Lion Issues on starting up

Hey guys, I feel really silly, but i figured out what was causing it at least for me. I run file vault and have to put in my password when booting. What happened to me was, I would hold down shift really early during boot since my password begins with a capital letter. The hotkey for safe boot happens to be holding shift during boot.

Anyway now i make sure i don't press anything until i see the password input line... maybe that will help someone. That was definately the issue I was having.

Today my iMac booted normally. Wifi ok, fast start up, audio fine.

Skype started up by itself, even if it should not to. Weird.

Anyway, I'm not crying "vicotry" yet, seeing what happened to Bram_Netherlands.

I'm having this problem on every boot with my macbook pro, this is so annoying! I havent got FileVault turned on (in fact, Lion couldnt install the Recovery HD and FileVault part because I've got a triple-boot osx/window/linux)

and i have disabled every launch items i could find, still no luck!

the only way i can boot this **** thing is by holding alt+command+p+r until it reboots 2!!! times, then it works...whats going on here

I'm having the exact same thing happen as the original poster says, on startup i get a progress bar, leading to a login screen when i don't have it set to go to a login screen. Then after i login, my wi-fi connection doesn't work. So I have to restart from there, and then it starts up fine--no progress bar, no login screen and my wi-fi works. This happened every so often with Snow Leopard, but now with Lion it's all the time.

I'm running a 2010 27inch i3 imac.

Looking for a fix to this...

Same problem here with my iMac 27" 3.1 GHz, bought in July 2011. No TechTools installed und I uncheched the box for the restart of programs.

On my MacBook Pro everything runs fine.

I was right when I said it was too early to cry victory. Today still shows the same problems.

Hi guys,

This is just a long shot! Are any you guys using the wireless trackpad? if so then i had problems with boot if i switched on the trackpad before my iMac was booted, it would either take ages to boot or it would boot into safe mode, now with not switching on the trackpad until fully booted this has not happened in months!

Just a thought guys

Pedro, you might be on to something. At first I thought the problem was related to my Canon scanner. Every time it was plugged into the USB-port I got the progress bar. When I left it unplugged my Mac booted without any problem. Now for the last few days I got the progress bar every time I switched on my Mac although the scanner is still unplugged. But on July 25 I bought a wireless trackpad. And I did switch it on bevore the Mac was fully booted.

Hi Dorfl,

This gave me problems when switching on the Trackpad first , it was intermit but was 100% my problem! now i don't switch on my wireless keyboard or Trackpad until booted and have never had a problem since , just incase anyone in wondering, to switch off both the wireless keyboard and Trackpad you press the side button , green light comes on, when it goes off that its switched off.

Hope this helps guys!

Oh my, you probably just save me from a format.

I tried to shut down my iMac for half an hour and when i rebooted it (without turning on keyboard and mm) the start up was perfect. This is kinda weird. Anyway, still not crying victory yet, I'll let you know how it goes tomorrow.

Thank you by the way.

i Have the same Problem, and i find another Issue, when the boot Problem appears, and i am logged then swive over the Dock and the Magnifician Effect looks bad, you see some Stripes over the Icons.

It looks like a Grafical repeat frequency issue. i think there is also Problem with the Grafic-drivers / Kernel.

So i got these Problems :

No Sound

no Wi-Fi

Grafical Repeat frequency Issue

have iMac 21,5 / i3 3,06 GHz (mid 2010) & have Install Lion with USB Stick after Formatting SL Partition.

got many Programs on the iMac, VLC,MacKeeper,Microsoft Office,CleanMyMac,Aperture,iLife,Toast-It,Photoshop Elements,Photoshop Lightroom,Dejay,Google Chrome,google Earth,Skype...

but maybe its the Wireless Keyboard ..i dont know, but iàm feeling so...

hope Apple will fix it fast 😀

im kind of an outsider here with my macbook but I can hardly boot now, its getting worse!

i havent got wireless trackpad/keyboard (though integrated trackpad) and my problem seems to be a little bit different: I only once had that bar on boot and it didnt stop at a third but went through, BUT on every single boot I get a somewhat half-frozen system with no wifi, no clock, no bluetooth, and occasionally no sound and crashes throughout the system when trying to access anything like system prefs->network or else....I just got lucky after 20 reboots and PRAM and NVRAM and SMC flashing I finally got wifi again, i am not going to turn off my macbook anytime soon thats for sure 😠

I looked through all LaunchAgents and LaunchDaemons and StartupItems and found nothing special, in fact i removed everything not from apple, still no luck....

Ok, i have to admit, I'm surprized. Second day I boot with no bluetooth device switched on, and yes, my system boots perfectly. 25 seconds from the gong.

Yes, it's amazing. Since I followed pedro3178's advice and left the trackpad and keyboard switched off until I got the login screen, I had no more problems. 😀