Failed boot after (apparently) successful SSD installation

Tried to replace the main hard drive of my wife's 13 inch MacBook with an SSD restored from a Time Machine backup. Everything seemed to go smoothly, but the machine won't boot, it just keeps showing "You need to restart your computer." Ran disk utility and everything seems OK on the new drive. It's a GUID partition, disk verify shows no problems. But it won't boot. New drive is a 120 GB Vertex 2. Suggestions appreciated. Thanks.

There are issues with some versions of Apple laptops and certain Vertex drives. I bumped in to the issue on OCZ support forums when I decided to go for a Vertex. The conclusion was that my old 1,1 MacBook Pro would be fine and it is but others have had problems. Your best bet is to have a look at their forums as there may be a better advice on there.

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Unable to login to apex as admin after apparent successful installation

I am unable to login to apex as admin after an apparent successful installation.
I have an existing Oracle database 11.2.0.1.0 with Oracle Text running on Windows 7 Professional with hundreds of gigabytes of free disk space available. I did everything as an operating system user with administrator privileges. I downloaded the latest version of apex 4.0.2 for all languages, unzipped the downloaded zip file, extracting all files to an apex directory. I changed the working directory to apex and started sql*plus, connected sys as sysdba, ran apexins.sql installation, apex_epg_config.sql and apexconf.sql configuration, apexchpwd.sql to change the admin password, and apxldimg.sql to copy the images, and exec dbms_xdb.sethttpport(8080), unlocked accounts, and granted connect privileges.
The installation log did not show any errors and included:
"Thank you for installing Oracle Application Express.
Oracle Application Express is installed in the APEX_040000 schema.
The structure of the link to the Application Express administration services is as follows:
http://host:port/pls/apex/apex_admin (Oracle HTTP Server with mod_plsql)
http://host:port/apex/apex_admin (Oracle XML DB HTTP listener with the embedded PL/SQL gateway)
The structure of the link to the Application Express development interface is as follows:
http://host:port/pls/apex (Oracle HTTP Server with mod_plsql)
http://host:port/apex (Oracle XML DB HTTP listener with the embedded PL/SQL gateway)
JOB_QUEUE_PROCESSES: 1000"
When I use either browser, Firefox 3.6.12 or Internet Explorer 8.0, and go to http://localhost:8080/apex/apex_admin I get a screen that says:
"Enter Application Express internal administration credentials"
and has boxes for a username and password. When I enter admin and the admin_password that I selected, then click on login nothing happens. I don't get logged in. I don't get an error message. It does not show any signs of anything running. It just sits there. I also don't get any messages from Windows or Norton 360 indicating that a pop-up window was blocked or any such thing. I checked that the services are running and also tried shutting down the computer and re-starting (cold boot), but was still unable to login.
I am a retired developer, not a DBA, so if there is anything else that I should do or check or provide, then please let me know. I have provided a copy and paste of everything that I could think of below. Oddly I don't see an admin user.
SQL> select * from v$version
2 /
BANNER
Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.2.0.1.0 - 64bit Production
PL/SQL Release 11.2.0.1.0 - Production
CORE     11.2.0.1.0     Production
TNS for 64-bit Windows: Version 11.2.0.1.0 - Production
NLSRTL Version 11.2.0.1.0 - Production
SQL> select status from dba_registry where comp_id = 'APEX'
2 /
STATUS
VALID
SQL> select username, account_status
2 from   dba_users
3 where username = 'ANONYMOUS'
4 or     username like 'APEX%'
5 or     upper (username) = 'ADMIN'
6 order by username
7 /
USERNAME                       ACCOUNT_STATUS
ANONYMOUS                      EXPIRED
APEX_030200                    EXPIRED
APEX_040000                    OPEN
APEX_PUBLIC_USER               OPEN
SQL> select dbms_xdb.gethttpport from dual
2 /
GETHTTPPORT
       8080
SQL> select owa_util.get_version from dual
2 /
GET_VERSION
10.1.2.0.8
SQL> show parameter memory_target
NAME                                 TYPE        VALUE
memory_target                        big integer 1536M
SQL>

Are you sure you did give right path to script ? Yes.
>
If you extract files to folder c:\temp, you have after that folder c:\temp\apex and bunch of sub folders.
For script to update images, you give path to folder where you did extract apex install files.
In above case that is then c:\temp .
>I created a directory c:\apex on my laptop. I downloaded the zip file to that directory. When I extracted the files to folder c:\apex, the result was c:\apex\apex with a bunch of sub folders and files. When I ran the script, I gave the path c:\apex as indicated in my copy and paste. So, I did everything the same as in the quote above, except that I used apex instead of temp.
Try extract Apex install zip to c:\temp and give c:\temp as path for scriptAre you suggesting that I redo the entire installation using c:\temp instead of c:\apex? What difference would that make? Would I need to do some sort of uninstall first?

Ubuntu 11.10 failed to boot after (un)successful install on Thinkpad X61

Hello,
I installed Ubuntu from a USB drive and now it won't boot. I get the screen from which I can enter BIOS and manually boot from the USB stick but it won't automatically boot from the HDD. if I don't do that, what happens is that once the BIOS screen disappears all I get is a black screen with a blinking cursor in the top left corner. nothing else happens anymore. pressing down any key has no effect.
Shortly before finishing the installation, I get this message: "An attempt to configure apt to install additional packages from the CD failed". it doesn't say that the installation as a whole failed thought...
Your help is appreciated!

