crashed: too many corpses being created

I have surfed all the web for this problem. Thanks a lot sir. It worked perfectly all right. Also I didn't have to wait for long it came right away

Dear Frank,

Thank you so much for your help!! My mac resurrected after trying your tip!

saved my day!

mind the space between ....HD /var...

thank you!!! It helped! 🙂

You the man, frankv. Worked like a charm.

Hi AlexGzz

The command jettison should be part of the second line of code, i.e:

/usr/sbin/BootCacheControl jettison

- with no line breaks

If this doesn't work, it seems like you have a similar issue to my own. If you start up in Single User mode and then continue to boot by entering exit <and pressing enter>, could you advise what the last lines of code are?

Hi everyone,

I’ve been following this discussion because this problem happened to me too, just yesterday. I own a MacBook Pro 13 inches Early 2011 and unfortunately I have no Time Machine Backup.

- I tried reinstalling High Sierra but it didn’t work.

- I tried with the nano CommandCache modification but it didn’t worked neither.

- I tried to fix it from the Command+S mode with the fsck codes, but is still stocked.

- Command+Option+P+R makes no difference.

- Fix HD from Disk Utility was useless too.

Here is an idea, but I would appreciate your advices before I do this, my info and my work is highly compromised.

1. Make a partition of the HD and use the Clean part for the process.

2. Re install MacOS High Sierra in the clean part (I don’t know if that’s possible)

3. If the second step works I will be able to Open my desktop but my data will be hold in the “dirty” part of the HD

4. Using Disk Utility App, plug in an external Hard Drive and use the option Restore. This will give the option to restored it from a different image (in this case, the dirty part of the HD) copy all items there.

5. Open the External Hard Drive in another computer and take the essential info out of it. Format the External Hard Drive and them copy the info back, to paste it in the clean version of the HD.

Thanks! And BTW it’s really bad to read this is happening to so many users.

Apple do something about it!

OP;

great trouble shooting!

1) make backup (targets disk mode if you have a second Mac)

2) Boot cmd+R and reinstall MacOS right over existing system. (do not use disk utility to whip unless data loss is preferred)

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.

Hi

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

Suggesting, your defective startup volume is named "Macintosh HD" one have to be very sensible with blanks in the command line.

After "cd" a blank is needed and after "Macintosh\", too. so the correct command would be:

cd /Volumes/Macintosh\ HD/var/db/caches/opendirectory/

The first blank splits the command "cd" from its parameters (the target directory).

The backslash "\" tells the command line that the following blank belongs to the string "Macintosh" and is NOT a delimiter for a parameter or something.

Be careful. Using wrong commands or parameters can be very dangerous in Terminal.

Much luck!

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