Q: CUI CUI CUI error 10.7.3 all apps crashes

I am having no problems at all but that might be because I did a fresh, clean install about a week ago.

I have the same problem, but I cannot use the combo updater because all my browsers immediately crash. I could restore from my Time Machine backup, but ironically, I cannot get into the restore mode on my late 2008 MacBook. I hold the cmd key after start, but after like 2 seconds it shows me the login screen with my account and the guest account – and nothing happens. What should I do? Thanks

I updated an old Mac Pro (1,1) using Software Update and had no issues.

Try holding option after restart.

It is a shame that Apple is not providing any answers as yet!

I have no extra HD, nor a USB lion disk, and with Disk Utilities I didn't manage yet to open the combo update.

Please help

Where do I find Terminal when I am in Disk Utilities from my Start Up Disk?

Goumic wrote:

 

I have the same problem, but I cannot use the combo updater because all my browsers immediately crash. I could restore from my Time Machine backup, but ironically, I cannot get into the restore mode on my late 2008 MacBook. I hold the cmd key after start, but after like 2 seconds it shows me the login screen with my account and the guest account – and nothing happens. What should I do? Thanks

Hold cmd+r to get into the recovery partition then follow these steps http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4718

does not work for me, line in terminal is not correct, Do i need to type it exactly as indicated with spaces in between? All doesnt work

Thanks!  This worked.

Instead of mounting the dmg in Disk Utilty, I just did it via the command line in Terminal as a shortcut.  Once the comb-updater applied successfully, I shut down the MB Pro and restarted.  Everything came up clean.  Looks good.

I created a Lion recovery USB stick (although, I proabably could have just booted from the Recovery partition on that Mac, now that I think about it) to boot the machine that had the fatal UI problem.  From another Mac, I downloaded the 1.3 GB combo update DMG file and copied it to an external USB drive.

Once the failed MB Pro booted into recovery, I plugged in the USB drive, went to Utilities -> Terminal and performed the following:

1) Used hdiutil to mount the combo-updater dmg:

-bash-3.2# hdiutil mount /Volumes/USBDRIVE/MacOSXUpdCombo10.7.3.dmg

Checksumming Driver Descriptor Map (DDM : 0)…

     Driver Descriptor Map (DDM : 0): verified   CRC32 $9A73A2D7

Checksumming  (Apple_Free : 1)…

                    (Apple_Free : 1): verified   CRC32 $00000000

Checksumming Apple (Apple_partition_map : 2)…

     Apple (Apple_partition_map : 2): verified   CRC32 $9AAC4FCA

Checksumming Macintosh (Apple_Driver_ATAPI : 3)…

  Macintosh (Apple_Driver_ATAPI : 3): verified   CRC32 $F1E8BA9E

Checksumming  (Apple_Free : 4)…

                    (Apple_Free : 4): verified   CRC32 $00000000

Checksumming disk image (Apple_HFS : 5)…

................................................................................ ...........................................................

          disk image (Apple_HFS : 5): verified   CRC32 $66138BA6

Checksumming  (Apple_Free : 6)…

                    (Apple_Free : 6): verified   CRC32 $00000000

verified   CRC32 $DCB7BA1F

/dev/disk15                   Apple_partition_scheme        

/dev/disk15s1                 Apple_partition_map            

/dev/disk15s2                 Apple_Driver_ATAPI            

/dev/disk15s3                 Apple_HFS                                /Volumes/Mac OS X 10.7.3 Update Combo

-bash-3.2#

Ran the installer pointing to the main Macintosh HD partition as the target:

-bash-3.2# installer -pkg "/Volumes/Mac OS X 10.7.3 Update Combo/MacOSXUpdCombo10.7.3.pkg" -target "/Volumes/Macintosh HD"

installer: Package name is Mac OS X Update Combined

installer: Upgrading at base path /Volumes/Macintosh HD

2012-02-02 05:56:56.643 installer[380:f603] PackageKit: Missing bundle path, skipping: <bundle id="com.apple.XsanAdmin"></bundle>

2012-02-02 05:56:56.653 installer[380:f603] PackageKit: Missing bundle path, skipping: <bundle id="com.apple.exposelauncher"></bundle>

2012-02-02 05:56:56.654 installer[380:f603] PackageKit: Missing bundle path, skipping: <bundle id="com.apple.Console"></bundle>

2012-02-02 05:56:56.656 installer[380:f603] PackageKit: Missing bundle path, skipping: <bundle id="com.apple.backup.launcher"></bundle>

2012-02-02 05:56:56.671 installer[380:f603] PackageKit: Missing bundle path, skipping: <bundle id="com.apple.grapher"></bundle>

2012-02-02 05:56:56.676 installer[380:f603] PackageKit: Missing bundle path, skipping: <bundle id="com.apple.airport.airportutility"></bundle>

2012-02-02 05:56:56.677 installer[380:f603] PackageKit: Missing bundle path, skipping: <bundle id="com.apple.NetworkUtility"></bundle>

2012-02-02 05:56:56.688 installer[380:f603] PackageKit: Missing bundle path, skipping: <bundle id="com.apple.PodcastCapture"></bundle>

installer: The upgrade was successful.

Shut down the MB Pro.  Rebooted from the hard drive.  Everything seems to be working fine now.  It's running 10.7.3 successfuly.

