Follow The Apple Black Brick Road

Sidnei — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 16:23:43 +0000

The Mac OS X 10.4.10 update has nearly turned my Macbook into a brick. It crashes upon login and dumps me into a console. From there I can login with my user, but not much else. It seems that something called “SecurityAgent” is crashing upon login. I’ve tried every single tip I could find. Nothing seems to fix it.

Following various threads on the Apple Support pages I found many similar reports but no solution so far. The only way I can get anything useful out of it is:

# /sbin/mount -uw /
# sh /etc/rc
# open ~

That will dump me into some kind of stripped down Finder, where I can then launch “Dock.app” and “SystemUIServer.app”.

This is really horrible. Shame on you Apple. I’m eager to know when the fix is going to arrive. If this really requires a reinstall like mentioned in several threads, I could just as well switch to Vista since I don’t have really have anything that requires OS X.

When Macs Go Kaput

Sidnei — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 04:02:00 +0000

It only happens once in a while. But sometimes, Macs go Kaput. And when it happens, there’s not much I can do. :(

On Windows you can go to the Device Manager and disable/enable the device and most of the time it works. Haven’t figured a similar hack on the Mac, other than rebooting. And then people make fun of Windows for rebooting, pfft.

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Follow The Apple Black Brick Road

When Macs Go Kaput