macOS 10.12 Sierra: Post bugs and fixes here

[xgman]

If you have network shares in your login items, Sierra prompts you to enter the password for each server after every reboot. The username and password fields are pre-populated, so you just have to hit OK, but it's something that's never been an issue since I began using OS X with 10.1.

Driving me a little nuts though.. I'm surprised there isn't some way around this..
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Im still in the GM build and I've notice that when i restart theres a graphical glitch in the middle of the apple logo loading creen (the one with the white bar at the middle of the screen) anyone having this bug?

Im on a Retina MacBook 2015 the1.1 core M one

yes on a recent imac 27, but graphics the glitch filled the entire screen and it was on a shutdown attempt or two.

 

[Pgershon1]

SEPARATE ISSUE: I have lost the ability to see or use MAIL after upgrade to Sierra. The app opens but no windows come up and the Mail->Preferences file is greyed out. I don't know how to fix or reset.

 

[wlossw]

I have a Late 2013 15" rMBP that worked fine with El Capitan.

I upgraded to Sierra after GM build 322, then 323.

I have, IMHO, a major bug - when using Safari for 3 ou 4 times now the system crashes, screen goes black, and it logs out from my account, so I have to log in again.

I never had this sort of sudden crash behaviour on my rMBP, this is a very serious situation.

Yes, it's beta software, but it's a release candidate, and I guess 323 will be released today as a full finished and polished OS.

Anyone has seen this? Any ideas?

I am having the same problem on my 2012 mac mini. Safari crashes to login every time...

 

[Takuro]

Kernel panics are now happening every 10-15 minutes. Looks like its from Apple's USB driver. Not sure how to fix this. Going to downgrade my 2013 iMac back to El Capitan for now and check on the Apple support forums.

Just to follow up on this: I posted on the Apple Support Forums, which was a pretty useless affair. The usual power users with 50,000+ "points" replied and blamed everything from 3rd party kexts to my aftermarket Crucial DRAM which I've been using 3 years without any issues. Obviously, the short answer is that the kernel panic has no useful information in the log pointing to a specific cause and there was nothing to do but trial and error.

In the end, I decided to boot to the 10.12 recovery partition and install Sierra over my existing HD while retaining my user data. This seems to be working so far, but time will tell. Considering it was seeing a kernel panic every 10 minutes, the fact that it's been up for 12+ hours now is promising. I'm also noticing weird benefits to installing *over* my existing OS versus upgrading from El Capitan. The GUI stuttering is fixed and animations are smooth. Siri appears and responds faster (but still doesn't understand song names, of course.) A lot of crashes I would get at bootup for 1st party Apple background processes have also stopped.

I'm sure if I did a clean install from the start, I'd be having a totally different experience. This is my first time doing an actual upgrade from an old Mac OS version. I usually participate in the beta testing and end up wiping my drive when I'm done for a clean install of the GM build. What a freaking pain in the but this experience has been. :/

 

[ibgorton]

Major bug for me: If I full-screen any app (Green <> title bar button) I'm immediately logged out. (Mid 2014 15" Retina MBP.)

I run Windows 10 in Parallels and my VM defaults to full screen in a separate space, the logouts were unmounting my Boot Camp partition and sleeping the VM, almost hosed things for me, but thankfully I was able to escape Blue Screen land using CHKDSK at the administrative Dos prompt.

Another oddity is that the Today/Notifications Panel is no longer dark in Dark Mode, which is really annoying, but not critical.

 

[Gabri]

I have lots of issues after the update.

- Finder crashing/hanging
- Slow shut down (I have to relaunch finder most of the time to be able to restart or shutdown)
- General lagging when opening most apps.
- Can't quit most apps normally I have to force quit.
- First aid is telling me to run it from recovery mode but recovery mode First aid tells me everything is alright.

 

[malilangwe]

I'm not sure if this is a bug or deliberate but when saving a file (regardless of the application), clicking on another (pre-existing) filename in the Save As window does not replace the new file's name with that selected filename.

For example: I'm working with file item.php but I want to save as index.asp. Normally I'd select the existing index.asp file in my folder and I can then just hit save rather than having to type out the new filename.

When I click on index.asp, however, nothing happens. The "save as" filename stays the same. So, a bug or a deliberate (and annoying!) change by Apple?

 

[grahamperrin]

It looks like today is checked but actually it's notifications is checked. Dark mode shows a pressed button for today in notification view. Am I taking crazy pills?

You're not.

I found that aspect of the GUI counter-intuitive in pre-release Yosemite but (sorry) I probably didn't feed a bug to Apple; there was so much change for the sake of change that I had no hope of a fix.

 

[shanson27]

Is this normal the gray login screen after restart

 

[ssl0408]

So I'm having an issue with battery life with Sierra running on an early 2015 MacBook Pro. I am a fairly new Mac user. I was getting 10 to 11 hours on a full charge and now it's showing 7 hours. Is there anything that I can do or do I have to just accept it? Is it possible to go back to El Capitan? Thanks for any input offered.

