Updates to 10.5 Cause Restart Hang
Hi,
I have a mid-2006 Macbook, the warranty of which expired 7/15/09, a week before the trouble started. The internal drive died, so I removed it, booted from the Install DVD, and installed Leopard to my external drive, which worked fine. The problem is that when I try to install operating system updates the system hangs indefinitely during boot. I've tried
10.5.7 update through software update
10.5.7 standalone combo update
10.5.6 standalone combo update
10.5.1 standalone update
Each time the computer installs the update, restarts, and hangs indefinitely on boot at this point:
Typically I gave the system 25 minutes to boot each time, with at least two attempts on each install of the update. The external drive spins down and eats lunch about 5 minutes into boot. I once let it run all night and it never booted. The only fix has been to archive and reinstall the OS each time. You can imagine how time consuming it is to keep doing this.
Is this because I'm using an external boot drive??
Is this because I'm using an external monitor?? I've tried with two separate external displays. I've also tried using the Macbook screen but it's broken so I can't see what's going on during the boot sequence. Actually one of the external displays, a Gateway Monitor, doesn't display the boot sequence either, but I can see the boot sequence when I startup the laptop attached to an old APEX 12" television with a composite video cable and Apple Mini-DVI to Video Adapter. I mention this because some other folks have had a similar restart hang problem when using external displays: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=9412370�
However, I have allowed the computer ample time to boot using it's own display. If I give it 25 minutes and plug the TV in, I get the same screen.
Before and after each update, I've also tried:
repairing disk permissions
repairing the file system
reset PRAM
reset SMC
reset PMU
It is getting pesky to have to keep reinstalling the operating system after updates crash it.
I haven't tried
safe mode
single user mode
verbose mode
startup in open firmware
running Apple Hardware Test--my next step
This was originally posted in the OS X Leopard forum: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=9902392#9902392
Users there asked me to confirm I was starting up from the right disk, which isn't an issue. I've seen other users post their startup issues in the forum for their computer, rather than the Leopard forum, so I thought I'd try to post here.
Thanks all,
Anthony
So I tried again, this time with the 10.5.6 combo update, and I experienced the same restart hang and had to archive and install. But this time I tried a couple of more tricks:
1) I tried to start up in safe mode (shift), which still resulted in hang on boot.
2) I started up in single user mode (cmd+s) and ran a file system check with the command "fsck -y". I ran this twice in a row. The first result was "file system was modified" and the second result "the volume appears to be OK."
3) I started up in verbose mode (cmd+v). The computer stalled on the following line:
Applications: Ethernet Address 00:16:cb:cf:00:05
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