GS70 2QE - Every other boot fails

Hello all
I have an issue with my Notebook. Whenever i want to boot up my Notebook, the first boot will always fail:
Notebook emits a short "beep", keyboard flashes red then shuts off. Screen stays black.
However the Notebook then automatically tries to boot again, but this time it will succeed.
Now the problem was not from the beginning on. It occured the first time around 2 months ago. But I never updated anything manually, just Windows Update and the Nvidia Graphics update (automatically).
After encountering this problem the first few times, I decided to update all that i could find on the MSI Support page to my Notebook model.
However I was not able to do a BIOS update, since the UEFI flash mode is triggered in the BIOS menu after a reboot - now, you can imagine, i am never able to enter the UEFI flashmode because the first boot that should enter the UEFI flasmode will fail. The next successfull boot somehow will not remember that it should enter the UEFI flashmode....
I appreciate any help!
Thanks

So I just flashed the newest BIOS with the flashtool you provided. It succeeded in flashing!
Yet, as you stated before, the problem still occurs.
thank you so far for your support though
I have found another user having the exact same issue as I have in this topic.
But there wasn't a solution either
next thing would probably be a factory reset (F3 on bootup)? Even though I'm pretty sure it wont help either, it feels like it is a hardware issue now.
Or do u happen to have another idea?

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[root@gdmThink gdm]# systemctl status -n 100 [email protected]
[email protected] - A simple WPA encrypted wireless connection using a static IP
Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/[email protected]; enabled)
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Sat 2013-05-25 17:57:53 EDT; 42s ago
Docs: man:netctl.profile(5)
Process: 830 ExecStart=/usr/lib/network/network start %I (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
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Another thing I noticed is that a filesystem check gets started for that particular lv (lvimages) during the successful boot, but not the unsuccessful one. No idea if that means anything.
As you can see from the full log other lv's get mounted successful during the same boot.
The raid also seems to get started fine. I noticed this line in the logs, but it's in both the successful and unsuccessful boots so it probably is not the issue.
Nov 01 07:56:31 mythbackend systemd[1]: Cannot add dependency job for unit lvm.service, ignoring: Unit lvm.service failed to load: No such file or directory.
This is my fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information
# <file system> <dir> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
# devpts /dev/pts devpts defaults 0 0
shm /dev/shm tmpfs nodev,nosuid 0 0
#/dev/cdrom /media/cd auto ro,user,noauto,unhide 0 0
#/dev/dvd /media/dvd auto ro,user,noauto,unhide 0 0
#/dev/fd0 /media/fl auto user,noauto 0 0
# /dev/sda1 /boot ext4 defaults 0 1
/dev/sda2 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/sda5 / ext4 defaults 0 1
#/dev/VolGroup01/lvolhome /home ext4 defaults 0 1
#/dev/raidvg/lvhome /home ext4 defaults 0 2
/dev/sda7 /home ext4 defaults 0 2
/dev/mapper/raidvg-lvmusic /home/laffi/media/music ext4 defaults 0 2
/dev/mapper/raidvg-lvphotos /home/laffi/media/photos ext4 defaults 0 2
/dev/mapper/raidvg-lvvideos /home/laffi/media/videos xfs defaults 0 2
/dev/mapper/raidvg-lvmovies /home/laffi/media/movies xfs defaults 0 2
/dev/mapper/raidvg-lvcamcorder /home/laffi/media/camcorder ext4 defaults 0 2
/dev/mapper/raidvg-lvrecordings /home/laffi/media/recordings xfs defaults 0 2
/dev/mapper/raidvg-lvlivetv /home/laffi/media/livetv xfs defaults 0 2
/dev/mapper/raidvg-lvrecarchive /home/laffi/media/recarchive xfs defaults 0 2
/dev/mapper/raidvg-lvbooks /home/laffi/media/books ext4 defaults 0 2
/dev/mapper/raidvg-lvimages /home/laffi/media/images ext4 defaults 0 2
# /dev/mapper/raidvg-lvbackhome /home/laffi/media/backhome ext4 defaults 0 2
/dev/sda6 /home/laffi/media/backup ext4 defaults 0 1
/dev/sdf1 /home/laffi/usbdrive ntfs defaults,nofail 0 2
Any help will be much appreciated. Thank you.u
Log of successful boot:
http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=ZE9k76PW
Log of unsuccessful boot
http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=12FH8S1B

