OS Died & repairing permissions on backup kills that

[DrP]

Hopefully someone can figure this out for me.

 

Yesterday I came to my hackint0sh to find it wont boot. Grey screen crash on startup. But cant see any reason why when I go into verbose boot mode. there are no KP's or anything I can see out of the norm. Initially the boot would stop at;

 

ACPI_SMC_PlatformPlugin::start – waitForService(resourceMatching(AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement))timed out

 

I then booted into single user mode and used applejack to repair permissions and clean up cache files, etc. Now when I boot I can see that I dont get above message but rather that it initialized ok. But now I get message Waiting for DSMOS and never progresses. Also if I let it boot into normal graphics mode I see the blue desktop that you see before the login window pops up but I never see the login window. And it seems to flash between the blue desktop and then the black command/verbose screen every 5 secs or so. And when it does this you can see in top most left corner the grey position cursor character (just a rectangle block). So its liek its almsot there about to switch to the login window but something is preventing it from continuing the loading.

 

Then I found if I restore a backup from 1 month ago I can boot the system fine! But if I then repair permissions on this restore I go back to square one! Cant boot system anymore. So I have a troublesome kext I'd say. But I am unsure how to find the culprit when there isn't really any error output in verbose mode. Anyone have any suggestions? Do I need to do something like chown -R root:wheel / (to the root of the drive)?

 

Thanks in advance.

 

P.S. When I repaired permissions there were alot of repairs. Mostly the info and/or version plist files within the kexts. I can upload what files where changed as I captured the output using script command.