El Capitan GM Build hangs on startup

Hi,

This is almost certainly the result of third party kernel extensions being handled badly by El Capitan's new security measures. It can be fixed through the Terminal in Recovery Mode - I'll guide you through it if you like. Two questions though:

• Do you normally enter your password before the black screen with the Apple Logo and progress bar appears, or after?
• Do you know if the name of your normal partition is still "Macintosh HD". If not, what's it called?

-Max

Q1 - No q2 - yes it's still the default Macibtosh HD

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I should point out that I'm not affiliated with Apple in any way, but if you would like to request personal help, please contact me on MacMax108@gmail.com

-Max

Hey there 🙂

Let me know if you're struggling...

-bash-3.2# cd "/Volumes/Macintosh HD" ; ls -1 Library/Extensions/ ; ls -1 Library/Application\ Support/VirtualBox/ ; find System/Library/Extensions -ctime +2w -depth 2 ; tail -70 var/log/system.log ; find Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports -name *.panic -ctime -1w

-bash: cd: /Volumes/Macintosh HD: No such file or directory

ls: Library/Extensions/: No such file or directory

ls: Library/Application Support/VirtualBox/: No such file or directory

find: System/Library/Extensions: No such file or directory

tail: var/log/system.log: No such file or directory

find: Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports: No such file or directory

-bash-3.2#

Sorry for the delay, I'm in Australia. 🙂

Back to question 1.. -- it should be AFTER (I think). Driver boots then Apple logo appears then I click on the user account, then enter the password, and the progress bar appears then freezes there. I noticed that the guest account has already disappeared since I went to recovery mode.

No worries. Looks like you're going to have to unlock your "Macintosh HD" partition first. Please go back to the central menu and launch Disk Utility. Then select the "Macintosh HD" partition and then "unlock". After that, please repeat the long Terminal command again.

disk utility has the mount option grayed out.. i found out earlier through an attempt to restore to a time machine backup that i can unlock the partition through this way.. not sure if this changes things but after doing it via time machine heres the new result in terminal:

-bash-3.2# cd "/Volumes/Macintosh HD" ; ls -1 Library/Extensions/ ; ls -1 Library/Application\ Support/VirtualBox/ ; find System/Library/Extensions -ctime +2w -depth 2 ; tail -70 var/log/system.log ; find Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports -name *.panic -ctime -1w

ACS6x.kext

ATTOCelerityFC8.kext

ATTOExpressSASHBA2.kext

ATTOExpressSASRAID2.kext

ArcMSR.kext

CalDigitHDProDrv.kext

HighPointIOP.kext

HighPointRR.kext

PromiseSTEX.kext

SoftRAID.kext

hp_io_enabler_compound.kext

tap.kext

tun.kext

ls: Library/Application Support/VirtualBox/: No such file or directory

System/Library/Extensions/EltimaAsync.kext/Contents

System/Library/Extensions/hp_fax_io.kext/Contents

System/Library/Extensions/hp_Officejet_io_enabler.kext/Contents

System/Library/Extensions/HuaweiDataCardDriver.kext/Contents

System/Library/Extensions/JMicronATA.kext/Contents

System/Library/Extensions/NoSleep.kext/Contents

System/Library/Extensions/OlympusDSCSCSIDriver.kext/Contents

System/Library/Extensions/RIMBBUSB.kext/Contents

System/Library/Extensions/RIMBBVSP.kext/Contents

System/Library/Extensions/USBExpressCardCantWake_Huawei.kext/Contents

System/Library/Extensions/WD1394_64_109HPDriver.kext/Contents

System/Library/Extensions/WDUSB_64_109HPDriver.kext/Contents

Sep 15 13:26:43 MacBook-Air xpcproxy[25620]: LaunchServices: Database mapping failed with result -10822, retrying

Sep 15 13:26:43 MacBook-Air xpcproxy[25620]: LaunchServices: received XPC_ERROR_CONNECTION_INTERRUPTED trying to map database

Sep 15 13:26:43 MacBook-Air xpcproxy[25620]: CFPreferences could not connect to its daemon.

Preferences using the connection 0x0 will be volatile and will not be persisted to disk.

Sep 15 13:26:43 MacBook-Air xpcproxy[25620]: LaunchServices: received XPC_ERROR_CONNECTION_INTERRUPTED trying to map database

Sep 15 13:26:43 MacBook-Air xpcproxy[25620]: LaunchServices: Database mapping failed with result -10822, retrying

Sep 15 13:26:43 MacBook-Air xpcproxy[25620]: LaunchServices: received XPC_ERROR_CONNECTION_INTERRUPTED trying to map database

Sep 15 13:26:43 MacBook-Air com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.viber.osx[25620]): Could not resolve CFBundleIdentifier specified by service: -10814: com.viber.osx

Sep 15 13:26:43 MacBook-Air com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.viber.osx): Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.