Hi red_revenger,
Can you try formatting the usb in fat32 with the windows (or Linux) tool and after that dump again the ISO image to your usb with unetbootin.
If the problem persist, make a test with another distro, or another version of ubuntu.
If after all steps above you can't still start the system, the problem might be elsewhere. Post back the outcome.
abvasili
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Failed boot after moving hard drive (IDE not SATA)

Greetings all.
I am attempting to setup a headless box, and in doing so I am installing Arch on one system (Sapphire Axion A3-M275 Motherboard), then moving the hard drive to the new system (SGS1660, a VIA CLE266/VT8235 based headless rack-solution). After moving the drive into the SGS1660, the system fails to boot. Attached output from the Serial Console:
Booting 'Arch Linux'
root (hd0,0)
Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
kernel /vmlinuz26 root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/93df0562-c6e6-4583-9a79-51cd2091247b r
o console=ttyS0,115200
[Linux-bzImage, setup=0x3600, size=0x1ad6d0]
initrd /kernel26.img
[Linux-initrd @ 0x2ff21000, 0x9e7a5 bytes]
Linux version 2.6.30-ARCH (root@T-POWA-LX) (gcc version 4.4.0 20090630 (prerelease) (GCC) ) #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Jul 20 11:20:32 UTC 2009
KERNEL supported cpus:
Intel GenuineIntel
AMD AuthenticAMD
NSC Geode by NSC
Cyrix CyrixInstead
Centaur CentaurHauls
Transmeta GenuineTMx86
Transmeta TransmetaCPU
UMC UMC UMC UMC
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000e0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000002ffd0000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000002ffd0000 - 000000002ffde000 (ACPI data)
BIOS-e820: 000000002ffde000 - 0000000030000000 (ACPI NVS)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec01000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000ff780000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
DMI 2.3 present.
AMI BIOS detected: BIOS may corrupt low RAM, working around it.
last_pfn = 0x2ffd0 max_arch_pfn = 0x100000
x86 PAT enabled: cpu 0, old 0x7040600070406, new 0x7010600070106
Scanning 0 areas for low memory corruption
modified physical RAM map:
modified: 0000000000000000 - 0000000000010000 (reserved)
modified: 0000000000010000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
modified: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
modified: 00000000000e0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
modified: 0000000000100000 - 000000002ffd0000 (usable)
modified: 000000002ffd0000 - 000000002ffde000 (ACPI data)
modified: 000000002ffde000 - 0000000030000000 (ACPI NVS)
modified: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec01000 (reserved)
modified: 00000000ff780000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
init_memory_mapping: 0000000000000000-000000002ffd0000
RAMDISK: 2ff21000 - 2ffbf7a5
ACPI: RSDP 000f6ad0 00014 (v00 ACPIAM)
ACPI: RSDT 2ffd0000 0002C (v01 A M I OEMRSDT 09000521 MSFT 00000097)
ACPI: FACP 2ffd0200 00084 (v02 A M I OEMFACP 09000521 MSFT 00000097)
ACPI: DSDT 2ffd0390 03270 (v01 MiniV MiniV080 00000080 INTL 02002026)
ACPI: FACS 2ffde000 00040
ACPI: OEMB 2ffde040 00046 (v01 A M I AMI_OEM 09000521 MSFT 00000097)
0MB HIGHMEM available.
767MB LOWMEM available.
mapped low ram: 0 - 2ffd0000
low ram: 0 - 2ffd0000
node 0 low ram: 00000000 - 2ffd0000
node 0 bootmap 00011000 - 00016ffc
(9 early reservations) ==> bootmem [0000000000 - 002ffd0000]
#0 [0000000000 - 0000001000] BIOS data page ==> [0000000000 - 0000001000]
#1 [0000001000 - 0000002000] EX TRAMPOLINE ==> [0000001000 - 0000002000]
#2 [0000006000 - 0000007000] TRAMPOLINE ==> [0000006000 - 0000007000]
#3 [0000100000 - 0000626e44] TEXT DATA BSS ==> [0000100000 - 0000626e44]
#4 [002ff21000 - 002ffbf7a5] RAMDISK ==> [002ff21000 - 002ffbf7a5]
#5 [0000099c00 - 0000100000] BIOS reserved ==> [0000099c00 - 0000100000]
#6 [0000627000 - 0000629230] BRK ==> [0000627000 - 0000629230]
#7 [0000010000 - 0000011000] PGTABLE ==> [0000010000 - 0000011000]
#8 [0000011000 - 0000017000] BOOTMAP ==> [0000011000 - 0000017000]
Zone PFN ranges:
DMA 0x00000010 -> 0x00001000
Normal 0x00001000 -> 0x0002ffd0
HighMem 0x0002ffd0 -> 0x0002ffd0
Movable zone start PFN for each node
early_node_map[2] active PFN ranges
0: 0x00000010 -> 0x0000009f
0: 0x00000100 -> 0x0002ffd0
Using APIC driver default
ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x808
SMP: Allowing 1 CPUs, 0 hotplug CPUs
No local APIC present or hardware disabled
PM: Registered nosave memory: 000000000009f000 - 00000000000a0000
PM: Registered nosave memory: 00000000000a0000 - 00000000000e0000
PM: Registered nosave memory: 00000000000e0000 - 0000000000100000
Allocating PCI resources starting at 40000000 (gap: 30000000:cec00000)
NR_CPUS:8 nr_cpumask_bits:8 nr_cpu_ids:1 nr_node_ids:1
PERCPU: Embedded 11 pages at c1606000, static data 24444 bytes
Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on. Total pages: 194911
Kernel command line: root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/93df0562-c6e6-4583-9a79-51cd2091247b ro console=ttyS0,115200
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Initializing CPU#0
NR_IRQS:512
PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 16384 bytes)
Fast TSC calibration using PIT
Detected 1326.894 MHz processor.
Console: colour dummy device 80x25
console [ttyS0] enabled
Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Initializing HighMem for node 0 (00000000:00000000)
Memory: 772708k/786240k available (2905k kernel code, 12976k reserved, 1052k data, 392k init, 0k highmem)
virtual kernel memory layout:
fixmap : 0xfff4e000 - 0xfffff000 ( 708 kB)
pkmap : 0xff800000 - 0xffc00000 (4096 kB)
vmalloc : 0xf07d0000 - 0xff7fe000 ( 240 MB)
lowmem : 0xc0000000 - 0xeffd0000 ( 767 MB)
.init : 0xc04e3000 - 0xc0545000 ( 392 kB)
.data : 0xc03d647f - 0xc04dd6a8 (1052 kB)
.text : 0xc0100000 - 0xc03d647f (2905 kB)
Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode...Ok.
SLUB: Genslabs=13, HWalign=32, Order=0-3, MinObjects=0, CPUs=1, Nodes=1
Calibrating delay loop (skipped), value calculated using timer frequency.. 2654.36 BogoMIPS (lpj=4422980)
Security Framework initialized
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (32 bytes/line), D cache 64K (32 bytes/line)
