New Install Hangs

Hi all,
I have just installed iMovie 08 on Leopard and before using it checked for any updates, Which it did successfully. Restarted iMac.
Launch iMovie but it just hangs and gives the spinning wheel of death and I have to force quit it as it is not responding.
Any help anyone could offer would be greatly appreciated as this is becoming increasingly frustrating.
Cheerio.

Here is a fix for Leopard on Intel.
It's in this thread:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1207400&tstart=30
from race86:
Hey All:
My fix is alot easier than apples. In the Library/quicktime folder you need to look at each DivX file and check it using "get info" or "more info". Under Kind, you keep the one that says (Universal). The older DivX files go to the trash. After I did that, everything worked perfectly.
Sherm

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[SOLVED] new install hangs at fsck

Hi all,
I am trying my first install on the new installation media 10-6. Everything seemed to go smoothly until I rebooted. Now boot hangs at Filesystem is clean. The full message I am stuck on is below.
fsck.jfs version 1.1.15, 04-Mar-2011
processing started: 10/31/2012 11:23:56
The current device is: /dev/sda3
Block size in bytes: 4096
Filesystem size in blocks: 14080972
**Phase 0 - Replay Journal Log
Filesystem is clean.
Then I have nothing. The computer is a lenovo thinkpad t420. Any help would be appreciated, thanks.
edit: added code tags
Last edited by rickeyski (2012-11-05 02:43:36)

I ran into something similar yesterday.. I'm not sure it's the same problem but here's what I tried and found.
*After an unsucessful boot, restart your computer and boot off the installation media
*Mount your paritions on /mnt as you would for a fresh install.
*Run arch-chroot /mnt to chroot into your installation.
*Now you can run journalctl to see all messages logged during boot. There will be a ton of them, so hit 'G' to scroll to the bottom.
*Look for messages in red or white.
Now, in my case I found some errors from nouveau and dri. After those errors, the logs went on to show that the system fully booted, although I never got past the fsck step on the screen. A bit of searching found posts about problems with nouveau and dual graphics cards (I have on-board GPU + a Nvidia card). Some posts mentioned adding the nomodeset option to your kernel line in grub. Doing this allowed me to boot up, and after installing the nvidia driver, I was able to remove this option and still boot.
Hope this helps.
Edit: grub config with nomodeset
echo 'Loading Linux core repo kernel ...'
linux /vmlinuz-linux root=UUID=e7975760-f032-438a-b38d-93bc03246e96 ro nomodeset
echo 'Loading initial ramdisk ...'
initrd /initramfs-linux.img
Last edited by dmartins (2012-11-03 13:11:42)

New install, hangs at "GRUB Loading ..."

I just finished installing Arch on a new system, following the beginners guide, and everything went fine, until I restarted the system.
It shows "GRUB Loading ...", and a blinking cursor, and nothing else. The GRUB menu never comes up.
Has anyone encountered this before?
I'd say I have a fairly simple setup:
/boot /dev/sda1 ext2 300MB
/ ext4 /dev/sda2 120GB
I made the partitions with fdisk, so I have the "old" MBR partition table.
I have installed grub with:
(boot the install medium)
loadkeys hu
mount /dev/sda2 /mnt
mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/boot
arch-chroot /mnt
pacman -S grub-bios
grub-install --target=i386-pc --recheck /dev/sda
(Grub install finishes, says no errors detected)
cp /usr/share/locale/en\@quot/LC_MESSAGES/grub.mo /boot/grub/locale/en.mo
grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
exit
umount /mnt/boot
umount /mnt
reboot
And then I'm back to the hanging BIOS Loading screen.
Edit:
There were some pieces of information regarding an encrypt root drive, I have retried the install without encrypting the root drive, and the problem perists.
Edit2:
Syslinux boots it just fine.
Last edited by WishCow (2012-10-02 12:32:55)

Yes, 2 MiB if GPT is used. That's what I meant. And don't use "/dev/sda1" or "/dev/sda2" when installing GRUB. You want to install to the MBR, so use /dev/sda.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Be … bootloader
Also: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Be … partitions
Pay attention, because the mounting order is important.
First, mount the root partition on /mnt.
Then mount the /home partition and any other separate partition (/boot, /var, etc), if you have any.
So do not mount the boot partition first, then the root partition after. That's just wrong.
You mentioned encryption earlier. Well? Which is it? Encrypted or not? Because you can't just mount it like any regular partition if it's encrypted.
If you still want to go with Syslinux, see the Basic Config for encryption examples.

