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Jan 8, 2012 4:51 PM in response to Vito Bottaby Barney-15E,I just tried by holding down the shift key while hitting return after entering the FileVault password. It started booting into Safe Mode, but then restarted twice before finally booting normally. I'll try again later when I've got some time to fool around with it.
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Jan 8, 2012 6:32 PM in response to Vito Bottaby Linc Davis,I can confirm that you can't log in to a FileVault volume in safe mode. But all the things that a safe boot is supposed to do, such as rebuilding the system caches, do seem to happen.
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Jan 9, 2012 2:35 AM in response to Vito Bottaby Graham Perrin,The symptom may be unrelated to FileVault 2. I encountered the symptom with FileVault 2 disabled and with backward conversion (decryption) complete.
Apple reference for my bug report: 152162960. If the symptoms on your Mac compare to those on mine: progress may seem to cease during safe fsck.
Vito, as you are comfortable with the nvram command, please try the following:
sudo nvram boot-args="-v -x"
Restart the computer and note the last verbose lines that appear before you sense that progress has ceased. Then please add a note of those lines to this topic.
Additional questions
What model is your Mac?
What type of disk for the startup volume?
How many files on that volume?
Approximately how large are the attributes file and catalog file? (You might gain this information with a demo version of iDefrag.)
My current envronment
- MacBookPro5,2
- 8 GB memory
- startup from internal 320 GB rotational disk, Serial-ATA, Hitachi HTS723232L9SA62 (probably Travelstar 7K320)
- 3,961,791 files
- 495,744 folders /* not including the root folder */
- catalog file 3.0 GB, not fragmented
- attributes file 2.2 GB, not fragmented.
At http://www.wuala.com/grahamperrin/public/2012/01/09/a/?mode=gallery file speedy.txt includes details of the volume.
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