When I reboot, it hangs on fsck, although disk reports no errors.

I have a 2011 iMac running lion. When I reboot, it hangs on fsck. If I boot in single user mode, fsck -fy runs with no errors. If I boot from the recovery disk and run disk utility, it also yeilds no errors. This only happens when I reboot normally.
Any Ideas?

Try to look in this thread:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4831564?start=0&tstart=0
I had the same problem, and the solution was deleteing /var/folders. In general it is instructive to follow the source code of launchctl, and see the different steps that it takes during boot.

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Sorry ... I read but was unfortunately distracted from your original post. You have a system that came with Lion. The Lion that is on your system is only for your computer and cannot be downloaded from the app store again because you never purchased it officially through the App Store.
Try this for making an external USB/DVD copy of Recovery on an external disk. internet is still required for reinstall, though, I believe: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4848. But at least you have a separate Recovery Partition if you ever need a fully new and empty internal disk.
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Hello.
I have a problem with OEL 6.5 and ocfs2.
When I mount ocfs2 with mount -a command all ocfs2 partitions mount and work, but when I reboot no ocfs2 partitions auto mount. No error messages in log. I use DAS FC and iSCSI FC.
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