10.5.1 will not boot

[aquajet]

I have leopard installed on an external firewire hard drive with my MacBook Pro. After installing the 10.5.1 update, the system will no longer boot. It hangs on the grey apple screen with the spinning wheel forever. I've tried reinstalling leopard and updating again, same result. Thoughts?

 

[mad jew]

Can it boot into Safe Mode (SHIFT at startup)?

 

[aquajet]

No, not even safe mode works.

 

[Blue Velvet]

Try booting into Verbose mode (command v) at startup to give more details where it's hanging. Post here what happens or what it says...

 

[aquajet]

This is what it says when I boot in verbose mode

Sorry for the fuzziness.

 

[aquajet]

Several posters at the Apple Discussions forum are reporting the exact same issue, present with both USB and firewire drives. At least one person has reported success with transplanting their mechanism into a firewire 800 enclosure.

So much for 10.5.1. Archive and Install back to 10.5.0 I guess.

 

[Blue Velvet]

Could you link to that so that others can follow the discussion over there, if they have the same problem? Sorry that I'm not more geeky in being able to decipher the verbose mode log, but I thought others could.

Are you just going to do an archive and install?

 

[aquajet]

Could you link to that so that others can follow the discussion over there, if they have the same problem? Sorry that I'm not more geeky in being able to decipher the verbose mode log, but I thought others could.

Are you just going to do an archive and install?

Here you go. There were a couple other threads related to external hard drives, but this one seemed to be the most relevent.

Yeah, I'll be doing an A and I. 10.5.0 seemed to work pretty well on my configuration.

 

[aquajet]

Update

Managed to find a solution to this problem by deleting the following file:

/Library/Preferences/DirectoryService/.DSIsRunning

It now boots 10.5.1 with no issues.