WonderWoofy wrote:If you vgchange -ay when it drops you into the initramfs shell, can you then exit out and continue the boot?
Ok, finally managed to try this.
vgchange -ay results in a "volume group with 11 logical volumes now active" or something along those line.
I then pressed CTRL+D to exit the emergency console. After that, nothing happened. Waited a few minutes, just in case, then rebooted (via ctrl+alt+del).
Something maybe worth noting: in the meantime I had enabled the lvm-monitoring service to see if that makes a difference (seems like it doesn't, since I still have the same problem). I found the following line(s) in this unsuccessful boot (with lvm-monitoring service enabled):
Nov 07 09:00:29 mythbackend lvm[164]: 11 logical volume(s) in volume group "raidvg" monitored
Nov 07 09:00:29 mythbackend systemd[1]: Started Load/Save Random Seed.
Nov 07 09:00:29 mythbackend systemd[1]: Started Monitoring of LVM2 mirrors, snapshots etc. using dmeventd or progress polling.
And then further down the following familiar lines:
Nov 07 09:00:32 mythbackend systemd[1]: Starting File System Check on /dev/sda7...
Nov 07 09:00:32 mythbackend systemd-fsck[305]: /dev/sda7: clean, 57416/640848 files, 1091272/2559488 blocks
Nov 07 09:00:32 mythbackend systemd[1]: Started File System Check on /dev/sda7.
Nov 07 09:00:32 mythbackend systemd[1]: Mounting /home...
Nov 07 09:00:32 mythbackend systemd[1]: home.mount: Directory /home to mount over is not empty, mounting anyway.
Nov 07 09:00:32 mythbackend kernel: EXT4-fs (sda7): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null)
Nov 07 09:00:32 mythbackend systemd[1]: Mounted /home.
Nov 07 09:00:32 mythbackend systemd[1]: Mounting /home/laffi/media/backup...
Nov 07 09:00:32 mythbackend kernel: EXT4-fs (sda6): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null)
Nov 07 09:00:32 mythbackend systemd[1]: Mounted /home/laffi/media/backup.
Nov 07 09:01:57 mythbackend systemd[1]: Job dev-mapper-raidvg\x2dlvrecarchive.device/start timed out.
Nov 07 09:01:57 mythbackend systemd[1]: Timed out waiting for device dev-mapper-raidvg\x2dlvrecarchive.device.
Nov 07 09:01:57 mythbackend systemd[1]: Dependency failed for /home/laffi/media/recarchive.
Nov 07 09:01:57 mythbackend systemd[1]: Dependency failed for Local File Systems.
Nov 07 09:01:57 mythbackend systemd[1]: Triggering OnFailure= dependencies of local-fs.target.
Nov 07 09:01:57 mythbackend systemd[1]: Dependency failed for File System Check on /dev/mapper/raidvg-lvrecarchive.
Any thoughts ? Thank you very much.
Last edited by dafrizz (2013-11-07 06:45:09)

Netctl-auto fails every second boot

So, since about two oder three days ago, my netctl-auto fails every second boot and I can't even enable a profile manually.
I already found this thread: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1275755
But I checked and don't have any failed units and dhcpcd is not running.
I will do some further investigation and post it here. Any ideas for solutions are welcome
Wolle

I've been having the same problem as well, it boots up just fine then after a reboot netctl-auto fails which had been going on for me for the past 30 minutes without "fixing" itself.
After I added the line:
TimeoutDHCP=30
to my profile then rebooted, it worked. It could be a fluke "fix" but worth a try. I *think* the reason it worked is that the default timeout is 10 seconds which might not be enough to establish a connection for some routers/network cards.
EDIT: I did another boot to see if it was a fluke, and it was. I'm getting a little tired of netctl-auto... I'm going to just disable it and manually do a "netctl start <profile>" after I boot up.
Last edited by DukeH (2013-07-16 19:07:58)

I recently purchased a movie (Prometheus) on my computer through iTunes and every time I try to put it on my iPhone, it fails. How can I successfully sync this video? Mind you, every other file syncs flawlessly.