CPU: L2 Cache: 64K (32 bytes/line)
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
SMP alternatives: switching to UP code
Freeing SMP alternatives: 10k freed
ACPI: Core revision 20090320
ACPI: setting ELCR to 0200 (from 8c20)
weird, boot CPU (#0) not listed by the BIOS.
SMP motherboard not detected.
Local APIC not detected. Using dummy APIC emulation.
SMP disabled
Brought up 1 CPUs
Total of 1 processors activated (2654.36 BogoMIPS).
net_namespace: 1056 bytes
Booting paravirtualized kernel on bare hardware
NET: Registered protocol family 16
ACPI: bus type pci registered
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xf0031, last bus=1
PCI: Using configuration type 1 for base access
bio: create slab <bio-0> at 0
ACPI: Interpreter enabled
ACPI: (supports S0 S1 S3 S4 S5)
ACPI: Using PIC for interrupt routing
ACPI: Power Resource [URP1] (off)
ACPI: Power Resource [URP2] (off)
ACPI: Power Resource [FDDP] (off)
ACPI: Power Resource [LPTP] (off)
ACPI: No dock devices found.
ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (0000:00)
pci 0000:00:07.0: PME# supported from D0 D3hot D3cold
pci 0000:00:07.0: PME# disabled
pci 0000:00:10.0: PME# supported from D0 D1 D2 D3hot D3cold
pci 0000:00:10.0: PME# disabled
pci 0000:00:10.1: PME# supported from D0 D1 D2 D3hot D3cold
pci 0000:00:10.1: PME# disabled
pci 0000:00:10.2: PME# supported from D0 D1 D2 D3hot D3cold
pci 0000:00:10.2: PME# disabled
HPET not enabled in BIOS. You might try hpet=force boot option
pci 0000:00:11.0: quirk: region 0800-087f claimed by vt8235 PM
pci 0000:00:11.0: quirk: region 0400-040f claimed by vt8235 SMB
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 *10 11 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 *11 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 3 4 *5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 *15)
PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
NetLabel: Initializing
NetLabel: domain hash size = 128
NetLabel: protocols = UNLABELED CIPSOv4
NetLabel: unlabeled traffic allowed by default
pnp: PnP ACPI init
ACPI: bus type pnp registered
pnp: PnP ACPI: found 10 devices
ACPI: ACPI bus type pnp unregistered
system 00:05: ioport range 0xe900-0xe90f has been reserved
system 00:05: ioport range 0xea00-0xea0f has been reserved
system 00:05: ioport range 0xeb00-0xeb2f has been reserved
system 00:05: ioport range 0xec00-0xec7f has been reserved
system 00:05: ioport range 0xe800-0xe83f has been reserved
system 00:07: ioport range 0x3e0-0x3e7 has been reserved
system 00:07: ioport range 0x4d0-0x4d1 has been reserved
system 00:07: ioport range 0x800-0x87f has been reserved
system 00:07: ioport range 0x400-0x41f could not be reserved
system 00:09: iomem range 0x0-0x9ffff could not be reserved
system 00:09: iomem range 0xe0000-0xfffff could not be reserved
system 00:09: iomem range 0x100000-0x2fffffff could not be reserved
pci 0000:00:01.0: PCI bridge, secondary bus 0000:01
pci 0000:00:01.0: IO window: disabled
pci 0000:00:01.0: MEM window: 0xddd00000-0xdfdfffff
pci 0000:00:01.0: PREFETCH window: 0x000000d5c00000-0x000000ddbfffff
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP route cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
TCP established hash table entries: 131072 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes)
TCP bind hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 131072 bind 65536)
TCP reno registered
NET: Registered protocol family 1
Unpacking initramfs...
Freeing initrd memory: 633k freed
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.16ac)
apm: overridden by ACPI.
Scanning for low memory corruption every 60 seconds
audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)
type=2000 audit(1248948860.509:1): initialized
VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.2
Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
msgmni has been set to 1510
alg: No test for stdrng (krng)
Block layer SCSI generic (bsg) driver version 0.4 loaded (major 254)
io scheduler noop registered
io scheduler anticipatory registered
io scheduler deadline registered
io scheduler cfq registered (default)
pci 0000:00:01.0: disabling DAC on VIA PCI bridge
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Serial: 8250/16550 driver, 4 ports, IRQ sharing disabled
serial8250: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
00:06: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
input: Macintosh mouse button emulation as /devices/virtual/input/input0
PNP: No PS/2 controller found. Probing ports directly.
serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
cpuidle: using governor ladder
cpuidle: using governor menu
TCP cubic registered
NET: Registered protocol family 17
Using IPI No-Shortcut mode
registered taskstats version 1
Initalizing network drop monitor service
Freeing unused kernel memory: 392k freed
:: Loading Initramfs
:: Running Hook [udev]
:: Loading udev...SCSI subsystem initialized
pata_acpi 0000:00:11.1: can't derive routing for PCI INT A
pata_acpi 0000:00:11.1: can't derive routing for PCI INT A
done.
Waiting 10 seconds for device /dev/disk/by-uuid/93df0562-c6e6-4583-9a79-51cd2091247b ...
Root device '/dev/disk/by-uuid/93df0562-c6e6-4583-9a79-51cd2091247b' doesn't exist, attempting to create it
ERROR: Failed to parse block device ids for '/dev/disk/by-uuid/93df0562-c6e6-4583-9a79-51cd2091247b'
ERROR: Unable to detect or create root device '/dev/disk/by-uuid/93df0562-c6e6-4583-9a79-51cd2091247b'
You are being dropped to a recovery shell
Type 'reboot' to reboot
Type 'exit' to try and continue booting
NOTE: klibc contains no 'ls' binary, use 'echo *' instead
If the device '/dev/disk/by-uuid/93df0562-c6e6-4583-9a79-51cd2091247b' gets created while you are here,
try adding 'rootdelay=10' or higher to the kernel command-line
ramfs$
I think what is happening is that the kernel does not have the drivers for the IDE controller on the board for the CLE266/VT8235. Does this seem accurrate? And if so, how can I verify the current kernel config, then compile a kernel with everything else Arch needs to boot properly? I am familiar with the old means of setting up a kernel using the 'make menuconfig; make; make modules_install' etc method.
Thanks for the help in advance!

