After password recovery, darwin/BSD login DSMOS

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After password recovery, darwin/BSD login DSMOS

I could not for the life of me remember my password. I went through the apple password recovery and Bingo got on the computer. Now when the laptop boots up it goes to a kind of grey logon screen, I put in my credentials and then it goes to a black screen that says Darwin/BSD (localhost) (console)

Login: Waiting for DSMOS........and the reset scrolls by pretty quickly. It never did this before so I'm assuming something became corrupt in the password recovery. I believe I now have an iCloud (archive) as well. Please help, I'm new to Mac and get lost very quickly and Terminal is very scary for me. It does this every time I boot up and it take a very long time. Before it was rather quick to boot up.

All help is greatly appreciated.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/ZQQY5hpo6B6GHjkQ7

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MacBook Pro 13", macOS 10.14

Posted on Jun 6, 2019 3:18 AM

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rcosta887

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Jun 8, 2019 1:40 AM in response to Davesnotherenow

Give Safe Boot Mode a try, simply turn on your Mac and immediately hold down the SHIFT key for a good 30 seconds then let go. If that gets you into Safe Boot Mode where you can login simply restart your Mac and see if the problem is fixed.

If that doesn't work the next easiest thing is to do an overtop refresh-reinstall. Those won't affect your data / apps / settings / etc. and has a good chance of fixing the problem. To do those simply hold down COMMAND-R keys when you first turn on your Mac for a good 30 seconds and let go. This will take you to the macOS Utilities menu. Simply select Reinstall macOS from that menu and it will refresh any corrupted or missing files. There's a very good chance this will work, but reply here if it doesn't.

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Jun 8, 2019 1:43 AM in response to Davesnotherenow

Please do not post personal information

I asked the moderators to edit out your serial number.

Also you need to realize that we are users just like you, you are not talking to Apple.

I also had to look up DSMOS and it seems to be a security feature that makes it harder to use macOS on hackintoshes - that I why I asked.

The report says "other" applications are using a lot of CPU: >200%, on a two core machine. This is not usual in that it is not one or two processes using a lot of CPU, but "others", each with less than 4%, but totalling more than 200%:

Top Processes Snapshot by CPU:

Process (count) CPU (Source - Location)

Other processes 210.20 % (?)

EtreCheck 4.84 % (App Store)

Backup and Sync 0.37 % (Google, Inc.)

Google Chrome 0.21 % (Google, Inc.)

AdobeResourceSynchronizer 0.21 % (Adobe Systems, Inc.)

It may useful to open Activity Monitor, click the CPU pane and look for anything out of the ordinary.

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Answer 3

Jun 8, 2019 1:34 AM in response to Luis Sequeira1

No, this is not Hackintosh. My serial number is C0***TY3 I did look DSMOS on the web. I didn't understand what I was reading. Isn't this really a Darwin/BSD issue? I'm lost, I don't know what to do. I'm a beginner when it comes to mac.

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Jun 9, 2019 4:09 AM in response to Luis Sequeira1

I appreciate your concern with me posting my serial number however I'm not too concerned. Unless there is something I'm not aware of, what can someone do with the serial number to a Mid 2012 mac?

I had forgot about a couple heavy programs that were running. I should have shut them down before running the report. I know for certain I have my machine a little messed up from trying to do things above my knowledge level and they failed. I have another post about that.

I have searched high and low and cannot find what to do. All I did was recover my password and now its doing this and it take almost 10 minutes to boot up.

@rcosta887, I did do exactly what you stated and it had no affect. I'm going to try the refresh right now.

Thanks

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Jun 9, 2019 2:06 PM in response to rcosta887

@rcosta887

I did as you said, I did Command R into the macOS Utilities and did a Reinstall macOS. Took a little while but boots up normal now. Seems to be running like a Champ. Now all I need to do is get my duplicate, triplicate and more photos under control.

Thanks again.

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rcosta887

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Jun 9, 2019 9:13 PM in response to Davesnotherenow

That's good to hear! I would honestly check out the App Store as there are many apps to weed out duplicate photos.

I would definitely take the opportunity you have now make a Time Machine backup and manually back up important documents and your Photo Library onto an HFS+ formatted USB stick as well.

If Mac is still having noticeably longer boot times, after you do the backups I would consider going back into Recovery Mode and do a Restore from Time Machine backup. This will wipe the partition, reinstall a fresh macOS, and integrate your data/apps into that fresh system. If things are running, but a bit clunky, this would almost certainly help.

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Answer 7

Jun 6, 2019 3:43 AM in response to Davesnotherenow

Is this a hackintosh? If so, we cannot help.

You can look DSMOS up on the web.

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