HT201262 Blue/Gray Screen Stuck on Startup: Best Actions In Safe Boot?

My husband took his MacBook Pro into the Apple store for this problem a few weeks ago, but the blue/gray screen stuck on startup is back.
We stabilized the system last time from running diagnostic utilities (Apple, Onyx) in safe mode. Is there anything else we should be doing for self help? He's upgraded to Mountain Lion and made all OS updates. Advice is welcome.

See OS X Mountain Lion- If you see a blue screen at startup. I suggest the last recommendation - reinstall OS X:
Reinstalling Lion/Mountain Lion Without Erasing the Drive
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 the Hard Drive and Permissions: Upon startup select Disk Utility from the main menu. Repair the Hard Drive and Permissions as follows.
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 click on the Repair Permissions button. Wait until the operation completes, then quit DU and return to the main menu.
Reinstall Lion/Mountain Lion: Select Reinstall Lion/Mountain Lion and click on the Continue button.
Note: You will need an active Internet connection. I suggest using Ethernet if possible because it is three times faster than wireless.

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I have two problems with my 2012 13" MacBook Pro. 1. Gray screen shows at startup 2. Randomly disconnects from network. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

I have two problems with my 2012 13” MacBook Pro.
Gray screen shows at startup
Randomly disconnects from network.
Any help will be greatly appreciated.

First, open Terminal in your Utilities folder and paste this into the prompt line:
sudo update_dyld_shared_cache
Press RETURN. You will be prompted to enter your admin password which will not be echoed to the screen. Press RETURN again.
Next, boot the computer into Safe Mode.
Next, do the following:
Reinstalling Lion/Mountain Lion Without Erasing the Drive
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 the Hard Drive and Permissions: Upon startup select Disk Utility from the main menu. Repair the Hard Drive and Permissions as follows.
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 click on the Repair Permissions button. Wait until the operation completes, then quit DU and return to the main menu.
Reinstall Lion/Mountain Lion: Select Reinstall Lion/Mountain Lion and click on the Continue button.
Note: You will need an active Internet connection. I suggest using Ethernet if possible because it is three times faster than wireless.

Gray screen appears during startup

I have a later Mac Mini with 10.8.5. installed where the gray screen appears during startup. Have regularly backed up the disk except the last 2 days where I installed some important pictures which unfortunately were deleted on the camera.
Have now followed the following steps under support.apple.com/kb/TS2580
1) Disconnect, test peripheral devices and network cables
Didn't solve the problem
2) Perform a Safe Boot
Didn't solve the problem
3) Reset the NVRAM/PRAM
A menu showed up , I checked the disk, didn't show any problems
Then I restarted the Mac and the same problem showed up.
What's the suggestion for next step and minimizing the risk of deleting the pictures which I don't have backup on ?
Help would be greatly appreciated.

Sorry - the support link should be http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2570

Gray screen stuck...cannot boot please help!

Hello everyone,
I turned on my Mac last night and I am stuck on a gray screen. Nothing else happens. I don't even get the "loading" spiral or apple logo, just gray screen. I have tried swapping out the drive with some others I have with no success. I put a brand new battery on the board and I even swapped out the video card. I get the startup chime but thats it. I tried zapping the PRAM and that did nothing. Any ideas on why a gray screen stays and never goes away? I left it for a couple hours and still gray screen. I really don't want to lug her into the retail store but I may have to. Thanks in advanec for any assistance yall can provide.
P.S. I also took out all after market RAM and just kept the stock in there.
Message was edited by: Macsimus11

Hey Macsimus11,
This happened to me as well. Look into this post: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1765510&tstart=15
I`ve found the problem... it seems that I`ve changed some linked files/folders/links that a program of mine has changed before the software update. That was LauchDaemons and LaunchAgents. Probably the permissions were messed up and preventing the boot system to read correctly this files.
The repair permissions, repair disk and fsck -fy doesn`t correct this.
The thing is that this wasn`t a problem BEFORE the 2008-007 security update.
So I believe that you have something similar.
For a start try to boot into single user mode: turn on you mac with command (apple) + S.
If you remember/know what you have done before this appearing you can undo in terminal.
It`s best to boot from the Leopard cd as well with the hardware test (turn on your mac with the leopard disc 1 in the optical drive and hold D). Do a full hardware test to see if is MOBO or anything else.
Try this and we can start debugging further on.
Regards

Mid 2010 MacBook pro gray screen beeps no startup

Hello,
My mid 2010 MacBook pro will not startup. What I get is the startup chimes with white or gray screen. Then some beeping and clicking starts. Will not boot remotely from FireWire drive.
I'm thinking it might be ram based on what I have read so far as opposed to a hard drive crash.
Any ideas?

The number of beeps should tell you what the problem is.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1547

Attempting safe boot--gray screen stuck with apple symbol--

So, left Imac on over weekend with Itunes playing in continuous mode--when I got home (about 36 hrs later) the screen was good but Itunes had locked up and was the Imac was making a stuttering sound (not like a hard drive clicking but like the songs were stuck). The mouse was frozen but the arrow was visible--only way I could get out was to use the power button to force it to shut down. Since then, I get the gray screen when it boots (not using any shortcut keys during reboot) and it sticks there with the eventual appearance of the perpetual spinning circle under it. When I boot using all the tricks I can think of, safe boot (hoping to get to safe mode) I get everything from a gray screen with the apple but w/o the spinning circle (that's from safe boot attempt) to choosing the drive to boot from which reveals a text message that instructs me to reboot and another effort gives a page long text of information that begins with "kernel fail" laid over a gray screen w/o the apple logo, and several other options result in the screen staying black. One screen asked me to type "mac-boot" and enter but nothing new happened. Once I got the screen to come up solid gray with a single black line (running the width of the screen horizontally) about 2/3 from the top of the screen. I have tried booting with every peripheral removed (even tried it with multiple keyboards and mice--even w/o a mouse and keyboard). Tried the PRAM and SMC. The dvd drive is non-functional and has been for more than a year--(different issue) it won't even open (it's the Imac with the pod base and 15 inch screen all in one look from a few years ago)--just wanted to let that be known because I can't put the OS disk in--it's been upgraded to Lion from the original Panther--I think?
Anyway, looking for solutions, ideas etc...Thank you.

I had that same thing happen to me when I was updating my iPhone to iOS 5! What I did was I just kept resetting and resetting and holding down the home and power buttons until 3 in the morning. (ok, maybe it was only midnight but it sure FELT like 3 AM!) Anyway, I would just keep at it until it decides it wants to cooperate. Mine eventually did.

