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K two said:
Should the OpenCore Patcher be granted Full Disk Access in the Security&Privacy CP? Nothing found re-reading extensive docs. 🧐
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Sounds like you're having the same problem I had this morning building a USB drive with Opencore on it.

When I clicked on the the OC icon and got the terminal menu, then hit the option to install on the USB drive, it failed due to not being able to change the current directory to a spotlight one.

I solved it by granting the terminal app full disk access (as opposed to the OC app). Reran the menu option, worked fine.
 
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rehkram said:
Sounds like you're having the same problem I had this morning building a USB drive with Opencore on it.

When I clicked on the the OC icon and got the terminal menu, then hit the option to install on the USB drive, it failed due to not being able to change the current directory to a spotlight one.

I solved it by granting the terminal app full disk access (as opposed to the OC app). Reran the menu option, worked fine.
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Terminal always granted Full Disk Access, Nightly Build re-install went fine but upon first re-boot got the Prohibited screen full fan power button re-start, then OK at next boot. 11.4 runs fine after that, so far.😁
 
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KennyW said:
Got my iMac 2010 with RX480 updated from BS 11.2.3 directly to 11.4.

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A bumpy road.
The BS 11.2.3 was installed with help of OCLP 0.1.2 on an SD card, which was later updated to OCLP 0.1.5.
With OCLP 0.1.5, I created an USB BS Installer of 11.3.1 initially and later 11.4, but both cannot upgrade my BS due to hanging in middle of 2nd stage of installation (running the mac OS Installer). Despite multiple reboot, it just couldn't pass thru the second stage.
Finally, to see what is causing the problem, I enabled the verbose mode of OCLP 0.1.5. Surprisingly, as the texts flew thru on screen, I could see the 2nd stage installation with an Apple icon above a display of time to finish (~27 minutes) with count down which was absent in prior reboots. However, it finished with a stop sign and messing up the text display on screen.

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I thought it failed and swapped out the SD card of OCLP 0.1.5 with verbose mode ON to one with OC 0.6.8 from the older days of using iMac Micropatcher to install Big Sur 11.1. I got my second surprise that the system booted smoothly to 11.4 ! I then rebuilt the OCLP 0.1.5 (AMD with minimal SMBIOS patch and full SIP & SecureBoot) with verbose OFF and exchanged with the OC 0.6.8. Everything still works fine. What a puzzle ....
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I can confirm that there are situations (quite frequently) when I have to boot my iMac 11,1 in verbose mode for the boot process not to hang early.
 
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K two said:
full fan power button re-start, then OK at next boot
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Glad it recovered. I've no idea how to diagnose those kinds of issues (I've had them occasionally but not recently), other than diving into the logs I guess. In my case I'd be happy it recovered and go on with life out on the wild frontier.
 
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I have Big Sur 11.4 on MBP 8.2 late 2011 and works perfect I can say. My problem is the glitches and Photos app. I used OCLP 0.1.6 Nightly edition but I didn't see any change on Photos. Maybe I do something wrong. The way i did it was :Run the patcher pressed 1 for build the 2 to Install it on my disk, next restart and then after restart 3 for post Install and rebooted again. No changes on Photos. What I dir wrong?
 
Athanti said:
I have Big Sur 11.4 on MBP 8.2 late 2011 and works perfect I can say. My problem is the glitches and Photos app. I used OCLP 0.1.6 Nightly edition but I didn't see any change on Photos. Maybe I do something wrong. The way i did it was :Run the patcher pressed 1 for build the 2 to Install it on my disk, next restart and then after restart 3 for post Install and rebooted again. No changes on Photos. What I dir wrong?
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Possibly one of the long known issues...

Photos, Home, Maps and other Apple apps use partly metal instead of OpenGL. Since nobody can write a metal emulator you will always see glitches and problems with these apps.
 
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marcel151 said:
Hi, I got problems while patching kexts on my MBP 2012 with PatchedSur v0.2.1, tried to patch kext from Install Media, same issue.

Code: 
-bash-3.2# /Volumes/Image\ Volume/patch-kexts.sh /Volumes/Macintosh\ SSD
No WiFi option specified on command line, so checking for 802.11ac...
No 802.11ac WiFi card detected, so installing mojave-hybrid WiFi patch.
No patch mode specified on command line. Detecting Mac model...
(Use --2010, --2011, or --2012 command line option to override.)
Detected model: MacBookPro9,1
Detected a 2012-2013 Mac. Using --2012 patch mode.
Installing kexts to:
/Volumes/Macintosh SSD

