Behaviour at shutdown/startup

[johnalan]

Hi All,

I just wanted to get some feedback on this issue, I have a new MBP everything is going well with it, no issues. really enjoying it,

just wanted to ask you as of late shutdown and start up seem to be taking forever,

I did do a benchmark on the disk the day i got it and it scores the same and better now in the same test so I can't understand why its taking 2-3 times as long to start up and shut down. I have installed no new apps on it except for adium and vlc,

so its not like a bunch of behind the scenes services are running,

tl;dr; it used to shut down in an instant, now every shutdown the screen goes blue and a spinny indicator shows for about 15 seconds... disk performance benchmarked the same, and no new apps,

any thoughts??


Thanks,
Kind Regards,
John

 

[Hellhammer]

System Preferences -> Startup disk -> Select your OS X disk and reboot

Anyway, use sleep mode instead, much faster

 

[johnalan]

System Preferences -> Startup disk -> Select your OS X disk and reboot

Anyway, use sleep mode instead, much faster

cool i'll give that a try and let you know thanks buddy

 

[johnalan]

System Preferences -> Startup disk -> Select your OS X disk and reboot

Anyway, use sleep mode instead, much faster

Hiya I tried this and it hasn't made any difference, I guess you were thinking that it might be looking to boot off the network first,

it's really strange I don't know what caused it, my processes are all stock ones, no startup items, and nothing changed

even downloaded onyx and ran maintenance scripts etc,


This didn't make any difference,

I just don't know why the shutdown process for example used to take a few seconds, now it's a spinning wheel and a blue screen for like 20 seconds!

I can't understand what it's doing, I literally have NO background processes, threads or applications that weren't on it when it shut down in 3-4 seconds.

Really would love to fix this,

Thanks,
Regards,
John

 

[johnalan]

Everyone Should Check This Out

I finally found a solution to this retarded issue:


I noticed in console I was getting the following line alot:

May 18 18:46:56 MacBook-Pro com.apple.kextd[10]: Can't create kext cache under / - owner not root.



Thanks to this dude on this page :
http://www.hutsby.net/2010/02/error-message-in-osx-console-cant.html

I fixed it by changing ownership of /

my machine now boots and performs shutdowns in seconds again,


thanks for the replies

Happy days,

Regards,
John

 

[a-m-k]

Thanks!

 

[johnalan]

Thanks!

no probs!