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Macbook pro takes 7 minutes to boot up

I have the 2012 macbook pro with retina display (bough it aug 2012)

basically i use it to browse the web and documents when necessary.

At 1st it took less than a minute to boot up but since jan 2013 idk what has happen

This is annoying how can I fix this?

MacBook Pro with Retina display, Mac OS X (10.7.4)

Posted on Jul 3, 2013 7:36 PM

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Jul 3, 2013 8:52 PM in response to Teijibana

First


Emergency backup procedure


Drag and drop copy your users file folders (music, pictures, documents etc) to a regular external powered drive as soon as possible.


Do not use, setup or trust only TimeMachine at this troubled time as it will copy corrupted data and we need just your users files safe just in case. TimeMachine cannot be used with a Windows PC.


Unmount and Disconnect all external drives once the backup process is completed.


Note:


If you have any over 4GB sized files, those won't copy to a standard formatted FAT32/MSDOS drive from the factory, if you need to save these 4GB+ files use another blank/empty drive and use Disk Utility to format it 1 Partition, Option: GUID, Format: OS X Extended Journaled (or the standard default one for older Mac's).


Mac's cannot copy to nor format a NTFS drive. ExFAT format to be used with a Windows machine must be right click formatted by Windows, not OS X (does it wrong) XP macines can install a free exFAT update from Microsoft. Vista-Win 8 can format exFAT.


Formatting a drive will erase all data on it.


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Jul 3, 2013 10:29 PM in response to Teijibana

If you have more than one user account, these instructions must be carried out as an administrator.


Launch the Console application in any of the following ways:


☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)


☞ In the Finder, select Go Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.


☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Console in the icon grid.


Step 1


Make sure the title of the Console window is All Messages. If it isn't, select All Messages from the SYSTEM LOG QUERIES menu on the left. If you don't see that menu, select

View Show Log List

from the menu bar.

Enter "BOOT_TIME" (without the quotes) in the search box. Note the timestamps of those log messages, which refer to the times when the system was booted. Now clear the search box and scroll back in the log to the last boot time when you had the problem. Select the messages logged after the boot, during the time something abnormal was happening. Copy them to the Clipboard (command-C). Paste into a reply to this message (command-V).


For example, if the problem is a slow startup taking three minutes, post the messages timestamped within three minutes after the boot time, not before. Please include the BOOT_TIME message at the beginning of the log extract.


If there are runs of repeated messages, post only one example of each. Don’t post many repetitions of the same message.


When posting a log extract, be selective. In most cases, a few dozen lines are more than enough.

Please do not indiscriminately dump thousands of lines from the log into this discussion.

Important: Some private information, such as your name, may appear in the log. Anonymize before posting.


Step 2


Still in Console, look under System Diagnostic Reports for crash or panic logs, and post the entire contents of the most recent one, if any. In the interest of privacy, I suggest you edit out the “Anonymous UUID,” a long string of letters, numbers, and dashes in the header of the report, if present (it may not be.) Please don’t post shutdownStall, spin, or hang logs — they're very long and not helpful.

Jul 4, 2013 12:22 PM in response to ds store

ds store wrote:

. . .

Drag and drop copy your users file folders (music, pictures, documents etc) to a regular external powered drive as soon as possible.

Do not use, setup or trust only TimeMachine at this troubled time as it will copy corrupted data and we need just your users files safe just in case.

What are you talking about?


If files are corrupted, they're corrupted. Drag & drop may not copy them, and sure won't fix them. Neither will a clone.


Time Machine usually won't copy things that can't be indexed, or that result in I/O errors.