I recently purchased a movie (Prometheus) on my computer through iTunes and every time I try to put it on my iPhone, it fails. How can I successfully sync this video? Mind you, every other file syncs flawlessly.

Can you connect to a wifi source on the device? Enable wifi in settings on the device itself. If you don't have wifi at home, there may be a local hotspot you can use for this.
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IPASCII Response fails every other poll.

IPASCII Driver object is used to retrieve (via Ethernet) data.
Request format works good.
My Request Format (RequestFormat):
"GET /data HTTP/1.0 \r\n\r\n" as per device manufacture Txt string and
(2) carriage return/line feeds
Response String looks good Object = (.Response)
Typical Response String
F|74.0|29.3|-999.9|74.0|29.3|-999.9|-999.9|-999.9|-999.9|-999.9|-999.9
|-999.9
Data is temperature from module, -999.9 are data inputs without temperature
probes attached...
RSV1.txt = (F)
RSV2.txt = (74.0)
ETC...
RSV1-13 data look good but fails every other poll
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I have received the following response from NI engineers.
To review this issue -- the IPASCII object has a problem in that if you use the IPASCII object to query a web service that closes the
connection remotely after a request has been made Lookout will not close the local connection. This results in a "CLOSE_WAIT"
state for the local TCP port. Since the port is not closed, Lookout is not able to make a subsequent outgoing connection on the
same port. Lookout does appear to close the port when after it tries to make repeated connections, but this means for every time
you want to make a query you have to alternate between successful queries and comm failures. Most likely this was not found earlier
because for many Ethernet based instruments, a TCP connection is persistent, however web servers using the HTTP/1.0 protocol
close the TCP connection after every GET request and response. A corrective action request has been filed with our Lookout R&D
team and hopefully a fix will be available in future versions of Lookout. Thank you for your patience with this issue.

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Hello,
I have a native AIR 2.0 application with a native installer which I silently install as a part of a bigger package.
On Mac, I have a DMG which contains the native installer app and a shell script which copies the native installer app into a temporary folder, and then invokes it passing "-silent" option.
For some reasons the native installer fails every other time, i.e. if I install the app and then move it to trash and then try to re-install, the installer fails.
However if I try re-installing once again, installation succeeds. I can consistently reproduce this problem.
This seems to happen only on Mac OS 10.5.8. On 10.6.0 and above everything seems to work fine.
What can be the reason for such inconsistent behavior?
OS version is Mac OS 10.5.8, CPU: 2.8GHz Intel Core Duo
Below is the log for the cases when the installer fails:
Nov 10 20:19:08 /Library/Frameworks/Adobe AIR.framework/Versions/1.0/Adobe AIR Application Installer.app/Contents/MacOS/Adobe AIR Application Installer[9579]: Application signature verified
Nov 10 20:19:08 /Library/Frameworks/Adobe AIR.framework/Versions/1.0/Adobe AIR Application Installer.app/Contents/MacOS/Adobe AIR Application Installer[9579]: Unpackaging/validation complete
Nov 10 20:19:08 /Library/Frameworks/Adobe AIR.framework/Versions/1.0/Adobe AIR Application Installer.app/Contents/MacOS/Adobe AIR Application Installer[9579]: Got an unexpected fatal error while unpackaging: [ErrorEvent type="error" bubbles=false cancelable=false eventPhase=2 text="Unhandled exception ArgumentError: Error #2004" errorID=2004]
Nov 10 20:19:08 /Library/Frameworks/Adobe AIR.framework/Versions/1.0/Adobe AIR Application Installer.app/Contents/MacOS/Adobe AIR Application Installer[9579]: Application Installer end with exit code 7
Thanks in advance

