So my Macbook died
Right, so, in the middle of merging a branch in subversion, which in itself is daunting enough, all of a sudden I get the dreaded “bezel of death” on my screen. The computer reboots and by the time I get to login, it tosses me out. “Filevault is broken,” it says. There’s a repair button, but that doesn’t do anything. It just comes up and tells me that I can’t log in at this time. This time I only get an “OK” button, which merely discards the dialog and leaves me sitting there. That last dialog also has that standard “Xcode no-icon-has-been-set” icon, which probably indicates that this is not supposed to happen. Well, I fixed it in the end. Read on for instructions if you care, lest this happens to you.
To keep it short, “GuyEWhite” is my god damn hero right now. After some Googlin’, I came across a thread on apple.com that tells you how to fix this.
I’m struggling to free up space so I can disable FailVault immediately.
Here’s some pointers: * If the fsck_hfs -frd fails brutally, run it again. It’ll most likely work after a few tries. * Open up the /var/db/.AppleSetupDone file, and notice the XML block named “AppleSpam”; that’s the column which indicates what you hit in the “Keep me updated” checkbox during the installation. Won’t really un-break your laptop, but it’s amusing, nonetheless.