 

[charlielqy]

I have some problems with icloud, safari, app store and itunes after upgrade to Sierra.
icloud: cannot connect to the server.
safari: I can open the safari but cannot browse any website, it always blank page, but I can use chrome to browse any pages.
app store: I can open the app store but there is noting on it, looks like cannot connect to the server.
itunes: i can open the itunes but there is nothing on it. It will crash after 1 minute. I have download the newest version from apple website but still not working.

Anyone know what happened?

 

[lotones]

Siri not responding...

Internal mike is working, but Siri isn't "hearing" me. Rebooted, switched from internal mike to usb input and back, still nothing. Any Ideas?

Thanks.

 

[Nabster23]

Siri not responding...

Internal mike is working, but Siri isn't "hearing" me. Rebooted, switched from internal mike to usb input and back, still nothing. Any Ideas?

Thanks.

Hi lotones,

I am having the same issue i believe. Siri is completely unresponsive and i have tried everything to my knowledge.

I was in contact with Apple Support last night and i screen shared with a Senior chat advisor for about 1 hour. They have generated a report to go Apple engineers and i will update when they get back to me.

Regards,

Nab

 

[MacInTO]

When I import images or go to the Aperture metadata information page, I get the following error (see image)

When I do import images, the preset metadata does get attached to the images.

It works correctly, but if I need to change metadata, I can't. It is annoying.

The details of the error message,

Exception Name: NSInvalidArgumentException
Description: *** -[__NSArrayM insertObject:atIndex:]: object cannot be nil
User Info: (null)

0 CoreFoundation 0x00007fffc17427bb __exceptionPreprocess + 171
1 libobjc.A.dylib 0x00007fffd5eafa2a objc_exception_throw + 48
2 CoreFoundation 0x00007fffc165e6ad -[__NSArrayM insertObject:atIndex:] + 1389
3 RedRock 0x000000010a8ce39c +[RKPropertyMgr customInfoKeys] + 308
4 RedRock 0x000000010a8ce741 -[RKPropertyMgr dependentKeyPathsForKey:] + 795
5 Aperture 0x0000000109f129a5 Aperture + 1640869
6 Aperture 0x0000000109f137bb Aperture + 1644475
7 Aperture 0x000000010a0fb805 Aperture + 3643397
8 AppKit 0x00007fffbf39641a -[NSViewController _loadViewIfRequired] + 75
9 AppKit 0x00007fffbf396385 -[NSViewController view] + 30
10 Aperture 0x000000010a051746 Aperture + 2946886
11 Aperture 0x000000010a051fba Aperture + 2949050
12 libsystem_trace.dylib 0x00007fffd69bd03d _os_activity_initiate + 61
13 AppKit 0x00007fffbfa624e7 -[NSApplication(NSResponder) sendAction:to:from:] + 456
14 ProKit 0x000000010b662bf6 -[NSProApplication sendAction:to:from:] + 101
15 Aperture 0x000000010a1efaa6 Aperture + 4643494
16 AppKit 0x00007fffbf5a0de2 -[NSMenuItem _corePerformAction] + 324
17 AppKit 0x00007fffbf5a0b4e -[NSCarbonMenuImpl performActionWithHighlightingForItemAtIndex:] + 114
18 libsystem_trace.dylib 0x00007fffd69bd03d _os_activity_initiate + 61
19 AppKit 0x00007fffbf629b99 -[NSMenu performActionForItemAtIndex:] + 121
20 AppKit 0x00007fffbf629b10 -[NSMenu _internalPerformActionForItemAtIndex:] + 94
21 AppKit 0x00007fffbf62993d -[NSCarbonMenuImpl _carbonCommandProcessEvent:handlerCallRef:] + 107
22 AppKit 0x00007fffbf4e02ac NSSLMMenuEventHandler + 986
23 HIToolbox 0x00007fffc0c320d5 _ZL23DispatchEventToHandlersP14EventTargetRecP14OpaqueEventRefP14HandlerCallRec + 1708
24 HIToolbox 0x00007fffc0c31346 _ZL30SendEventToEventTargetInternalP14OpaqueEventRefP20OpaqueEventTargetRefP14HandlerCallRec + 428
25 HIToolbox 0x00007fffc0c46dc4 SendEventToEventTarget + 40
26 HIToolbox 0x00007fffc0c92c96 _ZL18SendHICommandEventjPK9HICommandjjhPKvP20OpaqueEventTargetRefS5_PP14OpaqueEventRef + 411
27 HIToolbox 0x00007fffc0cbe2bb SendMenuCommandWithContextAndModifiers + 59
28 HIToolbox 0x00007fffc0cbe26a SendMenuItemSelectedEvent + 188
29 HIToolbox 0x00007fffc0cbe13d _ZL19FinishMenuSelectionP13SelectionDataP10MenuResultS2_ + 96
30 HIToolbox 0x00007fffc0cbeb77 _ZL14MenuSelectCoreP8MenuData5PointdjPP13OpaqueMenuRefPt + 702
31 HIToolbox 0x00007fffc0cbe826 _HandleMenuSelection2 + 460
32 AppKit 0x00007fffbf4d0079 _NSHandleCarbonMenuEvent + 239
33 AppKit 0x00007fffbf74a322 _DPSEventHandledByCarbon + 54
34 AppKit 0x00007fffbfa604eb -[NSApplication(NSEvent) _nextEventMatchingEventMask:untilDate:inMode:dequeue:] + 613
35 Aperture 0x000000010a1eea81 Aperture + 4639361
36 AppKit 0x00007fffbf344fbd -[NSApplication run] + 926
37 ProKit 0x000000010b66439a NSProApplicationMain + 333
38 Aperture 0x0000000109d920b4 Aperture + 65716
39 Aperture 0x0000000109d91a44 Aperture + 64068
40 ??? 0x0000000000000001 0x0 + 1

 

[lotones]

Hi lotones,

I am having the same issue i believe. Siri is completely unresponsive and i have tried everything to my knowledge.