Sep 15 13:26:53 MacBook-Air xpcproxy[25621]: LaunchServices: received XPC_ERROR_CONNECTION_INTERRUPTED trying to map database

Sep 15 13:26:53 MacBook-Air xpcproxy[25621]: LaunchServices: Database mapping failed with result -10822, retrying

Sep 15 13:26:53 MacBook-Air xpcproxy[25621]: LaunchServices: received XPC_ERROR_CONNECTION_INTERRUPTED trying to map database

Sep 15 13:26:53 MacBook-Air xpcproxy[25621]: CFPreferences could not connect to its daemon.

Preferences using the connection 0x0 will be volatile and will not be persisted to disk.

Sep 15 13:26:54 MacBook-Air xpcproxy[25621]: LaunchServices: received XPC_ERROR_CONNECTION_INTERRUPTED trying to map database

Sep 15 13:26:54 MacBook-Air xpcproxy[25621]: LaunchServices: Database mapping failed with result -10822, retrying

Sep 15 13:26:54 MacBook-Air xpcproxy[25621]: LaunchServices: received XPC_ERROR_CONNECTION_INTERRUPTED trying to map database

Sep 15 13:26:54 MacBook-Air com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.viber.osx[25621]): Could not resolve CFBundleIdentifier specified by service: -10814: com.viber.osx

Sep 15 13:26:54 MacBook-Air com.apple.usbmuxd[86]: _SendAttachNotification Device 70:3e:ac:41:0d:0c@fe80::723e:acff:fe41:d0c._apple-mobdev2._tcp.local. has already appeared on interface 4. Suppressing duplicate attach notification.

Sep 15 13:26:54 MacBook-Air com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.viber.osx): Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.

Sep 15 13:27:04 MacBook-Air xpcproxy[25624]: LaunchServices: received XPC_ERROR_CONNECTION_INTERRUPTED trying to map database

Sep 15 13:27:04 MacBook-Air xpcproxy[25624]: LaunchServices: Database mapping failed with result -10822, retrying

Sep 15 13:27:04 MacBook-Air xpcproxy[25624]: LaunchServices: received XPC_ERROR_CONNECTION_INTERRUPTED trying to map database

Sep 15 13:27:04 MacBook-Air xpcproxy[25624]: CFPreferences could not connect to its daemon.

Preferences using the connection 0x0 will be volatile and will not be persisted to disk.

Sep 15 13:27:04 MacBook-Air xpcproxy[25624]: LaunchServices: received XPC_ERROR_CONNECTION_INTERRUPTED trying to map database

Sep 15 13:27:04 MacBook-Air xpcproxy[25624]: LaunchServices: Database mapping failed with result -10822, retrying

Sep 15 13:27:04 MacBook-Air xpcproxy[25624]: LaunchServices: received XPC_ERROR_CONNECTION_INTERRUPTED trying to map database

Sep 15 13:27:04 MacBook-Air com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.viber.osx[25624]): Could not resolve CFBundleIdentifier specified by service: -10814: com.viber.osx

Sep 15 13:27:04 MacBook-Air com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.viber.osx): Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.

Sep 15 13:27:14 MacBook-Air xpcproxy[25625]: LaunchServices: received XPC_ERROR_CONNECTION_INTERRUPTED trying to map database

Sep 15 13:27:14 MacBook-Air xpcproxy[25625]: LaunchServices: Database mapping failed with result -10822, retrying

Sep 15 13:27:14 MacBook-Air xpcproxy[25625]: LaunchServices: received XPC_ERROR_CONNECTION_INTERRUPTED trying to map database

Sep 15 13:27:14 MacBook-Air xpcproxy[25625]: CFPreferences could not connect to its daemon.

Preferences using the connection 0x0 will be volatile and will not be persisted to disk.

Sep 15 13:27:14 MacBook-Air xpcproxy[25625]: LaunchServices: received XPC_ERROR_CONNECTION_INTERRUPTED trying to map database

Sep 15 13:27:14 MacBook-Air xpcproxy[25625]: LaunchServices: Database mapping failed with result -10822, retrying

Sep 15 13:27:14 MacBook-Air xpcproxy[25625]: LaunchServices: received XPC_ERROR_CONNECTION_INTERRUPTED trying to map database

Sep 15 13:27:14 MacBook-Air com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.viber.osx[25625]): Could not resolve CFBundleIdentifier specified by service: -10814: com.viber.osx

Sep 15 13:27:14 MacBook-Air com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.viber.osx): Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.

Sep 15 13:27:18 MacBook-Air iTunes[5454]: Entered:_AMMuxedDeviceDisconnected, mux-device:200

Sep 15 13:27:18 MacBook-Air iTunes[5454]: Entered:__thr_AMMuxedDeviceDisconnected, mux-device:200

Sep 15 13:27:18 MacBook-Air iTunes[5454]: tid:123ef - Mux ID not found in mapping dictionary

Sep 15 13:27:18 MacBook-Air iTunes[5454]: tid:123ef - Can't handle disconnect with invalid ecid

Sep 15 13:27:24 MacBook-Air xpcproxy[25627]: LaunchServices: received XPC_ERROR_CONNECTION_INTERRUPTED trying to map database

Sep 15 13:27:24 MacBook-Air xpcproxy[25627]: LaunchServices: Database mapping failed with result -10822, retrying

Sep 15 13:27:24 MacBook-Air xpcproxy[25627]: LaunchServices: received XPC_ERROR_CONNECTION_INTERRUPTED trying to map database

Sep 15 13:27:24 MacBook-Air xpcproxy[25627]: CFPreferences could not connect to its daemon.