Jul 17, 2013 7:05 AM in response to Linc Davis

Sorry my internet was down here goes



7/17/13 9:03:40.062 AM com.apple.launchd *** launchd[1] has started up. ***

7/17/13 9:09:48.468 AM com.apple.launchd (com.apple.powerd) Unknown value for key POSIXSpawnType: Interactive

7/17/13 9:09:48.468 AM com.apple.launchd (com.apple.sandboxd) Unknown value for key POSIXSpawnType: Interactive

7/17/13 9:09:50.000 AM kernel BCM5701Enet: Ethernet address 40:6c:8f:4e:09:12

7/17/13 9:09:50.000 AM kernel AirPort_Brcm4331: Ethernet address 7c:d1:c3:80:92:2c

7/17/13 9:09:50.000 AM kernel IO80211Controller::dataLinkLayerAttachComplete(): adding AppleEFINVRAM notification

7/17/13 9:09:50.000 AM kernel IO80211Interface::efiNVRAMPublished():

7/17/13 9:09:53.512 AM com.apple.pfctl No ALTQ support in kernel

7/17/13 9:09:53.512 AM com.apple.pfctl ALTQ related functions disabled

7/17/13 9:09:57.201 AM com.apple.ucupdate.plist ucupdate: Checked 1 update, no match found.

7/17/13 9:09:57.000 AM kernel Waiting for DSMOS...

7/17/13 9:09:58.000 AM kernel macx_swapon SUCCESS

7/17/13 9:10:02.568 AM fseventsd event logs in /.fseventsd out of sync with volume. destroying old logs. (2 383 28078)

7/17/13 9:10:04.916 AM fseventsd log dir: /.fseventsd getting new uuid: 39ABAB31-C305-4BD2-AEB1-7FCC19F8CDF5

7/17/13 9:10:05.894 AM UserEventAgent starting CaptiveNetworkSupport as SystemEventAgent built Jun 25 2011 01:16:59

7/17/13 9:10:05.896 AM UserEventAgent CaptiveNetworkSupport:CreateInterfaceWatchList:2788 WiFi Devices Found. 🙂

7/17/13 9:10:05.896 AM UserEventAgent CaptiveNetworkSupport:CaptivePublishState:1211 en1 - PreProbe

7/17/13 9:10:05.897 AM UserEventAgent CaptiveNetworkSupport:CaptiveSCRebuildCache:81 Failed to get service order

7/17/13 9:10:05.897 AM UserEventAgent CaptiveNetworkSupport:CaptiveSCRebuildCache:81 Failed to get service order

7/17/13 9:10:05.897 AM UserEventAgent CaptiveNetworkSupport:CaptivePublishState:1211 en1 - PreProbe

7/17/13 9:10:05.897 AM UserEventAgent CaptiveNetworkSupport:CaptiveSCRebuildCache:81 Failed to get service order

7/17/13 9:10:05.897 AM UserEventAgent CaptiveNetworkSupport:CaptiveSCRebuildCache:81 Failed to get service order

7/17/13 9:10:09.960 AM mDNSResponder mDNSResponder mDNSResponder-320.16 (Jul 19 2012 21:07:07) starting OSXVers 11

7/17/13 9:10:10.000 AM kernel Previous Shutdown Cause: 5

7/17/13 9:10:10.000 AM kernel DSMOS has arrived

7/17/13 9:10:10.428 AM com.apple.usbmuxd usbmuxd-296.4 on Dec 21 2012 at 16:11:14, running 64 bit

Jul 17, 2013 7:10 AM in response to Linc Davis

Forsystem diagnostic reports


Date/Time: 2013-06-24 20:35:29 -0400

OS Version: 10.7.5 (Build 11G63)

Architecture: x86_64

Report Version: 9


Command: Wondershare Fantashow

Path: /Applications/Wondershare Fantashow.app/Contents/MacOS/Wondershare Fantashow

Version: 3.0.4 (3.0.4)

Parent: launchd [128]


PID: 750

Event: hang

Duration: 0.98s

Steps: 10 (100ms sampling interval)


Pageins: 4

Pageouts: 0



Process: Wondershare Fantashow [750]

Path: /Applications/Wondershare Fantashow.app/Contents/MacOS/Wondershare Fantashow

Architecture: i386

UID: 501


Thread 0x2153

User stack:

10 start + 53 (in Wondershare Fantashow) [0x2fc5]

10 main + 284 (in Wondershare Fantashow) [0x3192]

10 NSApplicationMain + 1054 (in AppKit) [0x9afbfac5]

10 -[NSApplication run] + 142 (in AppKit) [0x9ad2e7c0]

10 -[NSApplication finishLaunching] + 554 (in AppKit) [0x9ad2edf0]

10 -[NSNotificationCenter postNotificationName:object:] + 55 (in Foundation) [0x96a42272]

