Kernel Panic After Thunderbolt Update

Unfortunately, exchanging the kext did not help. There were more kexts missing on my system (compared to a fresh install), for example AppleAHCIPort.kext. Adding those did not help either. I have currently an info from a german board that installing the 10.7.4-Combo update did help. I'm going to try this, unfortunately, the downloads from Apple are quite slow today.

Sadly, the Lion Recovery partition/Internet recovery option does nothing for us Lion Server users... Why Server on my MBP? ... I'll let you know when I have a valid answer beyond, "because I wanted to." Anyway, as I said, Lion will not re-install unless you wipe with DU. Since my TM backup is 3.5 weeks old (never again... I promise...) I put my MBP into target disk mode, and am copying all of the contents of MBP's Mac HD to a spare HD on my Mac Pro via FireWire. My plan is to wipe with DU, install Lion, restore my 3 week old backup, and replace certain folders that I know have changed since the backup with the contents of all that I'm pulling off now. I will then proceed to cover my thunderbolt port with Gorilla Glue, and hope that it never bothers me again.

For the majority of you, it sounds like this will do nothing, but for anyone running Lion Server, with an incredibly old backup to work with, this seems like our only option.

Does anyone know if Apple has been made aware of this problem?

I'm fine after a re-install of Lion, other than iPhoto not working, but I'll assign that's seperate for now. All my data and even the tabs I had open came back. So thats good. One thing you got to love is pushing the button to install Lion, going to bed, then waking up in the morning with my MBP just sitting on my desktop where I left off before the panic. I love that.

Here is a picture of my kenal panic, I'm sure others are similar.

http://s766.photobucket.com/albums/xx301/joel_mercer/?action=view&current=2012-0 6-11233432.jpg

Here's to a fix soon!

Cheers,

Joel Mercer

Mtaksrud wrote:

Does anyone know if Apple has been made aware of this problem?

Well we're here, and talking about it. I'm sure Apple watches what happens here. Plus for every person who posts here, I'm sure their are a couple of others who would of called for support.

I have the same situation ... have reinstalled Lion but iPhoto is now not working. Let's hope for a fix soon!

I meant to say 10.7.4 not 10.4 via the Combo updater.

...Same to me., on Macbookpro 13" early 2011. I will go investigate alternatives to reinstall Lion. If found it, I post here.

Applying the 10.7.4 Combo Update worked for me! All you need is a second Mac with Lion installed, a FireWire or Thunderbolt cable and the Combo update from the apple download site.

1. Boot your broken mac with the T-button pressed to enter the target drive mode
2. connect the mac with one of the cable to the other mac, the harddrive of the broken mac should appear on your desktop
3. download and start the combo update and follow the installation steps until you can choose the install location
4. choose the harddrive of your broken mac and proceed
5. after the update is done, eject the mounted harddrives and restart your broken mac after shutting it down. it should boot correctly

I have had the same issue but was able to redownload and restore Lion which has kept everything intact. The issue I am now having is that iPhoto will not open. Is anyone else having this issue? I was applying the iPhoto update at the same time as the Thunderbolt update and it looks like the two things are linked.

Yes I believe these two are related and here is what I did to fix it. When I would try to launch iPhoto I would get a dialog with an error message pointing to /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/CoreMediaIOServices.framework/Versions/A and missing files in that directory as the culprit. Comparing this directory to another working Mac it appears that the file CoreMediaIOServices is missing along with a _CodeSignature directory although I believe that is less important to the actual problem. I used Time Machine to restore this file and directory from ealier in the day and iPhoto now works properly again.

Hope this helps and it is somewhat of a mystery how these files would get removed by this update but I did it twice and both times it happened. Each time I simply booted from a external disk and reapplied the 10.7.4 combo updater which restored my machine to booting correctly and then had to fix iPhoto via the method I described.

hey:

Sir Atilla wrote:

Each time I simply booted from a external disk and reapplied the 10.7.4 combo updater which restored my machine to booting correctly and then had to fix iPhoto via the method I described.

just a question, how can you boot from an external disk to apply the combo updater? i don't have a ready made usb, will that mean, i have to download the full lion installation and install it on a usb? or there's a linux distro that we can boot, and then somehow apply the patch? luckily i've backed up all my programming code yesterday but what i have a very slow internet connection which makes it almost impossible to reinstall lion... i'm ready to try any tricks to fix it..

Same problem here. This update is bad news from Apple. :( This is a huge fail!

Hi Guys.. Even I got a same issue during airport and thunderbolt utility update... #

stuck in a big problem!!

==> any suggestions if re-installing OS X Lion works well?? will I loose all my data after re-installation??

appreciate your help..

For many reasons particularly emergency situations like this or other disk maintenance I keep a external disk with the current OSX distribution installed and up to date. When you power on the machine you can hold down the Option key and select the external drive to boot from then I apply the combo updater which I have previously downloaded and keep on my own internal software library to the disk that is corrupted by this update.

I own 5 macs and can use this single distribution on any of them. I also keep installations of TechTools and DiskWarrior on that external disk.