Sorry for the delay Sam - continuing holidays and bonhomie have conspired …
I’ve looked at what I can but my usual user does not have admin privileges and that is the only one that can currently log in! Consequently most of the system logs are not readable. FYI: I’ve now reset the NVRAM but it’s not made any difference to the lack of shutdown, ability to login to other users or allowing Disk Utility to do anything other than display “Loading disks”. I’ve also discovered that my Time Machine backup never finishes. It does the main part then displays “Finishing backup …” seemingly forever. I restarted with Command-R and ran Disk Utility from there which reported no problems on my startup disk at all. Would a SMC reset be worth trying? Can I mount the main disk and search the logs when starting up in single user mode? Any thoughts appreciated. I really don’t fancy a genius appointment at the hideous Apple Lakeside. Not the Apple store, just Lakeside. Shudder. Cheers, Stephen "He is the distillation of all that we have been induced to desire and admire. Trump is so repulsive not because he offends our civilisation’s most basic values, but because he embodies them.” ~ George Monbiot, October 2016 > On 1 Jan 2017, at 20:27, Sam - MacAmbulance <[email protected]> wrote: > > Check in Applications > Utilities > Console > search for "I/O error" > does > anything show up? > > Sam > > > MacAmbulance Ltd. > Providing Affordable Mac/PC Support and Web Development > > Sam Mullen > +44 (0)7747778022 <tel://+447747778022> > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > www.macambulance.co.uk <http://www.macambulance.co.uk/> > MacAmbulance Ltd. is a registered company in England & Wales, registration > number 8466597 > > This email is intended solely for the addressed recipients and may contain > privileged or confidential information. > If you have received this email in error please notify the sender and delete > the email immediately. > > > > On 1 Jan 2017, at 18:46, Stephen Watson <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > Hi all, > > Happy New Year to all. > > But. > > First problem of the year ... oh dear. > > I have 3 user logins on my iMac: a game login, admin and my usual login. The > latter is the one that gets used 95% of the time. I can login as "me" with no > problem at all apart from the fact that if I launch Disk Utility it says > "Looking for disks", but after about 5 minutes, it's still looking! Never > seen this before at all. > > Also, I cannot login as either of the other two users - I enter the password > (where needed) then I get the whirling activity/progress indicator and that's > it. After 10 minutes there is no change. > > And the iMac won't shut down fully either - it shuts down all the apps, logs > out, the screen goes "dark" but not off and that is how it stays and even > after 10 minutes the screen is still on. > > I've rebooted in Single User Mode and run fsck -fy and it passed the disk > with a clean bill of health. > > I think these issues have only happened since I installed 10.12.2. I was > running 10.12.1 before that and I'm pretty sure none of the above problems > existed then. > > Maybe Apple have screwed up? > > Any thoughts welcomed on anything else I can try to fix things. > > Stephen > > You meet your destiny on the road you take to avoid it. ~ Carl Jung > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > To post to this group, send an email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/smug > <https://groups.google.com/group/smug>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout > <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/smug > <https://groups.google.com/group/smug>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout > <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/smug. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
