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I have no idea how to fix your problem but thank you for your statement.
Since I'm still not getting any updates through System Preferences, I thought I would try the updater script by Gengik84 at GitHub, cited earlier (https://github.com/Gengik84/MacOS_Updater), to update DP7 over DP6. It seems to have worked but took nearly as long as dosdude1's Patcher method, including the download time via the Patcher. Also the script starts out with all sorts of feedback but, after describing every step of updating the Recovery Partition (no idea why it does that first), feedback in Terminal all but disappears. One has to accept, on faith, that it's actually doing anything. Also, the only time it pauses for user input is to OK a system reboot; up until then, it simply proceeds to download all the files, process them and, then, continue with the update without any opportunity for the user to pause or quit before the actual update is carried out. Oddly, then, it updates everything in place, without even rebooting, directly from inside the same running partition that it's updating (very surprising).
After rebooting into the Patcher USB stick to re-apply all the patches, booting again into Mojave went smoothly, taking no more time than usual after an update/upgrade. It was after signing in at the login screen that everything slowed down to a crawl. Took nearly 20 minutes to completely load my desktop and all my startup programs the first time. Rebooted again, after which it took around 10 minutes to do the same. No noticeable glitches after that, other than the ones already known in all the beta releases so far. Desktop looks fine in Dark Mode, machine is responsive, all Preference Panes work, &c. But, what I did notice, in Activity Monitor, were a couple of odd services that are now hogging my CPU like crazy: logd and AddressBookSourceSync [see screenshot]. A log daemon doesn't seem all that worrisome, but I can't imagine why anything like the latter service would run more than a few seconds -- yet it's going constantly. Hope this doesn't mean that all my Contacts are being harvested and uploaded to every rogue server in Russia and China!??
Of course, these runaway services that won't seem to stop running could be the result of a bug introduced in DP7 but they still make me a bit uncomfortable. Think I will probably rev up Patcher 1.1.2, re-download DP7, and re-install it the tried and true way via my USB stick (and see if the odd behaviour noted above goes away).
After rebooting into the Patcher USB stick to re-apply all the patches, booting again into Mojave went smoothly, taking no more time than usual after an update/upgrade. It was after signing in at the login screen that everything slowed down to a crawl. Took nearly 20 minutes to completely load my desktop and all my startup programs the first time. Rebooted again, after which it took around 10 minutes to do the same. No noticeable glitches after that, other than the ones already known in all the beta releases so far. Desktop looks fine in Dark Mode, machine is responsive, all Preference Panes work, &c. But, what I did notice, in Activity Monitor, were a couple of odd services that are now hogging my CPU like crazy: logd and AddressBookSourceSync [see screenshot]. A log daemon doesn't seem all that worrisome, but I can't imagine why anything like the latter service would run more than a few seconds -- yet it's going constantly. Hope this doesn't mean that all my Contacts are being harvested and uploaded to every rogue server in Russia and China!??
Of course, these runaway services that won't seem to stop running could be the result of a bug introduced in DP7 but they still make me a bit uncomfortable. Think I will probably rev up Patcher 1.1.2, re-download DP7, and re-install it the tried and true way via my USB stick (and see if the odd behaviour noted above goes away).
I have tried it on mojave and high sierra . I thought the sip was disabled when i patched it but I'm gonna go check it again now
Since I'm still not getting any updates through System Preferences, I thought I would try the updater script by Gengik84 at GitHub, cited earlier (https://github.com/Gengik84/MacOS_Updater), to update DP7 over DP6. It seems to have worked but took nearly as long as dosdude1's Patcher method, including the download time via the Patcher. Also the script starts out with all sorts of feedback but, after describing every step of updating the Recovery Partition (no idea why it does that first), feedback in Terminal all but disappears. One has to accept, on faith, that it's actually doing anything. Also, the only time it pauses for user input is to OK a system reboot; up until then, it simply proceeds to download all the files, process them and, then, continue with the update without any opportunity for the user to pause or quit before the actual update is carried out. Oddly, then, it updates everything in place, without even rebooting, directly from inside the same running partition that it's updating (very surprising).