Help: Macbook freezes after sleep and gray screen freeze on startup

I've got a new MacBook (45 days old, minimal usage) and I'm starting to have some problems.
When my computer goes to sleep after inactivity I have a hard time waking it. The screen turns on right away but the mouse/cursor remains frozen. The computer does not respond to any keyboard commands. I usually have to reboot the machine when this happens. I noticed this problem a few weeks ago and it has since become more and more frequent.
I've also noticed that with some regularity my computer freezes on the gray screen during start up and never reaches the mac icon. This has become more and more frequent since I first noticed the initial problem and happens one in every 3 or 4 startups.
I haven't installed any new software except for the regular software upgrades. Nothing extraordinary.
Is it possible that these problems are related? Am I doing something wrong?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

The grey screen on startup may be the known issue, especially if you start to get vertical lines on the screen. If you can reboot using PRAM reset, go to the displays control panel, set the resolution to something besides your current resolution, then revert to your original setting. That should fix that part.
As far as the freezing after sleep goes, I had a similar issue where the macbook would not actually go to sleep (white light stayed solid), and opening the lid would result in a dimmed screen that I had to force-shut down the computer to get out of. After sending it in for RSD, this seems to have been resolved.

Gray Screen stuck - Backup files to external HDD

My Mac has been stuck at the Gray loading screen with the spinning icon after a kernel panic. I have tried to use the Disk repair utility after finally being able to boot to my DVD. This hasn't helped anything at all. (reseeting nvram didn't do anything). Disk Utility says I have a corrupt node or something along those lines.
Is there a way to copy off my files to an external hard drive from the mac osx dvd screen?

I dont believe there is a way to transfer files during an installation.
Your best bet would be to boot up in Target mode and connect the computer to another Mac and transfer the files from there.

Screen issues on startup - won't let me boot up

With several applications open, my Macbook Pro "froze up" on me last night.
Upon trying to restart, the start up sound came on and the screen is a shade of magenta with verticle thick and thin verticle lines running across it. After about 30 seconds, the Apple logo goes away and it says I need to restart my computer. Upon trying to restart, I get the same screen.
Any thoughts on how to resolve this on my own without going to the Apple store? I already tried resetting the PRAM and that didn't help. The laptop is fully charged. I have had it for a year and a half and this is the first issue I have had with it.
Thanks in advance for any assistance.

Try and reset the SMC controller and run the hardware test that's on the install DVD. If the internal HD wont start, it would be interesting to know if a DVD can.
The colour of the screen sounds like a GPU issue, but if it's memory that's failed, I wonder if pulling one or other of the modules installed in your machine might help.
I've never come across anything like this before though.

MacBook Pro Repeatedly Loads Purple & Teal Stripe, Gray, Light Blue, Bright Blue and Bright Blue Stripe Screens Instead of OS after Optical Drive Replacement by Apple (PICTURES INCLUDED)

17 inch March 26-29 (order date – shipping date) 2011 MacBook Pro, 256GB Solid State Drive, 2.3 GHz Quad-core Intel Core i7, 1 processer, 4 Cores, 256 KB L2 Cache per core, 8 MB L3 Cache, 8 GB Memory (8GB 1333MHZ DDR3 SDRAM - 2X4GB), AMD Radeon HD 6750M Video Card, Intel HD Graphics 3000 with 512 MB total of VRAM. 110 GBs of free/unused disk space remaining.
Full Specs are in subsequent post.
The issues described in the title continue even after I’ve reinstalled the operating system twice (Snow Leopard) and installed Mavericks (which is working fine and even faster). I’ve tried many commands to repair this.
If anyone has experienced any of the symptoms above or below, your advice and response will be much appreciated as well as marked. These are the details:
My Early 2011 MacBook Pro has had the typical blue screens, screen freezes and graphics issues since I bought it about three years ago but nothing like this and NEVER any load issues until about a month ago. That was when my superdrive replacement was put in.
Since then my MacBook Pro will go into hard freezes or kernel panics. Then I’ll have to power it down manually and power it up manually. It’ll then refuse to load the OS until after multiple tries. It started out just 2 or 3, then 4 or 5, then 6-12, then 20. Now it takes over 30 boots to load the OS. These boot issues also occur even if it doesn’t freeze, i.e.: when I shut it down or restart it naturally (via the Apple menu, etc.).
95% of the time it’ll load to a gray screen instead of the OS. 4% of the time it’ll load to a light blue screen. Then there are the others: the first time this happened it loaded to the striped purple and teal screen shown in the picture. This happened the next four times then intermittently for about 5 or so more times.
It also loaded gray flickering screens. Flickering screens also occurred right before it froze and had to be manually powered down and up. Then it began to load regular gray and light blue screens and all flickering screens stopped. And then bright blue screens a couple times intermittently for a few days, sometimes with lines. Sometimes it’ll load to a blank/black screen as well. I’d reset the NVRAM and SMC but it still continued, happening multiple times a day, each time taking more and more hard shut downs and hard power ons to finally load the OS.
Until I installed Mavericks, every time it finally loaded the OS Finder began indexing. After Mavericks this has occurred 95% of the time.
After talking to Apple Support they had me do a NVRAM and SMC reset again over the phone. The MacBook Pro refused to load the entire time we were on the phone. After the call it got worse. It froze over 6 times that day and at worse took over 30 boots to load the OS.
I finally had time to deal with it the next day when it froze again. After over 25 boots it loaded and I put in the Snow Leopard OS dvd and ran Disk Utility. I verified the hard drive and it said it was fine. Repaired the disk anyway and it gave this message at the end:
“Updating boot support partitions for volume required”.
Next I tried to start in safe mode and it just hung up for hours. Then started up in single mode and it loaded the OS. It then loaded normally for three times in a row. I reinstalled Snow Leopard. Everything loaded normally. I waited an hour or so and then I downloaded Mavericks. 5 or so hours later Mavericks was installed. Everything hardware wise was fine for a day and all software issues were easily fixable incompatibilities. My Mac was even faster with Mavericks. However, Photoshop did give a perhaps relevant message:
“Photoshop has encountered a problem with the display driver, and has temporarily disabled GPU enhancements. Check the video card manufacturer’s website for the latest software.
GPU enhancements can be enabled in the Performance panel of Preferences.”
(I have OpenGL enabled in Photoshop and it was already checked when this error occurred).
Two days ago I went to Disk Utility to repair permissions while logged in to a non-admin account. Verified and repaired the disk, then verified permissions. Everything fine. After repairing permissions however, it gave a weird error box:
"Unapproved caller, SecurityAgent may only be invoked by Apple software".
The box stayed “stuck” in the Disk Utility window. My MacBook Pro then failed to do anything. I manually powered it down and up. It loaded to a gray screen with the error message box again: "Unapproved caller, SecurityAgent may only be invoked by Apple software".
It then refused to load anything else but this message box on a gray screen even after rebooting it multiple times in safe, verbose and single modes and after resetting the NVRAM and SMC. I went online with an iPad and entered in the error and got some advice. I tried to run fsck and erase the /var/folders/ via single user mode but it still loaded to a gray screen with the error message. I just decided to skip to the end and Cmd-R loaded into recovery mode and reinstalled Mavericks again. That worked: the message has not appeared since.
Some people have said this error is related to a hard drive cable failure. I know that this cable was tampered with during the optical drive replacement procedures because I watched them do it.
Everything was fine for a day. Then yesterday my MacBook Pro froze while trying to open a VLC file. It took 12 boots to load the OS. I tried single mode once and verbose mode once. 10 times it loaded to gray screens, even in those mode. A Safe boot lead to a bright blue screen. Finally reset the SMC and it loaded on the 12th time.
Just five hours ago the same thing happened except it took over 30 boots to load the OS. Single, verbose and normal boots, NVRAM and SMC resets lead to gray screens. Safe boots lead to bright blue screens with and without lines (see pictures). Finally loaded on a normal boot.
I know I should have tried safe booting, verbose, single and recovery modes, disk utility, fsck and other command methods earlier this month but in the end, these methods have not solved the problem anymore than resetting the NVRAM or SMC.
There seems to be conclusive evidence that it’s a hardware problem, stemming from last month, the FIRST AND ONLY time my MacBook Pro was opened up. Maybe it’s the hard drive cable, but it could also be the graphics card and/or logic board (something that’s always been defective on this MacBook Pro, in my opinion). Many early 2011 MacBook Pro owners have given evidence to the latter possibility online.
The first time it started it seemed to stem from me using iPhoto and Photoshop a lot. I had both running continuously for about two weeks. This is another reason for suspecting the graphics card/logic board is at fault (in addition to three years of screen/graphics glitches). And since the card is soldered to the board and the board connected to the cable...I also have serious battery draining issues, something else that got bad after the Apple Superdrive repair. And the battery is connected to the board...
Also, since downloading Mavericks, windows from every app get blurry/fuzzy when I scroll or zoom in. I have read that this is happening to a lot of folks though for various reasons.
I guess it could always be the hard drive. I just don’t know. I’m taking it in to Apple, but can't right away because it’s not local. I know they’ll be able to run a test on the hard drive. I wanted to see if anyone else has had this problem (especially the purple and teal striped screen) before they start poking around, possibly creating another problem that goes beyond my Apple Care Plan allotment.

