10.14.6 (18G5006) problems

[Porsupah]

I just updated to 10.14.6 (18G5006) courtesy of a new security update, on a late 2013 15" rMBP with GT750M, and have run headlong into a suite of interesting problems:

- Safari and Safari Technology Preview both won't load any pages, always rapidly showing "This webpage was causing problems and was reloaded." errors.
- Mail won't show the body of any messages, though the previews are fine.
- iTunes shows all this month's added music to be from album "tmp", tracks all "tmp", and going to the iTunes Store simply shows blank white, no errors. Playlists seem unaffected, and the libraries seem fine, though all movies have lost their artwork.

Thankfully, Firefox is unaffected, and at first glance, everything else looks usable - Finder's normal, as are Terminal, Messages, and Telegram.

I'm guessing the update applied some permissions improperly, and some core applications aren't handling the errors well.

Thoughts?

 

[bollman]

Could you verify that build number? The build number for 10.14.6 with 2020-002 is usually 18G4032

 

[Porsupah]

Could you verify that build number? The build number for 10.14.6 with 2020-002 is usually 18G4032

Indeed, going to /Library/Receipts/InstallHistory.plist confirms today's update was:

Security Update Developer Beta 2020-003

Containing:

com.apple.pkg.update.os.SecUpd2020-003MojaveDeveloperBeta.18G5006

 

[bollman]

Oh, ok! Developer Beta? Are you on the developer Beta track?

 

[Porsupah]

Yes. Primarily for fun - most of my work's been OS agnostic.

Fixed now, in the most boring way: cmd-R on restart to enter Recovery Mode, and 18G103 now sits happily on my SSD, ne'er to be lent confusion again by 18G5006. Would that Apple offered up post mortem analyses - I'd be fascinated to learn what went wrong.

 

[wreiff1]

Same here with cMPro 5.1. After installing 18G5006 Safari and Safari Technology Preview both won't load any pages, flicker and always rapidly showing "This webpage was causing problems and was reloaded."

 

[DeltaMac]

I saw exactly the same yesterday. I think that developer update borks webkit, which would explain why both Safari and Mail app are affected, but non-webkit browsers, such as Firefox, are not affected. I had to recover back to that Mojave build 18G103, then turn off developer updates (so I would not be tempted with that -003 security update for now). I did return to the "normal" (non-beta) security update 2020.002, which then leaves me at build 18G4032.
I actually applied that developer update to another drive that I keep a current install of Mojave. It immediately repeated the Safari and Mail problems. So, something about that developer-version security update 003.

 

[Auggie]

HTML rending no longer working in Safari and Mail for me. This has now happened twice on my 2012 cMP.

The first time when I lost all Safari and Mail HTML rendering (just blank screens, and on Safari, there would always be the error message "This webpage was reloaded because a problem occurred), I reinstalled Mojave 10.14.6 via Recovery Partition and all was well. After several days, Software Update showed me a security update available and I opted to install, but afterwards again I lost all HTML rendering in Mail and Safari; clearing caches in Safari didn't resolve the issue.

Is anyone else experiencing this massive problem?

 

[Auggie]

Shortly after I posted this, Apple introduced a Safari update.

Has anyone done the Safari update and then the Security Update and confirmed the WebKit works properly?

I still haven't upgraded to the new Security Update as I just don't want to deal with the hassle of again restoring via Recovery...

 

[kucharsk]

The Security Update that updates Mojave to 10.14.6 (18G5006) prevents WebKit processes from executing, meaning anything that uses WebKit (Safari, Mail, iTunes) will fail attempting to show HTML content.

However, installing the latest version of Safari Technology Preview (Release 104) will allow that version and that version only of Safari to run, as it includes a newer revision of WebKit.

In summary:

• The sandbox will not allow any version of WebKit 14609 to launch, including the versions shipped with the stock version of Safari (13.1) or the Safari 13.1.1 beta (an update, but still an update to version 14609.)
  
  
• WebKit version 14610, included in Safari Technology Preview Release 104, will work with Safari 13.2 (also included in Safari Technology Preview.)
  
  
• There is presently no workaround to get Mail and iTunes to show HTML content.

 

[Tech198]

The Security Update that updates Mojave to 10.14.6 (18G5006) prevents WebKit processes from executing, meaning anything that uses WebKit (Safari, Mail, iTunes) will fail attempting to show HTML content.

However, installing the latest version of Safari Technology Preview (Release 104) will allow that version and that version only of Safari to run, as it includes a newer revision of WebKit.

In summary:

• The sandbox will not allow any version of WebKit 14609 to launch, including the versions shipped with the stock version of Safari (13.1) or the Safari 13.1.1 beta (an update, but still an update to version 14609.)
  
  
• WebKit version 14610, included in Safari Technology Preview Release 104, will work with Safari 13.2 (also included in Safari Technology Preview.)
  
  
• There is presently no workaround to get Mail and iTunes to show HTML content.

Is that any relation to 2020-002? If, so its caused havoc, noting but problems.. VMWare fusion issues which ulimatly freezes Mac, and in general potential issues in other apps:

2020-002 Update Causes Some Macs to Freeze When Using HW Accelerated Video

Some Intel Only GPU Based Macs are Freezing Crashing Locking Up when using HW Accelerated Video or Conf Apps after installing the 2020-002 Security Updates.

mrmacintosh.com

 

[kucharsk]

Is that any relation to 2020-002? If, so its caused havoc, noting but problems.

This was Security Update 2020-003 Beta.