MacBook Air - A1466 - Stuck in recovery mode

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MacBook Air - A1466 - Stuck in recovery mode

Hi All,

After a water accident, I dried up my macbook air for 48 hours, i was able to turn it on and got the login prompts. Once I enter the credentials the progress bar would go all the way and get stuck forever. I tried resetting SMC, NVRAM, PRAM resets, and recovery mode & internet recovery, but nothing worked. I also ran the diagnostics and it said everything was working fine. I am also trying to connect this macbook air in target disk mode to another macbook pro, but I am unable to see the macbook air in macbook pro and vice-versa. Any other Ideas are greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Sai

Posted on Jan 31, 2019 4:02 PM

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Answer 1

Jan 31, 2019 4:08 PM in response to sainathns

Theres a possibility that something was broken when it got wet. From what your describing, it sounds like you may have somehow damaged the SSD. However, the diagnostics output is a little confusing. I would expect that diagnostics would detect a fault drive. I would recommend booting into recovery mode, open the command prompt (terminal) utility, then seeing if you can access your files from there.

If you're unfamiliar with Terminal, here are the super-super shortened basics of it.

Typing:

cd /path/to/somewhere/

will take you to the path you type in in place of '/path/to/somewhere/'. For example, 'cd /Users/admin/Desktop/' will navigate to the user named 'admin's desktop folder.

Typing:

ls

will display the files and folders in the current folder.

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Answer 2

Jan 31, 2019 4:15 PM in response to sainathns

If you can't get into Recovery Mode, you can get super technical, and hold Command + V while your computer is turning on (similarly to how you'd boot into Recovery Mode by holding Command + R). This will boot up in 'verbose' mode (showing you any possible errors), then, when it's finished, function as a normal Terminal.

Note: If you have FileVault enabled, it may ask you to sign in first, before going into Verbose mode.

Edit: Heres some more information: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201573

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sainathns Author

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Jan 31, 2019 4:54 PM in response to UltraProgrammer

Thanks, I was able to get into the Verbose mode. It's still starting since 30 mins and it stalled at the following error

{com.apple.xpc.launchd.domain.user.202} <Error>: Failed to bootstrap path: path = /Library/LaunchAgents, error =2: No such file or directory

Looks like the files are corrupted.

Thanks

Sai

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sainathns Author

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Jan 31, 2019 4:12 PM in response to UltraProgrammer

Thanks for you reply. The recovery mode as well is stuck with the progress bar at 100%, I have tried waiting for hours to see if it makes any progress, unfortunately it just stays there. I wish I was able to get to the terminal window.

Thanks

Sai

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sainathns Author

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Jan 31, 2019 5:34 PM in response to Ruskes

Thanks Ruskes, I do have another user as well. But I am unable to get to the single user mode with recovery mode restart, I am still waiting for the system to start up completely in verbose mode. I would try the fsck -fy once I get to the terminal window if it shows up. Currently It's at this error

handle_encryption_rolling:5613: er: request granted[0].

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sainathns Author

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Feb 1, 2019 7:57 PM in response to sainathns

Hi UltraProgammer n Ruskes,

Im still stuck at the verbose mode, haven't made any progress. Any other ideas that you guys can think of?

{com.apple.xpc.launchd.domain.user.202} : Failed to bootstrap path: path = /Library/LaunchAgents, error =2: No such file or directory

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Ruskes

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Jan 31, 2019 5:07 PM in response to sainathns

Do you have more then one user ?

You might be lucky and only the User profile is damaged.

You can first try the Disk Repair in Single user mode Cmd + S

with fsck -fy

repeat the fsck about 5 times to make sure it got all the errors.

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