Hi, not sure if this is still causing you an issue, but I just ran into the same problem.
For me, I have a Sharp PC=MM1110 which has no cd drive and doesn't like to boot from USB. To get Arch installed on it, I had to attach it to another PC (via it's docking cradle, which lets it show up as a USB hard drive), then boot the other PC from an Arch install cd and select the USB hdd for all of the partitioning etc.
When I rebooted after the installation, the Sharp wouldn't boot.
First, I had to edit the grub menu entry to point to (hd0,0), at which point I got the error listed in the first post... Failed to parse block device id's.
If i booted into fallback mode, it booted without a problem.
For me, the solution to finally get it working was to boot into fallback mode, remount the filesystem as r/w, and run mkinitcpio -g filename to rebuild the kernel. Once completed all I had to do was point grub to the new kernel image and it booted ok.
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My Macbook Pro wont boot after upgrading to SSD, A ? Mark on Folder appears

Hello all,
I just put in a new SSD into my mid 2012, 13" macbook pro. This is the exact SSD http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/searchtools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=77394 89&tab=7&SRCCODE=WEBLET03ORDER&cm_mmc=Email-_-WebletMain-_-WEBLET03ORDER-_-Deals &utm_source=EML&utm_medium=main&utm_campaign=WEBLET03ORDER&cm_lm=noahbragg@cedar ville.edu
I swapped out my optical drive and put in the SSD using this tutorial, http://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Installing+MacBook+Pro+13-Inch+Unibody+Mid+2012+Dual +Hard+Drive/13787 Everything seemed to go fine and i had no problems. But when I tried to start up the computer it stayed on a gray screen and a foler with a question mark on it, showed up blanking. I have looked all over for the internet for the answer, I have tried to reset the PRAM but it did nothing. I then tried to select what drive i wanted to boot from by holding the option key when i booted, but when the options came up, SSD or old harddrive did not come up as a way to boot up. There were some internet options to recover but they did not work.
The SSD has nothing on it at this point, but my plan was to boot up using the original HD and then clone it over to the SSD, but ovbiously i cant even find the HD to boot to. I have seen that people are having troubles with booting to their SSD because of the new mavericks update, but i am just trying to boot to my original HD at this point.
I also considered that maybe i possibly damaged the HD cables through static electricty, but when i searched more about it i learned that i should have heard snap or felt a jolt. None of these things happened when i installed the SSD. So i beleive that the hard drive or SSD are not broken in any way.
Does anyone have any ideas or suggestions on how i can fix this? Need my computer very badly! thanks in advance.

I also forgot to mention that after the first time i tried to boot, it went to the normal screen where it wanted me to put in my apple id password. but the loading wheel was just spinning the whole time. so i turned off the computer and tried again. thats when the question mark folder came up and kept coming up everytime after that.

Windows 2000 won't boot after QuickTime 7.03 installation!!!

