Your Mac running macOS High Sierra 10.13 stopped at the startup screen that shows the Apple logo with a progress bar. You entered verbose mode with cmd-V and it shows a repeating message of "Too many corpses being created."
No, your Mac wasn't infested with zombies. There's no need to smash it with an axe and throw it in fire. This is what you could do:
- boot and hold cmd-R to start up from macOS Recovery
- if Filevault is on, mount the disk with Disk Utility and password
- run these two in Terminal
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cd /Volumes/Macintosh\ HD/var/db/caches/opendirectory
(this should be one line and also use an escape character \ before each white space in the disk name, such asMy\ Fancy\ Disk\ Name- if you actually just type/Volumes/, then a few letters and press TAB, it should fill the rest) mv ./mbr_cache ./mbr_cache-old- restart
The first startup after running these commands takes a bit longer than usual as the cache is recreated, but subsequent startups will take the normal amount of time.
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Pavlo
It works!!! Thanks a lot!
T
I did everything, restarted my computer … it started to load and got a quarter of the way and shut off. Keeps doing it.
Tammy
I am really new at this and am confused, I get the first comand done and fine, but the last command says it does not exist – mv ./mbr_cache ./mbr_cache-old
What am I doing wrong ? I have typed it as it and then also tried inserting / before all the spaces in the command , but nothing works. Please please can some one advise. 😣
Deepak
Thanks for the solution mate!! I am trying to fix up my mac from last two days but nothing works. Everytime time I am getting “No such file or directory”. Please please help me out as i dont want to wipe off all
my Uni assignments and projects. Thank you in advance
Shanie
Please help!!!! I did all that, still nothing. Still the same. When I typed in the command, reply I got is there is no such file. Restarted. Still the same
D
Same as Xeno after the second command line entered I got a “no such file or directory” heeeeeeelp!