!FB Oddly and instead the more-confronted configuring installation_ issue, my mbp is now joining a minor group of __slow dying macs__

If you're also experiencing a randomly freezing system, try execute # fsck_hfs -r from single user mode.

neither diskutil nor safe boot would repair catalog file as -r flag provided

BTW aslmanager which introduced for managing syslogd files crashes all the time as pointed out here.

trash /var/log/asl.db and restart, or console.app would stop messaging after the crash.

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