Problem reinstalling OS X Lion

Ok, so my MacBook Air becomes unresponsive when logging in, and I decided to reinstall OS X Lion. When running the installer from OS X Recovery, it gave the error message "An error occurred while preparing the installation. Try running this application again."

Checking in the log revealed the following error:

Can not connect to /var/run/systemkeychaincheck.socket: No such file or directory

Error!! Error Domain=NSURLErrorDomain Code=-1202 "UNTRUSTED_CERT_TITLE" UserInfo=0x1086bec80 {NSLocalizedDescription=UNTRUSTED_CERT_TITLE, NSLocalizedFailureReason=UNTRUSTED

The rest of the line is cutted off. Does anyone know what went wrong and how to fix it?

Thanks,

lhk

MacBook Air (13-INCH, MID 2011), Mac OS X (10.7.2)

Posted on Aug 8, 2012 4:36 AM

21 replies

Dec 6, 2016 3:29 AM in response to jlaurinaitis

Restart the computer

Boot in recovery mode and find terminal

Dec 21, 2016 3:10 PM in response to MegHMom

How did you get to the terminal without having OS X installed?? That's the problem i'm currently facing

Dec 21, 2016 3:15 PM in response to jlaurinaitis

Same!! Anyone know the answer??

rob_d_w

Level 1

4 points

Dec 28, 2016 11:08 AM in response to Community User

Found your answer online almost immediately and you definitely saved me time and frustration re-installing Sierra. THANKS!!!

Jan 8, 2017 1:00 PM in response to limhk

Thank you for the instructions, the additional detail and screenshot. Remember to use " at the beginning and end of the date code (I didn't at first). So telieved to have my Mac working again! :)

Feb 20, 2017 6:03 PM in response to Community User

That worked for me.
Thanks a lot.

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Problem reinstalling OS X Lion