Thank your VERY much Apple for messing a company computer!
An Interactive Tuturial we bought used QuickTime, and the sound sounded like the instructor was underwater.
I then went to this website and downloaded QuickTime 7.03, the version you PUSH with ITunes as I at first did not see your snugged away link to the stand-alone download.
Anyways after the download, I went through the installation, which at the end prompted me to reboot.
Well thanks Apple, now the Windows 2000 sp4, system won't boot at all!!!
Not even in safe mode!!! Hangs during or after loading fltmgr.sys
Not even after having bootet to the Windows 2000 installation CD-ROM and done an emergency repair!!!
Thank your VERY much!!!
Not only have your installation program caused a working computer to become unoperational for half a day, now it seems we have to reinstall Windows 2000, and ALL programs and their settings which were used on it, causing another half a day or more of loss work!!!
Edited by an Apple Host

Due the this recent catastrophic issue and other, with the official Apple Quicktime player, our company have deciced to uninstall all versions of Quicktime, mostly version 6, on our 158 PC's, and install the QuickTime Alternative instead.
http://www.codecguide.com/about_qt.htm

Failed boot after enabling devmon service with systemctl

I've recently reinstalled Arch and in trying to get a proper automount solution working I was playing with udevil and devmon. First I disabled and uninstalled ldm, which wasn't working as I wanted. Then installed udevil via pacman. I couldn't find proper instructions at first so I ran:
# systemctl enable [email protected]
and then rebooted. But that didn't work. Then I found something saying to run:
# systemctl enable [email protected]
So I disabled devmon@ and enabled devmon@MYUSERNAME then rebooted.
As the system was shutting down it seemed to get stuck at a part about trying to save a random seed. I walked away for 10 minutes but when I came back nothing had changed so I hit the hard reset button. As it rebooted I could just barely see a whole lot of red [FAILED] signs flashing past my screen. When the screen comes to rest I am greeted by this. Once it gets to this point it doesn't accept any input from the keyboard except for Ctrl-Alt-Del which seems to cleanly reboot.
So far I've booted my arch install cd and run the following on all my partitions along with trying the -p, -r and -a options.
# fsck /dev/sda2
Nothing I ran seemed to produce any output that would suggest there are any problems or anything like an error code 8, which I've read elsewhere is an operational error, whatever that means.
Next I read up about chroot and gave that a go. I chrooted into my arch install and decided to disable the devmon@MYUSERNAME service and uninstall udevil incase that was interfering somehow. I also checked out the journalctl per the screenshots instructions but didn't really understand it. Also not sure on where that log information is stored so I can upload it here.
Any help would be appreciated.
Last edited by greatant (2013-06-11 11:02:07)

I've not made any progress with this issue. I've decided it has to do with the random seed, but I can't find any information on it via ArchWiki, searching the forum or google.

My macbook wont boot after battery drained during installation

I was downloading updates for my software and my battery is running low. When the download was completed and installation is starting and on-going then my battery got drained and turned off. When I plugged / charged it and turned it on, it wont boot... Only the apple drawing comes out and keeps on booting but it wont go to the main display.... what should i do???

i've got thad cd, it just doesn't work, i also downloaded a iligal version ( just to check if my original cd died, not to put it on my mac )
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Failed boot after update - White screen after bong

Hi, i've an iMac with snow leopard installed.
Yesterday i did a software update that included a reboot.
after that and after the standard boing the system stopped on a white screen.
I've tried using the snow leopard dvd, nothing, pressing "c" with the dvd, inside, nothing, pressing alt, nothing, pressing Shift, success!!!
The system normally logged in but after a new reboot, that i've decided, the system stopped again on the annoying white screen.
I've tried again pressing shift but now anything happened!!!
Help me please!!!
thanks

Solved!
I unplugged the ac and waited for 20 second.
After that i rebooted pressing altcmd+pr. After the second boing the system rebooted regularly.
Then i re-installed snow leopard.
Now it's ok,
thanks to everyone.

[Help: Urgent] problems with accessing /console after apparent successful install of Portal server SP3.0sp3a

Hi,
HW: Sun Solaris 2.8
I would really appreciate it you can cc: me if you can shed any light
as
to whats going wrong, and what I should do to fix the following
problem.
Portal server doesn't allow one to access /console (or /login) -
0 length document is returned.
We find the following in the enterprise server error log, when we
attempt
to access portal console (URI: http://....:8080/console)
1) Installed SP3.0sp3a as Open Portal, i.e without the gateway and
without
SSL enabled.
2) Our Unix users are served using YP
***From the server access logs : ***
- - [16/Nov/2001:15:12:40 -0800] "GET /login HTTP/1.0" 503 0
***From the server error logs : ***
[16/Nov/2001:14:11:27] info ( 4639): successful server startup
[16/Nov/2001:14:11:27] info ( 4639): iPlanet-WebServer-Enterprise/4.1SP7
BB1-04/05
/2001 18:30
[16/Nov/2001:14:11:28] info ( 4639): Loading Simple Session Manager by
default. Sp
ecify MMapSessionManager in servlets.properties to load persistent
session manager
[16/Nov/2001:14:11:28] info ( 4639): SimpleSessionManager: Default
values for maxi
mum number of sessions is 1000 with a time out value of 1800 seconds
[16/Nov/2001:14:11:28] info ( 4639): SimpleSessionManager: Maximum
number of sessi
ons (1000) with a time out value of (1800) seconds
[16/Nov/2001:14:12:40] info ( 4639): Internal Info: loading servlet
login
[16/Nov/2001:14:12:41] info ( 4639): Internal Info: loading servlet
pllservice
[16/Nov/2001:14:12:41] info ( 4639): pllservice: init
[16/Nov/2001:14:12:42] failure ( 4639): Internal error: exception thrown
from the
servlet service function (uri=/login): java.lang.NullPointerException,
stack: java
..lang.NullPointerException
at
com.iplanet.portalserver.auth.service.AuthD.printProfileAttrs(Compiled
Code)
at
com.iplanet.portalserver.auth.service.AuthD.<init>(AuthD.java:160)
at
com.iplanet.portalserver.auth.service.AuthD.getAuth(AuthD.java:171)
at
com.iplanet.portalserver.auth.service.LoginServlet.doGetPost(Compiled C
ode)
at
com.iplanet.portalserver.auth.service.LoginServlet.doGet(LoginServlet.j
ava:990)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:701)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:826)
at
com.netscape.server.http.servlet.NSServletRunner.Service(NSServletRunne
r.java:507)
, root cause:
Many thanks for your responses on this.
Tarang Kumar Patel. WWW home:http://ic-www.arc.nasa.gov/ic/
NASA Ames Research Center, MS 269-2, Moffett Field, CA 94035-1000
Email: [email protected], Tel:(650) 604-4721 fax: (650) 604
3594
Stated views are my own IDEA, as I'm another I.D.E.A man "I Didn't
Explain All"