Chris, thank you for your answer.
The only argument I pass into the installer command line is "-silent", i.e. the command line looks like
"/tmp/PixelNovel/Install Timeline.app/Contents/MacOS/Install Timeline" -silent
I've noticed that the installer fails only if it's called from a wrapper package. If I invoke the above command line directly from Terminal, the installer consistently succeeds.
Here is the full log for the case when installer fails:
Nov 15 11:21:21 iMac-3 /tmp/PixelNovel/Install Timeline.app/Contents/MacOS/Install Timeline[37088]: Bootstrapper begin (Mac:version (null))
Nov 15 11:21:21 iMac-3 /tmp/PixelNovel/Install Timeline.app/Contents/MacOS/Install Timeline[37088]: Installed runtime located (2.5.0.16600)
Nov 15 11:21:21 iMac-3 /tmp/PixelNovel/Install Timeline.app/Contents/MacOS/Install Timeline[37088]: Launching application installer: "AIR Application Installer" -silent /tmp/PixelNovel/Install Timeline.app/Contents/Resources/Timeline
Nov 15 11:21:21 iMac-3 /Library/Frameworks/Adobe AIR.framework/Versions/1.0/Adobe AIR Application Installer.app/Contents/MacOS/Adobe AIR Application Installer[37089]: Application Installer begin with version 2.5.0.16600 on Mac OS 10.5.8 x86
Nov 15 11:21:21 iMac-3 /Library/Frameworks/Adobe AIR.framework/Versions/1.0/Adobe AIR Application Installer.app/Contents/MacOS/Adobe AIR Application Installer[37089]: Commandline is: -silent "/tmp/PixelNovel/Install Timeline.app/Contents/Resources/Timeline"
Nov 15 11:21:21 iMac-3 /Library/Frameworks/Adobe AIR.framework/Versions/1.0/Adobe AIR Application Installer.app/Contents/MacOS/Adobe AIR Application Installer[37089]: Installed runtime (2.5.0.16600) located at /Library/Frameworks/Adobe AIR.framework
Nov 15 11:21:22 iMac-3 /Library/Frameworks/Adobe AIR.framework/Versions/1.0/Adobe AIR Application Installer.app/Contents/MacOS/Adobe AIR Application Installer[37089]: Validating app in folder /tmp/PixelNovel/Install Timeline.app/Contents/Resources/Timeline/Contents/Resources
Nov 15 11:21:23 iMac-3 /Library/Frameworks/Adobe AIR.framework/Versions/1.0/Adobe AIR Application Installer.app/Contents/MacOS/Adobe AIR Application Installer[37089]: Application signature verified
Nov 15 11:21:23 iMac-3 /Library/Frameworks/Adobe AIR.framework/Versions/1.0/Adobe AIR Application Installer.app/Contents/MacOS/Adobe AIR Application Installer[37089]: Unpackaging/validation complete
Nov 15 11:21:23 iMac-3 /Library/Frameworks/Adobe AIR.framework/Versions/1.0/Adobe AIR Application Installer.app/Contents/MacOS/Adobe AIR Application Installer[37089]: Got an unexpected fatal error while unpackaging: [ErrorEvent type="error" bubbles=false cancelable=false eventPhase=2 text="Unhandled exception ArgumentError: Error #2004" errorID=2004]
Nov 15 11:21:23 iMac-3 /Library/Frameworks/Adobe AIR.framework/Versions/1.0/Adobe AIR Application Installer.app/Contents/MacOS/Adobe AIR Application Installer[37089]: Application Installer end with exit code 7
Nov 15 11:21:23 iMac-3 /tmp/PixelNovel/Install Timeline.app/Contents/MacOS/Install Timeline[37088]: Application installer failure (7)
Nov 15 11:21:23 iMac-3 /tmp/PixelNovel/Install Timeline.app/Contents/MacOS/Install Timeline[37088]: Bootstrapper failure (7)^M
And here is the log for a successful attempt:
Nov 15 11:25:19 iMac-3 /tmp/PixelNovel/Install Timeline.app/Contents/MacOS/Install Timeline[37154]: Bootstrapper begin (Mac:version (null))
Nov 15 11:25:19 iMac-3 /tmp/PixelNovel/Install Timeline.app/Contents/MacOS/Install Timeline[37154]: Installed runtime located (2.5.0.16600)
Nov 15 11:25:19 iMac-3 /tmp/PixelNovel/Install Timeline.app/Contents/MacOS/Install Timeline[37154]: Launching application installer: "AIR Application Installer" -silent /tmp/PixelNovel/Install Timeline.app/Contents/Resources/Timeline
