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A fix for startup stalls after Software Update restarts
Authored by: müzso on Jun 23, '07 04:50:03AM

I had the same problem just a couple of hours ago. I've used "Software Update" to upgrade the OS from 10.4.9 to 10.4.10. The upgrade went smoothly, without problems. I rebooted and everything was OK. I used the Mac for a couple of hours, then turned it off and went to sleep. The next morning I started the Mac, logged in and no app would start, nothing was responding. I booted into single user mode (via pressing Cmd+S combo during boot) and found the automounter messages in /var/log/system.log. Turning off the automounter in /etc/hostconfig helped. I've rebooted a couple of times, then turned the automounter on again and it broke everything ... again. :-( It seems that I've lost the ability to use the automounter with this OS update. :-((( It's not a big deal since I've never used any sort of network shares, but it could easily become a serious issue if I bought a NAS to come up for my file storage needs.



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