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I’ve been using my Mac all year without fear. On Tuesday I shut it down as I was going out of town. Today, I tried booting up my Mac and IT WON’T BOOT!!!

:(

I’m a uni student with three assessments due on Friday. This is freaking me out!

I tried resetting PRAM and SMC, but no go. I did the command D thing, but no issues reported.

Please help.

mac boot

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I’ve been using my Mac all year without fear. On Tuesday I shut it down as I was going out of town. Today, I tried booting up my Mac and IT WON’T BOOT!!!

:(

I’m a uni student with three assessments due on Friday. This is freaking me out!

I tried resetting PRAM and SMC, but no go. I did the command D thing, but no issues reported.

Please help.

mac boot

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  Which Mac do you have and which macOS is it running?
  
  – lhf
  5 hours ago
  

  
  
  
  

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I’ve been using my Mac all year without fear. On Tuesday I shut it down as I was going out of town. Today, I tried booting up my Mac and IT WON’T BOOT!!!

:(

I’m a uni student with three assessments due on Friday. This is freaking me out!

I tried resetting PRAM and SMC, but no go. I did the command D thing, but no issues reported.

Please help.

mac boot

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I’m going to jump out on a limb here and make the assumption that you’re probably a Chrome user and before you went away you updated Chrome.

If so, you're probably the victim of a Chrome updater bug and your issues are not related to your Apple hardware nor a bug with macOS.

NOTE: If you're running Mac OS X El Capitan or later and have not disabled SIP, then this will not be the cause of your problem, in which case you'll need to skip this answer and investigate other causes!

To rectify this, you need to follow these steps:

1. Boot into recovery mode by using the commandR keyboard shortcut upon powering up your Mac.




2. When you see the macOS Utilities window, go to the Utilities menu bar option and select Terminal



3. 
   

   In terminal, enter the following commands one by one, followed by pressing the enter key (NOTE: If your Mac hard drive is not called Macintosh HD then you will need to change the first command below to reference the name of your hard drive)

   
   
   

   chroot /Volumes/Macintosh HD
   rm -rf /Library/Google/GoogleSoftwareUpdate/GoogleSoftwareUpdate.bundle
   mv var var_back
   ln -sh private/var var
   chflags -h restricted /var
   chflags -h hidden /var
   xattr -sw com.apple.rootless "" /var
   

   
   



4. Now reboot your Mac.

Further reading:

You may be interested in reading:

• Issue 1007358: Keystone modifies /var


• Chrome Update Impacts Some macOS Systems

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  How did you think of this, given the OP description of the problem?? The Chrome bug only affects systems with SIP disabled.
  
  – lhf
  6 hours ago
  
  

  
  
  
  


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  OMG! This freaking worked! You totally saved me!!
  
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  @lhf Yeah, like I said, I was going out on a limb with my answer. My thought process was as follows: Many Uni students use Chrome because of its integration with Google’s services and because many online Uni dashboards have some compatibility issues with Safari. That, along with the timing of two days ago meant that it lined up with the timing of the Chrome update. As an aside, SIP only needs to be disabled if the user is running El Capitan or later (obviously) so this issue can affect other systems. In this case we don’t have that info re the OP either way.
  
  – Monomeeth♦
  5 hours ago
  
  

  
  
  
  


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  @lhf By the way, thanks for your comment. I've updated my answer to provide additional info to help other users decide if this applies to them.
  
  – Monomeeth♦
  5 hours ago
  

  
  
  
  

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I’m going to jump out on a limb here and make the assumption that you’re probably a Chrome user and before you went away you updated Chrome.

If so, you're probably the victim of a Chrome updater bug and your issues are not related to your Apple hardware nor a bug with macOS.

NOTE: If you're running Mac OS X El Capitan or later and have not disabled SIP, then this will not be the cause of your problem, in which case you'll need to skip this answer and investigate other causes!

To rectify this, you need to follow these steps:

1. Boot into recovery mode by using the commandR keyboard shortcut upon powering up your Mac.




2. When you see the macOS Utilities window, go to the Utilities menu bar option and select Terminal



3. 
   

   In terminal, enter the following commands one by one, followed by pressing the enter key (NOTE: If your Mac hard drive is not called Macintosh HD then you will need to change the first command below to reference the name of your hard drive)

   
   
   

   chroot /Volumes/Macintosh HD
   rm -rf /Library/Google/GoogleSoftwareUpdate/GoogleSoftwareUpdate.bundle
   mv var var_back
   ln -sh private/var var
   chflags -h restricted /var
   chflags -h hidden /var
   xattr -sw com.apple.rootless "" /var
   

   
   



4. Now reboot your Mac.

Further reading:

You may be interested in reading:

• Issue 1007358: Keystone modifies /var


• Chrome Update Impacts Some macOS Systems

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answered 8 hours ago

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  How did you think of this, given the OP description of the problem?? The Chrome bug only affects systems with SIP disabled.
  
