torrent99 Posted March 8, 2012 Share Posted March 8, 2012 EDIT: [sOLVED!!! It was the bootloader see my last post] So I'm running SL quite happily on my D630 X3100 and for some reason decided to let OSX do it's own update to 10.6.8.... Bad move.... On the reboot: 1) It takes AGES to boot up. 2) Any clicks on the top menu bar provokes a beachball. 3) The WIFI (which previously worked a treat), is "switched off". I click on the "Turn Airport On" button, but it does nothing. 4) Slow generally.... Anyone any clues please? How can I get my system back without a total re-install? Vital specs: D630, 1.8Ghz, 2GB RAM,Intel X3100, BIOS A17. WIFI is BCM4311 (dell 1390? bought from ebay to get SL to work originally).... Cheers Steve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Bronxteck Posted March 8, 2012 Administrators Share Posted March 8, 2012 do option 1 then rebuild from existing option a.... also repair your system permissions with disk utility.... your kernel cache is corrupted Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
torrent99 Posted March 8, 2012 Author Share Posted March 8, 2012 do option 1 then rebuild from existing option a.... also repair your system permissions with disk utility.... your kernel cache is corrupted Thanks! Unfortunately that didn't work. 1) ran edptool & chose option 1 followed by option a 2) ran Disc Utility and clicked "repair permissions" this found a lot of wrong permissions 3) ran kextcache -system-prelinked-kernel. & kextcache -system-caches. To rebuild the kernel caches 4) repeated step 1 to be sure 5) rebooted Unfortunately there's no change. System.log. is reporting repeated crashes of configd, the crash files mention use of 64 bit binaries?!? Any clue before I resort to backup? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Bronxteck Posted March 8, 2012 Administrators Share Posted March 8, 2012 try sudo touch System/Library/Extensions in terminal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
torrent99 Posted March 8, 2012 Author Share Posted March 8, 2012 No change I'm afraid.. Did the touch and then rebooted, but symptoms remain the same. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Bronxteck Posted March 8, 2012 Administrators Share Posted March 8, 2012 so none of the symptoms have cleared? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
torrent99 Posted March 8, 2012 Author Share Posted March 8, 2012 Frail not... I'm currently restoring from a dd backup will retry the upgrade later.... thanks for your help so far... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
torrent99 Posted March 9, 2012 Author Share Posted March 9, 2012 Frail not... I'm currently restoring from a dd backup will retry the upgrade later.... thanks for your help so far... Ok attempt 2: 1) Restored to 10.6 from backup. 2) Did Software Update 3) Reboot.... Same symptoms as before. 4) Rerun EDP Tool. 5) Repair permissions 6) Reboot No change 7) Run myFix 8) Reboot No change 9) Re install Chameleon. 10 reboot 11) No change Some extracts of files after step 3. dmesg includes: AirPort: Link Down on en0. Reason 8 (Disassociated because station leaving). Refusing new kext com.apple.kext.OSvKernDSPLib, v1.3: a loaded copy with a different executable UUID is already present. Refusing new kext com.apple.iokit.IOAudioFamily, v1.8.3f2: already have loaded v1.7f16. Refusing new kext com.apple.kext.OSvKernDSPLib, v1.3: a loaded copy with a different executable UUID is already present. Refusing new kext com.apple.iokit.IOAudioFamily, v1.8.3f2: already have loaded v1.7f16. kxld[com.apple.driver.AudioIPCDriver]: The super class vtable '__ZTV13IOAudioEngine' for vtable '__ZTV31com_apple_driver_AudioIPCEngine' is out of date. Make sure your kext has been built against the correct headers. Can't load kext com.apple.driver.AudioIPCDriver - link failed. Failed to load executable for kext com.apple.driver.AudioIPCDriver. Kext com.apple.driver.AudioIPCDriver failed to load (0xdc008016). Failed to load kext com.apple.driver.AudioIPCDriver (error 0xdc008016). IG: Invalid firmware max backlight setting systemShutdown false Refusing new kext com.apple.kext.OSvKernDSPLib, v1.3: a loaded copy with a different executable UUID is already present. Refusing new kext com.apple.iokit.IOAudioFamily, v1.8.3f2: already have loaded v1.7f16. kxld[com.apple.driver.AudioIPCDriver]: The super class vtable '__ZTV13IOAudioEngine' for vtable '__ZTV31com_apple_driver_AudioIPCEngine' is out of date. Make sure your kext has been built against the correct headers. Can't load kext com.apple.driver.AudioIPCDriver - link failed. Failed to load executable for kext com.apple.driver.AudioIPCDriver. Kext com.apple.driver.AudioIPCDriver failed to load (0xdc008016). Failed to load kext com.apple.driver.AudioIPCDriver (error 0xdc008016). DSMOS has arrived IntelMemory::init IntelMemory::init InitPool: offset= 0x08000000 size = 0x08000000 ACPI_SMC_PlatformPlugin::registerLPCDriver - WARNING - LPC device initialization failed: C-state power management not /var/log/system.log includes: Mar 9 21:41:17 skss-mac-pro mds[1951]: (Error) Task: QueryClose failed (-1) for store <MDSStoreToken: 0x100325610>{storeID:0x6b000000 registered:YES private:NO age:9h09m09s uuid:A9609302-8034-4128-8814-C048DB595E48 machPort:0x00006303} Mar 9 21:41:18: --- last message repeated 2 times --- Mar 9 21:41:18 skss-mac-pro mDNSResponder[26]: mDNSResponder mDNSResponder-212.1 (Jul 24 2009 22:34:12) stopping Mar 9 21:41:18 skss-mac-pro WindowServer[3022]: hidd died. Reestablishing connection. Mar 9 21:41:18 skss-mac-pro WindowServer[3022]: bootstrap_look_ip failed: Unknown service name Mar 9 21:42:35 localhost com.apple.launchd[1]: *** launchd[1] has started up. *** Mar 9 21:42:45 localhost mtversionlog[46]: SWU: system version changed from 10.6 (10A432) to 10.6.8 (10K549) Mar 9 21:42:45 localhost bootlog[41]: BOOT_TIME: 1331329354 0 Mar 9 21:42:45 localhost blued[17]: Apple Bluetooth daemon started Mar 9 21:42:45 localhost blued[17]: _CFGetHostUUIDString: unable to determine UUID for host. Error: 35 dmesg.txt system.log.txt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
torrent99 Posted March 10, 2012 Author Share Posted March 10, 2012 SOLVED!!!!! Ok the problem was essentially using the GRUB2 bootloader. So basically I did the following. 1) Restored back to 10.6 2) Restored the MBR bootloader back to Chameleon using a dd from a full disk image prior to me installing Linux. I had previously tried to re-install Chameleon but it hadn't altered the first stage boot loader. 3) Rebooted & upgraded. 4) Rebooted. 5) Ran edptool & myfix 6) Rebooted - much better. Booted faster & no beach ball however still no wifi. 7) Reran edptool Option 1 & rebuild. 8) Reboot 9) SUCCESS!!!!!! Everything works even sleep with no bios password set, just get the occasional 777777777s problem, but I've seen that mentioned elsewhere so it's not just me ! Thanks for your help. Now to get dual boot going without breaking it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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