27" iMac i7 won't startup after recent security update

My iMac does not boot properly since I installed the recent security update. All I get is the circle slash symbol. Anyone have a solution?

Hi Carlos
Slip in the OS X DVD that came with your iMac, startup your iMac on the DVD, then open Disk Utility and Repair your Macintosh HD startup volume.
Dennis

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3 nights ago i updated my os with the recent security update via software update. The next day when I tried to use Art Rage 2 it crashed (http://www.ambientdesign.com) . I had used it the night before. The only difference was the security upgrade that I'd made. I've put a crash report as of this morning below.
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Ujwala
Date/Time: 2006-12-03 08:13:22 +0600
OS Version: 10.3.9 (Build 7W98)
Report Version: 2
Command: ArtRage 2
Path: /Applications/ArtRage 2/ArtRage 2.app/Contents/MacOS/ArtRage 2
Version: AR2.2 (2.2)
PID: 771
Thread: 0
Exception: EXCBADACCESS (0x0001)
Codes: KERNINVALIDADDRESS (0x0001) at 0x4e534195
Thread 0 Crashed:
0 libobjc.A.dylib 0x908611ec objc_msgSend + 0xc
1 com.AmbientDesign.ArtRage2 0x001945e4 0x1000 + 0x1935e4
2 com.AmbientDesign.ArtRage2 0x0010e258 0x1000 + 0x10d258
3 com.AmbientDesign.ArtRage2 0x000cf1fc 0x1000 + 0xce1fc
4 com.AmbientDesign.ArtRage2 0x00138404 0x1000 + 0x137404
5 com.AmbientDesign.ArtRage2 0x0002af4c 0x1000 + 0x29f4c
6 com.AmbientDesign.ArtRage2 0x002d17ac 0x1000 + 0x2d07ac
7 dyld 0x8fe17754 callmodule_initializers_forobjects + 0x1ac
8 dyld 0x8fe1721c callmoduleinitializers + 0x40
9 dyld 0x8fe14348 dyld_make_delayed_module_initializercalls + 0x6c
10 com.AmbientDesign.ArtRage2 0x00008754 0x1000 + 0x7754
11 com.AmbientDesign.ArtRage2 0x00008548 0x1000 + 0x7548
12 com.AmbientDesign.ArtRage2 0x000084a8 0x1000 + 0x74a8
PPC Thread State:
srr0: 0x908611ec srr1: 0x0200f030 vrsave: 0x00000000
cr: 0x42424228 xer: 0x00000000 lr: 0x001945e4 ctr: 0x908611e0
r0: 0x001945e4 r1: 0xbffff5e0 r2: 0x8fe507cc r3: 0x0027e534
r4: 0x0027e510 r5: 0x0000002f r6: 0x003352bc r7: 0x00610070
r8: 0x00000000 r9: 0x00000048 r10: 0x00000025 r11: 0x24424222
r12: 0x4e534175 r13: 0x0033fd44 r14: 0x0033fd80 r15: 0xbffff8dc
r16: 0x0033fe10 r17: 0x0033fd98 r18: 0x0033fcd0 r19: 0x0033fcdc
r20: 0x0033fce8 r21: 0x0033fd5c r22: 0x0033fe48 r23: 0x0033fe58
r24: 0x002d2bf4 r25: 0xbffff6e8 r26: 0xbffff700 r27: 0xbffff6e8
r28: 0xbffff6f4 r29: 0x00000000 r30: 0x006080c0 r31: 0x001944ac
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Hi Bee,
Thanks for getting back. I did put the program out and try running it and it continued to crash. The Ambient folks sent me another file which i had to put within the folder. It continues to crash.
I dont use too many programmes, the few I use are not crashing at least none that I can recall or replicate. The gmail and wordpress.com options page making both safari and firefox crash plagued me for the longest time and was solved recently in this forum.
I've put below another copy of the crash report.
Thank you for continuing to work on my problem.
Regards,
Ujwala
Date/Time: 2006-12-19 22:49:12 +0600
OS Version: 10.3.9 (Build 7W98)
Report Version: 2
Command: ArtRage 2
Path: /Applications/ArtRage 2/ArtRage 2.app/Contents/MacOS/ArtRage 2
Version: AR2.2 (2.2)
PID: 916
Thread: 0
Exception: EXCBADACCESS (0x0001)
Codes: KERNINVALIDADDRESS (0x0001) at 0x4e534195
Thread 0 Crashed:
0 libobjc.A.dylib 0x908611ec objc_msgSend + 0xc
1 com.AmbientDesign.ArtRage2 0x0018929c 0x1000 + 0x18829c
2 com.AmbientDesign.ArtRage2 0x0010e564 0x1000 + 0x10d564
3 com.AmbientDesign.ArtRage2 0x000cf508 0x1000 + 0xce508
4 com.AmbientDesign.ArtRage2 0x00138794 0x1000 + 0x137794
5 com.AmbientDesign.ArtRage2 0x0002af5c 0x1000 + 0x29f5c
6 com.AmbientDesign.ArtRage2 0x002da3a8 0x1000 + 0x2d93a8
7 dyld 0x8fe17754 callmodule_initializers_forobjects + 0x1ac
8 dyld 0x8fe1721c callmoduleinitializers + 0x40
9 dyld 0x8fe14348 dyld_make_delayed_module_initializercalls + 0x6c
10 com.AmbientDesign.ArtRage2 0x00008754 0x1000 + 0x7754
11 com.AmbientDesign.ArtRage2 0x00008548 0x1000 + 0x7548
12 com.AmbientDesign.ArtRage2 0x000084a8 0x1000 + 0x74a8
PPC Thread State:
srr0: 0x908611ec srr1: 0x0200f030 vrsave: 0x00000000
cr: 0x42424228 xer: 0x00000000 lr: 0x0018929c ctr: 0x908611e0
r0: 0x0018929c r1: 0xbffff5d0 r2: 0x8fe507cc r3: 0x00286fb4
r4: 0x00286f90 r5: 0x0000002f r6: 0x0032c970 r7: 0x00610070
r8: 0x00000000 r9: 0x00000048 r10: 0x00000025 r11: 0x24424222
r12: 0x4e534175 r13: 0x00348dd4 r14: 0x00348e10 r15: 0xbffff8dc
r16: 0x00348ea0 r17: 0x00348e28 r18: 0x00348d60 r19: 0x00348d6c
r20: 0x00348d78 r21: 0x00348dec r22: 0x00348ed8 r23: 0x00348ee8
r24: 0x002db7e0 r25: 0xbffff6e8 r26: 0xbffff700 r27: 0xbffff6e8
r28: 0xbffff6f4 r29: 0x00000000 r30: 0x00608340 r31: 0x00189160
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Dashboard widgets vanish after recent security update