Dad needs Help, 180 New Install- Hang on Verify Pool DMI

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Verify DMI Pool ....
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I would suspect you have another computer. If so download the lastest BIOS for it from the Msi web site. Then useing a USB key or connecting a floppy drive then flash it in DOS.
The floppy connecter is on the mother board just no cable, also by default the floppy drive is turned off in BIOS so you will need to enable it.
If you are going to use a floppy disc to reprogram then do a full disc scan on the disc with the drive you will be using, the last thing you want is to have a bad disc. If you do have a bad disc and you only find out during flashing then keep that machine turn on and with you other PC load the BIOS on another disc and try again (don't turn it off).
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New install hangs on boot when GDM or LXDM services are enabled

Greetings Arch users,
I've been trying out installing Arch on a USB drive in order to get familiar with the process and use it on my main machine in the future. I've been following the Beginners' Guide, and after a few hiccups, I managed to install what appears to be a fully-functional Arch system onto a 16 GB USB drive, albeit without a window manager or desktop environment.
When I tried that is where I ran into problems. I installed X, vesa driver, and GNOME and enabled gdm.service, and upon the next reboot the system hung after or in the middle of the fsck process, exactly as described in this thread.
rebooted, hangs after the fsck bit where it says something like /dev/sda4: clean, 112977/9296096 files, 185427/21217024 blocks
I just get the blinking cursor. I left it there long enough to take a nap and nothing else came up.
Examining the journalctl output, I see an error exactly like mentioned in this thread:
GLib-GObject-CRITICAL: g_object_ref: assertion 'object->refcount > 0' failed
GLib-GObject-CRITICAL: g_object_unref: assertion 'object->refcount > 0' failed
Chrooting into the system and disabling gdm.service allowed for normal boot.
Well, I thought, maybe there's an issue with GDM or GNOME. I'll try LXDE and LXDM instead. Unfortunately, that hung at the exact same point in the loading process. Looking at the journalctl, I saw an output exactly like what was described in this thread:
Lxdm.service main process exited code=exited status=1/FAILURE
lxdm.service entered failed state
I'm stumped. I've searched and haven't come up with anything. Does anyone have any ideas about what might be the cause? What additional information would be helpful in diagnosing the issue? Thank you for your help.
Last edited by AbortToddlers (2014-01-28 15:06:04)

Neburski wrote:
slowpoke1584 wrote:
killall gdm
GDM then restarts immediately. Problem recurring each boot.
Can you check the logs (dmesg, journalctl, xorg) and see if there are any differences for the startup of GDM before and after a successful GDM start.
Technically from the lack of information you provided it's not possible to state if you actually have the same issue or not. It might be better for you to start your own separate thread.
If you start your separate thread please provide some more details so people don't need to start guessing.
I think I'll just RTM.

[SOLVED] lxde (new install) hangs at startup

Fresh install of Arch. X configured and working fine (tested using WindowMaker) - nvidia card + hal + evdev.
Installed LXDE. startx Panel and desktop appear, but no mouse or keyboard (I can Ctrl-Alt-F1 to kill X). No errors in Xorg0.log. Also tried svn build of lxsession-lite and lxpanel from AUR, same behavior.
I don't think it's an X issue b/c WindowMaker works flawlessly.
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Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Layout0"
Screen 0 "Screen0"
EndSection
Section "Files"
EndSection
Section "Module"
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Load "extmod"
Load "glx"
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VertRefresh 50.0 - 75.0
Option "DPMS"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Device0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Device0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
Option "RenderAccel" "true"
Option "NoLogo" "true"
Option "AGPFastWrite" "true"
Option "MetaModes" "1680x1050_60 +0+0"
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1680x1050" "1600x1200" "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
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EndSection
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Last edited by dfelicia (2009-05-26 15:01:20)

Ack, it wasn't installed! So obvious, how did I miss it? I blindly assumed it was installed as part of the lxde group, and never thought to check.
Thanks!