Nov 15 11:25:20 iMac-3 /Library/Frameworks/Adobe AIR.framework/Versions/1.0/Adobe AIR Application Installer.app/Contents/MacOS/Adobe AIR Application Installer[37155]: Application Installer begin with version 2.5.0.16600 on Mac OS 10.5.8 x86
Nov 15 11:25:20 iMac-3 /Library/Frameworks/Adobe AIR.framework/Versions/1.0/Adobe AIR Application Installer.app/Contents/MacOS/Adobe AIR Application Installer[37155]: Commandline is: -silent "/tmp/PixelNovel/Install Timeline.app/Contents/Resources/Timeline"
Nov 15 11:25:20 iMac-3 /Library/Frameworks/Adobe AIR.framework/Versions/1.0/Adobe AIR Application Installer.app/Contents/MacOS/Adobe AIR Application Installer[37155]: Installed runtime (2.5.0.16600) located at /Library/Frameworks/Adobe AIR.framework
Nov 15 11:25:20 iMac-3 /Library/Frameworks/Adobe AIR.framework/Versions/1.0/Adobe AIR Application Installer.app/Contents/MacOS/Adobe AIR Application Installer[37155]: Validating app in folder /tmp/PixelNovel/Install Timeline.app/Contents/Resources/Timeline/Contents/Resources
Nov 15 11:25:21 iMac-3 /usr/sbin/ocspd[37158]: starting
Nov 15 11:25:21 iMac-3 /Library/Frameworks/Adobe AIR.framework/Versions/1.0/Adobe AIR Application Installer.app/Contents/MacOS/Adobe AIR Application Installer[37155]: Application signature verified
Nov 15 11:25:21 iMac-3 /Library/Frameworks/Adobe AIR.framework/Versions/1.0/Adobe AIR Application Installer.app/Contents/MacOS/Adobe AIR Application Installer[37155]: Unpackaging/validation complete
Nov 15 11:25:21 iMac-3 /Library/Frameworks/Adobe AIR.framework/Versions/1.0/Adobe AIR Application Installer.app/Contents/MacOS/Adobe AIR Application Installer[37155]: No app located for appID 'com.pixelnovel.TimelineProjectManager' and pubID ''
Nov 15 11:25:21 iMac-3 /Library/Frameworks/Adobe AIR.framework/Versions/1.0/Adobe AIR Application Installer.app/Contents/MacOS/Adobe AIR Application Installer[37155]: Starting silent app installation to /Applications. Installing app com.pixelnovel.TimelineProjectManager version 0.0.4 using the source file at file:///tmp/PixelNovel/Install%20Timeline.app/Contents/Resources/Timeline
Nov 15 11:25:22 iMac-3 /Library/Frameworks/Adobe AIR.framework/Versions/1.0/Adobe AIR Application Installer.app/Contents/MacOS/Adobe AIR Application Installer[37155]: Launching subprocess with commandline /usr/sbin/chown -hfRP root:wheel /Applications/Timeline.app
Nov 15 11:25:22 iMac-3 /Library/Frameworks/Adobe AIR.framework/Versions/1.0/Adobe AIR Application Installer.app/Contents/MacOS/Adobe AIR Application Installer[37155]: Subprocess chown succeeded
Nov 15 11:25:22 iMac-3 /Library/Frameworks/Adobe AIR.framework/Versions/1.0/Adobe AIR Application Installer.app/Contents/MacOS/Adobe AIR Application Installer[37155]: Launching subprocess with commandline /bin/chmod -R ugo+rx /Applications/Timeline.app
Nov 15 11:25:22 iMac-3 /Library/Frameworks/Adobe AIR.framework/Versions/1.0/Adobe AIR Application Installer.app/Contents/MacOS/Adobe AIR Application Installer[37155]: Subprocess chmod succeeded
Nov 15 11:25:22 iMac-3 /Library/Frameworks/Adobe AIR.framework/Versions/1.0/Adobe AIR Application Installer.app/Contents/MacOS/Adobe AIR Application Installer[37155]: Application Installer end with exit code 0
Nov 15 11:25:22 iMac-3 /tmp/PixelNovel/Install Timeline.app/Contents/MacOS/Install Timeline[37154]: Application installer success
Nov 15 11:25:22 iMac-3 /tmp/PixelNovel/Install Timeline.app/Contents/MacOS/Install Timeline[37154]: Bootstrapper success^M
I will also send you a link to the DMG file that reproduces the error as a private message - ma be this will help.
Thank you,
Anatoly

