Snow Leopard Host Hangs On Bootup

[alexrmc92]

When setting up auto start in snow leopard version 10.6.8 (fully updated). The OS boots fully past the apple logo and the proceeds to a grey screen where it will sit indefinitely at a spinning wheel. In verbose mode it will make it to a black screen with a prompt, but no text can be typed into the prompt and no text ever is returned by the prompt.

Will upload logs shortly and test older versions.

[alexrmc92]

Tested all the way back to 3.2 using my own startup scripts and i see the same issue in all versions. There is no point to posting logs as they show no errors, in fact the virtual machines start normally. Something about loading VirtualBox at boot time causes the GUI to not load. There are no GUI errors in the console logs either.

If you boot into single user mode, wait a few minutes, then continue the boot process the GUI will load fine. My only though is that VirtualBox is loading before the GUI and is interrupting the GUI somehow. But letting the system sit in single user mode allows this object to load.

I've tried it multiple time's on multiple systems, all resulting in the same error. 10.6.8 Server

[alexrmc92]

Still doing some testing, but it would appear that this no longer happens in 4.3

[Frank Mehnert]

Thanks for the information! Please reopen if you experience that problem again. Please open separate tickets for other problems.