Comment by cmurf | Hacker News Reader

Comment by cmurf | Hacker News Reader

This is the weirdest update I've ever applied.

Download>Click install>30 seconds later it reboots>Apple logo gray screen I see "installing software updates" and a status bar that gets 25% of the way done and then the screen goes black, fans go high, then a reboot>screen is still black, fans go high, 3 minutes another reboot>screen is still black, fans go high for 30 seconds and now nothing for the past 10 minutes.

Power light is on, caps lock key does light up, the keyboard lighting comes on if I touch keys and I can increase or decrease that lighting with the proper key, but no backlight. WTH?

OMFG, now 15 minutes after starting, more fan noise for about 30 seconds...

So it's still doing something, but with a black screen.

No change 35 minutes after starting the update...

After 2 hours I gave up and held down the power button for 5 seconds to force poweroff. Next reboot, I get a boot chime, but still a black screen. Force power off. Cold boot again and zap PRAM, still black screen. This update has fucked my mac over, or it's one hell of a coincidental hardware fail

It really pisses me off when Apple buries firmware updates into system software updates. I have no idea if this update contained a firmware update, and whether this problem I'm having now might be a failed firmware update? But I'm pissed off. If Apple wants to prevent me from installing OS updates until I have a firmware update applied, they can do that, but this total lack of disclosure what is being done, and therefore what failed, is really really fucking annoying.

It was fine for me. Same mbp retina 8gb system incrementally updated since 10.9.5. Took a while but munki installed the update without issue. If you have FV2 enabled it won't reboot automatically (ie. shutdown) despite munki 3's fdesetup authrestart ability? Unless I misread that update which is totally possible.

I also had to log in at one point (FileVault I guess) and then the login progress bar froze halfway for a while and I guess it continued installing something.

I wonder if there are firmware updates / touchbar updates in here.

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