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unbootable macs via Google
« on: September 25, 2019, 01:32:33 PM »
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Re: unbootable macs via Google
« Reply #1 on: September 25, 2019, 01:44:09 PM »
Maybe another reason to avoid Google apps? At least another reminder to have bootable backups... or two!
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Every program can be reduced in size by at least one line.

Therefore, every program can be reduced to a single line - which is a bug.
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Re: unbootable macs via Google
« Reply #2 on: September 25, 2019, 11:23:11 PM »
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“If you have not taken steps to disable System Integrity Protection and your computer is on OS X 10.9 or later, this issue cannot affect you,” Google said in its support note.

This bug, though pretty nasty, affected a pretty small, and specific group of Mac users - video editing studios, mostly, running older Mac Pros, and who'd disabled SIP in order to use third party graphic cards. There are probably others who've disabled SIP as well, but this hit a particular group of users hard - and I can imagine caused a fair bit of panic too, as some of these people work under pretty tight deadlines. Firing up a backup wouldn't help either - because that Chrome updater responsible runs in the background all by itself, and it would do its dirty work again, and as soon as the machine in question was shut down, bam - into the restart loop with you!

The amusing thing is that Gizmodo used a photo of the not-yet-available Mac Pro to illustrate the article - which nobody is using, because it hasn't actually gone on sale yet.  :blink:
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Re: unbootable macs via Google
« Reply #3 on: September 26, 2019, 08:56:51 AM »
 :Thinking: I'm thinking maybe they're working on a way to charge extra for no bugs! :)
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Re: unbootable macs via Google
« Reply #4 on: September 26, 2019, 09:42:50 AM »
:Thinking: I'm thinking maybe they're working on a way to charge extra for no bugs! :)

More detail here:

"1. What is going on here ? – #Varsectomy
The purpose of this article is to gather all known information and data around the current issues some AVID and NON SIP protected Macs are experiencing. The issue first started on Monday 9/23/19.

Late Yesterday some #MacAdmins started to report that a few of their systems would not boot properly. They would have the following issues.

1. After rebooting the affected system it would Kernel Panic. The system will reboot only to KP again
2. User Logs out and the system shows the Setup Assistant.
3. The System Kernel Panics into a boot Loop.
AVID users were some of the first to report the issue. AVID.com says

Avid empowers media creators with innovative technology and collaborative tools to entertain, inform, educate and enlighten the world.

Sometimes AVID Media Creators use 3rd Party Graphics cards connected to their Mac Pro. When the issue hit yesterday, it was thought that AVID was the main cause of the problems since all the users experiencing the issue had AVID software.

Only later after a MacAdmins deep dive investigation was it found that AVID was NOT the cause of the problem. It was Google Chrome Keystone Updater!

https://mrmacintosh.com/google-chrome-keystone-is-modifying-var-symlink-on-non-sip-macs-causing-boot-issues/"
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