SPECS OF MY MACBOOK PRO:
Model Name: March 26-29 2011 MacBook Pro (order date – shipping date)
Model Identifier: MacBookPro8,3
Processor Name: Quad-core Intel Core i7
Processor Speed:    2.3 GHz
Number of Processors:    1
Total Number of Cores: 4
L2 Cache (per Core): 256 KB
L3 Cache: 8 MB
Memory: 8 GB Memory (8GB 1333MHZ DDR3 SDRAM - 2X4GB)
HARD DRIVE: 256GB Solid State Drive
DISPLAY: MBP 17" HR Antiglare WS Display
AMD Radeon HD 6750M:
Chipset Model: AMD Radeon HD 6750M
Type:    GPU
Bus: PCIe
PCIe Lane Width:    x8
VRAM (Total): 1024 MB
Vendor: ATI (0x1002)
Device ID: 0x6741
Revision ID: 0x0000
ROM Revision: 113-C0170L-573
gMux Version: 1.9.24
EFI Driver Version: 01.00.573
Intel HD Graphics 3000:
Chipset Model: Intel HD Graphics 3000
Type:    GPU
Bus: Built-In
VRAM (Total): 512 MB
Vendor: Intel (0x8086)
Device ID: 0x0126
Revision ID: 0x0009
gMux Version: 1.9.24
Displays
Color LCD:
Resolution: 1920 x 1200
Pixel Depth: 32-Bit Color (ARGB8888)
Main Display: Yes
Mirror: Off
Online: Yes
Built-In: Yes
Battery Information:
Model Information:
Serial Number:    C01111403GLDGKMAE
Manufacturer: DP
Device Name: bq20z451
Pack Lot Code:    0000
PCB Lot Code: 0000
Firmware Version: 0406
Hardware Revision: 0001
Cell Revision:    1102
Charge Information:
Charge Remaining (mAh): 4583
Fully Charged:    No
Charging: Yes
Full Charge Capacity (mAh): 7765
Health Information:
Cycle Count: 276
Condition: Normal
Battery Installed: Yes
Amperage (mA):    -4487
Voltage (mV): 11306
System Power Settings:
AC Power:
System Sleep Timer (Minutes):    15
Disk Sleep Timer (Minutes): 10
Display Sleep Timer (Minutes):    15
Wake on AC Change: No
Wake on Clamshell Open: Yes
Wake on LAN: No
Current Power Source: Yes
Display Sleep Uses Dim: No
GPUSwitch: 2
Battery Power:
System Sleep Timer (Minutes):    15
Disk Sleep Timer (Minutes): 10
Display Sleep Timer (Minutes):    5
Wake on AC Change: No
Wake on Clamshell Open: Yes
Display Sleep Uses Dim: No
GPUSwitch: 2
Reduce Brightness: Yes
Hardware Configuration:
UPS Installed:    No
AC Charger Information:
Connected: Yes
ID:    0x0100
Wattage (W): 85
Revision: 0x0000
Family: 0x0085
Serial Number:    0x007ad8c5
Charging: Yes
Current operating system: 10.9.3 (Mavericks) ; Installed on 6/21/14
Previous operating system: 10.6.8 (Snow Leopard); Installed 4/4/11
        Reinstalled multiple times. Last reinstall: 6/21/14

Mountain Lion install results in blank gray screen.

I recently downloaded and installed Mountain Lion on my wife's late-2007 iMac. Unfortunately, each time, after the installer finishes and reboots, the computer sticks at a blank gray screen where normally the Apple logo would appear while things boot in the background. I have tried restoring from Time Capsule and re-downloading then reinstalling, but it produces the same result.
With the gray screen problem present, I've tried a Safe Boot, holding down Option to select a disk to boot from (nothing comes up when I do this, just the mouse cursor), and resetting the PRAM/NVRAM. I haven't really been able to find anyone else having this particular issue. The hard drive in the iMac is a little over a year old as we had to replace the old one. And from what my wife read, the late-2007 iMacs are Mountain Lion compatible.

saw this in another thread about a macbook pro slowing up after OSX Mountain Lion install:
the mac owner had mentioned his mac going very slow, and was told it could take several days for the new OSX to sort things out. Perhaps this explains my issue and perhaps yours.
"Yes this can be the case, even slow shutdowns and startups. But Hardisk space can also be a factor. Anything below the 10Gig mark of space left can cause extreme slowdowns."

