danielg.berrios

Q: Progress bar under my User Icon / Slow start Up

I recently upgraded to el capitan and since then I have been having a really slow start up as if my macbook pro was starting up in safe mode or network startup. I have a mid 2011 13" Mac book pro with an I7 8GB of Ram and 750 HDD. I went on here and checked all the forums for the most likely cause but I have yet to find a solution. I Did the SMC, PRAM,clearing HDD format and re-install the OS and have had no luck. I have also selected the main HD as the boot drive. When I start up in recovery mode and select disk utility there is a disk image file that appears, that contains the OS. What I am suspecting is that once the drive boots it uses that disk image. I have tried to eject it or deleting it and I have had no luck since disk utility in this update has changed. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

-Daniel

MacBook Pro, OS X El Capitan (10.11.6)

Posted on Aug 8, 2016 11:48 AM

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  • by JimmyCMPIT,

    JimmyCMPIT JimmyCMPIT Aug 8, 2016 12:46 PM in response to danielg.berrios
    Level 5 (6,926 points)
    Mac OS X
    Aug 8, 2016 12:46 PM in response to danielg.berrios

    shut down

    disconnect all external devices

    reboot into safe mode

    Try safe mode if your Mac doesn't finish starting up - Apple Support

    shut down again

    reconnect devices

    reboot.

     

    if the problem persists you may post an etrecheck report here for further analysis

    www.etrecheck.com

  • by danielg.berrios,

    danielg.berrios danielg.berrios Aug 15, 2016 7:16 PM in response to JimmyCMPIT
    Level 1 (8 points)
    Mac OS X
    Aug 15, 2016 7:16 PM in response to JimmyCMPIT

    EtreCheck version: 3.0.1 (304)

    Report generated 2016-08-15 22:12:34

    Download EtreCheck from https://etrecheck.com

    Runtime 8:38

    Performance: Below Average

     

    Click the [Support] links for help with non-Apple products.

    Click the [Details] links for more information about that line.

     

    Problem: Other problem

    Description:

    Progress bar under my user after I log in

     

    Hardware Information:

        MacBook Pro (13-inch, Late 2011)

        [Technical Specifications] - [User Guide] - [Warranty & Service]

        MacBook Pro - model: MacBookPro8,1

        1 2.8 GHz Intel Core i7 CPU: 2-core

        8 GB RAM Upgradeable - [Instructions]

            BANK 0/DIMM0

                4 GB DDR3 1600 MHz ok

            BANK 1/DIMM0

                4 GB DDR3 1600 MHz ok

        Bluetooth: Old - Handoff/Airdrop2 not supported

        Wireless:  en1: 802.11 a/b/g/n

        Battery: Health = Normal - Cycle count = 206

     

    Video Information:

        Intel HD Graphics 3000

            Color LCD 1280 x 800

     

    System Software:

        OS X El Capitan 10.11.6 (15G31) - Time since boot: about 3 days

     

    Disk Information:

        APPLE HDD HTS547575A9E384 disk0 : (750.16 GB) (Rotational)

            EFI (disk0s1) <not mounted> : 210 MB

            Recovery HD (disk0s3) <not mounted>  [Recovery]: 650 MB

            Macintosh HD (disk1) / : 748.93 GB (722.32 GB free)

                Encrypted AES-XTS Unlocked Converting

                Core Storage: disk0s2 749.30 GB Online

     

        HL-DT-ST DVDRW  GS31N   ()

     

    USB Information:

        Apple Computer, Inc. IR Receiver

        Apple Inc. FaceTime HD Camera (Built-in)

        Apple Inc. Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad

        Apple Inc. BRCM2070 Hub

            Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller

     

    Thunderbolt Information:

        Apple Inc. thunderbolt_bus

     

    Gatekeeper:

        Mac App Store and identified developers

     

    Kernel Extensions:

            /Library/Application Support/Citrix Receiver

        [not loaded]    com.citrix.kext.gusb (12.2.0 - SDK 10.9 - 2016-08-08) [Support]

     

    System Launch Agents:

        [not loaded]    8 Apple tasks

        [loaded]    152 Apple tasks

        [running]    78 Apple tasks

     

    System Launch Daemons:

        [not loaded]    47 Apple tasks

        [loaded]    150 Apple tasks

        [running]    93 Apple tasks

     

    Launch Agents:

        [loaded]    com.citrix.AuthManager_Mac.plist (2016-07-20)