Just one more thing:
I made the following setting in platform.conf
ips.debug=on
Now, the trace I see on the STDOUT/STDERR stream reveals :
Received RequestSet XML : <?xml version="1.0" standalone="yes"?>
<RequestSet vers="1.0" svcid="profile" reqid="2">
<Request sid="qxcuekwwdrcfwubmmwuip82764q94o37r67n@[email protected]@8080@z
repvc"><![CDATA[<ProfileService ver="1.0" reqid="0"><GetProfile searchFlag="false"
admin="false"><Profile profileName="mercip/authentication" profileType="9"><Priv p
rivName="iwtSession-addSessionListenerOnAllSessions"/></Profile></GetProfile></Prof
ileService>]]></Request>
</RequestSet>
---->NEED TO FILL APPSHASH -----
getProfile.walktree
321^iwtSession-addSessionListenerOnAllSessions-pv
com.iplanet.portalserver.profile.service.ProfileServiceException: 321^iwtSession-ad
dSessionListenerOnAllSessions-pv
at java.lang.Throwable.fillInStackTrace(Native Method)
at java.lang.Throwable.fillInStackTrace(Compiled Code)
at java.lang.Throwable.<init>(Compiled Code)
at java.lang.Exception.<init>(Exception.java:42)
at com.iplanet.portalserver.profile.service.ProfileServiceException.<init>(
ProfileServiceException.java:47)
at com.iplanet.portalserver.profile.service.ProfileService.walkTree(Compile
d Code)
at com.iplanet.portalserver.profile.service.ProfileService.getProfile(Compi
led Code)
at com.iplanet.portalserver.profile.service.ProfileService.processProfileRe
quest(ProfileService.java:134)
at com.iplanet.portalserver.profile.service.ProfileService.processRequest(P
rofileService.java:123)
at com.iplanet.portalserver.profile.service.ProfileService.process(Compiled
Code)
at com.iplanet.portalserver.pll.server.PLLRequestServlet.handleRequest(PLLR
equestServlet.java:139)
at com.iplanet.portalserver.pll.server.PLLRequestServlet.doPost(Compiled Co
de)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:733)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:826)
at com.netscape.server.http.servlet.NSServletRunner.Service(NSServletRunner
.java:507)
ProfileResponse: exception key:321
ProfileResponse: exception string:iwtSession-addSessionListenerOnAllSessions-pv
ProfileResponse.toXMLString:method id is 0
Sent ResponseSet XML : <?xml version="1.0" standalone="yes"?>
<ResponseSet vers="1.0" svcid="profile" reqid="2">
<Response><![CDATA[<ProfileService vers="1.0" reqid="0"><Exception>321^iwtSession-a
ddSessionListenerOnAllSessions-pv</Exception></ProfileService>]]></Response>
</ResponseSet>
ProfileResponse: exception key:321
ProfileResponse: exception string:iwtSession-addSessionListenerOnAllSessions-pv
ProfileUtils.getProfileResponse: Response content <ProfileService vers="1.0" reqid=
"0"><Exception>321^iwtSession-addSessionListenerOnAllSessions-pv</Exception></Profi
leService>
Profile Error:
Invalid attribute or privilege name
com.iplanet.portalserver.session.SessionException: Invalid attribute or privilege n
ame
at java.lang.Throwable.fillInStackTrace(Native Method)
at com.iplanet.portalserver.session.SessionException.<init>(SessionExceptio
n.java:30)
at com.iplanet.portalserver.session.Session.addSessionListenerOnAllSessions
(Session.java:642)
at com.iplanet.portalserver.session.Session.addSessionListenerOnAllSessions
(Session.java:502)
at com.iplanet.portalserver.auth.service.AuthD.<init>(AuthD.java:112)
at com.iplanet.portalserver.auth.service.AuthD.getAuth(AuthD.java:171)
at com.iplanet.portalserver.auth.service.LoginServlet.doGetPost(Compiled Co
de)
at com.iplanet.portalserver.auth.service.LoginServlet.doGet(LoginServlet.ja
va:990)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:701)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:826)
at com.netscape.server.http.servlet.NSServletRunner.Service(NSServletRunner
.java:507)
Authd Profile Attributes
cookieDomains
cookieName->iPlanetPortalServer
authHost:authPort->........:8080
authProto->http
authHostIP->.....
authHostURL->http://.......:8080/login/default
Lets hope this helps

