MacBook Pro Won't Restart or Turn On - Stopped Mid Update

I have no idea what happened to my laptop. It kept bugging me to update to Mac OS High Sierra. I thought I had already done this, so I kept pushing it off. Today, I finally caved and clicked install.


Everything was going fine, then a little over halfway through the update, it gave me an error and told me that there was some problem, not allowing me to continue the update. It told me to, instead, restart. Once it restarted, it kept giving me a whole bunch of computer gibberish on top of the apple logo - it looked like it was attempting to start back up.


User uploaded file

Panic(cpu 2 caller 0xffffff80261a026): “Process 1 exec of /sbin/launched failed, errno 2”@/Library/Caches?com.apple.xbs/Sources/xnu/xnu-3789.73.11/bsd/kern/kern_exec. c

VM Swap Subsystem is ON

Debugger called: <panic>

Backtrace (CPU 2), Frame : Return Address

0xffffff80bfa03de0 : 0xffffff8025ce850c

0xffffff80bfa03e60 : 0xffffff802616a026

0xffffff80bfa03ee0 : 0xffffff8026137604

0xffffff80bfa03f00 : 0xffffff8026185ac1

0xffffff80bfa03f50 : 0xffffff8025ce1df9

0xffffff80bfa03f80 : 0xffffff8025dfe96e

0xffffff80bfa03fa0 : 0xffffff8025c9950f

BSD process name corresponding to current thread: init

Mac OS version:

Not yet set

Kernel version:

Darwin Kernel Version 16.7.0: Tue Jan 30 11:27:06 PST 2018; root:xnu-3789.73.11-1/RELEASE_X86_64

Kernel UUID: 58C7E8E4-338F-3D92-B9D1-2B4900417AAB

Kernel slide: 0x0000000025a00000

Kernel text base: 0xffffff8825c00000

__HIB text base: 0xffffff8825b00000

System model name: MacBookPro,2 (Mac-94245A394BC91C88)

System uptime in nanoseconds: 2822387688


Someone suggested holding control + v, or shift after hearing the start up sound. However, I never hear the start up sound - it only sounds like it's trying to eject a disc, even though there's nothing in there. I have still done both of those, though, and whenever I hold the control + v, it starts on a black screen and it starts scrolling with dozens of lines of symbols and letters that I have no idea what it means.


I uploaded a gif on what it was doing: https://gfycat.com/NearPowerfulGroundhog


What on earth happened, and how do I fix it?

MacBook Pro

Posted on Jun 18, 2018 4:34 PM

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Posted on Jun 18, 2018 9:02 PM

Hi IBeOreo,


User uploaded file


launchd is a critical program on your Mac that is responsible for booting macOS, as well as managing daemons and user agents. Terminating it will force your Mac to restart, and if launchd can't even be started, your Mac will be unable to boot macOS.


Starting your Mac while holding down Command-V will boot your Mac into Verbose Mode, where it will display system progress and errors encountered until your Mac has fully booted. At that point, the normal GUI will reappear.


Holding down the Shift key while you start your Mac will boot it into Safe Mode.


To repair launchd (or otherwise resolve this issue), try reinstalling macOS via these steps: How to reinstall macOS - Apple Support

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Jun 18, 2018 9:02 PM in response to IBeOreo

Hi IBeOreo,


User uploaded file


launchd is a critical program on your Mac that is responsible for booting macOS, as well as managing daemons and user agents. Terminating it will force your Mac to restart, and if launchd can't even be started, your Mac will be unable to boot macOS.


Starting your Mac while holding down Command-V will boot your Mac into Verbose Mode, where it will display system progress and errors encountered until your Mac has fully booted. At that point, the normal GUI will reappear.


Holding down the Shift key while you start your Mac will boot it into Safe Mode.


To repair launchd (or otherwise resolve this issue), try reinstalling macOS via these steps: How to reinstall macOS - Apple Support

Jun 19, 2018 1:41 PM in response to IBeOreo

I encountered the same problem on my Macbook Air and it took me quite some time to get back to normal. I could not boot it or get to (internet) recovery. In other words, it acted as if it was dead. I was finally able to have it recognize my external drives and, after dozens of tries, was able to boot into one of my bootable clones. From there, I went to internet recovery, repaired, reformatted, and erased the drive and then cloned my old (Sierra) system back.


Do you have a bootable clone on an external drive?

Jun 19, 2018 12:40 PM in response to Encryptor5000

I clicked your link on how to reinstall macOS.


When I did this one, the utilities popped up. I do not have a time machine backup - at least, when I clicked it, nothing appeared. With disk utility, I scanned it and did first aid. No errors or anything popped up. Then, I clicked reinstall macOS. It froze multiple times on 2 hours, 8 minutes. Finally, after rescanning the disk and doing first aid once more, it began reinstalling.

After three hours, it got more than halfway through, and then the screen changed and the words,

macOS could not be installed on your computer

Volume contains macOS or OS X installation Media.

Quit the installer to restart your computer and try again.

Restart.

Frustrated, I clicked on restart. Next, I got a similar screen. However, this time I received:

macOS could not be installed on your computer

The installer resources were not found.

Quit the installer to restart your computer and try again.

Restart.

I'm really at a loss at what any of this means

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Also, I CANNOT log in to it. I've been told to set up another account, or log in to my account and set up different settings, or stop trying to update. But if I turn it off and back on, it keeps trying to update and install. I cannot do anything other than this 😟

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