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crashed: too many corpses being created

After installing a Yosemite update on my laptop, when it boots, it seems to all be fine until about the loading bar is maybe 2/3 done, then slows to a crawl and takes another 20 minutes or so to reach full - where it stays. I have no cursor or anything else during this time, but my caps lock button light will go on an off when I press it.

I've tried:
-Resetting PRAM/NVRAM
-Booting into recovery mode and repairing the drive/partition. This seemed to be done successfully.
-Booting hardware diagnostics and doing a check. It says everything is fine.
-Safe boot. Takes the same length of time and hangs at the same place, so honestly not sure if I'm even doing it right.
-Verbose mode says every single process has crashed, with 'too many corpses being created.'. (picture - note that it's not actually blurry, just scrolling pretty fast so a photo wasn't the best)

It's a Mid-2011 15" Macbook pro, 2.2GHz with a 750GB hard drive and 16GB of RAM. I'm still doing a few other checks (currently re-installing 10.10 using a thumb drive to see if that fixes it), but has anyone got any ideas or had a similar problem?

MacBook Pro (15-inch Early 2011), OS X Yosemite (10.10.3)

Posted on Jun 27, 2015 2:24 PM

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The Sticky bandit

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Posted on Jan 12, 2018 6:55 PM

This is how I fixed it. I called apple support and they did jack for me. Told me to trouble shoot everything I already did.

safe boot, pram/nvram reset, recoverymode, yada yada yada. So after wasting time with them I realized I had to do it on my own. The stakes were high because I have no back ups or Time Machine stuff. I have a 2012 13" mac book pro.

So here is what I did. I made a partition on my hard drive with the disk utility on recovery mode. Only big enough to install a base operating system on the partition. "5gbs" Restarted the computer and back to recovery mode / disk utility. I then installed the operating system on my external hard drive. After the install, I started a new account on my external hard drive. I merged all my information from my old hard drive using migration assistant on to my external hard drive. After I had all my files and accounts that I still wanted, I then wiped and restored my old hard drive with my external hard drive. Basically returning my hard drive back to how it was before the dreaded "too many corpses being created" Boom, and thats how I saved my files with no back up.

-Good luck everyone. Took me like a day to figure out. Hopefully this will speed up the process for you.

-Maxx

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Jan 31, 2018 3:05 PM in response to Zcomuto

Had the same issue. Tried everything, even reinstalling the OS again (not deleting data) and it didn't help. I solved it by installing the os on an external HD through the recovery of mac (cmd+r on startup), booting my mac from that external HD, retrieving my data (with Migration Assistant), then deleting my internal HD, reinstalling the OS there, and migrating again from the external HD to the internal HD. Took me endless hours because the drives aren't SSD, but I finally managed to boot to my mac without being stuck after the login with almost no data loss. Hope that helps.

Feb 8, 2018 3:00 PM in response to AlexGzz

I’m had same problem closing the file. When you have cntrl >O then hit one enter and then another and then you will be at the area to do >X

Hope this help. Editing this file, for me did nothing

Eric Root

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Jun 28, 2015 12:44 PM in response to Zcomuto

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Zcomuto Author

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Jun 28, 2015 2:15 PM in response to Eric Root

To update, I managed to get it working. For some reason the OS was hanging (for over 10 hours) during the install process, but only installing the OSInstallScripts fixed the issue.

Thanks for your help, though. I'm sure those links will come in handy in the future.

Jul 10, 2015 1:43 AM in response to Zcomuto

How specifically did you manage to fix it - I have the same issue. I can boot into Single User but nothing else works

Bchertel

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Sep 22, 2016 8:56 PM in response to Zcomuto

Could you elaborate on how you got it to boot? I am having the same issue and none of the links above provided anything beyond what some light googling already has.

Oct 2, 2017 6:13 PM in response to epikos

Hi epikos, it’s very strange that nano wouldn’t let you exit. If you run it again, can you take a photo of your screen when running nano to edit rc.server ?

Nov 21, 2017 3:28 AM in response to epikos

hi epikos, i'm stuck at the same point, how did you go on? thank you for your help!

leale

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Nov 26, 2017 6:47 AM in response to AudreyE14

I don't understand all those codes. have the same problem. somebody can help explaining more what is the process or another simple way? thanks

Nov 28, 2017 3:14 AM in response to aka_dapper

Does the "etc" in your second line of code mean we need include a specific drive or directory location in place of the "etc", or do we type this exaclty?

Nov 28, 2017 7:35 PM in response to TungstenWarri0r

Type that exactly

Dec 4, 2017 10:52 AM in response to Claudio P.

Hi Claudio,

I'm happy for you. unfortunately I did not have a time machine backup, so I could not try this way to solve the problem. I learned the lesson for tne next time..

bye

Federica

Dec 25, 2017 11:25 AM in response to Zcomuto

I have the same problem. But I can access to invite user it load but it just let me used safari.

I can use invite user to fix my boot on my other user?

Apophis

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Mar 3, 2018 9:43 AM in response to aka_dapper

I have a UK keyboard, but didn't to reconfigure it as Single User Mode accepts Shift 3 as a hash.

Apophis

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Mar 3, 2018 10:03 AM in response to Apophis

Unfortunately, editing rc.server did not fix my problem. Now seeing if the 'corpses' messages stop eventually.......

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