Apple Event: May 7th at 7 am PT
On safe mode i can boot but the computer shut down automatically after 3 minute !
On the normal boot - i see the wheel running, running and running and the computer shut down without booting.
On the console mode i can check (fsck -fy) the disk (no error) but after i cannot boot !
Thanks for help !
macbook Pro 17" Build9l31a, Mac OS X (10.6.2), ibook G3, ibook G4 14
Reinstalling Lion Without Erasing the Drive
Boot to the Recovery HD: Restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the COMMAND and R keys until the menu screen appears. Alternatively, restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the OPTION key until the boot manager screen appears. Select the Recovery HD and click on the downward pointing arrow button.
Repair the Hard Drive and Permissions: Upon startup select Disk Utility from the main menu. Repair the Hard Drive and Permissions as follows.
When the recovery menu appears select Disk Utility. After DU loads select your hard drive entry (mfgr.'s ID and drive size) from the the left side list. In the DU status area you will see an entry for the S.M.A.R.T. status of the hard drive. If it does not say "Verified" then the hard drive is failing or failed. (SMART status is not reported on external Firewire or USB drives.) If the drive is "Verified" then select your OS X volume from the list on the left (sub-entry below the drive entry,) click on the First Aid tab, then click on the Repair Disk button. If DU reports any errors that have been fixed, then re-run Repair Disk until no errors are reported. If no errors are reported click on the Repair Permissions button. Wait until the operation completes, then quit DU and return to the main menu.
Reinstall Lion: Select Reinstall Lion and click on the Continue button.
Note: You can also re-download the Lion installer by opening the App Store application. Hold down the OPTION key and click on the Purchases icon in the toolbar. You should now see an active Install button to the right of your Lion purchase entry. There are situations in which this will not work. For example, if you are already booted into the Lion you originally purchased with your Apple ID or if an instance of the Lion installer is located anywhere on your computer.
You should then be able to install the 10.7.4 update - OS X Lion Update 10.7.4 (Client Combo).
Another grey screen victim here, following the software update delta on a 15" MacBook pro dual core.
I then alt-booted into Recovery and repaired lots of permissions ( odd, since I had had to do this a few weeks ago following GarageBand corrupting lots of files). Still a grey screen on restart.
I plugged in my superduper backup, and booted happily into 10.7.3. Downloaded the 10.7.4 combo, and installed it onto my MacBook drive.
Restart and still a grey screen.
Next step.... Back to recovery, I suppose.
Good job this is me doing this and not any of my elderly relatives, all of whom have bought macs on my recommendation.
Problem solved for me, at least.
I went back to Recovery, and asked for a complete reinstall of Lion, and waited for 2 hours while the installation took place.... and got the grey screen again.
But then I did a safe boot (Shift key while rstarting) and lo and behold booted perfectly. About Mac showed 10.7.4, so I did a Restart and a few minutes later I have a normally booting mac again.
So the solution for me was to Safe Boot following the installation. Maybe there some corrupt or missing .plist file or system component that was stopping some extensions loading, and it was replaced or repaired by the Safe Boot mode. Maybe this would even have worked following the Delta update perfoemd by SW Update. I could go back to yesterday with Time Machine and try it, but I won't.
I notice that after all this system bashing, Spotlight has decided I need a complete reindexing, so maybe it was that.
After updating to 10.7.4 with the Combo updater, my Late 2011 MBP 17 would crash upon sleep (the "breathing" light would never start pulsing, and I would have to hard power off and reboot to get it back). I reinstalled the Combo updater with no success.
I also reset the SMC (shift-control-option-power), which made no difference.
After replacing my AppleSMC.kext file with the one from 10.7.3, everything appears to be working properly now - I can sleep and wake with no problems.
Update - I was getting kernel panics when I turned on my external HD connected via an esata expresscard adapter.
Just heard back from Sonnet support, and they said to remove the System/Library/Extensions/SonnetAHCI.kext file (mine was actually named a little different), as it's not needed after 10.7.1, and is known to cause kernel panics with 10.7.4.