I was in contact with Apple Support last night and i screen shared with a Senior chat advisor for about 1 hour. They have generated a report to go Apple engineers and i will update when they get back to me.

Regards,

Nab

Thanks Nab.

 

[Rolala]

So I'm having an issue with battery life with Sierra running on an early 2015 MacBook Pro. I am a fairly new Mac user. I was getting 10 to 11 hours on a full charge and now it's showing 7 hours. Is there anything that I can do or do I have to just accept it? Is it possible to go back to El Capitan? Thanks for any input offered.

If you have done a full system backup with time machine before upgrading, you can restore it to the El Capitan.

 

[AngelOfSoul]

Early 2011 MBP, external drive connected via thunderbolt to USB adapter keep getting disconnected when locked (not sleep). Never happened in El-cap.

 

[DaveWotzit]

Hi lotones,

I am having the same issue i believe. Siri is completely unresponsive and i have tried everything to my knowledge.

I was in contact with Apple Support last night and i screen shared with a Senior chat advisor for about 1 hour. They have generated a report to go Apple engineers and i will update when they get back to me.

Regards,

Nab

I upgraded lastnight on a late 2012 iMac and I initially had some very strange responses from Siri. I started by picking one of the suggested commands offered. "Launch Photos" didn't open the app but replied "Here, this is what i found on the web" and showed about 20 photos of a rocket launching! Nice but not what I asked for!
[doublepost=1474535047][/doublepost]I seem to be having a few issues with the sidebar:

1. Slow to open
2. A few times clicking on the social shortcuts the Dialogue box has not opened to either Tweet or send an iMessage.
3. Twitter and World clocks appear to do a full refresh every time I scroll past them or open the bar afresh.
4. A few times I have clicked the lines icon on the top to open the sidebar. It then opens AND closes instantly
5: Also the Twitter section has all text and pictures truncated on the left hand side

 

[Zarniwoop]

Microsoft Remote Desktop v.2.1 (in Office 2011) is not working with Sierra, at least when there's no certificate on the host machine. RDC pop-ups a windows "there's no trusted certificate, do you want to proceed", and when you click "proceed" the same window returns and you can click "proceed" the whole day if you want.

Also had a hiccup with the Dock, while programs were running and usable, Dock didn't respond to the mouse. But it took less than a minute that it became responsive.

UPDATE: There's a new version of RDC in App Store, so will fetch it.

 

[Dex762]

Yes when i log on noticed it again very slow it took 2 half min to load up it getting really annoyed it
not very pleasant

 

[ssl0408]

If you have done a full system backup with time machine before upgrading, you can restore it to the El Capitan.

Thank you for the response. Unfortunately, I don't have a time machine backup so I guess I have to hope there's an update to fix the horrible battery life. To go from 10 hours to 6 hours is pretty painful and I'll never update the operating system again. As a new Mac user, lesson learned.

 

[Zarniwoop]

Thank you for the response. Unfortunately, I don't have a time machine backup so I guess I have to hope there's an update to fix the horrible battery life. To go from 10 hours to 6 hours is pretty painful and I'll never update the operating system again. As a new Mac user, lesson learned.

You're a brave one. I never dare to update any Apple machine without making a backup first. I highly recommend to start the practise.

 

[psik]

Thank you for the response. Unfortunately, I don't have a time machine backup so I guess I have to hope there's an update to fix the horrible battery life. To go from 10 hours to 6 hours is pretty painful and I'll never update the operating system again. As a new Mac user, lesson learned.

two lessons here, 1) First never say never 2) the real lesson should be never upgrade, do clean install. the 4 hour reduction cannot be explained by sierra; must be something else, sorry but sierra is not that bad, even though i wont upgrade to sierra close to when the next mac os is out. i am happy with el capitan specially with safari 10 which finally after a year makes safari usable for me again

 

[adamjackson]

Clean Install is a hassle but basically install after work on Friday, then start the Time Machine restore and by the next morning, you're good. With the App Store, clean installs (not from Time Machine) are getting much easier but it's still a full saturday to get things back to normal.

 

[ssl0408]

Clean Install is a hassle but basically install after work on Friday, then start the Time Machine restore and by the next morning, you're good. With the App Store, clean installs (not from Time Machine) are getting much easier but it's still a full saturday to get things back to normal.

I am a new Mac user so excuse my ignorance, but what is a Time Machine? I'm willing to do a clean install but I'm really not familiar with backups and all of that.