[SOLVED] - UDev errors on boot after XFCE4 and goodies installation

I'm getting errors at "Waiting for UDev events to be processed". things are being "terminated by signal 9". I have a feeling that I set something up incorrectly, but I have no idea where to start looking. I think of this mostly as a learning experience, so just point me in the right direction. If I get stuck again, I'll come back to the thread. I'll also post my progress here. I've also done a search on here looking for UDev errors associated with XFCE. I have yet to read all of the threads that turned up, but I'm working on it. Thanks for your help ahead of time.
Last edited by brainard52 (2012-04-18 23:08:07)

Well, now I feel silly. I guess it's here for future reference, though. I had a bad udev rule, so I deleted it and we're good now.

Restored 10.6 OS from CD and fails to Boot after Combo upgrade

I have a clean install of Lion on my internal drive and an external clone of the HD from the previous Snow Leopard install. The Clone worked until I updated via the latest auto update. I have App's and other settings to transfer to Lion from this clone so want to get it working so I can ensure all the App's are upgraded to work on Lion or are deleted.
After the external drive failed to boot I reinstalled the system from my Snow Leopard Install CD, not the 24-inch iMac (Mid 2007) restore CD.
I then used Auto updater to install the combo and other updates to 10.6.8 this booted fine until I upgraded Safari 5.1 and Java - the last items that came up on the software updater. Upon restart, the boot failed in the last portion of the boot and at this point the Apple emblem went away and the round circle with diaginoal line apeared.
On starting with the option key down, the clone disk 10.6.8 shows as being available, along with the internal Drive, for booting.
Starting with "command + S" gets through to the last line of the process then states "waiting on Root"
When compaired to a Snow OS that boots OK it is the last line of code before the curser is ready for entering a command.
Can anyone tell me what to look for or how to repair this error so that I can get my data across to Lion. Thanks

Well, in case anyone else has a similar problem I managed to fix the system by the following process:
I reinstalled 10.6.0 from the retail Snow Leopard CD. The drive Booted OK but I needed to be upgraded to 10.6.8 to use the migration tool so I then upgraded using the Software Update utility. Boot failed again at this point and could not be fixed by anything I did.
I then reinstalled 10.6.0 from the CD to try again, but the HD would not boot this time around.
I downloaded CleanApp by Synium Software (http://www.syniumsoftware.com/cleanapp/) on a commendation from the famous eBook, "Take Control of installing Lion" by Joe Kissell of TidBits. I used this from my Lion HD to remove all orphan files, PPC files and Apps, and other junk. Snow Leapard still not Booting after repairs by various disk repair utilities including Apples.
I Booted from my internal HD using Lion and ran SuperDuper to make a new Clone of the failed HD on a second external HD. Took a day and a night to run while I was at work, but the new clone would not boot at this stage so I ran SuperDuper again using the "Smart Update Backup" option. This just adds changed files or missing files to the clone. At the end of this process I had a running Clone that would boot on 10.6.0.
I Booted from the second Clone and used the Software Update utility then to up grade in the two stages the Auto system used to bring my OS up to 10.6.8. This was successful and I had a Bootable Snow Leopard with no old Apps from which to Migrate my data.

"printer installer" window shows up at every boot after installing printer

After installing successfully a Samsung printer, everytime I boot Mountain Lion there is a "printer installer" window shows up.
Any way to get rid of this?
Regards,
Vincent

I've come across someone who had this before - they'd forgotten to take the installer disc out of the optical drive so it ran its installer at every boot. Any chance that's it?

