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Thunderbolt Software Update 1.2 Causing Boot Failures for Some Users

This is why I dont download Apple updates on day 1 - you can NEVER trust them. The cocked up 10.7.3 release was evidence of that.
 
Working fine

My 17" MacBook Pro purchased in April 2011 is working fine with the updates.
 
I have major problems after this update on my Macbook Pro 13" early 2011

Updated this morning (external Display was plugged into the Thunderbolt-Port). Update didn't finish. So I turned off my mac and turned it on again. Wont boot keeps showing the grey apple logo and the spinning wheel.
Tried save mode, install from Time Machine backup. Failed and I got the folder icon with a questionmark. So I used Internetrecovery. Installed Lion - fails again.
Don't know what to do anymore :confused:

Here is the error message:
 
No issues so far with early 2011 13" MBP... I wish I had seen this before I installed the update.

Maybe I'll do a combo updater just to be safe...
 
Well, looks like I'm gonna wait. What the heck man, every time there's an update now we gotta be worried its going to break our computers?
 
I think it was pulled just now, I installed the other updates from yesterday and todays iMovie update but unchecked the Thunderbolt update. Everything went fine and when I went back to check again, my Mac tells me there's no update right now.
 
Every iMac in our office had a kernel panic error this morning. Reimaging them now......

Thanks for a wasted day Apple!:eek::eek::eek::eek:
 
nkawtg72 said:
I had this happen to my Feb2011 13" MacBook Pro running the latest Lion OS.

After running several utilities on the partition I was still unable to get it to boot, without experiencing the Kernel Panic immediately after seeing the Apple logo screen.

I didn't want to reinstall Lion, because I didn't want to go through the process of having to reinstall all my apps etc.

Here's what I did to fix my problem. Fortunately this worked on the first try, and no ill affects have been seen since.

1 - from a different computer running the same OS as the one that is corrupt, go to Apple Support site, download latest Combined Update installer
3 - start corrupt Mac in Target Disk Mode
4 - attach corrupt Mac to secondary Mac with a firewire cable
5 - on secondary Mac run Combined Updater, be sure to change installation location when prompted to your externally attached corrupt Mac
6 - once installation is complete, eject hard drive of corrupt Mac.
7 - power down corrupt Mac and then attempt to power it up.

This method may or may not work depending on whether the file(s) which were corrupt/erased as part of the failed update are replaced as part of the OS Combined Update installation.

Good luck!!!!!!
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I can confirm, this DOES work. No need to use the recovery partition, re-install Lion, etc...

There are 2 links here, one for the Client (normal) version of the 10.7.4 Combo Update, and one for the Server version... I did not lose any data here... Safari tabs, Finder windows, etc, were all still there! Best of luck!

10.7.4 Client: http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1524
10.7.4 Server: http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1529
 
The Fix

I ran into this problem this morning when updating my iMac, The best and fastest fix for me was to put the computer into Target disk mode by holding "T" on USB wired keyboard, connect a firewire or thunderbolt cable to a 2nd mac and download the Mac OS X 10.7.4 Combo update, choose other install location and pick your now mounted affected Mac, run the combo update, unmount, reboot computer, Fixed, Rerun updates, but do not install the thunderbolt to Gigabit update until apple fixes this issue.

Cheers
 
Has anyone WITHOUT an external monitor attached via the TB port, during this update, had their Mac kernal panic?
 
Update Strange Behavior

I just started the update process and let it run. It took a long time, went through the gray screen , the blue screen, back to the gray screen... eventually it went to the desktop and all is well.
 
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