Macbook Pro boots to blank gray screen and cursor

Hello,
I downloaded the "time machine update" and now my macbook pro will not boot, it stops at a gray screen and cursor.
I have tried safe boot, Disk Warrior, clearing NVPRAM or whatever.
Any ideas on anything else?
Question, how long does a time machine restore take?
Thanks

elipsis1 wrote:
I downloaded the "time machine update" and now my macbook pro will not boot, it stops at a gray screen and cursor.
I have tried safe boot, Disk Warrior, clearing NVPRAM or whatever.
Assuming the TimeMachine updte came from Apple correct?
Disconnect the TM drive and any other hardware to return the machine back to factory as possible.
Run through this fix list
Step by Step to fix your Mac

I have an iMac G5 stuck on the gray screen with spinning gear. I woke up to it being stuck on a blue screen, then force quit and now it's stuck on gray with spinning gear.

I have an iMac G5 stuck on the gray screen with spinning gear. I woke up to it being stuck on a blue screen, then force quit and now it's stuck on gray with spinning gear. Please advise.

If you have a G5 then it's a PPC (Power PC) based iMac, this is an Intel iMac forum. Try the Gray screen appears during startup link for troubleshooting steps. I suspect the HD has crashed.

Early 2011 MBP stuck on gray screen, verbose mode shows SMC error too

Hi!
I have and early 2011 MBP, running on OS 10.7.5 is continuously stuck at grey screen upon start-up.
I tried the steps as mentioned in Mac OS X: Gray screen appears during startup - Apple Support article apart from reinstalling OS X. The laptop started after every step, but then stopped again. I tried SMC update, that also worked for once, and on the second start up I ended up with a blue screen. During a later attempt, it worked again for a while, but ended with a distorted graphics after 15 mins. AHT (short version) doesn't show any hardware errors. Now the laptop doesn't go further than grey screen at all, and after a minute or so there's a heavy fan activity. The verbose mode also shows and SMC error, smc: : smcinithelper error: mmio regmap ==null - fall back to old smc mode (AHT Shows SMC version as 1.69f4)
What do you advise?

Try this:
Reset the SMC and the NVRAM:
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201295
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204063
Then try a safe boot:
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201262
Any success?
Ciao.

Two crashes: one OS crash with gray screen and loading bar- help? (Stuck overseas, so you guys are it!)

