI) after security update 2011-004 done only 2 days ago on MacBook 13" Late 2008 without thunderbolt (I made the thunderbolt update on another MacBookPro March 2011 Thunderbolt because of a refreshment problem on the external display and than thought I should make some update also on the first one...). Any update planned by Apple ?