OSX 10.8.4 taking around 10 minutes to start

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OSX 10.8.4 taking around 10 minutes to start

Hello, My Macbook Pro (End 2011) is taking around 10 minutes to start (Running OSX 10.8.4). I've already tried to reset the PRAM/NVRAM (Rebooting the system, OPTION + Command +P + R) and after the third beep, leave the OS starting by itself, but, without success.

Anyone has some tips?

The problem apperars after the Apple's logo and whell appears on screen, from this step until the login screen, takes a lot of time.

If anyone has some idea about this, please tell me.

Thanks =)

MacBook Pro (13-inch Late 2011), OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.4)

Posted on Jul 21, 2013 10:22 AM

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Answer 1

Linc Davis

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Jul 21, 2013 3:07 PM in response to rtorato

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.

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Answer 2

rtorato Author

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Jul 21, 2013 6:29 PM in response to Linc Davis

See the logs for step 1

21/07/13 14:53:18,000 bootlog[0]: BOOT_TIME 1374429198 0

21/07/13 14:53:29,000 kernel[0]: PMAP: PCID enabled

21/07/13 14:53:29,000 kernel[0]: Darwin Kernel Version 12.4.0: Wed May 1 17:57:12 PDT 2013; root:xnu-2050.24.15~1/RELEASE_X86_64

21/07/13 14:53:29,000 kernel[0]: vm_page_bootstrap: 970889 free pages and 69495 wired pages

21/07/13 14:53:29,000 kernel[0]: kext submap [0xffffff7f80737000 - 0xffffff8000000000], kernel text [0xffffff8000200000 - 0xffffff8000737000]

21/07/13 14:53:29,000 kernel[0]: zone leak detection enabled

21/07/13 14:53:29,000 kernel[0]: standard timeslicing quantum is 10000 us

21/07/13 14:53:29,000 kernel[0]: standard background quantum is 2500 us

21/07/13 14:53:29,000 kernel[0]: mig_table_max_displ = 74

21/07/13 14:53:29,000 kernel[0]: TSC Deadline Timer supported and enabled

21/07/13 14:53:29,000 kernel[0]: corecrypto kext started!

21/07/13 14:53:29,000 kernel[0]: Running kernel space in FIPS MODE

21/07/13 14:53:29,000 kernel[0]: Plist hmac value is 735d392b68241ef173d81097b1c8ce9ba283521626d1c973ac376838c466757d

21/07/13 14:53:29,000 kernel[0]: Computed hmac value is 735d392b68241ef173d81097b1c8ce9ba283521626d1c973ac376838c466757d

21/07/13 14:53:29,000 kernel[0]: corecrypto.kext FIPS integrity POST test passed!

21/07/13 14:53:29,000 kernel[0]: corecrypto.kext FIPS AES CBC POST test passed!

21/07/13 14:53:29,000 kernel[0]: corecrypto.kext FIPS TDES CBC POST test passed!

21/07/13 14:53:29,000 kernel[0]: corecrypto.kext FIPS AES ECB AESNI POST test passed!

21/07/13 14:53:29,000 kernel[0]: corecrypto.kext FIPS AES XTS AESNI POST test passed!

21/07/13 14:53:29,000 kernel[0]: corecrypto.kext FIPS SHA POST test passed!

21/07/13 14:53:29,000 kernel[0]: corecrypto.kext FIPS HMAC POST test passed!

21/07/13 14:53:29,000 kernel[0]: corecrypto.kext FIPS ECDSA POST test passed!

21/07/13 14:53:29,000 kernel[0]: corecrypto.kext FIPS DRBG POST test passed!

21/07/13 14:53:29,000 kernel[0]: corecrypto.kext FIPS POST passed!

21/07/13 14:53:29,000 kernel[0]: AppleACPICPU: ProcessorId=1 LocalApicId=0 Enabled

21/07/13 14:53:29,000 kernel[0]: AppleACPICPU: ProcessorId=2 LocalApicId=2 Enabled

21/07/13 14:53:29,000 kernel[0]: AppleACPICPU: ProcessorId=3 LocalApicId=1 Enabled

21/07/13 14:53:29,000 kernel[0]: AppleACPICPU: ProcessorId=4 LocalApicId=3 Enabled

21/07/13 14:53:29,000 kernel[0]: AppleACPICPU: ProcessorId=5 LocalApicId=255 Disabled

21/07/13 14:53:29,000 kernel[0]: AppleACPICPU: ProcessorId=6 LocalApicId=255 Disabled

21/07/13 14:53:29,000 kernel[0]: AppleACPICPU: ProcessorId=7 LocalApicId=255 Disabled

21/07/13 14:53:29,000 kernel[0]: AppleACPICPU: ProcessorId=8 LocalApicId=255 Disabled

21/07/13 14:53:29,000 kernel[0]: calling mpo_policy_init for TMSafetyNet

21/07/13 14:53:29,000 kernel[0]: Security policy loaded: Safety net for Time Machine (TMSafetyNet)

21/07/13 14:53:29,000 kernel[0]: calling mpo_policy_init for Sandbox

21/07/13 14:53:29,000 kernel[0]: Security policy loaded: Seatbelt sandbox policy (Sandbox)

21/07/13 14:53:29,000 kernel[0]: calling mpo_policy_init for Quarantine

21/07/13 14:53:29,000 kernel[0]: Security policy loaded: Quarantine policy (Quarantine)

21/07/13 14:53:29,000 kernel[0]: MAC Framework successfully initialized

21/07/13 14:53:29,000 kernel[0]: using 16384 buffer headers and 10240 cluster IO buffer headers

21/07/13 14:53:29,000 kernel[0]: IOAPIC: Version 0x20 Vectors 64:87

21/07/13 14:53:29,000 kernel[0]: ACPI: System State [S0 S3 S4 S5]

21/07/13 14:53:29,000 kernel[0]: PFM64 (36 cpu) 0xf80000000, 0x80000000

21/07/13 14:53:29,000 kernel[0]: AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement: Turbo Ratios 0057

21/07/13 14:53:29,000 kernel[0]: AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement: (built 23:03:24 Jun 24 2012) initialization complete

21/07/13 14:53:29,000 kernel[0]: [ PCI configuration begin ]

21/07/13 14:53:29,000 kernel[0]: console relocated to 0xf80000000

21/07/13 14:53:29,000 kernel[0]: PCI configuration changed (bridge=16 device=4 cardbus=0)

21/07/13 14:53:29,000 kernel[0]: [ PCI configuration end, bridges 12 devices 16 ]

21/07/13 14:53:29,000 kernel[0]: TBIOBlockStorageDriver: super::probe failed

21/07/13 14:53:29,000 kernel[0]: mbinit: done [64 MB total pool size, (42/21) split]

21/07/13 14:53:29,000 kernel[0]: Pthread support ABORTS when sync kernel primitives misused

21/07/13 14:53:29,000 kernel[0]: rooting via boot-uuid from /chosen: 8888B082-B191-3755-B6A3-79CDCBB0674D

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Answer 3

rtorato Author

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Jul 21, 2013 6:46 PM in response to rtorato

Hello Linc, I've found the solution for my problem here: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5084332?answerId=22182600022#22182600022

I had an microSD adapter plugged on my Macbook, so, I've unplugged this adapter and booted the system again. Now, it's working perfect =)

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