Got Black "You must Restart" screen, won't boot after. only restart screen!

I was browsing craigslist when i got the slow creeping down "You must restart blah blah blah screen..."
After obliging the machine's wish and restarting, it started to boot as normal. After an unusually long boot cycle, i got the same Restart screen. I removed the battery and reset power management because of a post that I found with a similar problem. After that, it goes through the boot system and then just shuts down.
It just continually does the same thing. I believe i left my install discs at work, so am working without them.
I logged in to single user mode and ran fsck -fy , and found it to come back with this result:
** /dev/rdisk0s2
** Root file system
** Checking Journaled HFS Plus volume.
** Checking Extents Overflow file.
** Checking Catalog file.
Invalid sibling link
(4,36954)
** Volume check failed.
/dev/rdisk0s2 (hfs) EDITED WITH SIGNAL 8
:/ root#
anyone know what the **** is going on??
I can't run diskutil in single user and verbose shuts down when trying to boot.

Not bickering at all. Are all discussions "bickering"?
Topher, let me get this straight. How does one determine something is wrong? DU? DW? Other Utilities? What if, after an A&I, these Utilities show nothing wrong? Still recommend an Erase and Install?
This is like the "permissions" debates of yesteryear. My analogy was and is the same. I keep an elephant stone in my house. It wards off elephants. Not one elephant since I bought that stone.
A lot of people around here seem to have this type of thinking as regards someone else's data, time, and effort. It's not that complicated.

Similar Messages

  • Won't boot up, only grey screen w/ don't park symbol, spinning wheel

    Won't boot up, only grey screen w/ don't park symbol, spinning wheel

    this link may help you http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2570
    let us know how it turns out
    and good luck

  • IMac won't boot after log-in screen. wheel keeps spinning or blue screen

    Hi there!
    I have a problem with my 2009 iMac running on Leopard. It all worked fine over years until last week when I was doing some work and the screen just froze and the wheel didnt stop spinning. So i turned it off and back on. Then all i got was a blue screen and it didnt boot. Tried again to start in safe mode. Nothing. Then using my install dvd doing the HD check and repair. Said no damage. But still didnt boot. So i tried to reinstall the OS. Still didnt boot. At least now i'm seeing the log in screen again instead of just the blue or grey screen. But once i try to type my username in, the wheel starts spinning and it freezes again.
    I'm lost! I dont know what else to do. Can someone please help and give some advice if there are any other options to get it bak to normal??
    Thanks.

    I have the exact same problem. IMac worked great until I installed the latest security update two days ago.  I got a message that the download was not successful.  After restarting the use, computer acts exactly as described  above.  Can't get it to complete startup. It acts like its trying to update firmware, but turns of in the middle of it. 

  • White screen & won't boot after Time Machine restore 10.8.2

    Hello,
    I know someone posted a similar issue but that it was related to a hardware failure.  Mine was not a hardware failure.
    Just wanted to give an FYI to anyone who may run into this issue.  I recently restored my Macbook Pro from a Time Machine backup (10.8.2)
    and I was getting a blank white screen at startup where the spinning line "|" would appear and then go away, and then come back, and then disappear...  Over and over.  Booting into single user mode resulted in the same issue.
    I ended up re-installing Mountain Lion over itself and my machine booted sucessfully.  Did all the software updates and I'm back at 10.8.2 again.
    This is just an FYI, something for you to try if you get the same error, hope this helps someone.

    Startup command-s and at the prompt type reboot
    Then press return.

  • Computer won't boot after installing latest iTunes update

    Won't boot after the apple screen.  Turns black and disk stops  Help!  Was running Mavericks.

    Hi Neodoc,
    Welcome to the Apple Support Communities! I understand that your MacBook Pro will not boot past the Apple logo. There may be a few troubleshooting steps I would recommend for this situation. The following article outlines the steps to perform to get this resolved for you.
    Mac OS X: Gray screen appears during startup
    http://support.apple.com/kb/ts2570
    I hope this helps,   
    -Joe

  • Doesn't start when starting as administrator. Error Firefox is already running, but is not responding. To open a new window, you must first close the existing Firefox process, or restart your system.

