I second that - would love to update a MacBook Pro 5,5 (Mid 2009, 13", 2,53 GHz C2D with NVIDIA GeForce 9400M) but hesitate because of this problem.
Updating the AMD patch wouldn't work with the MBP 5,5, I assume, because of the NVIDIA card?
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Sorry, I thought you had a Mac Pro 3,1 with a newer Radeon card.. No, the AMD patch won't do anything on that machine.
Couldn't see nor get to the Patch Updater tool after the update because the screen was completely red or blotchy portions of the display would appear.
And I'm pretty sure I tried the "Force Cache Rebuild" option via the post-install tool when not checking it the first time didn't restore display functionality.
When I have the time for more pain, i'll try the update again and the Post-Install tool.
Paste this in to your Terminal window and press Return.
ioreg -lp IOService | grep board-id
Are you on APFS? I have the same issue and I'm trying to find a solution somewhere with no luck so far...
Is it still possible to use safe mode with the APFS patch installed?
Wasn't using APFS, just the old standby HFS.
But this is no longer a problem for me, it was just one of several issues that made my High Sierra experience less then optimal, so I'm back on Sierra which for me at least runs really good.
On my iMac 7,1 I'm UNABLE to install Security Update 2018-001. When I click on the "Restart" button in the App Store update section, it closes every app and window, as usual, the screen turns black and… it stays black forever. It doesn't restart, but I can see and move the arrow cursor. The only way out of this situation is to turn off the iMac with a long press on the power button. After that, it restart as usual and it works, but the update is not applied. Today I updated the Night Shift patch, as the patcher window appeared and prompt me to do so, but I don't know if this has anything to do with this problem. Never had update problems before.
The page is working for me. So might have been a temporary outage.
Latest Night Shift Patch (v3) now works fine on Mac 8,1 with the security update. Thanks.
Since I can't no longer restart of even shutdown my iMac (as I said in the quoted message, the screen turns black with the white cursor and never shut down), I thought that the problem could be the new Night Shift Patch, but it seems I can't uninstall it (I thought that you could just uninstall from the Patcher Updater). How do I do that?
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Thanks for the clarification! With your release of v3 of the Night Shift Patch, is it now safe to install the latest security update on all machines (especially the MacBook Pro 5,5 Mid-2009 13" 2,53 GHz)? (Thanks again for all your great work!)
@dosdude, can you teach me how to uninstall the latest Night Shift patch (version 3)? I'm sure that installing it BEFORE updating to the latest security update was the cause to my problems (iMac 7,1 enable to reboot or shutdown because the screen remains always on).
I've tried booting in safe mode (shift key pressed) but I only get an X in the middle of the screen.
I've tried booting in safe mode (shift key pressed) but I only get an X in the middle of the screen.
Open the Patcher Update app that is in your Applications/Utilities folder, control-click on Night Shift Patch now click on Re-install and once done Restart your Mac.
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Open the Patcher Update app that is in your Applications/Utilities folder, control-click on Night Shift Patch now click on Re-install and once done Restart your Mac.
As I've written, I need to UNINSTALL the latest patch, not update or reinstall it.
As I said the Patch Updater app is in your Utilities folder which is in you Applications folder, we all have this.
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Why do you need to uninstall it, you can't, reinstall it as I mentioned before and Nigh Shift should start working again.
The answer is already in my previous comments: I don't need to reinstall it because it works fine (and, by the way, I've already re-installed it 3 times).
But from the moment I updated to the latest version (3), my iMac 7,1 is unable to restart or shut down. It just hangs there, because the screen doesn't turn off. And since I cannot restart, I cannot install the latest security update (or any future OS update). I think that the problem could be the fact that I updated the Night Shift patch BEFORE updating the OS (the Patch Updater window automatically appeared and told me there was a new update and I updated it). Maybe if I uninstall the Night Shift patch it could let me turn off the screen and restart my iMac. I'm not sure, but I've never had this problem in the last two years with patched Sierra and High Sierra, and the fact that it appeared exactly after I updated to the new Night Shift (and that's a patch related to the screen) makes me think that this could be the case.
[doublepost=1526224526][/doublepost]Ok so go in to your System/Library/PrivateFrameworks folder and delete your CoreBrightness.framework
Restart your Mac. Reinstall the Night Shift patch.