I installed El Capitan and after several restarts the system is stuck at the Apple logo with an empty progress bar. Reinstalled from recovery mode then and it was fine until I shut down and switched it on next morning. Any help?
MacBook Pro, OS X El Capitan (10.11)
I have the same behavior...PRAM and SMC reset don't work like as Safe mode...
Anyone fixed?
Same with my Mac Pro.
Installs fine.
Runs clean.
Migrate files that work fine under Yosemite and it hangs 100%.
Go back to Yosemite until there's a real fix.
Don't migrate Photos files to El Capitan or they will no longer be read by Yosemite unless you have clean backups to use.
Using the suggested solutions about Extensions can help:
Spent well over an hour on the phone with Apple Tech Support, and tried these fixes.
Didn't work.
Wouldn't boot even after messing with terminal commands.
Hope you have better luck.
Again, IF you get a clean install to work, DON'T migrate Photos into it until you have solid back-ups and know El Capitan will work right in your system.
After migrate 15 years worth of digital photos into 10.10.11, it could no longer be read by Yosemite...when I tried going back to it.
When El Capitan crashed, it was easy enough to reformat the disk and try again. But without solid backups, my Photos Library would be unreadable by my only full system still working.
Personally as a long-time Apple user, I think it's absurd having pages and pages of diagnostic fixes to go thru, including Terminal Commands to type out.
If I wanted that kind of computing experience, I'd stay in the Windows/IBM world that's a lot cheaper with a lot more choices for hardware/software. And that's coming from somebody who still has their old Duo-Drive IIe sitting on a shelf next to a II gs, and a Centris and various Power PC platforms too.
My MBA wouldn't restart with El Capitan, progress bar not moving at all.
Given a recent Time Machine back up...
I restarted holding Command R, selected Disk Utility and erased my internal drive.
Then used Restore OSX which retrieved the latest version through my internet connection.
As it restarted itself and went through the normal options I selected "use data from a Time Machine backup".
This installed my user data and app files onto the fresh system.
Took a while but now works normally again.
I guess enhanced system security was tripped up by a legacy file from an old app.
Hope this suggested option helps.
What fixed the no login issue for me was deleting EltimaAsync.kext.
I have a 2009 Mac Pro with this problem. The best solution is Link Davis' 14-step solution. I did all of the steps until step 12 finally helped me. You will need a Time Machine Backup. If you have one, you're good. If not, you will need to make one. If you get to step 12 and you don't have a Time Machine backup, you can get your computer back temporarily on by using Carlos's "touch" trick in Terminal:Re: El Capitan won't Boot after update(I did this too, which will work, but after shutting down, my computer went back to not being able to fully start up again.)
To get my mac back to normal, I had to then do a Time Machine backup and then complete step 12. I can now shut down and restart with no issues using 10.11.1.
El Capitan won't start up. Stuck at Apple logo with empty progress bar.