    Update firefox, it asked me to update flash, I tried to update flash but it said I had to close firefox. A box came up and said the Flash install would continue when I closed firefox. I closed all firefox windows and no update of flash occurred. I tried relaunching firefox but got the "Doesn't start when starting as administrator. Error Firefox is already running, but is not responding. To open a new window, you must first close the existing Firefox process, or restart your system." message. I rebooted the system, no improvement. I tried to run firefox as administrator and got the same message. Either I find a fix or I won't be able to use firefox and will have to go back to ie.

    -> press '''CTRL''' + '''SHIFT''' + '''ESC''' to Open Task Manager -> Processes tab -> right-click '''firefox.exe''' and click '''End Process Tree''' -> close Task Manager
    Troubleshooting extensions and themes
    * https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Troubleshooting%20extensions%20and%20themes
    Troubleshooting plugins
    * https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Troubleshooting%20plugins
    Check and tell if its working.

  • I try to launch firefox get the following message "firefox is already running, but is not resonding. to open a new window, you must first close the existing firefox process, or restart your system" firefox is not running and restart doesn't work

    when I launch firefox get the following message "firefox is already running, but is not resonding. to open a new window, you must first close the existing firefox process, or restart your system" firefox not running and a restart doesn't solve the problem

    Download a fresh Firefox copy and save the file to the desktop.
    *Firefox 12.0.x: http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/all.html
    Uninstall your current Firefox version, if possible.
    *Do NOT remove personal data when you uninstall your current Firefox version, because all profile folders will be removed and you will also lose your personal data like bookmarks and passwords from profiles of other Firefox versions.
    Remove the Firefox program folder before installing that newly downloaded copy of the Firefox installer.
    *It is important to delete the Firefox program folder to remove all the files and make sure that there are no problems with files that were leftover after uninstalling.
    *http://kb.mozillazine.org/Uninstalling_Firefox
    Your bookmarks and other profile data are stored elsewhere in the Firefox Profile Folder and won't be affected by a reinstall, but make sure that you do not select to remove personal data if you uninstall Firefox.
    *http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_folder_-_Firefox
    See also:
    *https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Firefox+is+already+running+but+is+not+responding
    *http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_in_use
    *http://kb.mozillazine.org/Recovering_a_missing_profile

  • Firefox is already running, but is not responding. To open a new window, you must first close the existing Firefox process, or restart your system. How do I fix this? I am ready to go back to internet explorer!

    Firefox is already running, but is not responding. To open a new window, you must first close the existing Firefox process, or restart your system.
    This box appears and then firefox quits...never opens.
    I have uninstalled, and loaded firefox 5 times and never got it to run.

    See [[Firefox is already running but is not responding|Firefox is already running but is not responding]].

  • Why does firefox stop loading then when i close it and try to open it up again I keep getting this message:Firefox is already running, but is not responding. To open a new window, you must first close the existing Firefox process, or restart your system

    Firefox will just stop loading/ connecting to the internet. The gray circle will just continually move but it never turns green to load the pages. I know it's not my internet because my internet explorer works just fine while this is happening to firefox. So I close firefox and then try to re open it but I get the message: Firefox is already running, but is not responding. To open a new window, you must first close the existing Firefox process, or restart your system. So I wait a little bit then try and re open it and still get the same message. I then go into my windows task manager and try and end the firefox proccess but it won't end. So I restart my computer and firefox eventually starts acting up again.

    For possible causes of this error, and how to troubleshoot it see [[Firefox is already running but is not responding]].