Volume appears to have a Big Sur installation (build 20F71). Continuing.
Volume is mounted from device:  /dev/disk1s5
Mounted device is an actual volume, not a snapshot. Proceeding.
System Integrity Protection is off.
Restart the machine for the changes to take effect.
Successfully disabled authenticated root.
Restart the machine for the changes to take effect.
Remounting volume as read-write...
Checking for KernelCollections backup...
Backup not found. Performing backup now. This may take a few minutes.
Backing up original KernelCollections to:
/Volumes/Macintosh SSD/System/Library/KernelCollections/KernelCollections-20F71.tar.lz4
a BootKernelExtensions.kc
a SystemKernelExtensions.kc
Beginning patched IO80211Family.kext installation
Installing mojave-hybrid WiFi patch
Using kmutil to rebuild boot collection...
Error returned: <dictionary: 0x7fff870535d0> { count = 1, transaction: 0, voucher = 0x0, contents =
    "XPCErrorDescription" => <string: 0x7fff87053738> { length = 18, contents = "Connection invalid" }
}
Error returned: <dictionary: 0x7fff870535d0> { count = 1, transaction: 0, voucher = 0x0, contents =
    "XPCErrorDescription" => <string: 0x7fff87053738> { length = 18, contents = "Connection invalid" }
}
Error returned: <dictionary: 0x7fff870535d0> { count = 1, transaction: 0, voucher = 0x0, contents =
    "XPCErrorDescription" => <string: 0x7fff87053738> { length = 18, contents = "Connection invalid" }
}
Using kmutil to rebuild system collection...
Error returned: <dictionary: 0x7fff870535d0> { count = 1, transaction: 0, voucher = 0x0, contents =
    "XPCErrorDescription" => <string: 0x7fff87053738> { length = 18, contents = "Connection invalid" }
}
Error returned: <dictionary: 0x7fff870535d0> { count = 1, transaction: 0, voucher = 0x0, contents =
    "XPCErrorDescription" => <string: 0x7fff87053738> { length = 18, contents = "Connection invalid" }
}
Error returned: <dictionary: 0x7fff870535d0> { count = 1, transaction: 0, voucher = 0x0, contents =
    "XPCErrorDescription" => <string: 0x7fff87053738> { length = 18, contents = "Connection invalid" }
}
Error Domain=KMErrorDomain Code=71 "Unable to resolve dependencies: 'com.apple.driver.AppleIntelFramebufferAzul' names a dependency on 'com.apple.AppleGraphicsDeviceControl', which was not found." UserInfo={NSLocalizedDescription=Unable to resolve dependencies: 'com.apple.driver.AppleIntelFramebufferAzul' names a dependency on 'com.apple.AppleGraphicsDeviceControl', which was not found.}
kmutil failed. See above output for more information.
patch-kexts.sh cannot continue.

Any suggestions?
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Looks like an old bug never corrected in this particular version. You have probably tried to use (explicitly or implicitly) the -u option to unpatch the current installation. Doing this it accidentally deletes the AppleGraphicsControl.kext instead of leaving it untouched. A new patch attempt fails.

Long story short: Unpatching is broken with the original micropatcher.

Solution: Just install Big Sur again and run the patch-kext.sh again.

In this situation you should think about moving over to OCLP. You could come around any patching then.
 
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Successful OTA update iMac 12,1 from 11.3.1 (fresh install OCLP 0.1.5) to 11.4 from the second attempt.
1st attempt: all went like it should, but after final reboot update was not installed and OS start to download and prepare update from scratch.
2nd try gone without issues.
 

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Athanti said:
I have Big Sur 11.4 on MBP 8.2 late 2011 and works perfect I can say. My problem is the glitches and Photos app. I used OCLP 0.1.6 Nightly edition but I didn't see any change on Photos. Maybe I do something wrong. The way i did it was :Run the patcher pressed 1 for build the 2 to Install it on my disk, next restart and then after restart 3 for post Install and rebooted again. No changes on Photos. What I dir wrong?
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I have the same HW and with the OCLP 0.1.6 dated 5/24 I got Photos working as expected. Have you tried to redownload the Apple binaries when applied the patches? The Apple folder in payload needs to date 5/24 or later.

On the other side I lost the support of brightness control and sleep. Are yours working? The brightness control disappeared in System Preferences. Everything worked flawlessy in 11.3.1.
 
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Can anyone help please.
I successfully installed 11.4 on a white MacBook from 2009 with OCLP
it works really well, haven’t noticed many artifacts and is surprisingly speedy for its age. But 3 problems: keyboard and trackpad don’t work. Only external usb mice and keyboard. Also, i have Wi-Fi but no bluetooth. Any ideas?
One thing worth mentioning, system preferences identify the machine as Macbook6,1 but I couldn’t install open core wit the settings for 6,1, it would always hang right at the start. Had to use settings for MacBook 7,1. Could it be related?
 
