It's only happened once, but I received a progress bar on the gray start-up screen on a reboot. It was after a normal restart and after it ha shutdown and then started it boot up I got the progress bar, it has only happened once, but I was wondering what this bar was.
I got this too last night and found some interesting problems, but Diskwarrior successfully rebuilt the directories and I'm up and running. Not sure yet WHAT would cause such severe damage
********** Diskwarrior Report
*************** DiskWarrior has successfully built a new optimized directory for the disk named "Armand." The new directory is ready to replace the original directory.
The original directory is damaged and it was necessary to scavenge the directory to find file and folder data.
Some files that had been lost or thrown away may have been recovered.
Comparison of the original and replacement directories indicates that there will be changes to the number, the contents and/or the attributes of the files and folders. It is recommended that you preview the replacement directory and examine the items listed below. All files and folders were compared and a total of 36,113,584 comparison tests were performed.
• All errors in the directory structure such as tree depth, header node, map nodes, node size, node counts, node links, indexes and more have been repaired.
• 29 files had a directory entry with an incorrect text encoding value that was repaired. • 17 files had an incorrect allocated size that was repaired. • 687 folders had a directory entry with an incorrect custom icon flag that was repaired. • 10 folders had a directory entry with an incorrect text encoding value that was repaired. • Incorrect values in the Volume Information were repaired.
• Critical values in the Volume Information were incorrect and were repaired.
Disk Information:
Files: 1,361,295 Folders: 253,940 Free Space: 34.42 GB Format: Mac OS Extended Block Size: 4,096 Disk Sectors: 828,112,896 Media: WDC WD5000BEVT-00ZAT0
Time: 11/4/09 11:53:05 AM
I can confirm that my problems started post (initially failed) install of Win XP SP3. However I read that others have experienced this who are not even BootCampers/Multi Partition. Therefore I would conclude this is a SL issue and something linked to the Boot Loader or somesuch. That would tie in with the issue 1) presenting similar to a failed safe boot, 2) occuring to those with multiple Boot Partitions, 3) those installing SP3 on Windows Side that presumeably alters the XP Boot Partition/Files, although not sure of the connection with the failed OSX boot partition?
My money is on SL screwing the Boot process somehow, although how that could damage the filesystem so badly is beyond me. May add DiskWarrior to my toolkit given the good reports here...
well, the diskwarrior scan/repair worked however, 2 days later the progress bar was back, along with the directory node damage. ended up doing a complete wipe of the drive (bootcamp partition and all to be safe) and a re-install of all software from scratch ONLY things I've done in the past week around having the troubles is to change bootcamp from windows 7 to windows vista and back to windows 7.
I began having this problem today. I did not have it until the windowsXP partition did an update. Must have corrupted the apple partition somehow. Wish apple had a solution for it. Bad Windows!
I am getting similar problems. It seems that updating my bootcamp, through apple's software update on the windows side, has corrupted my drive. That is to say, when I try and log into my mac side, I get to the apple screen, a progress bar appears, and it loads about a quarter way, resetting twice (the bar) and then powering down with nothing to say for itself.
I read a macfixit article that described this exact behavior, and it said it may be firmware getting screwed up or something. However, trying to restore firmware has not worked (I assume because I never had a firmware install failure, and restore only works if "Firmware install has been unsuccessful")
The sad thing is my bootcamp partition is frickin fine. So apple managed to not only destroy itself, but for me to use windows in the mean time. That's a lot apple! Great plan.
This is the exact problem my 24" iMac is having. I'm staring at a blank default desktop and cursor. The good news is, however, that I can connect to it over my AirPort network and get all the files off over WiFi. Backing everything up to a new 1TB external drive then reformatting and repartitioning the drive. This doesn't seem to be an isolated incident and needs to be quickly addressed by Apple.
My computer was running a little slow before the issue, so I did a restart from the Apple menu, then I got the grey screen with the progress bar. Got to the login window and received a message that my hard disk was full and I had no clue why it happened. I had 52GB available before the restart then it dropped somehow to ~460MB. Ran fsck -yf and it returned invalid sibling link errors and could not repair the drive. So now I'm stuck backing up my 325GB iTunes library over 802.11n which is going to take somewhere in the neighborhood of a day and a half.
How in the world does the hard disk storage just disappear like this?
It has nothing to do with a fault in the OS. It has everything to do with the OS trying to save your data. The OS believes that you've had some pretty severe corruption and is trying to fix that for you. If it's a continuous problem, you probably have a hard drive problem. Do yourself a favor and download Smart Utility. Run it and see what it says.
MY MBPro is having this progress bar issue EVERY TIME IT LOADS, if this was a windows 7 issue it would show up FOR MONTHS in a mac commercial on TV! COME ON mac! Fix this, i am starting to HATE mac OS! I have 15 PCs and 3 Macs under my control, and let me tell you a windows problem like this would be front page news, but since it is a mac problem it is all hush hush and re-install the OS seems to be the fix! REINSTALL, are you frigging kidding me!?!?!?!? I have NEVER EVER re-installed vista or XP! I am Seriously leaning towards a 20GB mac partition so i can run Windwos 7 ONLY, I love the hardware, but the software ***!
