Keychain, permissions and general system wide issues
Hi all,
Sorry for the slightly odd title to this post but I was at a loss what to specifically post this under due to the sytem wide nature of the problems I am experiencing with a Mid 2009 13" MBP.
The following problems exist with any user, including admins.
I was first made aware of an issue when the MBP stopped connecting to secure websites - Chrome would just give the "Aw Snap" error and Safari would give the error saying it couldn't establish a secure connection to the server etc.
After searching this, I was led to a community page saying to do a keychain first aid which then threw up the follwing results (the login keychain did not contain any items):
Verification started
Checking keychain configuration for testuser (user ID=1079)
Home directory is /Users/testuser
Checked login keychain
Unable to open ~/Library/Keychains/login.keychain (-25312)
Checked default keychain
Checked contents of ~/Library/Keychains/login.keychain
Unable to open ~/Library/Keychains/login.keychain (-25312)
Problems were found; you should choose the Repair option to fix them
Verification failed
Repair started
Checking keychain configuration for testuser (user ID=1079)
Home directory is /Users/testuser
Checked login keychain
Unable to open ~/Library/Keychains/login.keychain (-25312)
Failed to rename /Users/testuser/Library/Keychains/login.keychain to /Users/testuser/Library/Keychains/login_renamed.keychain, reason: The operation couldn’t be completed. Invalid argument
Checked default keychain
Checked contents of ~/Library/Keychains/login.keychain
Unable to open ~/Library/Keychains/login.keychain (-25312)
Warning: some problems were not fixed
Repair failed
As well as this issue I am also experiencing:
- Failure of Spotlight to open native applications e.g. I want to open Kechain Access so start to type keychain, but instead of showing the result for the application I only get a dictionary result.
- If I manually try to open native apps from the Applications directory they do not open
- Failure to connect to my work network drives
I came across this post on the community https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5308656?answerId=25579695022#25579695022 and tried the suggestions of Linc Davis and specifically his suggestion about restarting in safe mode.
This does temporarily fix all of the issues that I am experiencing but they just reappear again after a while of using the laptop.
I had recently bought an SSD to upgrade this MBP and shortly after these problems started I decided that I would take the opportunity to install it and hope that a fresh install of ML might fix the issues.
Unfotunatley even after this, the problems just resurfaced.
I have tried two fresh installs of ML and since the 2nd install I haven't installed a single 3rd party application or synced any of my user data back to the MBP.
I have even tried a 2nd SSD in case the problem was somehow related to it.
All problems still persist and I am at a loss what to try next, hence my post here to the community!
It now feels like these problems may well be linked to another hardware issue but this goes beyond my experience with these types of issues!
Any help / suggestiosn would be hugely appreciated!
Justin
MacBook Pro, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.5)
