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Migration Assistant ERROR PROBLEM BUG
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<blockquote data-quote="koppenhoefer" data-source="post: 1158614" data-attributes="member: 183288"><p>Ok... bad news first.... but the story has a HAPPY ENDING...</p><p></p><p><strong>RESULTS OF LAST EFFORT:</strong></p><p>After the migation completed, I rebooted and was welcomed with a grey screen and ugly message saying the OS was unusable and to please reinstall from the DVD (sorry... I didn't retain the exact message).</p><p></p><p><strong>DIFFERENT APPROACH : USE CCC</strong></p><p>So tried a different approach using CCC (Carbon Copy Cloner) from the MacMini (mounting the new iMac in target mode onto the macMini) - I first used DiskUtility to reformat the iMac drive... and then just cloned directly onto it. It took about 5 hours for CCC to finish. On reboot, SAME ERROR MESSAGE (arghhh).</p><p></p><p><strong>WHAT ABOUT MA DURING NEW INSTALLATION</strong></p><p>I reinstalled from the DVD (reformatting the disk as well). As part of the reinstallation process, migrating from a firewire-connected computer is offered (seemingly identical process to Migration Assistant). Several hours later, this completed and I was able to reboot with success... BUT ONLY TEMPORARILY: the login process crashed at one point as the startup items started appearing. Subsequent rebooting failed (this time failing long before any login windows appeared).</p><p></p><p><strong>THE SOLUTION THAT WORKED</strong></p><p>Solution: Reboot in safe-mode (while rebooting wait for the chime sound and then hold down the shift key). Investigating /var/log/system.log shows many problems such as:</p><p></p><p>dyld_shared_cache_x86_64") => -1 (errno: 2)</p><p>mDNS_SetSecretForDomain: ERROR: Could not convert shared secret from base64: domain . key shawn. </p><p>AppleUSBCDC.kext is not valid; omitting from mkext.</p><p>PACESupportFamily.kext is not valid; omitting from mkext.</p><p>Can't load AppleSMBusPCI.kext - validation problems.</p><p>etc.</p><p>etc.</p><p></p><p>So I removed everything from /Library/StartupItems (DynDNSUpdate Privoxy, PACESupport, VirtualBox ParallelsDesktopTransporter tun tap CoreDuoTemp BRESINKx86Monitoring Wireshark PureFTPD) and rebooted. SUCCESS! IT WORKED!</p><p></p><p>Everything SEEMS to be fine now... except for a persevering message from mysqldabout mysqld_safe not being present, LittleSnitch rules being missing, and OSXvnc-server failing. </p><p>So next step will be to reinstall the pieces that I've removed and keep my fingers crossed that the machine continues to successfully boot.</p><p></p><p>oof</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="koppenhoefer, post: 1158614, member: 183288"] Ok... bad news first.... but the story has a HAPPY ENDING... [B]RESULTS OF LAST EFFORT:[/B] After the migation completed, I rebooted and was welcomed with a grey screen and ugly message saying the OS was unusable and to please reinstall from the DVD (sorry... I didn't retain the exact message). [B]DIFFERENT APPROACH : USE CCC[/B] So tried a different approach using CCC (Carbon Copy Cloner) from the MacMini (mounting the new iMac in target mode onto the macMini) - I first used DiskUtility to reformat the iMac drive... and then just cloned directly onto it. It took about 5 hours for CCC to finish. On reboot, SAME ERROR MESSAGE (arghhh). [B]WHAT ABOUT MA DURING NEW INSTALLATION[/B] I reinstalled from the DVD (reformatting the disk as well). As part of the reinstallation process, migrating from a firewire-connected computer is offered (seemingly identical process to Migration Assistant). Several hours later, this completed and I was able to reboot with success... BUT ONLY TEMPORARILY: the login process crashed at one point as the startup items started appearing. Subsequent rebooting failed (this time failing long before any login windows appeared). [B]THE SOLUTION THAT WORKED[/B] Solution: Reboot in safe-mode (while rebooting wait for the chime sound and then hold down the shift key). Investigating /var/log/system.log shows many problems such as: dyld_shared_cache_x86_64") => -1 (errno: 2) mDNS_SetSecretForDomain: ERROR: Could not convert shared secret from base64: domain . key shawn. AppleUSBCDC.kext is not valid; omitting from mkext. PACESupportFamily.kext is not valid; omitting from mkext. Can't load AppleSMBusPCI.kext - validation problems. etc. etc. So I removed everything from /Library/StartupItems (DynDNSUpdate Privoxy, PACESupport, VirtualBox ParallelsDesktopTransporter tun tap CoreDuoTemp BRESINKx86Monitoring Wireshark PureFTPD) and rebooted. SUCCESS! IT WORKED! Everything SEEMS to be fine now... except for a persevering message from mysqldabout mysqld_safe not being present, LittleSnitch rules being missing, and OSXvnc-server failing. So next step will be to reinstall the pieces that I've removed and keep my fingers crossed that the machine continues to successfully boot. oof [/QUOTE]
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