Sure. I will paste three posts to make things clearer. The problem was with extension libraries.
Post 1:
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Hi Stol,
What you've posted gives me a partial picture of the kext situation, but so I can get the whole picture, please follow these steps:
- Boot into Recovery Mode (cmd+R)
- Select the Get Help Online link from the meunbar to open Safari.
- Navigate back to this thread.
- Select all of the writing in bold below and press cmd+C to copy it to the clipboard:
cd "/Volumes/Macintosh HD" ; ls -1 Library/Extensions/ ; find Library/Application\ Support -iname *.kext ; find System/Library/Extensions -ctime +1w -depth 2
- Then go to the Utilities menu, open Terminal and press cmd+V to paste the long command into it.
- Select all the output from that and press cmd+C to copy it to the clipboard.
- Select the Get Help Online link from the meunbar to open the Safari again.
- Navigate back to this thread.
- Paste the output you copied into your reply to this post.
-Max
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Post 2: Stol's Response
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(in response to Max108)
thank you for your answer, here is the output:
-bash-3.2# cd "/Volumes/Macintosh HD" ; ls -1 Library/Extensions/ ; find Library/Application\ Support -iname *.kext ; find System/Library/Extensions -ctime +1w -depth 2
ACS6x.kext
ATTOCelerityFC8.kext
ATTOExpressSASHBA2.kext
ATTOExpressSASRAID2.kext
ArcMSR.kext
CalDigitHDProDrv.kext
HighPointIOP.kext
HighPointRR.kext
LittleSnitch.kext
PromiseSTEX.kext
SoftRAID.kext
tap.kext
tun.kext
System/Library/Extensions/3Dconnexion.kext/Contents
System/Library/Extensions/AppleMobileDevice.kext/Contents
System/Library/Extensions/EyeTVAfaTechHidBlock.kext/Contents
System/Library/Extensions/EyeTVCinergy450AudioBlock.kext/Contents
System/Library/Extensions/EyeTVCinergyXSAudioBlock.kext/Contents
System/Library/Extensions/EyeTVEmpiaAudioBlock.kext/Contents
System/Library/Extensions/EyeTVVoyagerAudioBlock.kext/Contents
System/Library/Extensions/JMicronATA.kext/Contents
System/Library/Extensions/NikeSportWatch.kext/Contents
-bash-3.2#
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Post 3: Max's response
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The following block of commands will move the 3rd party kexts of those listed to a new folder in each Library called "Unsupported" - a safe location where they can't cause harm, but can be reinstated if needed. When the command has completed, you can reboot your Mac (normally this time). Let me know how it goes...
cd "/Volumes/Macintosh HD/Library/Extensions/" ; mkdir Unsupported ; mv t* Unsupported ; mv L* Unsupported ; cd "/Volumes/Macintosh HD/System/Library/Extensions/" ; mkdir Unsupported ; mv 3D* Unsupported ; mv Eye* Unsupported ; mv Nik* Unsupported ; rm -Rf /Volumes/Macintosh\ HD/var/folders/*
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