10 -[NSNotificationCenter postNotificationName:object:userInfo:] + 92 (in Foundation) [0x96a2cfde]

10 _CFXNotificationPost + 2776 (in CoreFoundation) [0x96d85688]

10 ___CFXNotificationPost_block_invoke_1 + 275 (in CoreFoundation) [0x96dba903]

10 __-[NSNotificationCenter addObserver:selector:name:object:]_block_invoke_1 + 49 (in Foundation) [0x96a41df1]

10 -[AppDelegate applicationWillFinishLaunching:] + 585 (in Wondershare Fantashow) [0xcc064]

10 -[AppDelegate loadMainWnd] + 62 (in Wondershare Fantashow) [0xcd037]

10 +[MainWindowCtl SharedMainWindowCtl] + 99 (in Wondershare Fantashow) [0xfe77]

10 -[NSWindowController loadWindow] + 240 (in AppKit) [0x9af33f34]

10 +[NSBundle(NSNibLoading) loadNibFile:externalNameTable:withZone:] + 154 (in AppKit) [0x9ad3b0cf]

10 +[NSBundle(NSNibLoading) _loadNibFile:nameTable:withZone:ownerBundle:] + 235 (in AppKit) [0x9ad3b1c5]

10 loadNib + 380 (in AppKit) [0x9ad3bdde]

10 -[NSIBObjectData nibInstantiateWithOwner:topLevelObjects:] + 1389 (in AppKit) [0x9ad460a9]

10 -[MainWindowCtl awakeFromNib] + 2258 (in Wondershare Fantashow) [0x10de6]

10 -[NSViewController loadView] + 212 (in AppKit) [0x9ae6a296]

10 -[NSNib instantiateNibWithOwner:topLevelObjects:] + 304 (in AppKit) [0x9ae6ae20]

10 -[NSNib instantiateNibWithExternalNameTable:] + 652 (in AppKit) [0x9ae6b0e1]

10 -[NSIBObjectData nibInstantiateWithOwner:topLevelObjects:] + 1389 (in AppKit) [0x9ad460a9]

10 -[MessageViewController awakeFromNib] + 1067 (in Wondershare Fantashow) [0xb8616]

10 -[MessageViewController fetchMessage] + 122 (in Wondershare Fantashow) [0xb8852]

10 clientID + 95 (in Wondershare Fantashow) [0x88e7f]

10 fread + 65 (in libsystem_c.dylib) [0x91fb301f]

10 __fread + 217 (in libsystem_c.dylib) [0x91fb3110]

10 __srefill1 + 34 (in libsystem_c.dylib) [0x91fb2465]

10 _sread + 35 (in libsystem_c.dylib) [0x91fb1f0e]

10 __read_nocancel + 10 (in libsystem_kernel.dylib) [0x9cee3a62]

Kernel stack:

10 hndl_unix_scall + 281 (in mach_kernel) [0xffffff80002daa79]

10 unix_syscall + 472 (in mach_kernel) [0xffffff80005cde98]

10 read_nocancel + 120 (in mach_kernel) [0xffffff80005655c8]

10 write + 209 (in mach_kernel) [0xffffff8000564ec1]

10 read + 4590 (in mach_kernel) [0xffffff80005667ee]

10 msleep + 119 (in mach_kernel) [0xffffff8000556217]

10 wakeup + 267 (in mach_kernel) [0xffffff8000555bbb]

10 lck_mtx_sleep + 74 (in mach_kernel) [0xffffff8000227efa]

10 thread_block_reason + 299 (in mach_kernel) [0xffffff800022f42b]

10 thread_continue + 1661 (in mach_kernel) [0xffffff800022f1ad]

10 machine_switch_context + 361 (in mach_kernel) [0xffffff80002c2939]


Thread 0x2160 DispatchQueue 1701273966

User stack:

10 _dispatch_mgr_thread + 53 (in libdispatch.dylib) [0x9487c853]

10 kevent + 10 (in libsystem_kernel.dylib) [0x9cee490a]

Kernel stack:

10 kqueue_scan + 416 (in mach_kernel) [0xffffff800053b4d0]

Jul 17, 2013 8:15 PM in response to Teijibana

Please read this whole message before doing anything.