QuickTime new install hangs, freezes executing MOV files?

Once worked?
A iTunes user I have removed & reinstalled ITunes back having same issue never fixed awhile (I did not know it was I QuickTime thing)
I tried to run any video in iTunes or podcast and it freezed.. I lost mouse keybd everything Reboot!
That was iTunes on another ticket suggested that I remove & reinstalled... same problem, never did solve it?
Today I tried QT, running a MOV from fresh boot, to execute a MOV file, one that worked and I created a year ago..
I went repair soft and apps in control panel, then finally remove & reloaded it, Quicktime still freezes when executing a MOV file.

1] Try it with another user account (make one if you need to in Apple menu > System Preferences > Accounts)
2] If its only happening in your account:
Inside your hard drive, in the Users folder should be your user home folder (with your account name.) Within that folder is a folder called Library... open that and look for a QuickTime folder within, pull that QuickTime folder out to the Desktop. Do the same for Internet Plug-ins and throw away the ~/Library/Caches/QuickTime folder too. Then, open Preferences and pull out com.apple.quicktime... (all of them) and the QuickTime Preferences file.
Then log out (Apple menu) and back in (or restart) and try again.
3] If its happening for all users then try:
Pull the /Library/Preferences/com.apple.quicktime.plist to the desktop (Your QuickTime Pro registration is in that file so don't throw it away, just move it out, restart and try again.)
4] If there are still problems, try repairing your disk either with the OS X install disc (run Disk Utility from the menu bar) or by rebooting in Singel-User-Mode and running fsck. Then repair permissions with Disk Utility.
Let us know if you still have trouble.

Old version of Shockwave Player keeps crashing - installing new version hangs

I had reproducible crashes of FlashPlayer (in all my browsers (IE, FF, Google Chrome and Safari) and on misc. web pages).
I then decided to install the latest version 11.5. Clicking on Install hangs the browser.
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The reason I am asking this: I had exactly the same issue with flash player. The web-based installer would always hang, the downloadable installer finally worked. But, alas, Adobe is always hiding the downloadabe installers... :-( )
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Adobe is always hiding the downloadabe installers
I'm confident that if you had searched this forum for a link, you'd have found it. Nevertheless, here is the full installer

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I turned on my new 27" iMac, and when it asked if I wanted to import info, I was not ready because I did not have the right cable to connect my Time Machine External B/U, so I passed, and created a Bootcamp partition.
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So my questions are;
1. what is the best way to take my documents, movies, photos, music and such from the 2nd migration, and transfer to a freshly created user account that would have no corrupted preferences causing the spinning problems. Do I put them in the shared folder, then access them from the new account, and transfer them that way, or does the admin do it?
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3. What about fonts and such, should they be put in the main library, or a user library?
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5. On my admin desktop, I can see my HD, Bootcamp partition, and Parallels shortcut. It is not visible on my test account, or another user account I created for #1 above. How can I give that user access?
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7. How can I access the 2 external HD's that show up in admin and not users?
8. Can I safely delete the user that was created from my first unsuccessful migration that I had to force quit and has permission issues?
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No offense, though none of your replies are of any help. I am not migrating from a PPC to Intel, I don't need to reinstall, I am not a new user migrating for the first time, and I am not having any font problems.
Let me try again.
If I have a problem with an imported user account like it hangs doing certain things, how do I move all the data to a new user on the same PC, just drag all the documents, library, and similar folders to the shared folder, or the user folder?
Users/Shared
Users/User
Any help is greatly appreciated.

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Son was prompted by iTunes to download IOS4. He did this, but when he tried to install it on the iPod, it froze the iPod and iTunes.
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