Originally Posted By: artie505
Is there anything you can post? (If there's too much to remember, you can photograph your screen, import the image, upload it to a remote host, and link to it.)

I'm sure how to go about the posting et cetera but I thought I'd take a shot and transcribe it.

I did a Verbose start and it was much different than previously. Where there had been a screenful before, this time there were only about 6 or 7 lines. The shot was too blurry to read.

I did another Verbose start and this time I was back to a screenful. Three shots but all too blurry. This is something that'll have to wait until I get a tripod out.

Mean while I did remove a lot of drivers - all drivers that were not Canon and all of the Canon drivers except these:

CanonIJBJS700.ppd.gz
CanonIJDS700.ppd.gz
CanonIJMX700series.ppd.gz
CanonIJMX710series.ppd.gz

A restart took about 5 or 6 minutes less time than the last few.

00:00 Chime
00:20 Grey screen with Apple and the spinning device
01:35 Blue Screen
09:10 Log-in screen

I then found in the Launch Agents folder:

com.zeobit.MacKeeper.Helper.plist
Com.Adobe.ARM. (a bunch of numbers and letters) .plist

I removed both and restarted. This time the restart was much longer and more convoluted.

00:00 Chime
00:20 Grey screen with Apple but NO spinning device
04:20 The machine restarted on it's own
04:40 Grey screen with Apple but NO spinning device
10:40 The machine restarted on it's own
11:00 Grey screen with Apple and the spinning device
12:15 Blue screen
20:15 Log-in screen

I have restored the 3 Canon drivers. The two plists (MacKeeper and Adobe) have not returned.

Last edited by ryck; 09/22/12 10:28 AM.

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