Almost no applications work after updating the system to 10.6.8

A few days ago I upgraded my MacBook system to 10.6.8 and afterwards when restarting the computer the screen became blue. Nothing happened and I tried to re-restart it. After this almost no applications are working including VLC-player, appstore, Mail, systemupdate, iTunes, skype etc. Games like the sims 3 are not working either despite the fact that I have tried to uninstall and then reinstall these games and programmes. Is there anyone who has got a clue of what has happened and how I fix it? PLEASE, I'M BECOMING DESPERATE!

Go through this list of fixes and get back to me
I'd expect your going to need to do #18 eventually to get a working OS X again.
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When scrolling to the beginning or end of a file, the screen flashes with grey glitch like areas. What happened to my vi!?!?!?!?!?
This all happened while following the beginner's guide to install arch linux. I realized this when trying to arbitrarily read a test file I made directly after updating.
The problems continued to be visible when installing and setting up sudo (those steps are the next steps that require vi)... I think the sudo installation worked... but my vi is horribly glitchy
Any ideas?
Last edited by trusktr (2010-02-19 07:19:55)

Setting EDITOR does not help in every case. For instance, visudo is by default hard linked to vi. (You can change this, I know. )
But in fact, vi is only a symlink to ex. So I simply renamed this link and put another symlink to vim (vim-big in my case since I in fact do use the gvim package).
/usr/bin/vi -> vim-big
/usr/bin/vi-simple -> ex
The drawback is that I have to set those links on every vi-update. (But I sure will remember...)
Last edited by bernarcher (2010-02-19 00:58:57)

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I have a macbook pro core i7 mid 2012
And update to the latest version 10.8.4 system after updating the system I have the problem appeared to take off the device and stops at the apple logo for about 5 minutes and then enters the desktop How can I solve this problem and thank you

If you have more than one user account, these instructions must be carried out as an administrator.
Launch the Console application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Console in the icon grid.
Step 1
Make sure the title of the Console window is All Messages. If it isn't, select All Messages from the SYSTEM LOG QUERIES menu on the left. If you don't see that menu, select
View ▹ Show Log List
from the menu bar.
Enter "BOOT_TIME" (without the quotes) in the search box. Note the timestamps of those log messages, which refer to the times when the system was booted. Now clear the search box and scroll back in the log to the last boot time when you had the problem. Select the messages logged after the boot, during the time something abnormal was happening. Copy them to the Clipboard (command-C). Paste into a reply to this message (command-V).
For example, if the problem is a slow startup taking three minutes, post the messages timestamped within three minutes after the boot time, not before. Please include the BOOT_TIME message at the beginning of the log extract.
If there are runs of repeated messages, post only one example of each. Don’t post many repetitions of the same message.
When posting a log extract, be selective. In most cases, a few dozen lines are more than enough.
Please do not indiscriminately dump thousands of lines from the log into this discussion.
Important: Some private information, such as your name, may appear in the log. Anonymize before posting.
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Hi Whhsu,
Welcome to Lenovo Community!
As per your query we understood that you are facing the issue with mute button on ThinkPad X230.
The normal procedure for updating the system to Windows 8.1 is that when you are in Windows 8 you have to update all the drivers first and then you have to update Windows 8.1.
To resolve the issue now please download Hotkey feature application from Lenovo support site and install it.
Below is the link to enter the downloads page and download latest application accordingly, please click on "Select Product" then in "QUICK PATH" enter the MTM no. select the exact model.
http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/downloads/default.page#
Hope this helps!
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Wi-Fi stops working after updated the firmware of carrier

Hi all,
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I was updating a few applications through 3G signal when I saw a prompt on my phone asking me to update the carrier firmware. So I did. The phone just stopped downloading for the applications and could not be paused.
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waste all that time trying to get things the way I want them and HOPE TO ALMIGHTY APPLE GOD that my wifi will work..
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After updating the system does not boot anymore!

I made an usual update with 'pacman -Syu' and since I saw a kernel update I rebooted...
After reboot the lilo menu appears, it autoselects arch after 2 seconds, it appears
boot:
loading arch........................... .................................
nothing more. No errors, no messages at all!
It is the same also using the fallback.
What happened? Can I do something or I have to reinstall arch from zero?
edit: typo
edit2: it can be related to the fact the I have /boot partition and lilo in different disks?
Last edited by ezzetabi (2007-06-03 18:31:34)

I see, so now I have to start the machine with the arch CD. Mount the drives, chroot the directory where I mounted and starting lilo should solve.
Thanks everyone.
edit: it worked! Thanks everyone.
Last edited by ezzetabi (2007-06-04 06:38:09)

Something wrong after updating the system...

Hi, there,
Recently, a handful customers came to me and complained that their Macs were totally dead (can't bootup anymore) after a system update. What I can recall now is that most of them use iMac.
My questions are:
- Is this a known/common issue?
- How to diagnose if it's the system update caused the problem?
- How to recover from the problem?
Thanks.
Other OS
Windows XP

hey there koifans
i am one of those victims, sadly.
i have an older, non intel machine.
its a powermac g4 mirror door drive.
i got the automatic software update notice. i did the download / install, rebooted and noticed everything running real sluggish. so i did a 2nd reboot and that was that. just a flashing folder / question mark icon.
i guess i have this unfounded theory that becuase the update serves intel machines, it aint so good to put on older machines. reason i come to that conclusion is becuase a few prior updates ago, i did the automatic software update, had problems, had to reinstall system software. and later found out that there was a version for non intel machines. when i did that version, all was fine. i think there are going to be lots more posts on this issue over next few days.
i asked apple if this was a known issue, they said no.
thanks
w2ayne

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S-660 Unable to use Sd card after upgradeing the system to KitKat

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Anyone else's iPhone 4s speaker not working after update to iOS 6.1?

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It all goes well under the Mac OS X 10.6.
But,to Windows 7, the partial function went down after I updated the system.
Here's my problem.
The function of rolling in the middle area of Mouse didn't work.
I've tried to reinstall the Bootcamp 3.1, but nothing help.
So I wonder if there's anyone who can help me out.
P.S. Poor English, expected that you can understand.

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I have problem with my Iphone 4S, only after updating the OS 7.X. My Iphone battery charge is losing down in a minute. My battery charge is just decreasing from 100% to 10% in less than two hours, without any application works. pls do help me out in this.

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The information below may help you troubleshoot your iPhone battery issue:
iPhone Battery and Power - Apple Support
http://www.apple.com/support/iphone/repair/battery-power/
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