Restar in Yosemite

Hello Finnish,

It sounds like your computer is not booting as smoothly as expected. I would use the Safe Boot and Disk Utility sections of the following article to help you get that resolved, from the following article:

Resolve startup issues and perform disk maintenance with Disk Utility and fsck

Try a Safe Boot

If you're using Mac OS X 10.2 or later, you can start up your computer in Safe Mode, which includes an automatic disk check and repair. If you're using Mac OS X 10.1.5 or earlier, skip to the next section. A Safe Boot, which starts up your computer into Safe Mode, may allow you to start up your computer successfully using a reduced version of the system software. To do this, follow these steps:

1. Start up in Safe Mode.
2. After the system has fully started up, restart your computer again normally.

If the computer successfully restarts, you do not need to do any more troubleshooting. If the issue persists, try Disk Utility.

Try Disk Utility

1. Start from the Recovery System or Internet Recovery (OS X Lion or Mountain Lion).
   If your computer shipped with a Mac OS X Install disc, insert the installation disc, and restart the computer while holding the C key.
2. If using a Recovery partition or Internet Recovery (OS X Lion and later): When your computer finishes starting up, choose Disk Utility from the Utilities window.
   If using an installation disc: Choose Disk Utility from the Installer menu.
   Important: If you started from an installation disc, do not click Continue in the first screen of the Installer. If you do, you must start from the disc again to access Disk Utility.
3. Click the First Aid tab.
4. Click the disclosure triangle to the left of the hard drive icon to display the names of your hard disk volumes and partitions.
5. Select your OS X volume.
6. Click Repair. Disk Utility checks and repairs the disk.

Tip: With Mac OS X v10.6 and earlier, always start up your computer from an Install or Restore disc when using Disk Utility to verify or repair your startup volume. Otherwise, you might see some disk error messages.

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Cheers,

Sterling

Have the same. Tried Repair with Disk Utility in Safe mode, but no errors showed up.

Suppose a clean install of Yosemite may help, but that's an awfull lot of work again.

Any other suggestions?

Aside from reinstalling Yosemite, you can also reset your SMC and PRAM in that order, and these articles will help you do that:

Intel-based Macs: Resetting the System Management Controller (SMC)

OS X Mavericks: Reset your computer’s PRAM

The second link mentions Mavericks but the process is the same for Yosemite.

Thanks for you help.

Tried both suggestions (first one already before I posted) but the "bar-under-the-Apple" still appears, together with a slow (Windows type) restart of the system.

Could also that my "aging" hardware is not up to Yosemite, but then we should see more complaints about this.

Still considing the clean install, but waiting for more suggestions.

I may be wrong but I think is is normal behaviour for Yosemite.

Back in the day old Mac OS's used to have this progress bar.

I did a clean install and I still get the apple logo on a grey background with a load bar beneath the logo. It seems to be the norm. 😟

Thanks for reporting. I'll postpone the clean install for a while.

Strange that Apple did not mention this anywhere and it was not picked up by the media (Macworld, OS X Daily, CNET)

Is the system any faster after the clean install?

And how about the startup times?

Yes, I believe the restart is 3 to 6 seconds faster and Safari is opening web pages in like 3 seconds which is better than what it was when I didn't do a clean install.

The progress bar (think black bar) beneath the apple logo on boot is normal in Yosemite. It replaces the spinning wheel/cog.

That's not much for the startup. For Safari it makes a difference.

Thanks for your help.