I just updated my 12" iBook G4 with the most recent security update, and now my Dashboard widgets vanish on load. I've tried repairing permissions and deleting both the dashboard prefs and DashboardCache. I've killed and rekilled the Dock process which handles Dashboard, and rebooted, and the darn widgets still vanish.
I don't want to have to reinstall OS X. Is there some way to fix this?

Some games lately can push graphic cards further and harder.
Check PC graphic/game forums to see if you can find a relationship.
No way in Mac OS to regulate or control gpu fan, monitor temp (?) or other things all taken for granted on PC and Windows.
SmcFanControl 2.2.x - at least you can boost 3 of the system fans and change the default and set profiles for work loads. Try a "game profile" of 1500 rpm.
If - and I assume the 8800GT is probably starting to stress and strain and slow death - it would happen in Windows also, if you have it installed.
8800GT: people blamed 10.6 and other updates as if it caused their card to fail. Unlikely though maybe with a card that was marginal or had trouble to begin with.
There weren't nvidia drivers in security update, but were in 10.6.4; in SL Graphics Update 1.0; and there is/was Mac OS X CUDA 3.x patch/update also you should be using. There were updates for GTX 285 that should have included the 8800GT as well probably.
When you system crashes, or before there is a software update, by all means ---
CLONE YOUR SYSTEM / RUN DISK WARRIOR (don't rely on just Apple DU First Aid)
Easy to blame an update for a pre-existing issue that was present.
And always have a backup you can boot from of older version of OS X (even 10.6.3).
Some people have gone back to 10.6.0 and then only up to 10.6.3.
Try a clean system install on a newly zeroed hard drive and test everything.
Wait for new graphic drivers.
Plan on ATI 5870 or 5770.
GTX 285 vs GT120 / 4870 / 8800 / 3870
http://www.barefeats.com/nehal14.html 3D and Core Image
Radeon HD 5870 + 5770 2006 Mac Pro versus older GPUs
http://www.barefeats.com/wst10g5.html
5870 + 5770 versus older GPUs
http://www.barefeats.com/wst10g6.html

