Went to apply the 10.14.3 Supplemental to my late 2012 Mac Mini i7.
Got about 2/3 through the update, and it repeatedly reboots with "Your computer was restarted because of a problem".
It shows that screen, then the Apple logo and the progress bar, then it shows the same error screen again.
Eventually, it shows the universal "no" symbol, slashed circle.
Anybody else get this?
I've seldom had trouble with updates before.
I can get into recovery mode, and checked the system volume, which was fine. But I cannot check the main filesystem, it won't let me, says it can't unmount it to check.
Thinking I will wait till tomorrow now, as I have a failing hard drive (that I do not use) that I'd like to remove for thermal reasons. (No reason for it to be in there blocking the air flow when I am not going to use it.)
(I have a 1 TB flash, and the old/unused 1TB hard drive from the original Fusion drive. I do have the hard drive formatted and in the system as "backup" but don't actually use it.)
I guess I will try "reinstall OS" after that.
Anything else I should try first? I could swear the progress bar moves a bit on each try.
I hate it that it gives basically no information! Is there a "verbose" update mode?
Fortunately, this is my personal machine that I use just for email/web browsing. I have an iMac Pro next to it for work. But now I am afraid to update the iMac Pro. (Certainly not without a full backup first!)
I know better - I should have an external bootable clone before doing any update. Lazy! It takes WAY to long to create.
[doublepost=1550466314][/doublepost]I knew there was a verbose mode - I've used it before - CMD-V at startup.
Doesn't help me, though, because it just quickly scrolls through and then I get the "...because of a problem" screen, and the scrolled text is gone.
It seems to have the problem very quickly. Just a few pages of quickly-scrolling text then BAM.
[doublepost=1550466445][/doublepost]Very strange, I do not get a startup gong. Just the white apple, the progress bar briefly, and then the "problem" screen.
[doublepost=1550466863][/doublepost]Just needed to unmount the volume to check it in Recovery Disk Utility... Duh!
Stuff you only do when something doesn't work, and in a panic... Not logical that it's even mounted when you boot into Recovery...
[doublepost=1550467643][/doublepost]Disk Utility drive checked out OK. Only thing suspicious was it said "performing deferred repairs", but didn't say WHAT deferred repairs.
Still have same problem. Comes up fine in Recovery. Very quickly comes up with the "problem" screen otherwise.
Got about 2/3 through the update, and it repeatedly reboots with "Your computer was restarted because of a problem".
It shows that screen, then the Apple logo and the progress bar, then it shows the same error screen again.
Eventually, it shows the universal "no" symbol, slashed circle.
Anybody else get this?
I've seldom had trouble with updates before.
I can get into recovery mode, and checked the system volume, which was fine. But I cannot check the main filesystem, it won't let me, says it can't unmount it to check.
Thinking I will wait till tomorrow now, as I have a failing hard drive (that I do not use) that I'd like to remove for thermal reasons. (No reason for it to be in there blocking the air flow when I am not going to use it.)
(I have a 1 TB flash, and the old/unused 1TB hard drive from the original Fusion drive. I do have the hard drive formatted and in the system as "backup" but don't actually use it.)
I guess I will try "reinstall OS" after that.
Anything else I should try first? I could swear the progress bar moves a bit on each try.
I hate it that it gives basically no information! Is there a "verbose" update mode?
Fortunately, this is my personal machine that I use just for email/web browsing. I have an iMac Pro next to it for work. But now I am afraid to update the iMac Pro. (Certainly not without a full backup first!)
I know better - I should have an external bootable clone before doing any update. Lazy! It takes WAY to long to create.
[doublepost=1550466314][/doublepost]I knew there was a verbose mode - I've used it before - CMD-V at startup.
Doesn't help me, though, because it just quickly scrolls through and then I get the "...because of a problem" screen, and the scrolled text is gone.
It seems to have the problem very quickly. Just a few pages of quickly-scrolling text then BAM.
[doublepost=1550466445][/doublepost]Very strange, I do not get a startup gong. Just the white apple, the progress bar briefly, and then the "problem" screen.
[doublepost=1550466863][/doublepost]Just needed to unmount the volume to check it in Recovery Disk Utility... Duh!
Stuff you only do when something doesn't work, and in a panic... Not logical that it's even mounted when you boot into Recovery...
[doublepost=1550467643][/doublepost]Disk Utility drive checked out OK. Only thing suspicious was it said "performing deferred repairs", but didn't say WHAT deferred repairs.
Still have same problem. Comes up fine in Recovery. Very quickly comes up with the "problem" screen otherwise.