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15.7.6 update today

FatLouie said:
The only issue I have is that when I turn on the power strip to power up the Studio every morning, it turns on without me pressing the Studio On/Off switch.

I have hunted around the Settings, but have not found what is causing this.
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I have noticed the same thing!
I always shut down my Studio in the evenings, but the other day I had a power outage during the night and I noticed in the morning that the machine was powered on automatically, even though the setting controlling that was disabled (as it has always been)!
I found these commands, but haven't tested them yet:

sudo nvram BootPreference=%02 - disables auto start after power failure
sudo nvram -d BootPreference - reverts to default
 
blufrog said:
There is a setting System Settings -> Energy -> Power on automatically after a power failure.

Check this is set to OFF.

I never switch my Mini off at the wall (or in fact any of my computers).
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Well, this is interesting. I have checked this before and had the feature disabled. I looked again today, after reading your post, and found it enabled. I turned the feature off again and powered off. I turned the power back on, and the Studio did not power up until I pressed the Studio power button. So, it is back to what I want. I will watch and see if this happens again.

Thanks for the nudge to look at that setting again.




DigitriX said:
I have noticed the same thing!
I always shut down my Studio in the evenings, but the other day I had a power outage during the night and I noticed in the morning that the machine was powered on automatically, even though the setting controlling that was disabled (as it has always been)!
I found these commands, but haven't tested them yet:

sudo nvram BootPreference=%02 - disables auto start after power failure
sudo nvram -d BootPreference - reverts to default
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Yep, this certainly is a feature that came with the update. 🙂 I have it fixed again, might be temporary or not. If not, I will take a look at your commands. Thanks.
 
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DigitriX said:
I have noticed the same thing!
I always shut down my Studio in the evenings, but the other day I had a power outage during the night and I noticed in the morning that the machine was powered on automatically, even though the setting controlling that was disabled (as it has always been)!
I found these commands, but haven't tested them yet:

sudo nvram BootPreference=%02 - disables auto start after power failure
sudo nvram -d BootPreference - reverts to default
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Well, pooh! The start-up behavior has reappeared. Power on the power strip and the Studio boots itself. I checked the auto start after power failure and it is disabled.

Hmmmmm.........
 
Louie wrote:
"The start-up behavior has reappeared. Power on the power strip and the Studio boots itself. I checked the auto start after power failure and it is disabled"

See this reply I put up in another thread:
forums.macrumors.com

Mac mini, Mac Studio, or iMac without pressing its power button - Sequoia?

I use Sequoia as my "regular OS" on my m4 Mini's internal SSD. but I also experiment with Tahoe installed on an external USB SSD. I noticed with Tahoe what looked to be a new setting. I believe it was in the "energy" pane (system settings). (not running Tahoe at the moment, and guessing from...
forums.macrumors.com forums.macrumors.com
 
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DigitriX said:
I have noticed the same thing!
I always shut down my Studio in the evenings, but the other day I had a power outage during the night and I noticed in the morning that the machine was powered on automatically, even though the setting controlling that was disabled (as it has always been)!
I found these commands, but haven't tested them yet:

sudo nvram BootPreference=%02 - disables auto start after power failure
sudo nvram -d BootPreference - reverts to default
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Well, I am giving your suggestion a try. I did find an Apple Support article discussing this matter for a laptop that uses the same command you posted. The minimal OS is Sequoia. Go figure.

Power on management
 
The lads at Apple Skunkworks have been at it again. We have a new update in the Beta channel for those who are interested. 🙂

Old is 15.7.7 (24G720)

New is 15.7.8 (24G806)

So far, so good.


SEQ-15-7-8..jpg


Today, I also received a forced update from Apple regarding Time Zone definitions.
 
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FatLouie said:
the notification stated the definitions were there and to restart to apply them.
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That is odd. My impression was that TimeZone is updated in the background, without user interaction.
On 15.7.7 I have /System/Library/AssetsV2/com_apple_MobileAsset_TimeZoneUpdate modified today and I think it happens daily.

To list successful background updates from /System/Library/AssetsV2/

Code: 
plutil -p /System/Library/AssetsV2/analytics/com.apple.mobileassetd.Download.Success_* | grep NS.string

Now it returns
"NS.string" => "OSEligibility"
"NS.string" => "ma.auto-catalog"
"NS.string" => "TimeZoneUpdate"
"NS.string" => "ma.cached-metadata-updated"
"NS.string" => "AppleKeyServicesCRL2"
"NS.string" => "ma.cached-metadata-updated"
"NS.string" => "LinguisticData"
"NS.string" => "ma.cached-metadata-updated"
"NS.string" => "SpotlightResources"
"NS.string" => "ma.cached-metadata-updated"
 
Yes, quite odd. I have never seen it before either. A notification bar slid out at the upper, right-hand of the screen, telling me to restart to apply the new definitions. I was frozen for a bit, not having ever seen it. I did a standard Google search and found other people on Reddit saying they have seen the same thing in the past year. I then did a restart.