Black screen on startup after installing security updates KB293357 and KB2937610 on Win 7 64bit

After installing security updates KB293357 and KB2937610 (both related to .NET) on Win 7 Enterprise 64 bit, my computer fails to start up correctly:
- start up and windows boot screen
- then black screen and computer freezes
The only option to this problem I found so far is do a cold reboot and then let system repair uninstall the updates. Is there a better way to solve this problem?
System:
Asus UL80VT laptop
NVIDIA GeForce G210M (driver version 9.18.13.2702)
Win 7 Enterprise, fully updated

Hi,
After you unstall the two updates, does the black screen issue completely disappear? We should first figure out whether the two updates are the culprits.
Since the two updates are related with .net as you mentioned, then here's a .NET Framework Repair Tool released by Microsoft, I suggest you try it and check if it cna detect something.
http://www.microsoft.com/en-in/download/details.aspx?id=30135
Check your event viewer and see if it recorded something valuable.
Yolanda Zhu
TechNet Community Support

IMac won't reboot after recent wifi update

27 inch iMac running Lion OSX. Installed the recent wifi update that popped up in software update and now the iMac hangs on the gray boot screen. Ideas?

Try a safe boot. Hold the Shift key down between the start up tone and the Apple logo/pinwheel.
If successful, Go to System Preferences > Startup Disk > Select your MacIntosh HD and restart.
Regards,
Captfred

IMac won't restart after latest security update

I have a late 2007 20" iMac with OS 10.10.2. While we were away last week I asked my son-ln-law to send me a photo off my iMac. He started the iMac and sent the file no problem. While he was on there he asked if he should run the security update while he checked the house so I said sure why not. He ran the update and came back in a few minutes and mac was off. He tried to restart it but it won't continue. It starts, the chime sounds, the Apple logo appears, it goes about 1/3 the way through the progress bar then sits there about 2 minutes and then shuts down. Trying to help with good intentions he found my Snow Leopard disk and inserted it thinking he might be able to use Disk Utility to eject the disk but since the disk is mounted an error message says the disk cannot be ejected. Not knowing what to do he just held the power button and it turned off.
Now that I'm back home I can't eject the SL disc and not sure what to do next. I've tried everything Kappy suggested here but nothing works. Unknown to my son-in-law I do have a Yosemite USB bootable drive but how do I run it with the SL disc in the DVD drive? I'm assuming I can restore from a time machine back up but with the SL disk in there does that cause a problem? I can see the Yosemite USB disk along with the SL disk in Disk Utility but not sure what to do if anything at this point. Suggestions?

Well I managed to get the Snow Leopard disk out and restarted the mac using OS X Recovery. I've selected the option to reinstall OS X. I'm at a screen that is asking me to 'Select the disk where you want to install OS X'. I'm presented two options one labeled 'EFI' and the other 'Recovery HD'. I chose the later but it's been sitting on a spinning beach ball for 30 minutes now so I can't select 'Install' to proceed. Any idea what has happened to my mac? A hard drive failure I assume or something else?

G5 Startup Freeze after recent Security Update

Since installing the new Security Update, my G5 2.0 Dual freezes after the status bar in "Starting Mac OS X" reaches the end. I have restarted multiple times – same thing happens. I tried holding down SHift to start without extensions, but no difference. Then I booted from Tiger install disk and ran Disk Utility to repair disk and permissions, then rechecked. All O.K. Same freeze. Tried Single User Mode startup and ran FSCK – disk checked out O.K. I'm so frustrated that I'm entertaining an archive reinstall of Tiger. Does anyone have a solution or idea before I go that far? The Security Update worked fine on my G4 17" 1.0 MHz PowerBook, so I was able to go online to plea for help, but my G5 is my main workhorse and I've got to get back up and running. APPLE – WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO ME???