Hey everyone.
When firefox crashed last night, I figured it was just firefox being difficult, but when while using firefox my entire computer crashed this afternoon and rebooted with a gray screen, the spinny wait symbol, and a loading bar, I started to get concerned. After looking through console, I'm not sure what's caused it to crash like this so I'm hoping one of you bright people here can tell me what exactly happened. I'm running a mac book pro with 10.6.8, have no real addons on firefox aside from adblock plus, divx, memory restart, a french dictionary, and a skin I've been using forever and have also spoken to the developer in the past about. I'm also using Firefox 17.0.1. After trying to google some of the more unfamiliar/suspicious lines (mostly relating to launch agents), I typed into terminal the command to list all launch agents and received 3 replies naming adobe, divx, and google. I used terminal to delete them all just for safe measure (plus the adobe update window has been irritating me to no end so maybe it'll go away now, haha). I did three things when I tried to boot up again after the crash and the weird launch screen with loading bar came up: 1) I held down the power button again because a) the screen was weirding me out and b) I thought it got hung up again (bar seemed to stall for an unusually long time), 2) I tried to boot again and when the same gray screen came back I just figured I had no choice and had to sit through it. 3) when the bar was at about half way I pulled out my ethernet cord for safe measure in case something shady was going on. These three things are also reflected in the log below.
I currently live overseas and the nearest Apple store is over two hours away with no guarantee of a native english speaker working, so if anyone can let me know what caused the crash and if there's anything I can do about it, I would be extremely grateful. The following is my current console log in its entirety from today, including my attempted system update to see if that would improve things (which also resulted in a gray screen with loading bar later), and a really weird bit at the end that is also confusing (but possibly caused by me tinkering in terminal- not sure).
NAME is replacing my HD name, and my screen name here (caithris) has replaced my computer user name. NUMBER has replaced anything that looks like a serial number of some kind.
Thanks so much ahead of time-- please let me know if there's anything else I can share.
Mar 31 00:30:01 NAME newsyslog[9228]: logfile turned over
Mar 31 01:03:25 NAME firefox[8993]: Mozilla has caught an Obj-C exception [NSRangeException: *** -[NSCFArray objectAtIndex:]: index (1) beyond bounds (1)]
Mar 31 01:03:25 NAME [0x0-0x10010].org.mozilla.firefox[0]: 2013-03-31 01:03:25.193 firefox[8993:903] Mozilla has caught an Obj-C exception [NSRangeException: *** -[NSCFArray objectAtIndex:]: index (1) beyond bounds (1)]
Mar 31 01:04:06 NAME [0x0-0x10010].org.mozilla.firefox[0]: pure virtual method called
Mar 31 01:04:06 NAME [0x0-0x10010].org.mozilla.firefox[0]: terminate called without an active exception
Mar 31 01:04:20 NAME ReportCrash[9260]: Saved crash report for firefox[8993] version 17.0.1 (1712.11.28) to /Users/Caithris/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/firefox_2013-03-31-010420_NAME.c rash
Mar 31 01:05:35 NAME SubmitDiagInfo[9280]: Submitted crash report: /Users/Caithris/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/firefox_2013-03-31-010420_NAME.c rash
Mar 31 03:00:27 NAME loginwindow[31]: loginwindow SleepWakeCallback WILL sleep
Mar 31 03:00:28 NAME configd[13]: PMConnection IPConfiguration com.apple.powermanagement.applicationresponse.slowresponse 1120 ms
Mar 31 11:22:53 NAME configd[13]: Sleep: Success - AC 97 - Idle Sleep
Mar 31 11:22:53 NAME configd[13]: Wake: Success - AC 97 - OHC2
Mar 31 11:22:53 NAME configd[13]: Hibernate Statistics
Mar 31 11:22:53 NAME loginwindow[31]: loginwindow SleepWakeCallback will power on, Currenttime:3/31/2013 11:22:53.195 AM - Waketime:3/31/2013 11:22:43.930 AM = Deltatime:9.265338957
Mar 31 11:22:53 NAME loginwindow[31]: askForPasswordBuiltIn after makekey, Currenttime:3/31/2013 11:22:53.212 AM - Waketime:3/31/2013 11:22:43.930 AM = Deltatime:9.281565964
Mar 31 11:22:53 NAME loginwindow[31]: builtInAuthWindowBecameKey, Currenttime:3/31/2013 11:22:53.243 AM - Waketime:3/31/2013 11:22:43.930 AM = Deltatime:9.312892973
Mar 31 11:22:53 NAME configd[13]: network configuration changed.
Mar 31 11:22:54 NAME configd[13]: PMConnection AirPort configd plug-in com.apple.powermanagement.applicationresponse.slowresponse 9839 ms
Mar 31 11:22:54 NAME configd[13]: PMConnection IPConfiguration com.apple.powermanagement.applicationresponse.slowresponse 9849 ms
Mar 31 11:22:57 NAME configd[13]: network configuration changed.
Mar 31 11:22:57 NAME ntpd[20]: sendto(17.171.4.13) (fd=24): Network is unreachable
Mar 31 11:23:02 NAME loginwindow[31]: in pam_sm_authenticate(): Failed to determine Kerberos principal name.
Mar 31 11:23:02 NAME loginwindow[31]: builtInAuthWindowDidResignKey
Mar 31 11:23:02 NAME loginwindow[31]: handleUnlockResult, Currenttime:3/31/2013 11:23:02.536 AM - Waketime:3/31/2013 11:22:43.930 AM = Deltatime:18.606058955
Mar 31 11:23:32 NAME loginwindow[31]: no spins reported for this wake
Mar 31 11:27:31 NAME SubmitDiagInfo[9444]: Cleaning up expired diagnostic messages database at path: /var/log/DiagnosticMessages/2013.03.01.asl
Mar 31 11:33:29 NAME [0x0-0x3b63b6].org.mozilla.firefox[9264]: NOTE: child process received `Goodbye', closing down
Mar 31 11:36:14 NAME ntpd[20]: time reset -4.060579 s
Mar 31 12:11:05 NAME firefox[9264]: -deltaZ is deprecated for NSEventTypeMagnify. Please use -magnification.
Mar 31 15:19:22 NAME kernel[0]:
Mar 31 15:28:23 NAME kernel[0]:
Mar 31 15:28:53: --- last message repeated 7 times ---
Mar 31 15:28:23 NAME kernel[0]:
Mar 31 15:30:22 NAME kernel[0]:
Mar 31 15:56:08 NAME kernel[0]:
Mar 31 15:56:13: --- last message repeated 1 time ---
Mar 31 15:56:13 NAME loginwindow[31]: in pam_sm_authenticate(): Failed to determine Kerberos principal name.
Mar 31 15:56:16 NAME kernel[0]:
Mar 31 15:56:46: --- last message repeated 8 times ---
Mar 31 16:00:10 NAME kernel[0]:
Mar 31 16:00:40: --- last message repeated 3 times ---
Mar 31 16:00:44 NAME kernel[0]:
Mar 31 16:01:14: --- last message repeated 5 times ---
Mar 31 16:02:36 NAME kernel[0]:
Mar 31 16:03:06: --- last message repeated 9 times ---
Mar 31 16:03:22 NAME kernel[0]:
Mar 31 16:10:31 localhost com.apple.launchd[1]: *** launchd[1] has started up. ***
Mar 31 16:17:50 localhost DirectoryService[15]: Improper shutdown detected
Mar 31 16:17:54 localhost fseventsd[33]: event logs in /.fseventsd out of sync with volume. destroying old logs. (707133 444 707763)
Mar 31 16:17:54 localhost bootlog[41]: BOOT_TIME: 1364713830 0
Mar 31 16:17:58 localhost fseventsd[33]: log dir: /.fseventsd getting new uuid: NUMBER
Mar 31 16:17:58 localhost blued[42]: Apple Bluetooth daemon started
Mar 31 16:18:02 localhost mDNSResponder[28]: mDNSResponder mDNSResponder-258.21 (May 26 2011 14:40:13) starting
Mar 31 16:18:03 localhost com.apple.usbmuxd[21]: usbmuxd-296.4 on Dec 21 2012 at 16:11:14, running 64 bit
Mar 31 16:18:04 localhost configd[13]: bootp_session_transmit: bpf_write(en1) failed: Network is down (50)
Mar 31 16:18:04 localhost configd[13]: DHCP en1: INIT transmit failed
Mar 31 16:18:04 localhost configd[13]: network configuration changed.
Mar 31 16:18:04 NAME configd[13]: setting hostname to "NAME.local"
Mar 31 16:18:04 NAME /System/Library/CoreServices/loginwindow.app/Contents/MacOS/loginwindow[29]: Login Window Application Started
Mar 31 16:18:04 NAME configd[13]: network configuration changed.
