dyemaniac Posted August 21, 2007 Share Posted August 21, 2007 I need help with my macbook pro. I was installing parallels and it froze. I couldnt force quit so i shut it down manually. When I start it back up it boots a blue screen and a progress indicator, which looks like a colored pinwheel or spinning disc going off and on. I have tried to safe boot but it wont work. I repaired disk permissions, disk repaired, and reset pram. Any other ideas? Oh and btw in verbose mode it says invalid destination port login windows application started invalid destination port heres a video of what its doing http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKpm4LETqIs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VelvetEvolver Posted August 22, 2007 Share Posted August 22, 2007 I need help with my macbook pro. I was installing parallels and it froze. I couldnt force quit so i shut it down manually. When I start it back up it boots a blue screen and a progress indicator, which looks like a colored pinwheel or spinning disc going off and on.I have tried to safe boot but it wont work. I repaired disk permissions, disk repaired, and reset pram. Any other ideas? Oh and btw in verbose mode it says invalid destination port login windows application started invalid destination port heres a video of what its doing http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKpm4LETqIs Same EXACT thing happened to me with my white Macbook while trying to install Parallels under 9A499... I wish I could give you better news, but I had to reinstall, and I lost everything. Hopefully you've run some time machine backups. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Numberzz Posted August 22, 2007 Share Posted August 22, 2007 Same EXACT thing happened to me with my white Macbook while trying to install Parallels under 9A499... I wish I could give you better news, but I had to reinstall, and I lost everything. Hopefully you've run some time machine backups. if you have another mac and put the macbook pro in firewire mode, couldnt u get some of the files? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
menega Posted August 22, 2007 Share Posted August 22, 2007 No panic Just restart in console mode, mount the filesystem and fix some permissions. That's all. http://kb.parallels.com/entry/19/501/ That's it: 1. Restart the Mac. 2. Hold down Command + S to boot in the Single mode. 3. Please type 'mount -uw /' without quotation marks. 4. After that please type 'chmod 1775 /Volumes/<Your Leopard volume>' without quotes. 5. Press Ctrl+D or type 'exit' without quotes. That fixes everything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MC Sn@ck T1me Posted August 24, 2007 Share Posted August 24, 2007 I'm having this same issue, trying menega's tip now. Edit: Granted, I didn't run into this installing Parallels, but while trying to turn my airport back on while Missing Sync WM 4 was crashing, I forced a restart and got a blank blue screen when I've started up since. And now I can't figure out why chmod 1775 /Volumes/Macintosh HD isn't working, it says no such directory exist. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DsurioN Posted August 24, 2007 Share Posted August 24, 2007 Remember, with any unix commandline you have to escape the "space" character with a backslash (\) So the command would be like this: chmod 1775 /Volumes/Macintosh\ HD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Numberzz Posted August 24, 2007 Share Posted August 24, 2007 Remember, with any unix commandline you have to escape the "space" character with a backslash (\) So the command would be like this: chmod 1775 /Volumes/Macintosh\ HD thanks, that helps Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MC Sn@ck T1me Posted August 24, 2007 Share Posted August 24, 2007 I wish i had read that 5 minutes ago, I'm trying to reinstall the OS, but as it stands right now its 'upgrading' despite the same build being installed on the HD Done this now, and im still stuck on blue screen, but like i said before, I didn't run into the issue while dealing with parallels.Is there perhaps some other chmod command i should be doing?Please excuse my complete ignorance of all things command line. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
breashy Posted October 2, 2007 Share Posted October 2, 2007 I have the same problem too.. but this happened when i installed parallels.. it alwas give me an endless blue screen... I tried installing lepoard on external drive but i had an older build than the one i had on the macbook....it says i dont have prevliage to open the drive i tried reparing but noth happend it says that permission passed succsefully... I tried the Verbose mode and there an error with (syste/library/frameworks/coreservices.framework/frameworks/metedata.framework/versions/A/supoort/mdworker",...): Np Such Directory or file and importing something had faild !!!! pls help Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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