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Menu icons gone after a reboot. 10.8

After rebooting my 2011 13" MBP, due to corrupt images (certain image previews looked like a block of random coloured dots), I seem to have lost the Wifi, Spotlight and battery icons form my menu bar. I have tried adding/removing the icon through system prefs, but all it does is add a blank space.


I ran a repair disk permissions on the drive and it did say it had repaired the coregraphics.framework (?), but the icons have not reappeared. I will reboot and see what happens again, but chances are they will come back normally again.


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MacBook Pro (13-inch Late 2011), OS X Mountain Lion, i7, 16GB, 750GB HDD

Posted on Aug 20, 2012 2:08 AM

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Aug 20, 2012 2:39 AM in response to mende1

Just rebooted, and my icons are still missing. Running Disk Utilities repair permissions did not find anything apart from the message below:


Warning: SUID file “System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/MacOS/ARDAg ent” has been modified and will not be repaired.



Prior to this the laptop had been put to sleep a week ago, and it has gone into hibernation mode itself when the battery got too low.


The install of ML was over a one month old install of Lion. I run Filevault 2 to protect the drive's content while on the road. I ran DU repair permissions and Cocktail all maintenance scripts before running the ML installer. Cocktail has not been run since the install of ML.



Just noticed that my Finder icons have also gone.

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Aug 20, 2012 8:04 AM in response to chronicfathead

I would think it is a corrupt plist.


delete the following Finder>Go>Go to folder:


~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.systemuiserver.plist


Then in terminal:


killall SystemUIServer



This maybe enough, if not proceed with Rebuild LaunchServices Database to repair problems with incorrect icons in OS X


Open the Terminal application in your Utilities folder. At the prompt paste in the following command in its entirety:


/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework/Versions/A/Support/lsregister -kill -r -domain local -domain system -domain user


hit return and let the process run it's course, it will put you back out at the prompt when complete.


Then in terminal copy and paste:


killall SystemUIServer



Follow up by restarting your computer.

Aug 20, 2012 12:36 PM in response to leroydouglas

Hi


Never tried safe boot before. I hear the chime, press shift, because I'm using filevault 2 I have to release and then type my password in and press enter.


I continue to hold shift down till the Apple logo shows up and I get a bar moving across below the logo. After it has gone all the way across the screen goes black and then it reboots on its own.


I thought you should log in as normal, just without all the crap running, as you do with safe mode in Windows.


I can guarantee this will be fixed in the first point release, which will come at some point in the next week knowing my luck!

Aug 22, 2012 12:24 PM in response to chronicfathead

I ended up booting using Command-R and then running the ML installer. After the ML software had downloaded and then installed, it booted into my account, with virtually all my apps, and all my documents etc.


All the menu bar icons and Finder icons have reappeared, and the system is running fine again. Doing the reinstall was painless, and I'm running Filevault 2!

Sep 3, 2012 2:27 AM in response to leroydouglas

I spoke too soon.


Upgraded to 10.8.1, and all has been fine.


Put my Macbook Pro to sleep on Friday with a lowish charge. On Monday I had to plug it in to get it to power on, after which Excel kept crashing, so I thought I would reboot. While it was powering off the screen filled with corruption (covered in multi colured dots), but it did shutdown and restart.


When it cam back, I noticed that my icons had dissappeared again.


I'm wondering if this is the Crucial 16GB kit that it came with (New, special deal), or if it's something to do with ML not hibernating correctly, and causing corruption.


Anyone have any suggestions again, before I wipe again!


Thanks

Sep 6, 2012 11:48 PM in response to chronicfathead

Steps I took that resolved the issue.


  1. I disabled Filevault.
  2. I rebooted into Safe Mode (hold SHIFT down and boot)
  3. I did remove a couple off apps (Apps on Sale Light + 1 other app but can't remember what it was).


I think it is the process of going into Safe Mode that clears certain caches, and Filevault doesn't allow you to go into Safe Mode as a security precaution. The Apple support technician was convinced it was caused by an installed App, as other user accounts worked fine.


Try removing Filevault and rebooting into Safe Mode, then reboot normally and see if it cures it.

Menu icons gone after a reboot. 10.8

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