Hi all, I thought that the following may be helpful.
I have a shiny new 21.5" iMac and installed Lion on it a week after its release. All was well. I went away on Sunday and ran Shut Down before leaving (I usually put it to sleep). Yesterday I switched it on and it came up with the initial grey screen, Apple logo and activity indicator and then just stayed there. I restarted several times to no avail. I restarted with the shift key down, got the progress bar thingy but it then returned to just being stuck there. I reconnected my original wired keyboard, disconnected the external FireWire drive just in case and tried again. No joy. I then restarted in Single User mode (Command-S down at startup), typed: /sbin/fsck -fy and let it run. It reported FILE SYSTEM MODIFIED. I ran the same command and this time it reported no changes. I then typed 'exit' but it just stuck there so I restarted again. This time it came up normally and performed a Spotlight re-index but after that has been just like normal. No idea what the cause was (Lion bug?) but it's now sorted. I'll pass on the problem to Apple … Cheers, Stephen "The uncertainty of our times is no reason to be certain about hopelessness" - Vandana Shiva -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB.
