I have no idea why, but every time I reboot my system there is a progress bar (which I've never seen before until Snow Leopard) on the grey Apple startup screen. Seems like it takes several minutes to reboot. It never did this with Leopard.
I have a 2007 Santa Rosa MPB, 2.4ghz and 4 gigs of ram. Anyone know what the cause of this is? I don't have any odd applications set to load on startup that should be causing this.
EDIT: I spose I'll give you some more details. I did this as a fresh install on a new hard drive. S.M.A.R.T. status checks out ok, however when verifying permissions I get a message that says Warning: SUID file "System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/MacOS/ARDAgent" has been modified and will not be repaired.
I read on an Apple doc that it's nothing to worry about, but I'm wondering if this isn't related to the extremely slow startup times.
Last edited by wezman2k; 09-07-2009 at 07:47 PM.
Reason: Additional details.
Mac Specs: MacBook 2.4 GHz, 4 Gb, 320 GB 7200 RPM WD Scorpio, OS X 10.6.4, Win 7, 3 iPods
It would have been nice if you provided the OP with a link to your post.
To the OP:
Are you sure your system is not starting in SAFE mode? I've never seen the progress bar except for when I started in SAFE mode. I know my question sounds silly because you would have to press the "shift" key to start in SAFE mode, but I've seen stranger things happen.
Anyway, take the advice of the previous post and try a clean reinstall again.
But this time when you boot with the SL DVD, stop the install and instead use Disk Utilities from the Utilities top menu to verify and repair the drive if necessary. If everything checks out OK, proceed with the install.
I have had the same problem with two of four machines. Rebuilt both of them. Both new machines. Also followed other threads on other boards about HP drivers, etc. NOTHING seems to make it go away. The only thing I can find in common is that after the rebuild everything works well until I connect\bind to Active directory. The cached account is slow when not directly connected to the network. Has to be a timeout of some type. Is the machine you are talking about bound to active directory?
I have also been plagued with the same slowness (60-90 seconds). I tried ONYX, moving items from Documents to another places, removed icons from desktop, Command V, checked console, etc... I found that after celaring caches using ONYX, that the OS could not re-create them. In console (all messages), I was getting: Can't create kext cache under / - owner not root.. Welp, to fix it just drop to the terminal and type: "sudo chown root:admin /" (without quotes) and BAM! System boot up in 6 seconds. Let me know if this works for you.
