upgrading to mac os x leopard leads to blue screen
March 6th, 2008 by Lawrence David
upgrading from mac os x tiger to leopard had me hanging on a blue screen of death. i found the following terrific solution on the apple forums, courtesy of chris mccullough. ultimately, it turned out that an old installation of shapeshifter was causing my problems. to remove it:
1. Reboot into single-user mode (hold Apple-S while booting machine)
2. Type into the prompt:
$ fsck -fy /
$ /sbin/mount -uw /
3. Remove the following files:
$ rm -rf /Library/Preference Panes/Application Enhancer.prefpane
$ rm -rf /Library/Frameworks/Application Enhancer.framework
$ rm -rf /System/Library/SystemConfiguration/Application Enhancer.bundle
$ rm -rf /Library/Preferences/com.unsanity.ape.plist
4.now, to continue the bootup process:
$ exit
my laptop thankfully booted just fine after that.