Well, I tried Tech Tool Pro and nothing changed. Went to MacFixit and followed all of their suggestions. Next, I made a clone of my H.D. with SuperDuper! before I took the next dramatic step. I finally bit the bullet and did an archive reinstall of Tiger, then applied all updates up to the newest Security Update. First install hung up on startup after updating to 10.4.7, so I did it again. I then spent the whole morning reisnstalling printer drivers, fonts, and third party stuff I had in my original system. All is working well now and I'm able to get back to work. Phew!!! I've been reading everyone else's trials and tribulations with the new S.U. This has never happened to me before with an S.U. Please Apple – don't do this to us who depend on our Macs for our very livelihood! Give us a way to restore to our previous state when an S.U. screws us up!

IBook G4 won't load after latest security update, repair doesn't work?

Hi I had the same problem as someone else in this forum:
"Last night I saw that my ibook G4 wanted to do a security update. I told it to do it, and the ibook has not started since. It reset itself after downloaded, but it just stays on the booting up screen, never actually booting up so I can use it. After about two hours of trying to boot up, I turned it off, and on again, and it still wont boot.
I really need suggestions as how I can fix it. Thanks
ibook g4 Windows 2000
Carolyn Samit
Posts: 8,431
From: Alameda CA Bay Farm Island
Registered: Aug 5, 2005
Re: G4 wont boot after latest security upgrade
Posted: May 22, 2009 2:51 PM in response to: voiletmay
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HI,
Ok... you need to boot from your install disk.
Insert Installer disk and Restart, holding down the "C" key until grey Apple appears.
Go to Installer menu (Panther and earlier) or Utilities menu (Tiger and later) and launch Disk Utility.
Select your HDD (manufacturer ID) in the left panel.
Select First Aid in the Main panel.
(Check S.M.A.R.T Status of HDD at the bottom of right panel. It should say: Verified)
Click Repair Disk on the bottom right.
If DU reports disk does not need repairs quit DU and restart.
If DU reports errors Repair again and again until DU reports disk is repaired.
If you cannot boot from your install disk, try booting in Safe Mode
Resolve startup issues and perform disk maintenance with Disk Utility and fsck
If you have the original hard drive in this iBook, it was probably a 60GB drive? When you can do this, check to see how much available disk space there is.
Right or control click the MacintoshHD icon on your Desktop, then click: Get Info. In the Get Info window, click the discovery triangle so it's facing down. You will see; Capacity and Available Make sure you have 10% available disk space, 15% is better. Not enough available drive space can cause issues like you are experiencing.
Carolyn "
I tried restarting it after the repair (there were some things to repair and I tried to repair twice just to make sure it didn't miss anything) but it still won't load. It says its starting the OX system, but when the blue bar reaches the end, it doesn't do anything from there. I also left it on for hours and it did nothing. My mousepad still lets me move around the mouse, the caps lock key still lights up, as the num lock key. I tried safe mode but that won't load either...any other suggestions?

*" I also left it on for hours and it did nothing. "*
Your iBook needs to go in for repairs.
Carolyn

Mac Pro Won't Start After Installing Security Update Tonight

I just installed the latest security update for Lion on my Mac Pro via software update. The update seemed to install fine. I was about to start work when all of a sudden the system rebooted on its own. Now it just continues to reboot because it can't complete the boot up.
I tried resetting PRAM and SMC, but this didn't help.
I tried booting up from CD using an old SNL disk. I was able to get to disk tools once. I checked my startup volume and disk tools said the volumes is fine. I was checking permissions when once again the system rebooted on its own.
I tried starting up in safe mode, but it only gets so far into the boot process before it reboots.
I tried starting in verbose mode, and noticed several SMC related errors (this is why I tried to reset the SMC). No joy.
If I leave the system sit a few minutes, it gets further into the boot process, but still won't boot completely.
Any suggestions?