Mar 31 16:18:04 NAME mDNSResponder[28]: mDNSPlatformSetDNSConfig: Error: dns_configuration_copy returned NULL
Mar 31 16:18:04 NAME configd[13]: network configuration changed.
Mar 31 16:18:11 NAME mds[27]: (Normal) DiskStore: Creating index for /
Mar 31 16:18:17 NAME loginwindow[29]: Login Window Started Security Agent
Mar 31 16:18:18 NAME WindowServer[71]: kCGErrorFailure: Set a breakpoint @ CGErrorBreakpoint() to catch errors as they are logged.
Mar 31 16:18:18 NAME com.apple.WindowServer[71]: Sun Mar 31 16:18:18 NAME.local WindowServer[71] <Error>: kCGErrorFailure: Set a breakpoint @ CGErrorBreakpoint() to catch errors as they are logged.
Mar 31 16:18:29 NAME SecurityAgent[92]: NSSecureTextFieldCell detected a field editor ((null)) that is not a NSTextView subclass designed to work with the cell. Ignoring...
Mar 31 16:18:30 NAME loginwindow[29]: Login Window - Returned from Security Agent
Mar 31 16:18:30 NAME loginwindow[29]: USER_PROCESS: 29 console
Mar 31 16:18:30 NAME com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[96] (com.divx.agent.postinstall): Unknown key: LimitToSessionType
Mar 31 16:18:30 NAME com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[96] (com.apple.ReportCrash): Falling back to default Mach exception handler. Could not find: com.apple.ReportCrash.Self
Mar 31 16:18:36 NAME root[113]: /usr/libexec/ntpd-wrapper: scutil key State:/Network/Global/DNS not present after 30 seconds
Mar 31 16:18:37 NAME root[130]: sntp options: a=2 v=1 e=0.100 E=5.000 P=2147483647.000
Mar 31 16:18:37 NAME root[130]: d=15 c=5 x=0 op=1 l=/var/run/sntp.pid f= time.apple.com
Mar 31 16:18:37 NAME root[130]: sntp: getaddrinfo(hostname, ntp) failed with nodename nor servname provided, or not known
Mar 31 16:18:38 NAME-2 com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[96] (com.apple.mrt.uiagent[123]): Exited with exit code: 255
Mar 31 16:18:38 NAME-2 com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[96] (com.apple.Kerberos.renew.plist[124]): Exited with exit code: 1
Mar 31 16:19:55 NAME-2 XProtectUpdater[19]: NSURLConnection error: Error Domain=NSURLErrorDomain Code=-1009 UserInfo=0x100174890 "This computer’s Internet connection appears to be offline." Underlying Error=(Error Domain=kCFErrorDomainCFNetwork Code=-1009 UserInfo=0x1001744e0 "This computer’s Internet connection appears to be offline.")
Mar 31 16:19:55 NAME com.apple.launchd[1] (com.apple.xprotectupdater[19]): Exited with exit code: 255
Mar 31 16:22:04 NAME kextd[10]: updated kernel boot caches
Mar 31 16:25:04 NAME Software Update[178]: SWU: scan found 0 products:
Mar 31 16:25:05 NAME Software Update[178]: Error Domain=NSURLErrorDomain Code=-1009 UserInfo=0x10052e600 "This computer’s Internet connection appears to be offline." Underlying Error=(Error Domain=kCFErrorDomainCFNetwork Code=-1009 UserInfo=0x10052f760 "This computer’s Internet connection appears to be offline.")
Mar 31 16:25:14 NAME com.apple.launchd[1] (com.apple.suhelperd[181]): Exited with exit code: 2
Mar 31 16:25:18 NAME configd[13]: network configuration changed.
Mar 31 16:26:17 NAME Software Update[188]: SWU: scan found 1 products:\n041-9605
Mar 31 16:26:30 NAME ntpd[18]: time reset +1.140167 s
Mar 31 16:26:57 NAME com.apple.launchd[1] (com.apple.suhelperd[190]): Exited with exit code: 2
Mar 31 16:26:57 NAME com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[96] ([0x0-0xf00f].com.apple.Console[142]): Exited: Killed
Mar 31 16:26:57 NAME com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[96] ([0x0-0x15015].com.apple.SoftwareUpdate[188]): Exited: Killed
Mar 31 16:26:57 NAME com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[96] (com.apple.AirPortBaseStationAgent[126]): Exited: Killed
Mar 31 16:26:57 NAME loginwindow[29]: DEAD_PROCESS: 29 console
Mar 31 16:26:57 NAME /System/Library/CoreServices/loginwindow.app/Contents/MacOS/loginwindow[200]: Login Window Application Started
Mar 31 16:26:58 NAME loginwindow[200]: USER_PROCESS: 200 console
Mar 31 16:26:58 NAME WindowServer[203]: kCGErrorFailure: Set a breakpoint @ CGErrorBreakpoint() to catch errors as they are logged.
Mar 31 16:26:58 NAME com.apple.WindowServer[203]: Sun Mar 31 16:26:58 NAME.local WindowServer[203] <Error>: kCGErrorFailure: Set a breakpoint @ CGErrorBreakpoint() to catch errors as they are logged.
Mar 31 16:26:59 NAME Software Update[209]: Looking for products to install
Mar 31 16:27:02 NAME Software Update[209]: Performing preflight
Mar 31 16:27:02 NAME Software Update[209]: Preparing session
Mar 31 16:27:02 NAME Software Update[209]: Starting session
Mar 31 16:27:03 NAME Software Update[209]: PKG: extracting "com.apple.pkg.MacBookProSMCUpdate"
Mar 31 16:27:03 NAME Software Update[209]: PKG: pre-flight scripts for "com.apple.pkg.MacBookProSMCUpdate"
Mar 31 16:27:03 NAME Software Update[209]: PKG: pre-install scripts for "com.apple.pkg.MacBookProSMCUpdate"
Mar 31 16:27:16 NAME Software Update[209]: REQ: moving files into place with shove
Mar 31 16:27:17 NAME Software Update[209]: PKG: post-install scripts for "com.apple.pkg.MacBookProSMCUpdate"
Mar 31 16:27:17 NAME Software Update[209]: PKG: post-flight scripts for "com.apple.pkg.MacBookProSMCUpdate"
Mar 31 16:27:17 NAME Software Update[209]: PKG: writing receipt for "com.apple.pkg.MacBookProSMCUpdate"
Mar 31 16:27:17 NAME Software Update[209]: REQ: install succeeded
Mar 31 16:27:18 NAME Software Update[209]: SWU: installing "MacBook Pro SMC Firmware Update, 1.6"
Mar 31 16:27:20 NAME [0x0-0x1a01a].com.apple.SoftwareUpdate[209]: /: no supported helper partitions to update.
Mar 31 16:27:20 NAME kextd[10]: updated kernel boot caches
Mar 31 16:27:20 NAME Software Update[209]: kextcache returned 0
Mar 31 16:27:20 NAME Software Update[209]: Running /sbin/reboot
Mar 31 16:27:20 NAME reboot[242]: rebooted by Caithris
Mar 31 16:27:20 NAME reboot[242]: BOOT_TIME: 1364714840 524942
Mar 31 16:27:20 NAME mDNSResponder[28]: mDNSResponder mDNSResponder-258.21 (May 26 2011 14:40:13) stopping
Mar 31 16:27:20 NAME DirectoryService[15]: BUG in libdispatch: 10K549 - 1960 - 0x10004004
Mar 31 16:27:20 NAME WindowServer[203]: hidd died. Reestablishing connection.
Mar 31 16:27:20 NAME WindowServer[203]: Unable to create event queue via hidd: (0x10000003)
Mar 31 16:28:03 localhost com.apple.launchd[1]: *** launchd[1] has started up. ***
Mar 31 16:29:52 localhost bootlog[47]: BOOT_TIME: 1364714882 0
Mar 31 16:29:53 localhost mDNSResponder[34]: mDNSResponder mDNSResponder-258.21 (May 26 2011 14:40:13) starting
Mar 31 16:29:54 localhost configd[13]: network configuration changed.
Mar 31 16:29:54 NAME configd[13]: setting hostname to "NAME.local"
Mar 31 16:29:54 NAME com.apple.usbmuxd[27]: usbmuxd-296.4 on Dec 21 2012 at 16:11:14, running 64 bit
Mar 31 16:29:56 NAME blued[17]: Apple Bluetooth daemon started
Mar 31 16:29:57 NAME /System/Library/CoreServices/loginwindow.app/Contents/MacOS/loginwindow[35]: Login Window Application Started
Mar 31 16:29:59 NAME configd[13]: network configuration changed.
Mar 31 16:30:12: --- last message repeated 2 times ---
Mar 31 16:30:12 NAME ntpd[24]: time reset +0.227711 s
Mar 31 16:30:13 NAME loginwindow[35]: Login Window Started Security Agent
Mar 31 16:30:14 NAME WindowServer[61]: kCGErrorFailure: Set a breakpoint @ CGErrorBreakpoint() to catch errors as they are logged.
Mar 31 16:30:14 NAME com.apple.WindowServer[61]: Sun Mar 31 16:30:14 NAME.local WindowServer[61] <Error>: kCGErrorFailure: Set a breakpoint @ CGErrorBreakpoint() to catch errors as they are logged.
Mar 31 16:30:21 NAME SecurityAgent[96]: NSSecureTextFieldCell detected a field editor ((null)) that is not a NSTextView subclass designed to work with the cell. Ignoring...
Mar 31 16:30:22 NAME loginwindow[35]: Login Window - Returned from Security Agent
