Black Screen But Can See My Cursor

Thank You very much jesseinma!!! Whoop! Whoop! I got my laptop up and running!! Much Mahalo from Honolulu, HI!

spiro.r's solution worked for me. I tried all the other solutions on this thread and from other threads about typing the username and password "blindly" but not of that worked. I booted into single user mode and executed these commands and rebooted and it worked immediately.

For me, I think the problem originated because I didn't have enough free disk space to fully install the last 10.9.4 Mavericks combo update (I only had 1-2 GB). I booted into single user mode, moved about 30 GB of files to an external hard drive, executed the commands listed above, rebooted, and it worked!

Thank you jesseinma really helped me out I was going to have an emotional Breakdown

This took a couple of tries, but it worked! Thanks for the post.

P.S. Come on Apple, you know better than to release something like this.

jesseinma's fix worked for me too! Thank you 1000 times for posting that!

OMG this worked. I was freaking out/getting annoyed because I recently had other problems with my MacBook Pro. Thank you a million times jesseinma!

Thank you Jessieinma! Had to hit enter and enter password a couple of times after getting back to black screen but eventually got it to work! Now I can cancel my appt at the Apple store tomorrow. Woo hoo!

Hey all- jesseinma's solution did not work for me, nor did the PRAM restart and certainly didn't want to erase my HD.

Apple knows this is an issue and has now dedicated a team to fixing the problem in their call center. Call them!

The Apple tech walked me through entering in some code (after holding down Command S) that took care of the problem and it took less than 10 min to do. I'm sorry I didn't save exactly what he told me to enter in.

Call them!!!

Many Thanks Jesseinma! worked for me. Mine is a 15-inch, Mid 2009 Mac-Pro.

Ssh connections are blocked by defaults, so i was using Single User Mode (CMD+S on boot).

Great thanks!

Thank you jesseinma! This worked perfectly!

Thank you so much!! It worked!!

I followed the steps recommended to no avail, but found another way.

1. Create new user using single user mode https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfSFA61M3go

2. Put mac into target disc mode

3. Start up another mac (that you can connect firewire or thunderbolt)

4. Hold Option during startup and select the other macs harddrive

5. Follow the step to set up the new user.

6. Shut down the computer and restart original computer.

Fixed!

After that I had to go in and delete the new user I set up, but that was easy peasy. Good luck! This was one annoying problem!

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! I thought all hope was lost, but now I got it back up! Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Didn't work for me ((( Tried holding SHIFT button it didn't go black , i entered username and password and it was ok. After screen gets black , i touched the track pad and again this cursor !!!!

what to do ????