Mac Pro tower or MacBook Pro notebook? Which model?
If you are encountering kernel panics, check in the logs as suggested here and post a recent kernel panic log:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2546
Mac OS X: How to log a kernel panic

External drive and ipod won't mount after latest security update

I just downloaded the latest security update on my powerbook, and now my lacee external hard-drive won't mount. I ran disc permissions and still nothing. My ipod charges from the firewire port but doesn't mount either. The hard-drive mounts fine on my dome imac which appears to have the latest updates as well. Could it be a problem with the firewire port itself or something to do with the security update? Thanks for the help.

Your PowerBook is hurting my friend. Check "About this Mac" and see if the memory reported is the actual memory you have installed on the machine. I had a PB that had 1GB installed but the machine only read 256. Ended up needing a logic board replacement. Check http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303173 to see if it applies to you.
Unplug all devices from the PB, leaving only power connected.
If it everything seems cool, then you'll want to start up in "single user mode". Restart the PB and hold down the  + s (apple and s) keys until you get a black display with white characters. Once you get the command prompt signified by a # character. At that point type in the following at the prompt
fsck -yf
then hit your return key
As the system check your HD, notice any errors that are displayed. After it is done it will inform you of any modifications, or if it thinks everything is cool.
then again, type in
fsck -yf
then hit your return key
You'll want to have run the fsck -yf utility a total of 3 times. Hopefully at the end everything will be good (No errors) "* appears to be OK".
In any case, type in
reboot -n
then hit your return key
Your PB will reboot. After the OS has loaded, plug in your FW devices and see if they mount. Either way post back with results.
d

Won't Restart after latest Security Update Download.

Yesterday I downloaded the latest Security Update to my Mac Mini with Snow Leopard. It downloaded but would not restart. I finally managed to get it to boot to a bootable external drive and using Disk Utility found the HD was OK but the Preferences way out of wack. I did what I could but when I tried restarting to the original drive it would not work. I just get the white screen with a circle and stroke through it after a minute with the spinning ball. I have tried the original start up Disk, pressing C on Startup, but it just spits it out. I tried to use an older System disk, one for Leopard but it will not see it. I tried zapping the PRAM twice to no avail. Now it won't see the bootable drive either.....
To me it sound like a massive hard drive fail. Nothing to do with the Security update. Your thoughts on this would be greatly appreciated though.....
Thanks,
Stephen

No one on the Apple site could help me so I took it into Tekserve in NYC. I was afraid that I was going to have to replace the entire Hard Drive but they finally managed to get it working. In the end for $60 they reinstalled the System, keeping all of my files intact. I have a bootable external drive, but I was happier not to have to use that. Apparently it was a multilevel problem, and not something anyone can fix themselves. If you look at the Apple discussions quite a few people had problems with that update.....
Best of luck,
Stephen

System 10.3.9 freezes at startup after installing Security Update 2006-007

I installed the security update 2006-007 this morning and upon restart everything froze once the words "login window starting" appeared.
I tried a bunch of troubleshooting suggestions from the support pages ("Your Mac won't startup in OS X - 10.3.9 or earlier") including starting in safe mode, single user mode and dumping login preferences, network prefs, reset certain priveleges. None of these solved the problem.
Is the only work around for this to re-install the system?
PowerMac g4 dual proc. Mac OS X (10.3.9)