Mar 31 16:30:22 NAME loginwindow[35]: USER_PROCESS: 35 console
Mar 31 16:30:22 NAME com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[99] (com.divx.agent.postinstall): Unknown key: LimitToSessionType
Mar 31 16:30:22 NAME com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[99] (com.apple.ReportCrash): Falling back to default Mach exception handler. Could not find: com.apple.ReportCrash.Self
Mar 31 16:30:32 NAME com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[99] (com.apple.mrt.uiagent[124]): Exited with exit code: 255
Mar 31 16:30:35 NAME com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[99] (com.apple.Kerberos.renew.plist[125]): Exited with exit code: 1
Mar 31 16:30:47 NAME mdworker[81]: (Error) SyncInfo: Catalog changed during searchfs too many times -- falling back to fsw search /
Mar 31 16:36:05 NAME mdworker32[158]: kCGErrorFailure: Set a breakpoint @ CGErrorBreakpoint() to catch errors as they are logged.
Mar 31 16:36:22 NAME mdworker32[161]: kCGErrorFailure: Set a breakpoint @ CGErrorBreakpoint() to catch errors as they are logged.
Mar 31 16:36:29 NAME [0x0-0x10010].org.mozilla.firefox[149]: NOTE: child process received `Goodbye', closing down
Mar 31 16:39:07 NAME mdworker[157]: Warning: unknown JFIF revision number 0.01
Mar 31 16:39:22 NAME login[182]: USER_PROCESS: 182 ttys000
Mar 31 16:40:34 NAME /System/Library/CoreServices/CCacheServer.app/Contents/MacOS/CCacheServer[132]: No valid tickets, timing out
Mar 31 16:40:35 NAME mdworker[157]: Error, could not create MachMessagePort for com.apple.AddressBook.abd
Mar 31 16:40:37 NAME mdworker[157]: Unable to parse date (<XHTML-STRIPONREPLY>
</XHTML-STRIPONREPLY>)
Mar 31 16:40:38 NAME mdworker[157]: Unable to parse date ( S<XHTML-STRIPONREPLY>
</XHTML-STRIPONREPLY>him to any)
Mar 31 16:40:41: --- last message repeated 1 time ---
Mar 31 16:40:41 NAME mdworker[157]: Invalid char \n for PropertyName in line 1
Mar 31 16:40:41 NAME mdworker[157]: Invalid char \n for PropertyName in line 2
Mar 31 16:40:41 NAME mdworker[157]: Invalid char \n for PropertyName in line 3
Mar 31 16:40:41 NAME mdworker[157]: Invalid char \n for PropertyName in line 4
Mar 31 16:40:41 NAME mdworker[157]: Invalid char \n for PropertyName in line 5
Mar 31 16:40:41 NAME mdworker[157]: Invalid char \n for PropertyName in line 6
Mar 31 16:40:41 NAME mdworker[157]: Invalid char \n for PropertyName in line 7
Mar 31 16:40:41 NAME mdworker[157]: Invalid char \n for PropertyName in line 8
Mar 31 16:40:41 NAME mdworker[157]: Invalid char \n for PropertyName in line 9
Mar 31 16:40:41 NAME mdworker[157]: Invalid char \n for PropertyName in line 10
Mar 31 16:40:41 NAME mdworker[157]: Invalid char \n for PropertyName in line 11
Mar 31 16:40:41 NAME mdworker[157]: Invalid char \n for PropertyName in line 12
Mar 31 16:40:41 NAME mdworker[157]: Invalid char \n for PropertyName in line 13
Mar 31 16:40:41 NAME mdworker[157]: Invalid char \n for PropertyName in line 14
Mar 31 16:40:41 NAME mdworker[157]: Invalid char \n for PropertyName in line 15
Mar 31 16:40:41 NAME mdworker[157]: Invalid char \n for PropertyName in line 16
Mar 31 16:40:41 NAME mdworker[157]: Invalid char \n for PropertyName in line 17
Mar 31 16:40:41 NAME mdworker[157]: Invalid char \n for PropertyName in line 18
Mar 31 16:40:41 NAME mdworker[157]: Invalid char \n for PropertyName in line 19
Mar 31 16:40:41 NAME mdworker[157]: Invalid char \n for PropertyName in line 20
Mar 31 16:40:41 NAME mdworker[157]: Invalid char \n for PropertyName in line 21
Mar 31 16:40:41 NAME mdworker[157]: Invalid char \n for PropertyName in line 22
Mar 31 16:40:41 NAME mdworker[157]: Invalid char \n for PropertyName in line 23
Mar 31 16:40:41 NAME mdworker[157]: Invalid char \n for PropertyName in line 24
Mar 31 16:40:41 NAME mdworker[157]: Invalid char \n for PropertyName in line 25
Mar 31 16:40:41 NAME mdworker[157]: Invalid char \n for PropertyName in line 26
Mar 31 16:40:41 NAME mdworker[157]: Invalid char ^M for PropertyName in line 26
Mar 31 16:40:41 NAME mdworker[157]: Invalid char \n for PropertyName in line 26
Mar 31 16:40:41 NAME mdworker[157]: Invalid char ^M for PropertyName in line 26
Mar 31 16:40:41 NAME mdworker[157]: Invalid char \n for PropertyName in line 26
Mar 31 16:40:43 NAME mdworker[157]: Invalid char \n for PropertyName in line 1
Mar 31 16:40:43 NAME mdworker[157]: Invalid char \n for PropertyName in line 2
Mar 31 16:40:43 NAME mdworker[157]: Invalid char \n for PropertyName in line 3
Mar 31 16:40:43 NAME mdworker[157]: Invalid char \n for PropertyName in line 4
Mar 31 16:40:43 NAME mdworker[157]: Invalid char \n for PropertyName in line 5
Mar 31 16:40:43 NAME mdworker[157]: Invalid char \n for PropertyName in line 6
Mar 31 16:40:43 NAME mdworker[157]: Invalid char \n for PropertyName in line 7
Mar 31 16:40:43 NAME mdworker[157]: Invalid char \n for PropertyName in line 8
Mar 31 16:40:43 NAME mdworker[157]: Invalid char \n for PropertyName in line 9
Mar 31 16:40:43 NAME mdworker[157]: Invalid char \n for PropertyName in line 10
Mar 31 16:40:43 NAME mdworker[157]: Invalid char \n for PropertyName in line 11
Mar 31 16:40:43 NAME mdworker[157]: Invalid char \n for PropertyName in line 12
Mar 31 16:40:43 NAME mdworker[157]: Invalid char \n for PropertyName in line 13
Mar 31 16:40:43 NAME mdworker[157]: Invalid char \n for PropertyName in line 14
Mar 31 16:40:43 NAME mdworker[157]: Invalid char \n for PropertyName in line 15
Mar 31 16:40:43 NAME mdworker[157]: Invalid char \n for PropertyName in line 16
Mar 31 16:40:43 NAME mdworker[157]: Invalid char \n for PropertyName in line 17
Mar 31 16:40:43 NAME mdworker[157]: Invalid char \n for PropertyName in line 18
Mar 31 16:40:43 NAME mdworker[157]: Invalid char \n for PropertyName in line 19
Mar 31 16:40:43 NAME mdworker[157]: Invalid char \n for PropertyName in line 20
Mar 31 16:40:43 NAME mdworker[157]: Invalid char \n for PropertyName in line 21
Mar 31 16:40:43 NAME mdworker[157]: Invalid char \n for PropertyName in line 22
Mar 31 16:40:43 NAME mdworker[157]: Invalid char \n for PropertyName in line 23
Mar 31 16:40:43 NAME mdworker[157]: Invalid char \n for PropertyName in line 24
Mar 31 16:40:43 NAME mdworker[157]: Invalid char \n for PropertyName in line 25
Mar 31 16:40:43 NAME mdworker[157]: Invalid char \n for PropertyName in line 26
Mar 31 16:40:43 NAME mdworker[157]: Invalid char ^M for PropertyName in line 26
Mar 31 16:40:43 NAME mdworker[157]: Invalid char \n for PropertyName in line 26
Mar 31 16:40:43 NAME mdworker[157]: Invalid char ^M for PropertyName in line 26
Mar 31 16:40:43 NAME mdworker[157]: Invalid char \n for PropertyName in line 26
Mar 31 16:40:43 NAME mdworker[157]: Invalid char ^M for PropertyName in line 26
Mar 31 16:40:43 NAME mdworker[157]: Invalid char \n for PropertyName in line 26
Mar 31 16:41:27 NAME mdworker[157]: Corrupt JPEG data: 1 extraneous bytes before marker 0xd9
Mar 31 16:41:27 NAME mdworker[157]: JPEG datastream contains no image
Mar 31 16:41:33: --- last message repeated 1 time ---
Mar 31 16:41:33 NAME login[182]: DEAD_PROCESS: 182 ttys000
Mar 31 16:41:50 NAME mdworker[156]: iCal.mdimporter: could not parse ICS file: /Applications/Microsoft Office 2011/Office/OutlookCore.framework/Versions/14/Resources/en.lproj/Timezones.ics
Mar 31 16:41:51 NAME mdworker32[204]: kCGErrorFailure: Set a breakpoint @ CGErrorBreakpoint() to catch errors as they are logged.
Mar 31 16:43:41 NAME [0x0-0x10010].org.mozilla.firefox[149]: NOTE: child process received `Goodbye', closing down
Mar 31 17:07:10 NAME firefox[149]: -deltaZ is deprecated for NSEventTypeMagnify. Please use -magnification.
Thanks again- I mean it. It's lousy being stuck away from home when crazy thing happen to your main line of communication!
-Caithris

