A friends 15" MacBook Pro was having problems after updating to Maverick, apparently it worked for a few days and then for some unknown reason the 'Unapproved Caller SecurityAgent may only be invoked by Apple Software' problem appeared and after trying to resolve it in the end I couldn't even login.
So I backed up his user folder, erased the drive, cloned a pre-installed system that I use for new Macs to his MacBook, migrated his User folder in, installed a few apps for him and everything was working fine.
He calls to me this morning and the Mac is switched on but no apps will open from the dock .. I double click the HD icon on Desktop and bizarrely all I see in column view is Paul's Mac with nothing it in, When I click the Application link in left column of window I see nothing, clicking on Music, Photos etc reveals nothing except for Desktop where I can see the files that are still on the desktop. From the Apple menu Shutdown and Restart do nothing.
I hard reboot and everything is now back and working correctly!
Ran Disk Utility Verify Drive and it reports no problems.
Booted from External HD, checked permissions and it repaired pages and pages of stuff. Checked again and all good.
So .. Could it be the SATA HD failing even though System says its Verified?
Whatever I've never had such an issue before and worst of all this is a guy I persuaded to move to Apple and sadly he's not had the best of starts.
Any advice appreciated.
Thanks for looking
So I backed up his user folder, erased the drive, cloned a pre-installed system that I use for new Macs to his MacBook, migrated his User folder in, installed a few apps for him and everything was working fine.
He calls to me this morning and the Mac is switched on but no apps will open from the dock .. I double click the HD icon on Desktop and bizarrely all I see in column view is Paul's Mac with nothing it in, When I click the Application link in left column of window I see nothing, clicking on Music, Photos etc reveals nothing except for Desktop where I can see the files that are still on the desktop. From the Apple menu Shutdown and Restart do nothing.
I hard reboot and everything is now back and working correctly!
Ran Disk Utility Verify Drive and it reports no problems.
Booted from External HD, checked permissions and it repaired pages and pages of stuff. Checked again and all good.
So .. Could it be the SATA HD failing even though System says its Verified?
Whatever I've never had such an issue before and worst of all this is a guy I persuaded to move to Apple and sadly he's not had the best of starts.
Any advice appreciated.
Thanks for looking