When i turn my mac pro off and then back on it dosent load my login pic and says updated needed!!

when i turn off my computer and turn it back on it won't load up with my login pic jus a plain screen and empty pic!
with the words updated needed under the empty pic. however if i jus put t into sleep mode it will load up the pic as it should. bit hard to explain.

Boot into your recovery partition (restart, hold down ⌘R until you see the Apple logo), and use Disk Utility to repair your hard drive. Repair permissions too while you're there. OS X: About OS X Recovery

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I had pretty much the same problem a few days ago, and was worried my mac was screwed permanently, but I got it fixed up no problem!
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1. Boot into OSX Recovery Mode
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Turn off your mac, and reboot it while holding Command and S. The screen should go black, and you'll see some white text run across the screen, wait a few seconds, until you see the command prompt. Now type
fsck -fy
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or
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If you got message 2, run the same command again until you get message 1. If it doesn't seem to be working, turn off your system and proceed to step 4.
If you couldn't even boot into Single User Mode in the first place (like me), go to step 4 anyways.
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