Mac book hangs at macx_swapon SUCCESS

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Mac book hangs at macx_swapon SUCCESS

Hi all, need some help here please. Recently put Lion on my Mac Book and not it has crashed for the second time. If I try to boot in safe mode the progress bar dissappears aone 1/3 of the way through and then nothing else happens. when I do the Verbose mode it gets to macx_swapon SUCCESS and then hangs again (at least I have no way of telling if it is doing anthing else). I can get to the disk utility with the recovery and every time there are permission errors to be repaired (the same ones). the disk itself appears to be fine, no errors. I have a time machine backup but it's a week old and I urgently need the files I used more recently. Is there a way to boot the computer without doing a full system restore?? All help is greatly appreciated 🙂

MacBook, Mac OS X (10.7.1)

Posted on Sep 19, 2011 7:47 AM

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gi.qu

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Sep 20, 2011 9:04 AM in response to raylylt

Hi!

I've the same problem here after installing a Paralles desktop upgrade (v.6)

Can someone help?

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Oct 18, 2011 10:11 AM in response to raylylt

Same problem here. I am suspicious about the airport... My Macbook Pro hangs if my wifi network unable to connect intenet..

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Oct 25, 2011 10:12 PM in response to raylylt

Hello - I've been having a similar issue (MBP 2009, Lion 10.7.1), though I've not gotten further than you in the safe mode start up process (still going...). I was able to confirm that my HD seems to be ok - or at least can read files - by connecting by firewire to an old MB Pro, start the old maching holding down T until you see the large firewire symbol on screen.

Then start up newer machine and holding down Option. Select the drive of the old machine as the startup disk (with firewire symbol - and note I tried starting up with the Recovery HD startup and it wouldn't work after giving it a considerable period of time to try).

You should then be able to see your current Mac's hard drive, though in my case it didn't show up right away, be patient and it should be there.

Hope this helps.

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Mar 14, 2012 3:27 AM in response to tlwettermanjr

I'm having the same problem with Lion on my iMac.

It's won't boot and hangs after "macx_swapon SUCCESS".

I'm not too hapy about Lion. I never had so many problems since 10.1.

>>>>>

A "permissions repair" and booting without network connection solved my problem.

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enkash

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Jun 12, 2013 8:00 PM in response to markminnoye

Thanks. I did a permissions repair, but how did you "boot without a network connection"? Is there a way to disable checking for a network connection, or change the boot order to not check for a network boot option?

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