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HELP! Stuck on grey screen with apple logo and progress indicator
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<blockquote data-quote="Andre" data-source="post: 731289" data-attributes="member: 55311"><p>Strange that the same thing happened to me today! Actually, I had my MBP up for about two days and left it on today after a morning of coding. When I came back 3 hours later, I tried to open up the terminal and got an error sayig that I didn't have rights to open this application. My friend is a unix guru, so he came over to take a look. When we opened system preferences and selected accounts, the window was blank. I don't mean threre were no users; I mean it was totally grey with no buttons or fields. I freaked out, and emailed myself the code I was working on this morning. We then restarted, and we were presented with that great first welcome video you see when you first boot up leopard. It asked us to create a new account, and we did without really knowing what to expect. We restarted again after creating a new acoount, and never saw my desktop again. It would stick at the gray screen with the progress meter and would eventually just restart and repeat the same pattern. Scary stuff. We did everthing, including repairing permissions, repairing the drive, and he did a bunch of fscks and who knows what else. The only intresting part of the process was when I booted into the install dvd and selected the startup disk option, my hard disk was not available as one of the options. So now I am running a time machine restore (only 4 hours left). Let's hope for the best I guess...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Andre, post: 731289, member: 55311"] Strange that the same thing happened to me today! Actually, I had my MBP up for about two days and left it on today after a morning of coding. When I came back 3 hours later, I tried to open up the terminal and got an error sayig that I didn't have rights to open this application. My friend is a unix guru, so he came over to take a look. When we opened system preferences and selected accounts, the window was blank. I don't mean threre were no users; I mean it was totally grey with no buttons or fields. I freaked out, and emailed myself the code I was working on this morning. We then restarted, and we were presented with that great first welcome video you see when you first boot up leopard. It asked us to create a new account, and we did without really knowing what to expect. We restarted again after creating a new acoount, and never saw my desktop again. It would stick at the gray screen with the progress meter and would eventually just restart and repeat the same pattern. Scary stuff. We did everthing, including repairing permissions, repairing the drive, and he did a bunch of fscks and who knows what else. The only intresting part of the process was when I booted into the install dvd and selected the startup disk option, my hard disk was not available as one of the options. So now I am running a time machine restore (only 4 hours left). Let's hope for the best I guess... [/QUOTE]
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