Ed,
I admit to being somewhat perplexed by your experience. But let me ramble a bit here anyway.
My opinion is that problems of the sort that you are experiencing (freeze after a software update) are almost always due to some software problem. (I base this opinion to a large extent on the experiences of other people in these forums.) The fact that your system works okay with Tiger is consistent with this idea.
But, if it is a software problem, why did it not go way when you re-installed Panther? I am wondering how you did the re-install. Was it an Archive and Install? That is the easiest approach and the first one to try, but there are some things it cannot fix. For one, if user settings and preferences are maintained during the A&I and the problem is related to these settings or preferences, then the problem will remain. In that case, an Erase and Install would be needed to clear out everything. Of course, this also deletes all of your data, so it is something you do not want to do unless you have a backup (which you said that you have).
Another thing that an A&I cannot solve is corruption of the filesystem (computer loses track of where some files start and stop on the hard drive). This problem can usually be detected and often repaired by booting off your install CD and using Disk Utility to repair the disk. You said that you used Disk Utility but gave no other details. I take that to imply that you detected no problems. If there are problems and Disk Utility is unable to fix them, a more powerful utility can sometimes do the job, and sometimes there is no solution except to reformat the hard drive and re-install the operating system. This of course destroys all data on the drive.
If there were a hardware problem behind this, the most likely thing in my view would be some bad blocks on the hard drive. I am pretty sure that Disk Utility, as used above, will look for bad blocks and mask them out if any are found. You mentioned something about 1 Gig of RAM. I think that RAM is unlikely to be the culprit. Problems with RAM usually are manifested as more erratic behavior that what you are experiencing.
You have already exhausted many of usual tricks, so what are your options? It sounds like you do not want to buy a copy of Tiger just to fix this and I can understand that. So, you could go to more and more extreme versions of re-installing your software. By this I mean using your Panther install disks to do an Archive and Install, then to do an Erase and Install if the first did not work, then to reformat and do an install if the Erase and Install did not work. Before doing either of these last two step,s you want to be sure that you have backup that you know works. You have said that "re-installing Panther does not fix the problem" and also that you "haven't done a system restore". It is not really clear to me what you mean by re-installing Panther. Was this from a backup or from your install CD?
If you want to avoid a re-install from your install CD as long as possible, then my suggestion is to attempt to troubleshoot the problem further by booting into Single User mode (which I think you have done). Once you get the disk mounted, I would suggest looking in the system.log file for an error message. Once you have mounted the disk, you can look at the end of the system.log file with the command
tail /var/log/system.log
Look to see if any of the messages look like they might be indicative of a problem. If you see nothing, you can print out more lines by doing this:
tail -40 /var/log/system.log
which will cause the last 40 lines to be printed. If you see any message that might be hinting at a problem, post it back here and perhaps someone will get a clue. I should say at the outset that this way of doing things takes a lot of patience and is not guaranteed to provide a solution.
I hope this ramble helps a bit. I know your are frustrated and I hope you get a solution soon.
Rich

Macbook won't boot after installing Security Update 2008-007 (Intel)

I installed security update 2008-007 (intel) on my MacBook last night using Software Update, but now my machine won't boot at all. All I get is the gray start-up screen with the dark gray apple, but there's no spinning progress bar or anything. After 5 minutes or so, the machine auto-restarts, but again hangs on the gray start-up screen. It does this over and over again until I shut it off. I tried to boot into safe mode by holding down shift right after the chime, but it still wouldn't boot (again, not even a spinning progress bar). Can anyone please help me? I really don't want to lose my photos/movies, etc. I'll backup everything promptly if I can just get it to boot. Thanks.

Hi jared-lee, and again, a warm welcome to the forums!
First for safety, "Try Disk Utility
1. Insert the Mac OS X Install disc that came with your computer, then restart the computer while holding the C key.
2. When your computer finishes starting up from the disc, choose Disk Utility from the Installer menu. (In Mac OS X 10.4 or later, you must select your language first.)
Important: Do not click Continue in the first screen of the Installer. If you do, you must restart from the disc again to access Disk Utility.
3. Click the First Aid tab.
4. Click the disclosure triangle to the left of the hard drive icon to display the names of your hard disk volumes and partitions.
5. Select your Mac OS X volume.
6. Click Repair. Disk Utility checks and repairs the disk."
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106214
This may or may not fix the problem, but may.
Do you have another Mac around?

Can' access websites after recent security update.

I recently updated to the latest Apple security update on my 24" Imac and now cannot access some sites like Google and others. Some work fine, some not at all. I haven't changed anything else since the update. Is there a way to remove the security update? Any suggestions, thanks.
Imac 24" Mac OS X (10.4.9)

The only way to remove a Security Update is to reinstall Mac OS X from the Install DVD, perhaps as an Archive and Install, and update the OS until just prior to the Security Update.
I installed the Update on two Macs, a Power PC G3 and and Intel, and we have not experienced any issues. Post a fewof the websites and let some of us test and see what the issues may be.

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