Everything was fine. I can not start my MacBook Air with Maverick X. It says ... unapproved caller securityagent may only be invoked by apple software.
iPhone 4, iOS 7.0.3
In system preferences > users and groups > login items.
What apps are set to launch at startup?
What backups do you have?
Have backups except few new folders
I Cannot turn it on. Whenever I turn it on it repeats the same massage before in get to the login user message
Michele Hermet
May 10, 2014 7:12 PM
in response to Ngairebarbara
This is the only thing that worked for me, and believe me, short of blaming hardware, I tried many things!
After doing lots of reading everywhere and trial and error, and getting very frustrated about this stupid "Ununapproved caller" apple message this is what worked for me:
(Please pay close attention to the way the text is written and when there is a space. If you don't enter it exactly, it won't work)
- Start on single user mode: Hit the Command and S keys at start-up
Wait until the writing stops completely
-At the line, type (after root): /sbin/fsck -fy (space after the k)
Hit the ENTER key
wait until it finishes and says "... appears to be OK"
next, type: /sbin/mount -uw / (space after the t and after the w)
Hit the ENTER key
then type: rm -Rf /var/folders/* (space after the m and the f)
Hit the ENTER key
Run FSCK again (I did, just in case, but you may not have to):
/sbin/fsck -fy
Finally, type REBOOT, hit ENTER and wait until computer starts.
Hope it works for you all as well as it did for me!
I got this message "Unapproved Caller" for the first time in April 2014 on my MacBook Pro 13" early-2011. I was using Chrome and suddenly Chrome stopped working and all other things too. I have two drives, one SSD for the OS and one HDD for other things.
I formatted my main drive (SSD) twice or maybe three times, but still after couple of times the message came back and back and back... I was, as always, stubborn and thought it was the fault of my system, not of its wiring (read: SATA-cable). So sometimes booting my Macbook became a race/game against the clock in which I deleted the /var/folders/etc like some suggested. But the message came back as usual.
****, I DJ sometimes and just before a gig my Macbook just died on me... Had to reinstall the OS and I was very nervous... But eventually the OS reinstalled. Anyways...
Then, I formatted my HDD together with the SSD and installed Mac OS X Lion (had to do Internet Recovery) on my SSD. Ta da! Mac was working good 🙂. But, you would've guess it by now; Unapproved Caller came back. And after some time, my Macbook stopped booting at all! So I took it to the Apple Store in Amsterdam (Netherlands), to one of their not-so-Genius bars. The guy there hasn't see the message ever and his superiors neither. He tested my Macbook and the test said that my SSD was the problem!!! Mind you, I have a Windows PC and the SSD is a Samsung one. I checked its health via Samsung Magician and it said it was alright. So he said he couldn't take my Macbook for reparation. F*ckers. I knew there was nothing wrong with my Mac.
After a couple of days Disk Utility couldn't recognize my SSD anymore, only my HDD in the Opti-bay. ****** even more. So, I purchased a new SATA-cable, after reading all these problems regarding the "Unapproved Caller" message. I was very skeptical, but general opinion was that in Apple's batch of MacBook Pros of early-2011, there were problems with SATA-cables.
A couple of weeks ago I installed the new SATA-cable very securely and prayed that Internet Recovery should work. It worked! Now, I'm back up and running and just punching myself for the head that I hadn't purchased the SATA-cable much, much earlier.
I believe that the only way in which you could get rid of all issues, is by simply purchasing a new SATA-cable!!! I don't know any technical details, but now my Macbook is just working like it did before my issues.
Unapproved Caller.
