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Lion slow to boot?

Mr M5 said:
My network acct server is grayed out with nothing to join and i'm still with the long boot times.
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In looking at kernel.log in Console, I had a large lag times of about 60 seconds between the network connection and then "nstat_lookup_entry failed: 2". As soon as my above setting changed, fixed.

Take a look at your kernel.log and see what seems to be the lag point. Again, I don't think my situation will seen often, but there definitely seems to be some hiccups at startup in Lion in certain situations.
 
Darby67 said:
In looking at kernel.log in Console, I had a large lag times of about 60 seconds between the network connection and then "nstat_lookup_entry failed: 2". As soon as my above setting changed, fixed.

Take a look at your kernel.log and see what seems to be the lag point. Again, I don't think my situation will seen often, but there definitely seems to be some hiccups at startup in Lion in certain situations.
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Ok I looked but I don't know what I'm looking at. I see a lot of failed starts for Nstat. Does that help?
 
Lion boot

To repair permissions
1. Open up Disk Utility
2. Select your hard drive
3. On the right hand side, select Repair Permissions.

To delete caches:
1. From the Finder's Go menu, select Go To Folder, and go to this folder: /Library
2. Delete the Caches folder.
Go to System Preferences and click on Startup Disc and click on your boot drive. Now try a restart again. If you don't have a Startup drive selected your mac will waste time at boot searching for a suitable boot drive !

This worked for me.

MBP 15' 2.0GHZ i7 4GB HDD 500GB
 
I posted this same response in the "Increased Shut down time on 10.7 Lion" thread, but it applies here too.

I'm seeing a HUGE decrease in shutdown and startup times on my Early 2011 13" MBP w/ a OCZ Vertex 3 SSD. On Snow Leopard my startups were longer than with the stock HDD.

FYI; I put SL on my SSD by just copying my installation from my HDD using OS X's Disk Utility and I installed Lion as a regular update; no fresh installs at all.

The trend I'm seeing here is that anything older than early 2011 is having issues. I wonder if it's hardware/chipset related?
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I guess I'm just lucky though as I'm starting to see more and more Early 2011 Mac owners complain of poorer boot and shutdown times.
 
same here. 8GB RAM, i7, with SSD for OSX Lion. It scares me how long it takes - why is there a load bar? It just stops halfway through and I think the system is crashing. Takes 5 minutes, when SL took 15 seconds. What gives????? :mad:
 
HackDaBox said:
I was thinking this too at one stage and wondering about how many items were running at startup etc but this thought was soon forgotten as people who performed a clean install said the issue was solved !

Have you read all the previous posts ??? No? Because the issue has been solved.

Do a clean install from a freshly formatted hard drive either from a dvdr or a usb key or external hard drive and enjoy a lightling fast lion!

HackDaBox !
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This is not actually a solution, this is just saying a computer with no applications installed is faster. Well duh... A solution would be identifying specific items that are slowing down the boot process and finding ways to eliminate or repair them. Destroying everything need not be the answer.
 
weird, now it's rebooting fine. I backed up, ran another repair permissions, and rebooted. Don't know what changed. Oh well, i'm happy now.
 
TPadden said:
Mine was very slow with Lion as update to SL; don't know what it was but a fresh install made all the difference. Night and day ...... instant shutdown and fast boot. (2010 MBA w/ 4G) :)
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I dont want to sound stupid, but how do you do a fresh install if it is installed from the app store?? Do I now need to go buy it again and get it on disk?:confused::confused:
 
rogermain said:
To repair permissions
Go to System Preferences and click on Startup Disc and click on your boot drive. Now try a restart again. If you don't have a Startup drive selected your mac will waste time at boot searching for a suitable boot drive
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My new fresh Lion Mac Mini i5 did 1:15 for startup and with the option above it toke 35 sec !! Not bad !
 
I was having a very slow boot with my lion install on a 2011 imac. My wifes 2009 iMac was booting in half the time despite mine having 3 x more ram and a better processor.

I tried all the tips in this thread and noting would get it below about 70 seconds for a boot.

So i did a clean install after formatting the hdd.

Bingo 33 seconds to boot now.
 
The select startup drive "trick" was causing me to have sluggish startups in my then brand-new iMac with Snow Leopard, so it's not just a Lion issue.