        [running]    com.citrix.ReceiverHelper.plist (2016-07-20)

        [running]    com.citrix.ServiceRecords.plist (2016-07-20)

     

    Launch Daemons:

        [loaded]    com.adobe.fpsaud.plist (2016-06-28)

        [loaded]    com.citrix.ctxusbd.plist (2016-07-20)

        [loaded]    com.microsoft.office.licensingV2.helper.plist (2016-07-09) [Support]

     

    Internet Plug-ins:

        CitrixICAClientPlugIn: 12.2.0 - SDK 10.10 (2016-08-08) [Support]

        QuickTime Plugin: 7.7.3 (2016-07-08)

        Flash Player: 22.0.0.209 - SDK 10.9 (2016-08-08) [Support]

        FlashPlayer-10.6: 22.0.0.209 - SDK 10.9 (2016-08-08) [Support]

        Default Browser: 601 - SDK 10.11 (2016-07-08)

     

    3rd Party Preference Panes:

        Flash Player (2016-06-28) [Support]

     

    Time Machine:

        Time Machine not configured!

     

    Top Processes by CPU:

            23%    Microsoft Outlook

             9%    kernel_task

             5%    SystemUIServer

             5%    WindowServer

             3%    Safari

     

    Top Processes by Memory:

        725 MB    kernel_task

        451 MB    softwareupdated

        352 MB    com.apple.WebKit.WebContent(3)

        311 MB    Microsoft Outlook

        270 MB    firefox

     

    Virtual Memory Information:

        2.63 GB    Free RAM

        5.37 GB    Used RAM (2.05 GB Cached)

        0 B    Swap Used

  • by leroydouglas,

    leroydouglas leroydouglas Aug 15, 2016 7:51 PM in response to danielg.berrios
    Level 7 (22,866 points)
    Notebooks
    Aug 15, 2016 7:51 PM in response to danielg.berrios

    Do you have external Boot clone Backup you can boot from, to bypass the  internal HDD.

    I would highly recommend it,

     

    along with a Time Machine backup.

     

    ref: How to create a boot clone

  • by danielg.berrios,

    danielg.berrios danielg.berrios Aug 15, 2016 7:54 PM in response to leroydouglas
    Level 1 (8 points)
    Mac OS X
    Aug 15, 2016 7:54 PM in response to leroydouglas

    I don't have one but I just formatted the HDD and there is close no nothing on my mac now, (fresh start). Thought it would solve the problem but it didn't. I have a clone of my wife's mac, let me try that.

  • by steve626,

    steve626 steve626 Aug 15, 2016 11:40 PM in response to danielg.berrios
    Level 4 (1,546 points)
    Aug 15, 2016 11:40 PM in response to danielg.berrios

    Strangely, 

     

    "Encrypted AES-XTS Unlocked Converting"

     

    for your hard drive seems to indicate that it is still converting your encrypted disk.

     

    Have you checked the disk by booting with command-R and selecting Disk Utility? I would encourage you to make a complete backup of everything in case there is something wrong with your disk.

  • by cdhw,

    cdhw cdhw Aug 16, 2016 2:09 AM in response to danielg.berrios
    Level 4 (2,623 points)
    Servers Enterprise
    Aug 16, 2016 2:09 AM in response to danielg.berrios

    It always takes a few hours for things to settle down after installing a new OS version. You appear to be encrypting the hard drive, which can easily take half a day. Messing around restarting in safe mode, etc. simply interferes with and slows down these processes. Leave the machine open, connected to a solid internet connection and plugged into the mains for a day or so.

     

    The disk image you are trying to delete is your recovery partition; it needs to be left alone.

     

    C.

  • by leroydouglas,

    leroydouglas leroydouglas Aug 16, 2016 8:56 AM in response to danielg.berrios
    Level 7 (22,866 points)
    Notebooks
    Aug 16, 2016 8:56 AM in response to danielg.berrios

    "Encrypted AES-XTS Unlocked Converting"

     

    Yes this is FileVault2 encryption.

     

    FileVault—View progress when encrypting a drive

  • by danielg.berrios,

    danielg.berrios danielg.berrios Aug 16, 2016 8:16 PM in response to steve626
    Level 1 (8 points)
    Mac OS X
    Aug 16, 2016 8:16 PM in response to steve626

    I have, but I am only able to run a first aid of it and can not see the permissions to check for any unusual item. It comes up like its fine, so I'm kind of drawing a blank. I do see a disk image when I open the disk utility at startup but I can't erase it.