Comments on: Fix It: Apple OS 10.5.3 Fails to Get to Login Screen

By: hightechdad

hightechdad — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 18:09:01 +0000

First, welcome to the Mac community! So, a couple of questions:
1) What version of the OS are you running
2) Do you have the a bootable DVD

One thing that you can do (which I referred to in my post) is boot in single user mode. Here are the steps:
1) hold down Command and S when booting
2) You should see a bunch of text go flying by as if you were in a DOS prompt
3) Once all of that stuff goes by, you should type in "/sbin/fsck -fy"
4) Keep running that command until you see the words "** The volume (name_of_volume) appears to be OK"

Also, you should look at this KB article from Apple for more instructions: http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1417

Let me know if you have further questions.

-HTD

By: fxrtst

fxrtst — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 06:02:41 +0000

I am new to Mac and have had nothing but trouble with random reboots, freezes and crashes. I have a Mac Pro and thought maybe the update to 10.5.3 would fix some of of my issues, not cripple my computer. So here is the thing..I have the grey apple logo and cannot get beyond that. I come from a Windows world and need a step by step instructions on how to do your fix. My problem is transfering,deleating etc to files in single user, etc.. mode. I don't even know how to access the files and hard drives in these modes, let alone how to see a thumb drive. If a spelled out “do this, type this..” would be great.

By: hightechdad

hightechdad — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 13:10:18 +0000

@Dave,

Glad that it worked. Be sure to pass the word because this is not a fun experience. Be sure to Digg the post if you can.

Thanks,
HTD

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 03:52:02 +0000

YES!!!! This worked like a charm. I was getting the kernel panic screen after the update to 10.5.3 and couldn't do anything. Disk Utility borked it even more. I was able to install this via booting in Safe Mode and followed your steps and it's back (for now). Thank you so much.

By: hightechdad

hightechdad — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 16:45:03 +0000

I believe that you have resolved your issue. What I had to do to fix was to disable WordPress plugins one by one until I found the one that was causing the issues. The one that did for me was one for optimizing the DB.

[note: this response is NOT related to 10.5.3 issues]

By: hightechdad

hightechdad — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 14:55:37 +0000

Good luck with the fix! If my solution worked for you, be sure to Digg this article (I need a better DIGG badge placement).

By: DD

DD — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 14:43:28 +0000

I love managing Macs and very rarely have any issues, especially when compared to Windows. This little issue cropped up all of a sudden and things really suck then, I hate these random issues. The issue has once again cropped up on me again and having the same issue freezing on startup at the Apple spinning gear screen…..fun fun

By: hightechdad

hightechdad — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 12:37:28 +0000

Yes, I'm truly surprised by this Apple update. But what has happened is in the past (at least for me now).

In terms of cleaning the caches, you should start with the most shallow and then move gradually deeper (after trying and rebooting along the way).

-HTD

By: FED3RICO

FED3RICO — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 09:48:10 +0000

Seems like problems can strike days after the update! Since I've installed 10.5.3 everything worked fine until today: after a reboot, the iMac got stuck trying to launch the login window (and some other processes, I've got crash logs for coreservicesd, ATSServer, lsregister and mdworker too).

Cleaning up caches did the trick, but I had to use the Deep Cleaning option.

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