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10.5.2 killed my imac

glocke12

glocke12

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Not how I wanted to spend evening....

Tried updating my 24" imac with 10.5.2, when it asked me to restart, I clicked on the button that would have allowed it to restart. All this did was perform an endless loop where I kept getting asked to restart, so I force quit.

Now, when I go to start back up, I am in an endless loop for the setup menu (choose laungage, mac id, etc) over and over again. It does not go away.

Any suggestions other than wiping my HD clean and reinstalling leopard???
 
tried that....I cant even get into safe mode....the gear thing kept spinning for about 20 minutes....

I didnt have anything on there thats not replaceable, so Im reinstalling leopard now...
 
I'm having the same problem...

Tried safe mode, no go. Resetting PRAM, no go. Tried cursing at it, no go...

HELP!
 
wow, that sucks... makes me wonder if i should up-date at the moment, perhaps put in a mac lunix, such as Ubuntu, and see what you can do
 
I'm gonna fall back to my MBP while I sort this out. I hope I don't have to reinstall OS X...


(Thank God for Time Machine!)
 
The weird part is when it's sitting there and spinning I can still access the Mac HD and my user folder via wireless... So it must be stopping really close to the logon screen...
 
I thought mine almost was dead. It did the Install and Restart option, then after restarting after the apple logo went away it spun for a bit, then restarted. It took awhile after the second boot but it came up.

- James
 
OK. So I used the Leopard Install Disk (disk utilities tool) to repair permissions and it finally booted into OS X. We'll see if everythings ok... I let you all know.
 
So far everything seems OK. Verified that it's on 10.5.2. I used to scoff at folks that said "repair permissions before an update" but in this case I wish I had.

Though, I am having a glitch with Time Machine. It seems stuck on "preparing" when I initiate a backup... hmmm....
 
didnt work for me...

I have the SAME EXACT issue after having updated to 10.5.2 🙁. But, I tried the 'repair permissions' from the install dvd, and it found 3 entries for ACL but didn't fix them, but that's it... and it's still stuck in a reboot loop.

Any ideas??
 
lordlala said:
I have the SAME EXACT issue after having updated to 10.5.2 🙁. But, I tried the 'repair permissions' from the install dvd, and it found 3 entries for ACL but didn't fix them, but that's it... and it's still stuck in a reboot loop.

Any ideas??
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Try fixing them. That's what worked for me, finally.

Also, the Time Machine problem went away when I did a repair disk on the external HDD. Took about 15 minutes, but then it worked.
 
How do I try fixing them?

I even tried reinstalling Leopard altogether! Yet it still occurs. Something in that update totally screwed things up 🙁

I'm about to just f-ing format and call it a day 🙁

I would absolutely LOVE suggestions please!!
 
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