10 minute login issue

[canhaz]

Howdy everyone

I have a really annoying problem. I can bootup fine no problems, however after I click on my profile picture and login, it will randomly hang on a grey screen for about 10 minutes, before successfully finishing the login process.

No idea what causes it but it's happening a few times a week. Seems to also be correlated with another wake/clamshell/thunderbolt issue.

I'm technical and would love to know if there is a good strategy for troubleshooting these sort of issues.

 

[Weaselboy]

Do you have anything in your Login Items under Users & Groups in the System Pref panel that might be slowing things down?

Try a safe mode boot my holding the shift key after the chime. That stops any login items from running and will help you troubleshoot. If the problem goes away with a safe boot start removing items half at a time from the login items until you find the culprit.

 

[canhaz]

Do you have anything in your Login Items under Users & Groups in the System Pref panel that might be slowing things down?

Thanks, I have a whole bunch of login items (Chrome Sync, Dropbox, Divvy, PasteBot etc). But... (see below)

Try a safe mode boot my holding the shift key after the chime. That stops any login items from running and will help you troubleshoot. If the problem goes away with a safe boot start removing items half at a time from the login items until you find the culprit.

Safe mode causes the same issue.

 

[Weaselboy]

Thanks, I have a whole bunch of login items (Chrome Sync, Dropbox, Divvy, PasteBot etc). But... (see below)



Safe mode causes the same issue.

Hmmm... also look in /LibraryStartupItems to see what is starting from there.


Check Startup Disk in System Prefs to make sure the correct disk is picked as the startup disk.