Mac M1 slow to boot

[pja2536]

Hi!

I'm not sure whether this post should be under macOS or under Mac hardware.

I have a Mac Mini M1 running the latest release of Ventura. For the last few days it has been very slow to boot. It's taking a few minutes and at least half that time there is a spinning beach ball of death. This is the first time I've ever seen the beach ball on this Mac.

I ran Disk Utility against my main drive with no reported issues.

I downloaded a trial copy of Clean My Mac but it did not show any problems.

This has seemed to happen since the very latest Ventura 13.3.1 (a) (22E772610a) update.

I've tried rebuilding the PR ram but to ne effect.

Any thoughts please?

Regards,
Peter

 

[DarkPremiumCho]

Have you installed any specific apps that prompt you to enter an admin password during their installation?

What peripherals are connected to your Mac?

How much time does it take to boot to Recovery mode?

p.s. Resetting NVRAM/PRAM is not needed on Macs with Apple silicon.

 

[TriciaMacMillan]

It looks like it waits for something to start that cannot.

1. Remove Clean My Mac and never use it again. It brings more harm than benefits.
2. Restart your Mac in safe mode https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/mh21245/mac
3. Wait 2 min, then restart in normal mode

Please report how it went.

You may also try to create a new user and check if the same problem appears when logging in with that user.

 

[pja2536]

Remove Clean My Mac and never use it again. It brings more harm than benefits.

Done! And I agree!

Tried items 2 and 3 with no effect.

I bit the bullet and did a factory reset and am in the process of reconfiguring apps. However, my Mac no boots in seconds rather than minutes and there is no spinning beach ball of death.

I have not recently installed app from the Internet (I'm normally VERY careful about this). I have had odd behaviour from some websites for a week or so like "Warning! Apple deems this site dangerous" or something like that. But I find it hard to believe that a website can infect my Mac.

Thanks for your help!

Regards,
Peter

 

[Fishrrman]

Do you by any chance use "Little Snitch" or "Radio Silence"?
I've read they are having problems with the latest Ventura releases.

 

[TriciaMacMillan]

But I find it hard to believe that a website can infect my Mac.

I’m afraid it is known to be possible. While Apple tried to fix the holes for that, but I often read „it’s recommended to supply the update asap, as there are indications of existing exploits“. They never provide details, and I’m unsure if that’s because they can’t or don’t want to.

 

[TriciaMacMillan]

Do you by any chance use "Little Snitch" or "Radio Silence"?
I've read they are having problems with the latest Ventura releases.

I use Little Snitch all the time, but never have experienced any issues from it. Very nice piece of software.

Don’t know Radio Silence though.