After rebooting into the Patcher USB stick to re-apply all the patches, booting again into Mojave went smoothly, taking no more time than usual after an update/upgrade. It was after signing in at the login screen that everything slowed down to a crawl. Took nearly 20 minutes to completely load my desktop and all my startup programs the first time. Rebooted again, after which it took around 10 minutes to do the same. No noticeable glitches after that, other than the ones already known in all the beta releases so far. Desktop looks fine in Dark Mode, machine is responsive, all Preference Panes work, &c. But, what I did notice, in Activity Monitor, were a couple of odd services that are now hogging my CPU like crazy: logd and AddressBookSourceSync [see screenshot]. A log daemon doesn't seem all that worrisome, but I can't imagine why anything like the latter service would run more than a few seconds -- yet it's going constantly. Hope this doesn't mean that all my Contacts are being harvested and uploaded to every rogue server in Russia and China!??
Of course, these runaway services that won't seem to stop running could be the result of a bug introduced in DP7 but they still make me a bit uncomfortable. Think I will probably rev up Patcher 1.1.2, re-download DP7, and re-install it the tried and true way via my USB stick (and see if the odd behaviour noted above goes away).
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Yep. Tryed that too and worked. Then after a while on terminal said to reboot and after that just run the patches and all went well.
ROM completed, no problems with EEPROM model. Has anyone changed their Mojave drive to APFS after running the patch?
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Pardon my ignorance. For future reference, where can I find or how to determine the EEPROM model? I have a couple of mojave unsupported MBPs, and the other question I have related to this, is if I do a prom patch on these, will I still be able to boot from a HFS+ internal or external drive?
Regards and Thanks.
Followup: Reformatted internal SSD, migrated files (incrementally) from CCC backup of Mojave 18A365d, (I wanted to determine if prior system from a backup produced the same issues, which it did not) system responds much better, at least no "trails" of Finder windows, bypassing 18A365a, as this iMac didn't like it, 6 installs and wiping a drive of a single beta thru various means, I'll sit this one out. One thing I did notice as I was downloading DP7 thru Patch, Software Update was downloading as well, (oversight on my part) inconclusive if that was the problem, as later during kp's and host of other issues System continued to download DP7, with Patched 18A365a already installed. ??? Hopefully next beta will be less problematic.
[doublepost=1534363639][/doublepost]Since I'm still not getting any updates through System Preferences, I thought I would try the updater script by Gengik84 at GitHub, cited earlier (https://github.com/Gengik84/MacOS_Updater), to update DP7 over DP6. It seems to have worked but took nearly as long as dosdude1's Patcher method, including the download time via the Patcher. Also the script starts out with all sorts of feedback but, after describing every step of updating the Recovery Partition (no idea why it does that first), feedback in Terminal all but disappears. One has to accept, on faith, that it's actually doing anything. Also, the only time it pauses for user input is to OK a system reboot; up until then, it simply proceeds to download all the files, process them and, then, continue with the update without any opportunity for the user to pause or quit before the actual update is carried out. Oddly, then, it updates everything in place, without even rebooting, directly from inside the same running partition that it's updating (very surprising).
After rebooting into the Patcher USB stick to re-apply all the patches, booting again into Mojave went smoothly, taking no more time than usual after an update/upgrade. It was after signing in at the login screen that everything slowed down to a crawl. Took nearly 20 minutes to completely load my desktop and all my startup programs the first time. Rebooted again, after which it took around 10 minutes to do the same. No noticeable glitches after that, other than the ones already known in all the beta releases so far. Desktop looks fine in Dark Mode, machine is responsive, all Preference Panes work, &c. But, what I did notice, in Activity Monitor, were a couple of odd services that are now hogging my CPU like crazy: logd and AddressBookSourceSync [see screenshot]. A log daemon doesn't seem all that worrisome, but I can't imagine why anything like the latter service would run more than a few seconds -- yet it's going constantly. Hope this doesn't mean that all my Contacts are being harvested and uploaded to every rogue server in Russia and China!??