Stuck on boot after New Installation

Hi!
I've removed Ubuntu and installed Arch and it can't boot after installation. I hangs up after:
/dev/sda1: clean, 31810/2444624 files, 407160/9770158 blocks
I have normal BIOS(not UEFI), and two discs: /dev/sda is SSD with Arch and /dev/sdb is HDD with Windows 8...
Tried playing with fstab, but it was still stucking. Then tried reinstalling, but it's still hanging...
Original /etc/fstab:
# /etc/fstab: static file system information
# <file system> <dir> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
# /dev/sda1
UUID=ef1945f4-2d23-479e-a873-802d7bbbf32c / ext4 rw,relatime,data=ordered 0 1
/boot/grub/grub.cfg:
# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE
# It is automatically generated by grub-mkconfig using templates
# from /etc/grub.d and settings from /etc/default/grub
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/00_header ###
insmod part_gpt
insmod part_msdos
if [ -s $prefix/grubenv ]; then
load_env
fi
set default="0"
if [ x"${feature_menuentry_id}" = xy ]; then
menuentry_id_option="--id"
else
menuentry_id_option=""
fi
export menuentry_id_option
if [ "${prev_saved_entry}" ]; then
set saved_entry="${prev_saved_entry}"
save_env saved_entry
set prev_saved_entry=
save_env prev_saved_entry
set boot_once=true
fi
function savedefault {
if [ -z "${boot_once}" ]; then
saved_entry="${chosen}"
save_env saved_entry
fi
function load_video {
if [ x$feature_all_video_module = xy ]; then
insmod all_video
else
insmod efi_gop
insmod efi_uga
insmod ieee1275_fb
insmod vbe
insmod vga
insmod video_bochs
insmod video_cirrus
fi
if [ x$feature_default_font_path = xy ] ; then
font=unicode
else
insmod part_msdos
insmod ext2
set root='hd0,msdos1'
if [ x$feature_platform_search_hint = xy ]; then
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root --hint-bios=hd0,msdos1 --hint-efi=hd0,msdos1 --hint-baremetal=ahci0,msdos1 ef1945f4-2d23-479e-a873-802d7bbbf32c
else
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root ef1945f4-2d23-479e-a873-802d7bbbf32c
fi
font="/usr/share/grub/unicode.pf2"
fi
if loadfont $font ; then
set gfxmode=auto
load_video
insmod gfxterm
set locale_dir=$prefix/locale
set lang=pl_PL
insmod gettext
fi
terminal_input console
terminal_output gfxterm
set timeout=5
### END /etc/grub.d/00_header ###
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/10_linux ###
menuentry 'Arch GNU/Linux, za pomocą systemu Linux core repo kernel' --class arch --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os $menuentry_id_option 'gnulinux-core repo kernel-true-ef1945f4-2d23-479e-a873-802d7bbbf32c' {
load_video
set gfxpayload=keep
insmod gzio
insmod part_msdos
insmod ext2
set root='hd0,msdos1'
if [ x$feature_platform_search_hint = xy ]; then
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root --hint-bios=hd0,msdos1 --hint-efi=hd0,msdos1 --hint-baremetal=ahci0,msdos1 ef1945f4-2d23-479e-a873-802d7bbbf32c
else
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root ef1945f4-2d23-479e-a873-802d7bbbf32c
fi
echo 'Wczytywanie systemu Linux core repo kernel...'
linux /boot/vmlinuz-linux root=UUID=ef1945f4-2d23-479e-a873-802d7bbbf32c ro quiet
echo 'Wczytywanie początkowego dysku RAM...'
initrd /boot/initramfs-linux.img
menuentry 'Arch GNU/Linux, with Linux core repo kernel (Fallback initramfs)' --class arch --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os $menuentry_id_option 'gnulinux-core repo kernel-fallback-ef1945f4-2d23-479e-a873-802d7bbbf32c' {
load_video
set gfxpayload=keep
insmod gzio
insmod part_msdos
insmod ext2
set root='hd0,msdos1'
if [ x$feature_platform_search_hint = xy ]; then
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root --hint-bios=hd0,msdos1 --hint-efi=hd0,msdos1 --hint-baremetal=ahci0,msdos1 ef1945f4-2d23-479e-a873-802d7bbbf32c
else
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root ef1945f4-2d23-479e-a873-802d7bbbf32c
fi
echo 'Wczytywanie systemu Linux core repo kernel...'
linux /boot/vmlinuz-linux root=UUID=ef1945f4-2d23-479e-a873-802d7bbbf32c ro quiet
echo 'Wczytywanie początkowego dysku RAM...'
initrd /boot/initramfs-linux-fallback.img
### END /etc/grub.d/10_linux ###
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/20_linux_xen ###
### END /etc/grub.d/20_linux_xen ###
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/20_memtest86+ ###
### END /etc/grub.d/20_memtest86+ ###
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober ###
menuentry 'Windows 8 (loader) (na /dev/sdb1)' --class windows --class os $menuentry_id_option 'osprober-chain-1EF4F8F7F4F8D24F' {
insmod part_msdos
insmod ntfs
set root='hd1,msdos1'
if [ x$feature_platform_search_hint = xy ]; then
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root --hint-bios=hd1,msdos1 --hint-efi=hd1,msdos1 --hint-baremetal=ahci1,msdos1 1EF4F8F7F4F8D24F
else
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root 1EF4F8F7F4F8D24F
fi
drivemap -s (hd0) ${root}
chainloader +1
### END /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober ###
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/40_custom ###
# This file provides an easy way to add custom menu entries. Simply type the
# menu entries you want to add after this comment. Be careful not to change
# the 'exec tail' line above.
### END /etc/grub.d/40_custom ###
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/41_custom ###
if [ -f ${config_directory}/custom.cfg ]; then
source ${config_directory}/custom.cfg
elif [ -z "${config_directory}" -a -f $prefix/custom.cfg ]; then
source $prefix/custom.cfg;
fi
### END /etc/grub.d/41_custom ###
(Btw. on my laptop Arch is working good...)
Last edited by Flanders (2013-02-17 17:42:58)

Remove quiet from the kernel command line so that you get as much information as possible.
You only have the one partition for Arch, right? The fstab is complete?
Look in /etc/default/grub and select the most basic, debugging-friendly options you can. E.g. make sure recovery entries are enabled etc.
Last edited by cfr (2013-03-10 02:52:55)

HT1941 Hi i have recently updated my version of iTunes in order to sync music from my macbook air to my new ipod shuffle. After a successful installation the application does not launch and I am unable to oepn iTunes of access my music! Someone please hel

Hi,
I have recently updated my iTunes to the latest version in order to sync music onto my new ipod shuffle. However after a successful installation the application does not launch or open? There are no error messages. The application is just unresponsive.
I have already checked the compatibility with Safari, my operating system and checked my firewall is not blocking it - all is fine.
Does anyone have any other resolutions?
Many thanks

Hi Carolyn,
Thank you for your time and response. The trouble is I am unable to launch iTunes? I have restarted my macbook air a number of times to try and initiate the application but the issue persists and the application remains unresponsive. Will not launch?
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