This procedure is a diagnostic test. It won’t solve your problem. Don’t be disappointed when you find that nothing has changed after you complete it.

Third-party system modifications are a common cause of usability problems. By a “system modification,” I mean software that affects the operation of other software — potentially for the worse. The following procedure will help identify which such modifications you've installed. Don’t be alarmed by the complexity of these instructions — they’re easy to carry out and won’t change anything on your Mac.


These steps are to be taken while booted in “normal” mode, not in safe mode. If you’re now running in safe mode, reboot as usual before continuing.


Below are instructions to enter some UNIX shell commands. The commands are harmless, but they must be entered exactly as given in order to work. If you have doubts about the safety of the procedure suggested here, search this site for other discussions in which it’s been followed without any report of ill effects.


Some of the commands will line-wrap or scroll in your browser, but each one is really just a single line, all of which must be selected. You can accomplish this easily by triple-clicking anywhere in the line. The whole line will highlight, and you can then copy it. The headings “Step 1” and so on are not part of the commands.


Note: If you have more than one user account, Step 2 must be taken as an administrator. Ordinarily that would be the user created automatically when you booted the system for the first time. The other steps should be taken as the user who has the problem, if different. Most personal Macs have only one user, and in that case this paragraph doesn’t apply.


Launch the Terminal application in any of the following ways:


☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)


☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.


☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Terminal in the icon grid.


When you launch Terminal, a text window will open with a line already in it, ending either in a dollar sign (“$”) or a percent sign (“%”). If you get the percent sign, enter “sh” and press return. You should then get a new line ending in a dollar sign.


Step 1


Triple-click the line of text below on this page to select it:

kextstat -kl | awk '!/com\.apple/{printf "%s %s\n", $6, $7}' | open -f -a TextEdit

Copy the selected text to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C. Then click anywhere in the Terminal window and paste (command-V). A TextEdit window will open with the output of the command. If the command produced no output, the window will be empty. Post the contents of the TextEdit window (not the Terminal window), if any — the text, please, not a screenshot. You can then close the TextEdit window. The title of the window doesn't matter, and you don't need to post that. No typing is involved in this step.

Step 2


Repeat with this line:

{ sudo launchctl list | sed 1d | awk '!/0x|com\.(apple|openssh|vix)|org\.(amav|apac|cups|isc|ntp|postf|x)/{print $3}'; sudo defaults read com.apple.loginwindow LoginHook; sudo crontab -l; } 2> /dev/null | open -f -a TextEdit

This time you'll be prompted for your login password, which you do have to type. Nothing will be displayed when you type it. Type it carefully and then press return. You may get a one-time warning to be careful. Heed that warning, but don't post it. If you see a message that your username "is not in the sudoers file," then you're not logged in as an administrator.


Note: If you don’t have a login password, you’ll need to set one before taking this step. If that’s not possible, skip to the next step.


Step 3

{ launchctl list | sed 1d | awk '!/0x|com\.apple|org\.(x|openbsd)/{print $3}'; crontab -l 2> /dev/null; } | open -f -a TextEdit

Step 4

ls -1A /e*/{la,mach}* {,/}L*/{Ad,Compon,Ex,Fram,In,Keyb,La,Mail/Bu,P*P,Priv,Qu,Scripti,Servi,Spo,Sta}* L*/Fonts .la* 2> /dev/null | open -f -a TextEdit

Important: If you formerly synchronized with a MobileMe account, your me.com email address may appear in the output of the above command. If so, anonymize it before posting.


Step 5

osascript -e 'tell application "System Events" to get name of every login item' | open -f -a TextEdit

Remember, steps 1-5 are all copy-and-paste — no typing, except your password. Also remember to post the output.


You can then quit Terminal.

Sep 19, 2013 1:02 PM in response to Teijibana

It seems that many people have same issues (me too). After upgrading in 10.8.3 many MacBooks pro needing more than 5 minutes to boot. It has something to do with the internal sd drive. By some people the problem is fixed when they remove the sd card from card-reader by other by placing a sd card in reader. Apple must solve this problem!!!!

Macbook pro takes 7 minutes to boot up

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