The gray screen with loading bar issue is a at boot fsck (file system check) that has discovered something wrong with your boot drive/partition and was attempting to fix it.
OS X is booting but can't complete, so that means your hard drive is good, just likely has been either subjected to shock which damaged data on the platters, or bad sectors (the drive is dying if after fixing it, problems occurs again), or something messed something up in the file structure.
Firefox is currently at 19.02, so it appears your background auto-update has not been occurring, which makes me suspect the machine's data is broken in some manner or you have malware on the machine blocking the updates.
Your problems are multiple, in your case I advise a complete erase and install.
1: If you have a backup of your user data on a external storage drive (not TimeMachine as it might be corrupted and compromised with malware it's just going to restore back) then your good, else you have to do this.
Create a data recovery/undelete external boot drive
Copy your data to a blank plain jane external storage drive as you want no executable files on it when you connect to the cleaned machine later.
2: Once your data is safely copied (copy visible files manually and what you know is good, not folders that can contain invisible malware programs!) then disconnect the drive(s)
3: Next assume all writeable media is contaminated with malware and treat as so. Even if you erased it.
4: Stick in your 10.6 install disk and reboot holding the c or option key down. You want Disk Utility and you want to select the ENTIRE internal drive and MUST USE the Security Option > Zero All Data (unless your in the military then use 7x erase, do not use 35x as it will take weeks and is unnecessary)
The Zero/7x erase will do two things, do a low level format and erradicate everything (including hidden stuff and deleted files) also will map off any failing sectors on the hard drive.
5: Follow the procedure here to install 10.6
How to erase and install Snow Leopard 10.6
6: Reboot the machine twice, then once you set up the machine (using a alias of course and not allowing registration), use a secured network and IMMEDIATLY Software update to 10.6.8, if you can download the 10.6.8 Combo update on another secure machine to a (new) USB thumb drive and install it on the clean Mac, do that instead.
WiFi security issues, at home and WiFi hotspots
https://support.apple.com/kb/DL1399
Still run Software update afterwards as Apple might not have fully updated the combo update yet.
7: Once you machine is secure, download the free ClamXav and run a scan on the external storage drive with just your files, perhaps one or more PDF's or other files are not what they seem to be.
8: Make sure to install fresh copies of software from original sources and not from rewriteable media, update them to be current. Malware can be hidden in copies of programs.
9: Trash all your rewritable media, or use a Linux PC or Linux Mint in a virtual machine (VirtualBox) on another computer like Windows to scrub and reformat all the rewritable media before attaching them to the clean Mac. You have to make sure it's getting the entire media.
10: Once your machine is set back up, then make clones and time and date them.
Most commonly used backup methods
If your still having problems with the machine, it's likley a failing hard drive and you will have to replace it and repeat the steps above pretty much.
Really it's best to replace the drive in the interest of security.
Install/upgrade RAM or storage drive in Mac's
For performance of Snow Leopard, check out this tip
For Snow Leopard Speed Freaks
Your overseas, if your in a foriegn country you have to assume FinSpy is being installed on your machine (uses a older iTunes verison "update" to get on) or there is other tricks via the ISP to install something on your machine. So mix things up and don't stick any old USB you see laying around into your Mac.
https://discussions.apple.com/community/notebooks/macbook_pro?view=documents#/

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