ConfusedDumb wrote:
A few days ago I updated my macbook m1 to the newest macos Sonoma version, one day it simply became unresponsive, no buttons worked, so I decided to force the shutdown, I restarted it and after putting in my password, nothing shows up besides my wallpaper.
https://discussions.apple.com/content/attachment/997f9752-e67b-42bf-8fe4-384c404e74be
https://discussions.apple.com/content/attachment/2c345bb8-41b1-4187-8c0b-db9f40fc5530
force quit a shutdown by holding the power button/TouchID for ~6-10 sec.
Force Shut down your Mac.
Log out, sleep, wake, restart or shut down your Mac
Shut down or restart your Mac - Apple Support
Restart into SafeBoot Use safe mode on your Mac - Apple Support will sort many anomalies
This does a quick disk repair before it fully boots up, and certain system caches get cleared and rebuilt, third party system modifications and system accelerations are disabled.
Login and test. Reboot as normal and test. Caches get rebuilt automatically.