Q: OS X Lion freezes at login screen + App Store is slow

Annorax64: Good idea (to shut off "screen sharing"). Keep us posted.

To be fair, this does not sound like the same problem that other users are talking about on this thread. But it does seem to be related to using Lion. I assume you did not have this problem before you started using Lion and you upgraded your RAM.

I have never used "screen sharing" with any of my Macs so I have no idea what you mean by "screen sharing password".

Maybe someone else out there has suggestions or ideas?

Terry Mahoney: Screen Saver (not sharing) password.  I have set my account to require my password in order to exit from the screen saver and return to my session.

No, we had none of these problems with Snow Leopard with 3 different users logged-in and using "fast user switching" to switch between logins with only 2GB of RAM.  After installing Lion, the Mac started showing signs of not having enough memory, because it was locking-up all over the place and thrashing madly.  That prompted me to upgrade to 8GB, which significantly improved the performance except for the login screen freezes. 

I've gone ahead and added my $0.02 to the discussion on the screen sharing issue, so I will wait to see what results from that.  Thanks again for your help!

Ok. Good luck - and let us know when you get a solution.

My own strategy would be to reinstall Snow Leopard onto and External Drive and boot up from that one, until Lion grows up. Or perhaps even try reinetalling Snow Leopard onto your internal drive and biding time. Or even getting a new internal HD installed with Snow Leopard on it, and put your Lion one into an external firewire enclosure - so all your mail and files would still be on the external - whence you could refer to them and copy to the new internal if necessary.. Of course you'd need an Apple Certified tech to do that for your mini.

Cheers. ~TM

Let us know if it works, I mean clean install OS X 10.7.3. Thanks!

Seems that on my mid 2010 15 mac book pro the problem has been fixed by the update OS X 10.7.3

Since two days and after the update no more spinning ball at login and lion seems to run much better

Hi everyone, I've downloaded OS X 10.7.3 and re-installed it on my mid 2010 MacBook Pro 371.

I run the Software Update, the Video Update for mid 2010 MacBook Pro is gone?!

Agree with gaalad1, no more spinning ball at login screen.

Hi everyone, I've installed 10.7.3 combo update and rebooted ---> spinning ball at login!

So again I had to change the AGPM.kext info.plist using 10.6.8 parameters, rebooted in safe mode and now everything is ok.

I have a Mid 2010 Macbookpro.

When I have some time I will try a 10.7.3 Lion clean install...

HI everyone!

I've just installed 10.7.2 from Snow Leopard (so, no clean installation) and did the update to 10.7.3: second time I rebooted the Macbook Pro (mid2010, Macbook Pro 6,2), the SBoD appeared... This is becoming ridicoulous...

Paceymac and sébastienFRAITA: I am wondering it it would help to (also) do a "Safe Boot", either before or after running Software Update to download 10.7.3? Maybe this would flush the Kext Caches (etc. - i.e., clean out the Augean Stables) and let the "update" work as it should.

It's disappointing to need to do this, but lt least we have some ideas about how to get Lion to run as it should on recent MBPs.

gaalad1 and jas0nyan: Great!

Did you do a "clean install" (i.e., using Snow Leopard 10.6.6 or later to do the download?) onto a freshly formatted hard drive? (as discussed in http://osxdaily.com/2011/06/21/mac-os-x-lion-clean-install-explained/ )

Or did you download and install onto an existing Lion (10.7 - or 10.7.1 or 10.7.2) boot-drive?

Did you do a "Safe Boot" - before or after the download?

it seems like the cases that appear after 10.7.3 are as varied with users as with 10.7.2; I've decided, since I did manage to find a solution in 10.7.2, that I am not going to risk installing 10.7.3 update.

In fact, I've more or less retreated to Snow Leopard, leaving my Lion volume for occasional use or if I wish to use

my free dot me email account...

There were also issues with the 10.7.3 incremental update, via software update, that Apple pulled in the last couple of days – it's recommended that one should download the combo 10.7.3 update from the Apple support

pages.

Best of luck for those that choose to do so

Hello everyone,

I did updated to 10.7.3, and as I have noted nothing has changed. So I can tell you that maybe 10.7.3 isn't yet the fixer update for this problem. But I can also tell you that if you did the fix for 10.7.2 that was discussed in this thread, you will not have problem with 10.7.3.

The fix for me was the AGPM.kext Info.plist. If it did fix your problem on 10.7.2 it will fix your problem on 10.7.3.

I updated to 10.7.3, and don't have a problem since I did the fix on 10.7.2. If people are reporting that clean install of 10.7.3 is not fixing it and some other people are saying it is fixing, than maybe 10.7.3 fixed some video cards but not all of them.

Also I did the update through software update and no issue found.

diognenoque,

After applying the AGPM.kext fix againt 10.7.2 and then updating to 10.7.3, did you need to reapply the AGPM.kext fix? In other words, does the 10.7.3 overwrite your fixed AGPM.kext?

Thanks,

/Brian

After upgrading to 10.7.3 using the COMBO update, I had to re-apply the AGPM.kext fix to stop the spinning ball at login, because the file was overwritten by the update.

Maybe if you use the 10.7.3 incremental update, you do not need to reapply the fix.

MacBookPro6,2

Processor  2,4 GHz Intel Core i5

Memory  4 GB 1067 MHz DDR3

Boot ROM Version: MBP61.0057.B0C

SMC Version (system): 1.58f16

Graphics  Intel HD Graphics 288 MB

Vendor: Intel (0x8086)

Device ID: 0x0046

Revision ID: 0x0012

gMux Version: 1.9.21

NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M:

Vendor: NVIDIA (0x10de)

Device ID: 0x0a29

Revision ID: 0x00a2

ROM Revision: 3560

gMux Version: 1.9.21

thanks – that just confirms what I suspected; it also confirms that, for me at any rate, Lion is not ready for primary use...