The symptoms: I get the spinning beach ball (or sometimes just stuck with a grey screen) when waking from sleep, when switching users, right after a reboot, right after a cold boot, just as I was trying to get back to work after the screen saver kicked in. The "spinning beach ball of death" symptoms started manifesting themselves right after I performed "software update" on them. It happened to three of the laptops I manage (two MacBook Pro 13" retina, and one MacBook Pro 15" retina all late 2012 models). I also encountered this "spinning beach ball of death right when I'm supposed to see the login screen" issue. Unless you can specifically point to a conflict with the files in the update and either of those two packages, keep your opinions out of this discussion. It's not my software as i run nothing aside from MS Office and Adobe CS6 beyond what apple preinstalled. It's the update and I've already confirmed it. 5 update didn't include anything i needed.ĭon't waste your time posting if you are going to advise me that it's something other than the update that borked things. I'd rather not, but since there was nothing wrong with the system or hardware I have no problem with stopping there. I will take the time to reinstall and stop with the 10.8.4 update if I have to. Unplugging USB devices is merely a hassle, but not one i'm going to live with. 5 update and are not addressed in the supplementals.Īny other possible solutions or perhaps someone knows if apple is still working on the issue? Symptoms that are widespread and linked directly to the. Only workaround has been to remove the physical ethernet connection (using wireless) and ensure the two usb bus powered devices - a canon lide scanner, and an Asus USB DVD burner - are disconnected prior to booting the computer. Pretty much everything I can do just shy of a clean reinstall (which would've taken less time). I've already verified the boot hard drive, repaired permissions, cleared the chaches, reset pram, reset smc, etc. Now I get the eternal spinning beach ball just before the login. Just installed the 10.8.5 combo update on my mac mini (2013, i7).Įverything was, of course, working perfectly with 10.8.4
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