Thanks again.

Since I can't edit my post anymore, here is the cleaned-up solution.

Terminal won't start under broken OSX, so you can not download 10.7.3 combo directly.

Instead:

• Boot into your Lion Recovery Partition/Time Machine Partition (by holding Option/Alt key on boot).
• Select "Browse for help online" to gain access to Safari.
• Go to http://support.apple.com/downloads/ and download the 10.7.3 Combo Update [1.3GB].
• https://support.apple.com/downloads/DL1484/en_US/MacOSXUpdCombo10.7.3.dmg
• Right-click on Download button, and select "Download Linked File As..." and select your startup disk.
• After download complete, quit Safari.
• Open Disk Utility -> File -> Open Disk Image -> and select the MacOSXUpdCombo10.7.3.dmg from the directory you saved it to.
• After mounting successful, quit Disk Utility and go to Menubar and select Utilities -> Terminal.
• Type in "installer -pkg /Volumes/Mac\ OS\ X\ 10.7.3\ Update\ Combo/MacOSXUpdCombo10.7.3.pkg  -target /Volumes/Macintosh\ HD" (without quotes) and hit Return/Enter to run the comand.
• Target Disk may vary depending on your startup disk's name.
• Installation takes 5-15min so be patient.
  
• When installation is complete, simply type in reboot and hit Return/Enter.
  

Hope this will help.

I was able to put this up using information from syberyans' post, and improvisation.

Cheers!

========Terminal Output==================

-bash-3.2# installer -pkg /Volumes/Mac\ OS\ X\ 10.7.3\ Update\ Combo/MacOSXUpdCombo10.7.3.pkg  -target /Volumes/Macintosh\ HD

installer: Package name is Mac OS X Update Combined

installer: Upgrading at base path /Volumes/Macintosh HD

2012-02-02 06:14:46.796 installer[1137:10803] PackageKit: Missing bundle path, skipping: <bundle id="com.apple.XsanAdmin"></bundle>

2012-02-02 06:14:46.807 installer[1137:10803] PackageKit: Missing bundle path, skipping: <bundle id="com.apple.exposelauncher"></bundle>

2012-02-02 06:14:46.808 installer[1137:10803] PackageKit: Missing bundle path, skipping: <bundle id="com.apple.Console"></bundle>

2012-02-02 06:14:46.810 installer[1137:10803] PackageKit: Missing bundle path, skipping: <bundle id="com.apple.backup.launcher"></bundle>

2012-02-02 06:14:46.831 installer[1137:10803] PackageKit: Missing bundle path, skipping: <bundle id="com.apple.grapher"></bundle>

2012-02-02 06:14:46.839 installer[1137:10803] PackageKit: Missing bundle path, skipping: <bundle id="com.apple.airport.airportutility"></bundle>

2012-02-02 06:14:46.840 installer[1137:10803] PackageKit: Missing bundle path, skipping: <bundle id="com.apple.NetworkUtility"></bundle>

2012-02-02 06:14:46.854 installer[1137:10803] PackageKit: Missing bundle path, skipping: <bundle id="com.apple.PodcastCapture"></bundle>

installer: The upgrade was successful.

-bash-3.2#

Nice summary!

I had to use a USB stick because I swapped my drive for an SSD, so the recovery partition is gone!

Most of you should be able to use that partition though.

Unfortunately I'm one of those who installed 10.7.3 (on the iMac - early 2009) and now can't launch any apps apart from iTunes (can't even open the System Configuration). Do you think this approach will work:

Over at OSXDaily.com they're saying that downloading the Combo-Install file and installing that file on top of the existing, corrupt 10.7.3 installation gets rid of the problem. Since I can't I open any apps I don't see a way to download the Combo Install with the iMac.

However, I also have a MacBook Air which still runs on 10.7.2. How about downloading the Combo-Install on the Air, saving the DMG file to a USB stick, then copying the DMG file from the USB stick to the iMac and then running the installation? Would that work?

I guess this would save me the trouble of either using an older Time Machine backup or completely reinstalling Lion, which would probably take considerably longer than my approach ...

A little modified version for Update from USB:

• Boot into your Lion Recovery Partition/Time Machine Partition (by holding Option/Alt key on boot).
• Insert your USB stick with MacOSXUpdCombo10.7.3.dmg.
• Open Disk Utility -> File -> Open Disk Image -> and select the MacOSXUpdCombo10.7.3.dmg from your USB stick.
• After mounting successful, quit Disk Utility and go to Menubar and select Utilities -> Terminal.
• Type in "installer -pkg /Volumes/Mac\ OS\ X\ 10.7.3\ Update\ Combo/MacOSXUpdCombo10.7.3.pkg  -target /Volumes/Macintosh\ HD" (without quotes) and hit Return/Enter to run the comand.
• Target Disk may vary depending on your startup disk's name.
• Installation takes 5-15min so be patient.
  
• When installation is complete, simply type in reboot and hit Return/Enter.

Should work.

Do I have to go into the Recovery partition and use the Terminal?

Can't I just boot up the iMac, insert the USB-Stick with the Combo file, drag the Combo file from the USB-Stick to the desktop, double-click the DMG-file and install and after finishing the installation reboot?

If you are able to Open ANY finder window - yes you can!

If not, It's the simpliest solution.