Deploying Windows Service Fails Every Other Time

I'm using Release Management 2013 to deploy a Windows service. I go through the steps listed below to deploy it. It fails on the first step (Delete Service) every other time. When I run it again, it works. It seems like it's saying
it failed, but is somehow actually succeeding. After it fails, I don't see the service in the Services list anymore. Then when I run the deployment again, it succeeds.
I have found that if I manually stop the service before deploying again, it will always succeed. There doesn't seem to be a good way of doing that in Release Management though, since the Stop Service action will error out if the service doesn't exist.
Any help would be appreciated!
==============
Delete Service
Create Folder
XCopy Site Deployment (deploys from drop folder)
Copy Config Files from Drop folder (copies config files folder from drop folder)
Delete File(s) or Folder (deletes existing config)
Rename File or Folder (renames appropriate copied config to the name of the previously deleted config file)
Delete File(s) or Folder (deletes other config files)
Delete File(s) or Folder (deletes config folder)
Create Service
Start Service

Hi,
You may have solved this by now, but for the record, I had the exact same issue. The problem is in this section of ManageWindowsServices.ps1
elseif ($Action -eq "delete")
#If the service exists, we first stop it to avoid "Marked for deletion" problems
$service = Get-Service -Name $ServiceName -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
if ($service -ne $null)
#Stop the service
$status = & "sc.exe" "$ServerName" stop "$ServiceName"
"Stop status : $status"
$status = & "sc.exe" "$ServerName" $Action "$ServiceName"
"Delete status : $status"
#Ensure the service was deleted successfully
$service = Get-Service -Name $ServiceName -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
if ($service -ne $null)
$(throw "The deletion of the service failed.")
else
$exitCode = 0
and is due to the fact that the second Get-Service call does actually return the service, even though it's after the call to delete it. Presumably this is some kind of race condition, where the call to delete the service returns before it's finished all
it's work.
In any case, the solution I went for was to rewrite this section as:
elseif ($Action -eq "delete")
[int]$returnCode = 0
#If the service exists, we first stop it to avoid "Marked for deletion" problems
$service = Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_Service -Filter "Name='$ServiceName'"
if ($service -ne $null)
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$status = & "sc.exe" "$ServerName" stop "$ServiceName"
"Stop status : $status"
"Deleting Service..."
$returnCode = $service.delete().ReturnValue
"Return code was : $returnCode"
if ($returnCode -ne 0)
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#Ensure the service was deleted successfully
$service = Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_Service -Filter "Name='$ServiceName'"
if ($service -ne $null)
$(throw "The deletion of the service failed.")
else
$exitCode = 0
The above code works in all cases that I've run it for. You can either edit the existing ManageWindowsServices script, or simply create a new one. I opted for the latter.
Note: This is my first attempt at using Powershell, so there may well be a better way of doing the above.

Every other day, my mac won't start up

every other day, my mac won't start up. my keyboard would light up and i hear the system start but nothing is appearing in the screen. i would have to press the start button until the screen actually shows up.. why does it do that?

Have you just tried repairing with Disk Utility?
Repair the Hard Drive and Permissions - Lion/Mountain Lion
Boot to the Recovery HD:
Restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the COMMAND and R keys until the menu screen appears. Alternatively, restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the OPTION key until the boot manager screen appears. Select the Recovery HD and click on the downward pointing arrow button.
Repair
When the recovery menu appears select Disk Utility. After DU loads select your hard drive entry (mfgr.'s ID and drive size) from the the left side list. In the DU status area you will see an entry for the S.M.A.R.T. status of the hard drive. If it does not say "Verified" then the hard drive is failing or failed. (SMART status is not reported on external Firewire or USB drives.) If the drive is "Verified" then select your OS X volume from the list on the left (sub-entry below the drive entry,) click on the First Aid tab, then click on the Repair Disk button. If DU reports any errors that have been fixed, then re-run Repair Disk until no errors are reported. If no errors are reported then click on the Repair Permissions button. When the process is completed, then quit DU and return to the main menu. Select Restart from the Apple menu.

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