  • When I click to open firefox it says that "firefox is already running but is not responding. To open a new window, you must first close the existing Firefox process, or restart your system" and I've tried to shut down and restart my computer but it keeps

    when i click to open firefox it says that "firefox is already running but is not responding. To open a new window, you must first close the existing Firefox process, or restart your system." and I've tried to shut down and restart my computer but it keeps showing the same message. I've even uninstalled Firefox and then reinstalled in the hopes that the problem would be solved but it this message is still popping up. What can I do to solve this problem?
    == This happened ==
    Just once or twice
    == I was on facebook trying to upload pictures yesterday. ==
    == User Agent ==
    Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; Media Center PC 4.0; InfoPath.1)

    Do you have a profile lock file in your profile folder? If so, delete it and see if TB runs properly:
    http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_in_use#Remove_the_profile_lock_file

  • Firefox is OPEN and working fine, but when I click a link in Thunderbird I get 'Firefox is already running, but is not responding. To open a new window, you must first close the existing Firefox process, or restart your system.'

    If I click a link on my desktop or in any other program (while Firefox is open and running), I get this message: "Firefox is already running, but is not responding. To open a new window, you must first close the existing Firefox process, or restart your system." There's about a billion links for this if you Google it, but they all say that Firefox wasn't shut down properly. (OK, maybe not ALL of them, but if the needle is in that haystack, I haven't yet found it.) That's not the issue in my case since I haven't shut FF down at all.
    == This happened ==
    Every time Firefox opened
    == IDK

    This began to happen to me when I tried to run two separate profiles simultaneously on the same installation of firefox with -no-remote

  • I deleted the profile and firefox4 and then downloaded firefox4 again. But when i click firefox it says Firefox is already running, but is not responding. To open a new window, you must first close the existing Firefox process,or restart your system.HELP!

    somehow i couldn't get rid of one website called www.searchqu.com/405 set as my homepage... I tried all solutions given to change the homepage but whenever i restarted firefox that homepage used to come automatically.. So, I deleted the profile (even from recycle bin!!) and deleted the firefox and downloaded it again hoping to get my problems fixed (which didn't happen!) because i'm getting dialog box saying- Firefox is already running, but is not responding. To open a new window, you must first close the existing Firefox process, or restart your system.

    You don't say which operating system you have installed?
    Assuming it's Windows, right click a blank part of the Windows Taskbar and go to Task Manager. Then click the ''Processes ''tab, find '''firefox.exe''' and then right click it and choose '''End Process'''.

  • When I try to access Firefox I get this message: "Firefox is already running, but is not responding. To open a new windwo, you must first close the existing Firefox process, or restart your computer."

    When I click on Firefox I get a window that says: "Firefox is already running, but is not responding. To open a new window, you must first close the existing Firefox process, or restart your computer." I can't see where anything is running on firefox. I restarted the comuter and I shut down the computer. I also ran a full scan of the computer.

    Sorry I am a PC user but have you seen
    * [[Firefox is already running but is not responding]]
    Firefox will be hanging for some reason. The quick solutions to kill the process and try again. The next step is to try to see if it will start and exit normally a couple of times, if so the problem is solved. If not the reason needs further investigation.
    See [[firefox hangs]]
    An immediate likely culprit after repeated problems are the duplicate session restore files, as discussed in the above KB article.

  • Iget this when I try to open a session....Firefox is already running, but is not responding. To open a new window, you must first close the existing Firefox process, or restart your system.task mngr shows no open firefox processes.

    I get this when I try to open a session....Firefox is already running, but is not responding. To open a new window, you must first close the existing Firefox process, or restart your system.The task manager shows no open Firefox processes.I had two users on this laptop running Firefox and I tried deleting the program on both users. I then downloaded the newest version, installed it and I still get the error message as before. HELP!!!! I loved the browser program when it was working before and would rather use it than other browsers.

    See "Hang at exit":
    * http://kb.mozillazine.org/Firefox_hangs
    * https://support.mozilla.com/kb/Firefox+hangs

  • I keep getting this message after closing Firefox and attempt to reopen-Firefox is already running, but is not responding. To open a new window, you must first close the existing Firefox process, or restart your system.

    I keep getting this message after closing Firefox and attempt to reopen-Firefox is already running, but is not responding. To open a new window, you must first close the existing Firefox process, or restart your system.

    See:
    * http://kb.mozillazine.org/Recovering_a_missing_profile
    * http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_in_use

Maybe you are looking for