Preferences using the connection 0x0 will be volatile and will not be persisted to disk.

Sep 15 13:27:24 MacBook-Air xpcproxy[25627]: LaunchServices: received XPC_ERROR_CONNECTION_INTERRUPTED trying to map database

Sep 15 13:27:24 MacBook-Air xpcproxy[25627]: LaunchServices: Database mapping failed with result -10822, retrying

Sep 15 13:27:24 MacBook-Air xpcproxy[25627]: LaunchServices: received XPC_ERROR_CONNECTION_INTERRUPTED trying to map database

Sep 15 13:27:24 MacBook-Air com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.viber.osx[25627]): Could not resolve CFBundleIdentifier specified by service: -10814: com.viber.osx

Sep 15 13:27:24 MacBook-Air com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.viber.osx): Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.

Sep 15 13:27:25 MacBook-Air Safari[685]: tcp_connection_tls_session_error_callback_imp 1152 __tcp_connection_tls_session_callback_write_block_invoke.434 error 22

Sep 15 13:27:34 MacBook-Air xpcproxy[25628]: LaunchServices: received XPC_ERROR_CONNECTION_INTERRUPTED trying to map database

Sep 15 13:27:34 MacBook-Air xpcproxy[25628]: LaunchServices: Database mapping failed with result -10822, retrying

Sep 15 13:27:34 MacBook-Air xpcproxy[25628]: LaunchServices: received XPC_ERROR_CONNECTION_INTERRUPTED trying to map database

Sep 15 13:27:34 MacBook-Air xpcproxy[25628]: CFPreferences could not connect to its daemon.

Preferences using the connection 0x0 will be volatile and will not be persisted to disk.

Sep 15 13:27:34 MacBook-Air xpcproxy[25628]: LaunchServices: received XPC_ERROR_CONNECTION_INTERRUPTED trying to map database

Sep 15 13:27:34 MacBook-Air xpcproxy[25628]: LaunchServices: Database mapping failed with result -10822, retrying

Sep 15 13:27:34 MacBook-Air xpcproxy[25628]: LaunchServices: received XPC_ERROR_CONNECTION_INTERRUPTED trying to map database

Sep 15 13:27:34 MacBook-Air com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.viber.osx[25628]): Could not resolve CFBundleIdentifier specified by service: -10814: com.viber.osx

Sep 15 13:27:34 MacBook-Air com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.viber.osx): Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.

Sep 15 13:27:39 MacBook-Air com.apple.InputMethodKit.TextReplacementService[25617]: -[PFUbiquitySetupAssistant finishSetupForStore:error:](1136): CoreData: Ubiquity: CoreData: error: Caught Exception Unable to resolve mismatching KVs with userInfo {

PFUbiquitySetupDoFork = 1;

} in -finishSetupForSet:error:

Sep 15 13:27:39 MacBook-Air com.apple.InputMethodKit.TextReplacementService[25617]: -[PFUbiquitySetupAssistant finishSetupWithRetry:](829): CoreData: Ubiquity: <PFUbiquitySetupAssistant: 0x7f9f1141e2b0>: Retrying after delay: 120

Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=134080 "An error occurred while opening the persistent store." UserInfo={failed finishing setup for store during asynchronous iCloud initialization=file:/

-bash-3.2#

THANK YOU!!

No problem 🙂

Glad it's sorted for you.

I had a very similar problem with my 2007 Macbook pro after upgrading to El Capitan GM. Sometimes it would hang on start up, others the OS would load and freeze in the first minute or so. As it's an old computer there always seems to be something going wrong with it and until I saw this post I really thought it was done for this time. Those terminal commands brought it back to life again, seriously thank you so much!!

Hi Frazilpop,

I'm glad it helped 🙂 but read on: I first look at the kernel extensions (kexts) on a specific system, as these are what cause the problems and, then I tailor the kext removal to that system. Simply running the command list I've posted here specifically for the OP was a hit-and-miss approach - luckily you got enough of a "hit" to get your system up and going again, but you likely still have kexts on there that could cause further issues down the line. If you like, start your own thread and I'll have a look at it for you.

-Max

That would be brilliant, thank you! I'm worried I spoke too soon eariler as although the computer was up and working for an hour or so it's now crashed again so I think you're right that there's more kexts that need removing. I've started a new thread with the details here . Cheers!

Hello, I am having the same issue. When I shut down or restart, I get the apple and an empty progress bar. That's it. I have done a clean install (erased disk, reinstalled El Cap and then restored from TM) Still happens. I hac boot into recovery and have looked at the various threads. Done the "kext cleaning", still nothing. I can reinstall El Cap and use the computer as long as I never restart... BTW, have done all the usual things, NVRAM, Power Managment reset...

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

a presto,

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