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air.man said:
I have the same HW and with the OCLP 0.1.6 dated 5/24 I got Photos working as expected. Have you tried to redownload the Apple binaries when applied the patches? The Apple folder in payload needs to date 5/24 or later.

On the other side I lost the support of brightness control and sleep. Are yours working? The brightness control disappeared in System Preferences. Everything worked flawlessy in 11.3.1.
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Brightness is working and sleep with BigSurmountsrw.app and nightshift2. I will try to redownload the Apple binaries later
 
Joonyv said:
Can anyone help please.
I successfully installed 11.4 on a white MacBook from 2009 with OCLP
it works really well, haven’t noticed many artifacts and is surprisingly speedy for its age. But 3 problems: keyboard and trackpad don’t work. Only external usb mice and keyboard. Also, i have Wi-Fi but no bluetooth. Any ideas?
One thing worth mentioning, system preferences identify the machine as Macbook6,1 but I couldn’t install open core wit the settings for 6,1, it would always hang right at the start. Had to use settings for MacBook 7,1. Could it be related?
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It is a really fine attitude to cross post exactly the same message on Discord and here and let people in parallel work on your personal problem.
 
I am using the Micropatcher Automator and have a peroblem. After I finished the Big Sur install I got a kernal panic. I then booted holding the option key and had the following: EFI looks like a ndisk, my HD, Install Big Sur and another EFI looks like the SD card. How do I boot to the post install utility? This is on a MacBook Pro
 
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Hello @khronokernel . If you happen to see this message please let me know your thoughts on an issue I am facing.

I have my OCLP installer ready with 0.1.5 version and OS 11.4 to install over the exiting BIGSUR version 11.0.1 on my iMac 12,2 mid 2012 27inch. Every time I try after pressing option key, selecting the EFI and starting the bigger installer I get stuck after progress bar moves just before the apple logo. See image.

I tried with verbose mode enabled and the screenshot will tell you more as I am no developer and cannot make out the issue.

I wait for almost 5-8 mins and then have to force shut the machine.


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Not sure what I did right to some others but I went from 11.2.3 to 11.4 without a hitch, just like a regular upgrade on my Mac Pro 5,1 (Mid 2010), Radeon 5700XT, PCIE NVME drive, USB 3 PCIE card.
The only thing I did was to detach all the other drives from the sleds so only the NVME was attached.

Rebooted a couple of times and did give me a warning symbol but I did nothing the machine restarted itself anyway and am now writing this message on here via the Mac Pro.

Using OC 0.6.7.

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Ausdauersportler said:
It is a really fine attitude to cross post exactly the same message on Discord and here and let people in parallel work on your personal problem.
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Sorry it wasn’t my intention at all to have anyone working on my problem. Just asking if anyone using their same machine had a similar problem. I didn’t use Discord until now, just this forum, so when I ”discovered” Discord I thought to also post there. I have also posted on Reddit. Didn't realize it would be offensive.
Apologies.
 
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macrumorsnumpty said:
Not sure what I did right to some others but I went from 11.2.3 to 11.4 without a hitch, just like a regular upgrade on my Mac Pro 5,1 (Mid 2010), Radeon 5700XT, PCIE NVME drive, USB 3 PCIE card.
The only thing I did was to detach all the other drives from the sleds so only the NVME was attached.

Rebooted a couple of times and did give me a warning symbol but I did nothing the machine restarted itself anyway and am now writing this message on here via the Mac Pro.

Using OC 0.6.7.

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This is hopeful for us MP5,1 users. I haven’t tried updating so am still on 11.2.3.

I was pointed to this separate thread https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/mac-os-11-3-has-broken-support-for-older-mac-pros.2289056/ for all info on the 5,1 issues; might be usefull to post your experience there as well.

greetz,
Willem
 
mwidjaya said:
Quick update on my 2012 macmini6,1.

Did the OTA to 11.4 today. Went perfectly.

Also updated OCLP to latest release 0.1.5 just before triggering the OTA. All good.

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Hi,

No slowdown and overheating CPUs with your i5?

Finally here with a 2.3 GHz Intel Core i7 four hearts (Macmini6,2) with 16 GB of RAM, i decide to came back to Catalina, because my mid 2012 was starting to heat more than usual and turn the fan, with in the activity monitor a kernel-task a little high.
 
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Not sure what fixed the intermittent crash on re-boot but OCLP v.0.1.6 nightly, giving OCLP Full Disk Access and running Killall Finder in Terminal before re-boot erased the problem in 11.4. 😅
 
There were several random crashes with Big Sur 11.4 and OCLP 0.1.5 on my 6,1 MacMini. I downgraded the OCLP to 0.1.2 and it is a little better. Still, Safari and Zoom crashes occasionally.
 
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