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Hello everyone.

 

Ever since I built my Hack back in 2012, it was my main computer, running smoothly except for sometimes when it hung with a nasty beep in audio (probably either kX drivers or bad RAM or GPU). 

 

Yesterday I updated from 10.9 to 10.9.3 and after fiddling with graphics kexts I was back to work again.

 

Today I was doing nothing but listening to some music in iTunes, and when I tried to copy a track from a playlist with an applescript from Doug's, it did, but opening Finder to the folder where I copied it left me with an empty window with a spinning wheel. Suddenly all tabs in Chrome started crashing, then QuicklookUIHelper crashed too. Any attempt to restart Chrome left out with a crash instantly.

 

I did a hard-poweroff and when I tried to boot, it went up to where it checks the HDD and then shut down (with the proper 'CPU halted' and such).

 

I powered it back on and it shown me '/mach_kernel not found'. With kernelcache it booted and powered off just the same.

 

I got a 10.9 USB and copied mach_kernel from it using Single-user mode. Then I started with ignoring caches. 

It showed me a lot of lines, but then still, it boots up to the fsck disk check, then shows a 'FIPS POST Integrity Error' and halts.

Also when booting via single-user, I notice that /var is missing. 

 

Is this even recoverable or my only option is backing up all work data and music collection (that will be 500+ gigabytes, yuck!) and reinstalling? :(

Tried almost all combinations of boot-args in addition to my standard '-v npci=0x2000 PCIRootUID=1 GraphicsEnabler=Yes (tried No as well) darkwake=1'.

 

Thanks in advance!

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Hello!

 

Try to add your system board ID from SMBios in the infoplist of  AppleGraphicsControl.Kext/Contents/Plugings/AppleGraphicsDeviicePolicy.kext/Contents/Info.plist as last line of the Configmap with the other models in this way:

 

                 <key>Mac-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx</key>             
                <string>none</string>

 

Chanche xxxxxxx with your digits.

 

Have fun.

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Here is the system log for the whole day. 

The crash started after I clicked "Allow access" for the applescript in the System Preferences. (Or, in particular, when I clicked 'Later' in the dialog asking for donation).

I also restored /var by making a symlink to /private/var and the same for /etc.

Now all it does is wait for DSMOS...

Gotta see if restoring the old kernelcache would help...

And yeah, gotta buy new RAM/Audio/GPU just to be safe of this ****.

 


Okay, it did boot after removing the 10.9 kernel, supposedly from the 10.9.3 kernelcache. Now I just need a 10.9.3 image from App Store to get the kernel back. Thanks for all the help!

system.log.zip

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