Here is my list from this morning.
"NS.string" => "VoiceTriggerAssetsStudioDisplay"
"NS.string" => "ma.cached-metadata-updated"
"NS.string" => "MacSoftwareUpdate"
"NS.string" => "ma.cached-metadata-updated"
"NS.string" => "MacSoftwareUpdate"
"NS.string" => "ma.cached-metadata-updated"
"NS.string" => "VoiceTriggerAssetsASMac"
"NS.string" => "ma.cached-metadata-updated"
"NS.string" => "MacSoftwareUpdate"
"NS.string" => "ma.cached-metadata-updated"
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The timezone definitions are not listed; however, after the restart, I did apply the 15.7.8 update. Perhaps that update covered the definition update?
 
The files in /System/Library/AssetsV2/analytics/ are automatically deleted and replaced by new ones when macOS searches for those kind of background updates.

The modification date of the folder /System/Library/AssetsV2/com_apple_MobileAsset_TimeZoneUpdate should point out when TimeZone was updated.

I’ve checked the developer seed catalog and I couldn’t find any package with time or zone
https://swscan.apple.com/content/ca...ion-snowleopard-leopard.merged-1.sucatalog.gz

There was a similar situation with Rosetta generating phantom notification, when it should have updated without any notification or user interaction.
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/i-keep-getting-this-message.2433445/post-33491807
 
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Perhaps mine was a phantom notification?

The example you linked to looks like the Notification I received, only difference was a restart was added to the wording. This is the first I have seen of this kind of action. But...I am on a beta so I have no complaints. I appreciate your posts on this, it has helped me to understand the situation.
 
FatLouie said:
Perhaps mine was a phantom notification?

The example you linked to looks like the Notification I received, only difference was a restart was added to the wording. This is the first I have seen of this kind of action. But...I am on a beta so I have no complaints. I appreciate your posts on this, it has helped me to understand the situation.
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I think it was real, because the first one to ask was my watch- weird- than iPhone and all devices
So I was wondering why not the Mac . My first thought was about the fact in few provinces in Canada we have switched to no more daylight savings changes. We’ll be stuck with the last change in the spring- I would have preferred the natural sun time but I’m happy anyway, no more switching.
 
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bogdanw said:
macOS 15.7.8 (24G806)
Code: 
https://swcdn.apple.com/content/downloads/32/07/122-81364-A_0504D4R08X/vbq34mnugeoob8q48876dlomolie4y4fbi/InstallAssistant.pkg

Interactive script to get the links directly from Apple https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/experimental-no-tahoe-for-sequoia.2480020/post-34526677
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Thanks for the reply, but it doesn't answer the question. "Anyone seen the Sequoia 15.7.8 full installer?"
Does that script actually show a link to a full installer of Sequoia 15.7.8 for you?
I expect it doesn't, as running it produces "No such file or directory".
Update:
The Terminal command "softwareupdate --list-full-installers" now shows 15.7.8 as available
Code:
softwareupdate --fetch-full-installer --full-installer-version 15.7.8
 
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i gave you the link for the full installer above. The script lists all the links for the available full installers.
 
FatLouie said:
Perhaps mine was a phantom notification?

The example you linked to looks like the Notification I received, only difference was a restart was added to the wording. This is the first I have seen of this kind of action. But...I am on a beta so I have no complaints. I appreciate your posts on this, it has helped me to understand the situation.
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Do you live in Canada? Or in a country that has recently changed the Daylight time rule?
 
bogdanw said:
That is a link for the full installer, not a command to run in Terminal. I posted it as code to avoid people clicking on it by mistake and starting a 14GB download.
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Good intention, saving people from downloading a big file.
But without the explanation above, anyone would think Code: means a Terminal command.
Please post links as links and Code as Code to avoid such confusion in the future.
In any case I now have the full installer, so your code aka link is not necessary.
Thanks anyway.
 
katbel said:
Do you live in Canada? Or in a country that has recently changed the Daylight time rule?
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No, I am in the USA, East Coast. We are still on the same messed-up time scheme. I had read on one Reddit thread that folks were blaming B.C. 🙂

Here is a link to a Reddit thread I just found. From the response, it seems to have been a global deployment.

Indonesia, Sweden, Australia, Colorado, California, UK, Arkansas, Virginia, etc.

The photo in the first post shows the exact same Notification that I received.

Reddit - Time defs updates
 
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