Clean install of Lion is looking like the ultimate solution though, considering all the stalls noted in the system log caused by cruft from older OS versions being carried forward. I figure I'd lose a full day getting everything reinstalled from scratch and set up correctly. Probably more time consumed than is being wasted now. Next iMac here will probably be post-Lion, so I'll just start fresh with that.
 
My boot time is 6.75 seconds with Lion factory-installed by Apple on my MacBook Pro 15" 2.2 GHZ with OEM 128GB SSD and 8GB RAM. And it's 8 seconds for a complete reboot.
 
Can someone help me with reading my kernel.log? I've attached it to this post.
I have about a 30-second boot time, which seems long for my 2009 MBP with 8gb of ram. I've noticed I get the error "nstat_lookup_entry failed:2" in the kernel.log file, but have no clue what to do about it. It seems to be causing a 6+ second delay in the boot.

Thanks!

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Well, I thought I posted the file - for some reason it didn't post though. So, here is a link to it on fileserve.com:
http://www.fileserve.com/file/pgZKNU4/kernel.log
 
What about those of us who have zero cruft on a clean install (as clean as an install followed by Time Machine can be) and are still getting slow boot times? This Network thing doesn't seem to be doing anything for me.
 
thought I would share this, may be of some use

I was also having slow boot times not long after upgrading to Lion, this was on a new iMac with not many apps installed. also in console log, the last line after login was "nstat_lookup_entry failed:2"

Could not find a solution so i bit the bullet and done a clean install, this shaved roughly 10 seconds off the boot time.

so this weekend I was installing all the apps I use, after I installed parallels desktop 6, the slow boot times came back, with the "nstat_lookup_entry failed:2" in the console. - uninstalled Parallels back to normal, I downloaded the latest build of paralels 6 but alas the same.

so if you use paralels 6 may be worth uninstalling it, just to test.

M
 
I have lots of little Parallels bits hanging around. I don't even use it but I can't find a swift solution for getting rid of it all. Any ideas?
 
What about those of us that use parralls that don't want to delete it, any suggestions?
 
Its slow on everything.

Startups are slower, shutdowns are slower. Safari freezes constantly, other programs are slow to function.

I get the spinning beach ball of death at least 20-30 times a day.

I really want to like Lion as it has some nice features but its full of slowness.
 
quickmac said:
Its slow on everything.

Startups are slower, shutdowns are slower. Safari freezes constantly, other programs are slow to function.

I get the spinning beach ball of death at least 20-30 times a day.

I really want to like Lion as it has some nice features but its full of slowness.
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How much RAM do you have ?
 
quickmac said:
Its slow on everything.

Startups are slower, shutdowns are slower. Safari freezes constantly, other programs are slow to function.

I get the spinning beach ball of death at least 20-30 times a day.

I really want to like Lion as it has some nice features but its full of slowness.
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I get exactly the same problem too. Lots of beach balling and slow startups. I run parallels too (was 6 now 7 - no improvement.)

Also getting the nstat_lookup_entry failed: 2 errors too.

Sometimes my machine hangs for 20 seconds before resuming what I've been trying to do.
I never sleep my Mac, always shutdown (ex windows user you see)
 
As I earlier posted here, I had slow boot ups that were caused by network issues, that I cleared up.

HOWEVER on a vacation one morning I had very slow boot up, beachballs and other slowness irritations. After half an hour everything was back to normal. And no problem since.

I still think it is some sort of network issue as while traveling I'm always switching to new Wifi networks. Something somewhere must be hanging up the system trying to access the network through a disconnected access.

Let's hope 10.7.2 fixes these issues.
 
talmy said:
As I earlier posted here, I had slow boot ups that were caused by network issues, that I cleared up.

HOWEVER on a vacation one morning I had very slow boot up, beachballs and other slowness irritations. After half an hour everything was back to normal. And no problem since.

I still think it is some sort of network issue as while traveling I'm always switching to new Wifi networks. Something somewhere must be hanging up the system trying to access the network through a disconnected access.

Let's hope 10.7.2 fixes these issues.
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I have noticed that there are big delays when resuming from sleeping, if the Wi-Fi network has changed - or if I’m disconnected from the network, then there is a momentary pause, and beachball for a few seconds. However I use Pathfinder which is still in beta, so I thought that may be the cause (it has known issues with mounted NTFS volumes.
 
Uninstalling Parallels and removing my Bootcamp partition seems to have halved the boot/shutdown time. Probably faster than it was in SL.

15" 2011 Macbook Pro, i7 2.2GHhz, 4GB RAM
 
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