  – lhf
  6 hours ago
  
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  1
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  OMG! This freaking worked! You totally saved me!!
  
  – user347757
  6 hours ago
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  2
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  @lhf Yeah, like I said, I was going out on a limb with my answer. My thought process was as follows: Many Uni students use Chrome because of its integration with Google’s services and because many online Uni dashboards have some compatibility issues with Safari. That, along with the timing of two days ago meant that it lined up with the timing of the Chrome update. As an aside, SIP only needs to be disabled if the user is running El Capitan or later (obviously) so this issue can affect other systems. In this case we don’t have that info re the OP either way.
  
  – Monomeeth♦
  5 hours ago
  
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  @lhf By the way, thanks for your comment. I've updated my answer to provide additional info to help other users decide if this applies to them.
  
  – Monomeeth♦
  5 hours ago
  

  
  
  
  

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9

I’m going to jump out on a limb here and make the assumption that you’re probably a Chrome user and before you went away you updated Chrome.

If so, you're probably the victim of a Chrome updater bug and your issues are not related to your Apple hardware nor a bug with macOS.

NOTE: If you're running Mac OS X El Capitan or later and have not disabled SIP, then this will not be the cause of your problem, in which case you'll need to skip this answer and investigate other causes!

To rectify this, you need to follow these steps:

1. Boot into recovery mode by using the commandR keyboard shortcut upon powering up your Mac.




2. When you see the macOS Utilities window, go to the Utilities menu bar option and select Terminal



3. 
   

   In terminal, enter the following commands one by one, followed by pressing the enter key (NOTE: If your Mac hard drive is not called Macintosh HD then you will need to change the first command below to reference the name of your hard drive)

   
   
   

   chroot /Volumes/Macintosh HD
   rm -rf /Library/Google/GoogleSoftwareUpdate/GoogleSoftwareUpdate.bundle
   mv var var_back
   ln -sh private/var var
   chflags -h restricted /var
   chflags -h hidden /var
   xattr -sw com.apple.rootless "" /var
   

   
   



4. Now reboot your Mac.

Further reading:

You may be interested in reading:

• Issue 1007358: Keystone modifies /var


• Chrome Update Impacts Some macOS Systems

share|improve this answer

edited 5 hours ago

answered 8 hours ago

Monomeeth♦Monomeeth

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• 
  
  
  

  
  1
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  How did you think of this, given the OP description of the problem?? The Chrome bug only affects systems with SIP disabled.
  
  – lhf
  6 hours ago
  
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  1
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  OMG! This freaking worked! You totally saved me!!
  
  – user347757
  6 hours ago
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  2
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  @lhf Yeah, like I said, I was going out on a limb with my answer. My thought process was as follows: Many Uni students use Chrome because of its integration with Google’s services and because many online Uni dashboards have some compatibility issues with Safari. That, along with the timing of two days ago meant that it lined up with the timing of the Chrome update. As an aside, SIP only needs to be disabled if the user is running El Capitan or later (obviously) so this issue can affect other systems. In this case we don’t have that info re the OP either way.
  
  – Monomeeth♦
  5 hours ago
  
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  @lhf By the way, thanks for your comment. I've updated my answer to provide additional info to help other users decide if this applies to them.
  
  – Monomeeth♦
  5 hours ago
  

  
  
  
  

add a comment
 | 

I’m going to jump out on a limb here and make the assumption that you’re probably a Chrome user and before you went away you updated Chrome.

If so, you're probably the victim of a Chrome updater bug and your issues are not related to your Apple hardware nor a bug with macOS.

NOTE: If you're running Mac OS X El Capitan or later and have not disabled SIP, then this will not be the cause of your problem, in which case you'll need to skip this answer and investigate other causes!

To rectify this, you need to follow these steps:

1. Boot into recovery mode by using the commandR keyboard shortcut upon powering up your Mac.




2. When you see the macOS Utilities window, go to the Utilities menu bar option and select Terminal



3. 
   

   In terminal, enter the following commands one by one, followed by pressing the enter key (NOTE: If your Mac hard drive is not called Macintosh HD then you will need to change the first command below to reference the name of your hard drive)

   
   
   

   chroot /Volumes/Macintosh HD
   rm -rf /Library/Google/GoogleSoftwareUpdate/GoogleSoftwareUpdate.bundle
   mv var var_back
   ln -sh private/var var
   chflags -h restricted /var
   chflags -h hidden /var
   xattr -sw com.apple.rootless "" /var
   

   
   



4. Now reboot your Mac.

Further reading:

You may be interested in reading:

• Issue 1007358: Keystone modifies /var


• Chrome Update Impacts Some macOS Systems

share|improve this answer

edited 5 hours ago

answered 8 hours ago

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answered 8 hours ago

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answered 8 hours ago

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answered 8 hours ago

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