Stuck on Apple Logo & Won’t Boot? Here’s a Fix

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I turned on the mac as usual, and it got stuck at the end of the progress bar.

Tried everything in the book, SMC reset, NVRAM, repair disk.

It happened to me recently, and this solution worked for me:

1. Boot and hold CMD-R to start up from macOS Recovery
2. If Filevault is on, mount the disk with Disk Utility and enter password
3. Enter these two commands in Terminal
4. cd /Volumes/Macintosh\ HD/var/db/caches/opendirectory
5. mv ./mbr_cache ./mbr_cache-old
6. Exit from Terminal
7. Restart the computer