I also had a SiliconImage3132.kext file in the same directory, probably from an older esata expresscard adapter, so I removed it, too.
Everything works fine now.
You all have serious third party or poor install issues. It seems that 99% of Lion users have no problems. Have a good look at your system install and third party installs.
Cheers
Pete
I'll say this. My god what did Apple do over their? This update did not effect my Mac Pro tower in anyway at all. I've been running it for over a month now (give or take a few days) no crashes or anykind of problems with that Mac I own. By the way It is a 2009 Quad 2.66GHZ tower with 8 gigs or ram and 4 terrabytes.
Now my Macbook well that's a different story. When I go to download the update it freezes during install. I can't even get it to install period. I know just as much if not more than the genius guys so I don't need them. I put my mac's ram through a hard core stress test with rember, no problems with my ram.
I had to go back to Snow Leopard on my MacBook Pro 2009. Actually Snow Leopard is much faster anyways. I agree Apple is getting like Microsoft in a creepy way. I feel like they don't even care about all the affected users or they would have come out of their secret little cave in cali but no Apple never lives up to nothing nor will you ever get them to admit they are in the fault. I have been a Mac user for 8 years now and this is the first update to take out one of my Mac's. I love Apple but they have caused me to miss windows a little bit. I bought my wife a 7 Dell 8 months ago, we have yet too see one error messsage or the computer slown down or any of that old windows problems.
I want to stick with Apple but things are looking shady over their, remember our leader and one and only creator who can never be replaced is no longer with us and I feel it's starting to show already.
APPLE PLEASE FIX THIS PROBLEM. HELLO?????
Last post for me about my originating question.
Even tho the Restore process has an error in the end, I found that the USB installer still functions fine.
I never have an issue installing or upgrading past this original error because I always do a 3 layer wipe of the hardrive with the apple utility before installing. I ALWAYS CLEAN INSTALL!.
All that said and done, I sold my MacBook Pro and Iphone and no longer am an Apple user.
The restore process may fail at the end but the install still worked for me.
i have the same problem; after i update it to 10.7.4 it restarted and shutdown , i open it again only apple logo appeared for 1 min then it shutdown
and when i login with safe boot , but after login it take 2 min and then shut down ,
what i must do to solve this problem
I need help please
i installed FIPS and i don`t have time to remove it , as only for 2 min and my mac shut dwon
what i should do ?????
I fixed it recovering the computer with my backup, downloading 10.7.4 combo update and installing it.
Good luck!
Pablo
Now i`m in this folder
/usr/sbin/
with root#
and when i try to remove FIPS folder , it`s doesen`t work
when i type rm -rf fips
or when i type rm * in the fips folder , to remove all files in it
It`s tell me that it`s Read-only file system , and i can`t remove it
when i type chmod -R 770 fips or chmod u+rwx fips or chmod u=rwx fips to change the permissions of fips folder
tell me unable to change fips mode !!!
What i must do ??? i need to solve this problem and i don`t have Mac OS X Lion DVD or have Backup >>>
I am also experiencing issues with my early 2011 MacBook Pro 15" here in Japan. The machine will boot, however, I like another poster on here, do not get a chime.
iPhoto will simply not install, neither am I able to install the Motion Additional Content that has also seemingly been released. I had great difficulty in installing iTunes and almost every install has taken a minimum of 3 attempts and others taking more than 10. I have bumped up my memory today to see if that makes a difference, but not really.
I am unable to complete my work and it is getting very frustrating, especially when I have two very important presentations looming the end of next week and the week after.
I had considered a purchase of the new Retina MacBook Pro, but every Apple purchase is on hold indefinitely, until this issue is resolved.
For comparison and informative purposes, my 13" unibody 2009 MacBook my partner's iMac, MacMini were all updated successfully (some repeated attempts were necessary in some cases) and no obvious issues have been noticed since.
This is clearly a MacBook Pro 15" issue in my opinion.
Hi Mo3taz, did you get anywhere with this in the end?
After 10.7.4 update my macbook pro doesn't boot
