5+ Minute boot from shutdown help!

Hi,

My friend asked me to look at her Macbook pro as it is taking a long time to boot. First time I switched it on it took over 5 minutes to get to the desktop. I had a quick look and nothing jumped out at me so shutdown left it. Later on in the day I booted it back up and it was at the desktop in about 1.5 minutes. And this seems to be the pattern. If it has been off for a while (not sure how long, a day or more) it takes 5 minutes or more to boot. After that it is quick, 1.5 minutes or so.

I have verified the disk, repaired permissions, cleared the pram etc and it is still the same. It is running a fully updated version of Mavericks.

Any ideas?

Thanks

Graham

 

Hey guys

Thanks for replying

Just turned it on and it was the slow boot again.

It's a mid 2009 13 inch pro. It has a 500gb HD.

 

I've managed to run the quick hardware test (took a while to do it as she doesn't have the original disks so I had to find a download for AHT before booting to diagnostics would work). It didn't find anything. I'll do the longer test tomorrow (its late here). I have already reset the PRAM but I will give the SMC a go.

It's just so strange, I can't see anything that would make it boot so slowly after being off for a while (although I am no expert at reading the boot logs). She doesn't have any third party kexts installed, just stock apple.

Thanks again for all the help.

Graham

 

I'll try the caches tonight (I think I already did, but tbh I've tried a lot so not sure ).

There is nothing set to launch at startup in the login items other than itunes helper. I'll check the agents and daemons tonight.

Yeah, it only is slow after sitting around for a while. Last night after the initial 5 minute boot I was shutting down and restarting a lot and it was only taking about 1.5 minutes.

I'll see if I can find a spare hard drive to test.

Thanks again for all your help guys.

Graham

 

Hi Guys,

Been busy so just returned to this tonight. As expected it took 5 minutes to boot (although I did boot using verbose mode, not sure if it makes a difference). I have attached the console log in case anyone can see any problems.

I checked the folders asked:

~/Library/LaunchAgents - contains com.divx.agent.postinstall.plst and com.google.keystone.agent.plst
/Library/LaunchAgents - contains com.promethean.activhardwareservice.plist, com.promethean.activmgr.plist, com.promethean.flashextension.plist and com.trusteer.rapport.rapportd.plist
/Library/LaunchDaemons - contains com.adobe.fpsaud.plist, com.microsoft.office.licensing.helper.plist and com.trusteer.rooks.rooksd.plist.

Thanks again for all your help.

Graham