Of course, these runaway services that won't seem to stop running could be the result of a bug introduced in DP7 but they still make me a bit uncomfortable. Think I will probably rev up Patcher 1.1.2, re-download DP7, and re-install it the tried and true way via my USB stick (and see if the odd behaviour noted above goes away).
we found out that your hdd or ssd has to be formatted with APFS for the software update in system preferences to work properly
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the eeprom model number will be located on your mainboard and yes you can still boot HFS
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The APFS Rom Patcher should identify your EEPROM model automatically. The only time you would need to open up to the motherboard is if you got the warning message mentioned in @dosdude1 ’s original post on page 211.
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did you apply the night shift patch for the patch updater that usually is the culprit thing smooth out after that is appliedSince I'm still not getting any updates through System Preferences, I thought I would try the updater script by Gengik84 at GitHub, cited earlier (https://github.com/Gengik84/MacOS_Updater), to update DP7 over DP6. It seems to have worked but took nearly as long as dosdude1's Patcher method, including the download time via the Patcher. Also the script starts out with all sorts of feedback but, after describing every step of updating the Recovery Partition (no idea why it does that first), feedback in Terminal all but disappears. One has to accept, on faith, that it's actually doing anything. Also, the only time it pauses for user input is to OK a system reboot; up until then, it simply proceeds to download all the files, process them and, then, continue with the update without any opportunity for the user to pause or quit before the actual update is carried out. Oddly, then, it updates everything in place, without even rebooting, directly from inside the same running partition that it's updating (very surprising).
After rebooting into the Patcher USB stick to re-apply all the patches, booting again into Mojave went smoothly, taking no more time than usual after an update/upgrade. It was after signing in at the login screen that everything slowed down to a crawl. Took nearly 20 minutes to completely load my desktop and all my startup programs the first time. Rebooted again, after which it took around 10 minutes to do the same. No noticeable glitches after that, other than the ones already known in all the beta releases so far. Desktop looks fine in Dark Mode, machine is responsive, all Preference Panes work, &c. But, what I did notice, in Activity Monitor, were a couple of odd services that are now hogging my CPU like crazy: logd and AddressBookSourceSync [see screenshot]. A log daemon doesn't seem all that worrisome, but I can't imagine why anything like the latter service would run more than a few seconds -- yet it's going constantly. Hope this doesn't mean that all my Contacts are being harvested and uploaded to every rogue server in Russia and China!??
Of course, these runaway services that won't seem to stop running could be the result of a bug introduced in DP7 but they still make me a bit uncomfortable. Think I will probably rev up Patcher 1.1.2, re-download DP7, and re-install it the tried and true way via my USB stick (and see if the odd behaviour noted above goes away).
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I am having an issue on Macbook5,2 where I can't open the General, Display, Keyboard, Trackpad, and Mouse panes in System Preferences.app. I am on build 18A353d with a clean install right now. All patches have been applied. Anything Ive missed or should do?
@dosdude1 just one more question...if I get that warning screen posted above, can I cancel and everything will be fine without installing the patch? Sorry to be a pain in the ass...just wanna be sure.
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I had a similar issue yesterday. I switched my location under system preferences to United States, rebooted and when I came back...the prefs were working fine. Give it a go!
Yeah, you can just select "Cancel" on that dialog, and it will stop the process.
I know, I temporarily removed it until I figure out the random code signing issues, which will cause the machine to fail to boot.
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Yes, you can restore from the backed-up ROM. Just use my "ROMTool" application, which can be downloaded here.
Did APFS formatting go smoothly? Just patched my ROM but want to hear that it was successful from someone before converting.
Did you install the kext correctly using kext utility or kext wizard?
Is SIP set to off? If not, boot from USB Mojave patcher installer, launch Terminal and do: sudo csrutil disable
Then try again.
Is SIP set to off? If not, boot from USB Mojave patcher installer, launch Terminal and do: sudo csrutil disable
Then try again.
I've been running an APFS and NVMe patched boot rom on an MP3,1 for at least a month with no problems.
Yes it did. Posted extensive screenshots right after dude released it. Check some previous posts.
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I posted some links with some mobo eeprom pictures but couldn't find your model there. Couldn't find one for my macpro 3,1 either. I suspect it is under the CPU+RAM Housing - just too lazy to dismantle it so I went ahead and gave it a shot anyway.
@dosdude1 must surely know...
I wish I could find a archive site with the logic board diagrams for all our macs...
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