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OS hangs on login

gimpster

I recently installed Sophos Anti-Virus for Mac Home Edition on my 2011 MacBook Pro, however I had a major issue with it that forced me to uninstall it. I found that after rebooting, I would sign in and then the OS would hang indefinitely. My computer was unusable because I could not sign in. I was able to repro this condition at least 6 times in a row. I eventually had to boot into Safe Mode to uninstall the software and as soon as I did, I rebooted and the OS was back to normal operation. Are there any known issues with this hardware or any information I can gather to help diagnose the problem?

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    This makes sense... the old FileVault is not very compatible with Lion, and there's no easy way I've found to upgrade -- if you have your Time Machine FileVaulted (old FV), when you upgrade to Lion, all pre-lion backups become inaccessible.  Removing File Vault protection before the upgrade, and then installing new File Vault protection after the install appears to fix the FV-related issues.

    From an analyst's viewpoint, I avoided the old FV due to the number of implementation issues I saw in it (I just used applescript automated encrypted disk images instead); however, the new FV gets my stamp of approval (proper key handling, recovery, use of hardware encryption, proper abstraction layer...).

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    This makes sense... the old FileVault is not very compatible with Lion, and there's no easy way I've found to upgrade -- if you have your Time Machine FileVaulted (old FV), when you upgrade to Lion, all pre-lion backups become inaccessible.  Removing File Vault protection before the upgrade, and then installing new File Vault protection after the install appears to fix the FV-related issues.

    From an analyst's viewpoint, I avoided the old FV due to the number of implementation issues I saw in it (I just used applescript automated encrypted disk images instead); however, the new FV gets my stamp of approval (proper key handling, recovery, use of hardware encryption, proper abstraction layer...).

    :1003639
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