Black Square on Boot Screen after last update

Reseting the PRAM did not helped at all.

The situation keeps the exactly the same, with the difference that now, on shut down it takes much more time and the spinner is showing. Something that before did not.

😮

thanks anyway for try

It is not happening in SafeMode.

I suppose you know there are "two" screens on startup. One with the Apple and the spinner before the OS started, and another just after that one which shows also the Apple but no spinner. I see the difference between them because on the second one the display preferences (color temperature, contrast...) are yet applied. The second one is part of the transition effect from the apple screen to the fade in desktop.

The issue happens exactly on the second one. That's why in safe mode is not happening, because that screen is different.

I say this because maybe it helps.

Thanks again

I checked if disabling the auto login on startup there is any change, but not, the black squares appears, then hides for a while leaving a full grey screen that takes me to the login screen

The same with autologin, but when the square hides, the grey screen takes me to the desktop.

(The grey screen is the default screen with the apple logo)

So here it is:

EtreCheck version: 1.9.11 (43) - report generated 15 de junio de 2014 20:31:23 GMT+2

Hardware Information:

MacBook Pro (13-inch, Late 2011)

MacBook Pro - model: MacBookPro8,1

1 2.4 GHz Intel Core i5 CPU: 2 cores

4 GB RAM

Video Information:

Intel HD Graphics 3000 - VRAM: 384 MB

System Software:

OS X 10.9.3 (13D65) - Uptime: 0 days 1:27:21

Disk Information:

KINGSTON SH103S3120G disk0 : (120,03 GB)

EFI (disk0s1) <not mounted>: 209,7 MB

MacintoshHD (disk0s2) / [Startup]: 119,17 GB (19,14 GB free)

Recovery HD (disk0s3) <not mounted>: 650 MB

MATSHITADVD-R UJ-8A8

USB Information:

Apple Computer, Inc. IR Receiver

Apple Inc. FaceTime HD Camera (Built-in)

Apple Inc. Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad

Apple Inc. BRCM2070 Hub

Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller

Thunderbolt Information:

Apple Inc. thunderbolt_bus

Configuration files:

/etc/hosts - Count: 20

Gatekeeper:

Anywhere

Kernel Extensions:

[kext loaded] com.shapeservices.msm.driver.MSMFramebuffer (3.3.2 - SDK 10.6) Support

[kext loaded] com.shapeservices.msm.driver.MSMVideoDevice (3.3.2 - SDK 10.6) Support

Startup Items:

ChmodBPF: Path: /Library/StartupItems/ChmodBPF

MySQLCOM: Path: /Library/StartupItems/MySQLCOM

Launch Daemons:

[loaded] ag.shape.MSMToolHelper.plist Support

[loaded] com.adobe.fpsaud.plist Support

[loaded] com.adobe.SwitchBoard.plist Support

[loaded] com.google.keystone.daemon.plist Support

[loaded] com.microsoft.office.licensing.helper.plist Support

[loaded] com.oracle.java.Helper-Tool.plist Support

[loaded] com.oracle.java.JavaUpdateHelper.plist Support

[loaded] org.macosforge.xquartz.privileged_startx.plist Support

Launch Agents:

[not loaded] com.adobe.AAM.Updater-1.0.plist Support

[loaded] com.adobe.CS5ServiceManager.plist Support

[loaded] com.google.keystone.agent.plist Support

[loaded] com.oracle.java.Java-Updater.plist Support

[loaded] org.macosforge.xquartz.startx.plist Support

User Login Items:

iTunesHelper

TimingHelper

SpeechSynthesisServer

Internet Plug-ins:

FlashPlayer-10.6: Version: 12.0.0.44 - SDK 10.6 Support

QuickTime Plugin: Version: 7.7.3

Flash Player: Version: 12.0.0.44 - SDK 10.6 Outdated! Update

Default Browser: Version: 537 - SDK 10.9

o1dbrowserplugin: Version: 5.4.2.18903 Support

SharePointBrowserPlugin: Version: 14.0.0 Support

googletalkbrowserplugin: Version: 5.4.2.18903 Support

Silverlight: Version: 5.1.20913.0 - SDK 10.6 Support

Unity Web Player: Version: UnityPlayer version 4.3.5f1 - SDK 10.6 Support

JavaAppletPlugin: Version: Java 7 Update 55 Check version

Safari Extensions:

AdBlock: Version: 2.7.1

BugMeNot: Version: 1.2

Audio Plug-ins:

BluetoothAudioPlugIn: Version: 1.0 - SDK 10.9

AirPlay: Version: 2.0 - SDK 10.9

AppleAVBAudio: Version: 203.2 - SDK 10.9

iSightAudio: Version: 7.7.3 - SDK 10.9

iTunes Plug-ins:

CoverVersion: Version: 2.1.6 - SDK 10.8 Support

Quartz Composer Visualizer: Version: 1.4 - SDK 10.9

3rd Party Preference Panes:

Flash Player Support

Growl Support

Java Support

Time Machine:

Time Machine not configured!

Top Processes by CPU:

3% WindowServer

3% eclipse

2% Mail

1% loginwindow

0% fontd

Top Processes by Memory:

553 MB eclipse

172 MB Safari

100 MB Mail

82 MB SourceTree

74 MB com.apple.quicklook.satellite

Virtual Memory Information:

66 MB Free RAM

1.09 GB Active RAM

1.04 GB Inactive RAM

1020 MB Wired RAM

716 MB Page-ins

12 MB Page-outs

Is there any way to know what is that? I do not remember to have installed something with that name. For sure it should be any extension of something, but I do not know what!

Finally solved:

I had installed the iDisplay app for sharing screens. As CT said, the problems was with one of the kernels extensions I had loaded.

First of all, I uninstalled the iDisplay app, but the kernel extensions kept loading, so I browsed the internet and renamed the packages of the loaded kernel extensions:

[kext loaded] com.shapeservices.msm.driver.MSMFramebuffer (3.3.2 - SDK 10.6) Support

[kext loaded] com.shapeservices.msm.driver.MSMVideoDevice (3.3.2 - SDK 10.6) Support

these are at /System/Library/Extensions

you can unload them using kextunload, but I wasn't able to unload, so I renamed the packages:

MacBook-Pro-de-Ignacio:Extensions jefazo666$ mv MSMFramebuffer.kext/ MSMFramebuffer.kext_/

mv: rename MSMFramebuffer.kext/ to MSMFramebuffer.kext_/: Permission denied

MacBook-Pro-de-Ignacio:Extensions jefazo666$ sudo !!

sudo mv MSMFramebuffer.kext/ MSMFramebuffer.kext_/

MacBook-Pro-de-Ignacio:Extensions jefazo666$ mv MSMVideoDevice.kext/ MSMVideoDevice.kext_/

mv: rename MSMVideoDevice.kext/ to MSMVideoDevice.kext_/: Permission denied

MacBook-Pro-de-Ignacio:Extensions jefazo666$ sudo !!

sudo mv MSMVideoDevice.kext/ MSMVideoDevice.kext_/

MacBook-Pro-de-Ignacio:Extensions jefazo666$ sudo reboot now

and rebooted. Problem solved.

I did not removed totally the packages for the moment, because if somethings goes wrong, I can restore them from recovery mode.

Thanks to all who helped!