I deserve a homebrew because....

[duff]

That sucks about the water heater. I remember the mess ours made when ours ruptured. Hopefully the repair went well.

[TonyKZ1]

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[Dawg LB Steve]

That sucks about the water heater. I remember the mess ours made when ours ruptured. Hopefully the repair went well.

Yep the repairs went well once they finally showed!!! First job Friday morning they said,,,,, call if someone hasn't called by 9:30 am they said,,,,, somebody should be calling shortly they said,,,,, called at 1:30 pm don't know what happened they said,,,,, arrived at 4:10 pm and took a shower by 5:30 pm! This just started my weekend off right, went to the camper Friday evening finally, we were closing it down for the season, campground closes next Sunday, I'm in the process of doing some outside stuff and find a butt load of wasps flying under and up into the campers frame, spent an extra hour or more winterizing after dealing with the wasps! Then Sunday sitting in the stands watching what was supposed to be a professional football team look like they all had never seen a football in their lives!!!! Thank God Monday arrived

[FedoraDave]

Those wasps are pesky li'l buggers. I hope you got 'em all. When my water heater went last year, I was actually lucky. I was bottling a batch, and my bottling bench is in the basement, right next to the furnace and water heater. I had partially filled a bottle when the batch ran out, and it wasn't even a third full, so I drank it, then took the bottle upstairs to set it in the sink so I could wash it when I was done with everything. Wasn't gone two minutes, but when I went back downstairs, I saw water cascading out of the top of the heater. I quickly shut it off and contacted the plumber, but I doubt even a gallon of water was wasted before I discovered it.

[mashani]

Why I *need* a homebrew.

Because fsck -fy is not helping.

That is why. (it's a geek thing).

[The_Professor]

Why I *need* a homebrew.

Because fsck -fy is not helping.

That is why. (it's a geek thing).

Your OS is borked?

[mashani]

Oh yeah.

Lots of:

cp -R /blah /externalusbblah

going on.

Just in case my backup is corrupted too. I don't know. I don't want to know until I back up files again.

[The_Professor]

What the heck was the indicator there was a problem?

[mashani]

It's a Mac I use for iOS development. Hanging during startup on the "white screen of pain". Just sits there at 90% progress forever. Safe mode boot no workie. Disk repair says everything is just dandy. Single user mode (unix command prompt) works and I can see everything. So I don't know what's wrong, but I'm backing up important files again by hand to a 128 gig USB drive I got a while back before I mess with it more and/or resort to my time machine backup. Just to be sure.

[The_Professor]

Update gone wrong?

[mashani]

Maybe. But if so, it was a "delayed" wrong. My kid has been messing with it a lot for the last couple of days so he might have done something/infected it with a virus. He doesn't have root/admin rights though and I do run a virus scanner unlike 90% of Mac users so I don't know what he could have done.

I luckily know enough Linux to mount my USB drive as a volume and copy files to it from the command prompt and attempt repairs. But I'm not sure I'm going to succeed.

[The_Professor]

...I luckily know enough Linux to ...

Recent Mac OS's are certified UNIX. (So yeah, Linux knowledge works fine.)
Sorry I'm not a Mac guy but translating to PC sounds like failed bootloader, failing hard drive, bad update...

You've already seen stuff like this:
I'll need to have a look at the system log:
cd "/Volumes/Macintosh HD" ; tail -200 var/log/system.log ; find Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports -name *.panic -ctime -1w

and this:
Take each of these steps that you haven't already tried...

...

[BigPapaG]

It may be a corrupt launch database...

When you go for safe mode, are you holding the shift key until the status bar below the spinning gear comes up? (Could take quite a while)... Or just until the apple logo comes up?

Also, what OS? Is there a Recovery Partition you could try booting from? (Ie: 10.6 or earlier, no recovery partition)

Have you any advanced utilities such as DiskWarrior?

[mashani]

It's El Capitan. It was running fine for many days, then failed out of nowhere.

I have it "working" now, as I discovered that disabling the new "rootless" feature using csrutil disable in the single user/recovery mode console and rebooting allowed me to complete the boot process.

But now I need to figure out what is tripping up the extra system integrity checks that I just turned off. Because I do not want to leave them turned off.

It is possible that since as I said, I'm one of the small number of Mac people who actually bother with a virus scanner that my virus scanner itself is what's causing the problem. It might be trying to inject code into a kernel process to do it's thing and tripping up the rootless feature.

So that's where I'm at.

The weird thing is that there are no panic logs. I don't understand why. That's what made this such a pain. No clues. Just guessing.

[RickBeer]

It's El Capitan. It was running fine for many days, then failed out of nowhere.

I have it "working" now, as I discovered that disabling the new "rootless" feature using csrutil disable in the single user/recovery mode console and rebooting allowed me to complete the boot process.

But now I need to figure out what is tripping up the extra system integrity checks that I just turned off. Because I do not want to leave them turned off.

It is possible that since as I said, I'm one of the small number of Mac people who actually bother with a virus scanner that my virus scanner itself is what's causing the problem. It might be trying to inject code into a kernel process to do it's thing and tripping up the rootless feature.

So that's where I'm at.

The weird thing is that there are no panic logs. I don't understand why. That's what made this such a pain. No clues. Just guessing.

Sounds like everyday life for us Windows users.