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macOS Sequoia 15.3.1 - Bug fixes, changes, and more
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Maybe try another browser or use this Terminal command:
softwareupdate --fetch-full-installer 15.3.1
It's opening the installer directly after downloading and quitting will not delete it from Applications.
If you later want to download a new beta of 15.4 maybe, just enter 15.4 but look if the correct build is already in there with this command:
softwareupdate --list-full-installers
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Is anyone here using Little Snitch and when opening an app it asked to allow a connection to a website that has nothing to do with that app?
I had this several times on my iMac in December and January and now the first time on my Mini.
It's very strange, because those all are saved bookmarks in Safari and sometimes it wants to connect to several of them and I even opened them. I regularly clear all website data and some of those bookmarks I opened years ago the last time.
Now it was Onyx and it wanted to connect to a doctor's website I visited today, that also is in the bookmarks. But only that single one.
The first time it was Proton Mail and it wanted to connect to about 5 websites and all of them I haven't visted for a long time.
The other apps I can't remember. Maybe they are still in my iMac's Little Snitch deny list. It maybe only happened 5 times with 3-5 websites each time and now with only one on another Mac with a clean installed macOS.
Why not regularly? Why random bookmarked websites? What could cause this?
I had this several times on my iMac in December and January and now the first time on my Mini.
It's very strange, because those all are saved bookmarks in Safari and sometimes it wants to connect to several of them and I even opened them. I regularly clear all website data and some of those bookmarks I opened years ago the last time.
Now it was Onyx and it wanted to connect to a doctor's website I visited today, that also is in the bookmarks. But only that single one.
The first time it was Proton Mail and it wanted to connect to about 5 websites and all of them I haven't visted for a long time.
The other apps I can't remember. Maybe they are still in my iMac's Little Snitch deny list. It maybe only happened 5 times with 3-5 websites each time and now with only one on another Mac with a clean installed macOS.
Why not regularly? Why random bookmarked websites? What could cause this?
No errors messages. The file just vanishes. No problems with earlier versions or other files. I've downloaded six other files today with zero problems. I did delete ExpressVPN last week and replaced it with Nord.
About the second time the file vanished I turned Nord off. I also disabled the extensions--1Password and Evernote Web Clipper.
Like I said, downloads fine with DuckDuckGo. Downloaded the new versions of Sequoia, Sonoma and Ventura this morning and had no issues with DDG. Just tried Sequoia on Safari and the file vanished upon finishing the download.
Hell, I don't know. Might be this iMac. I ordered a new one. We'll see what it does. Should be here later today.
Here's what I get when I use your Terminal command above:
imac4@iMac4 ~ % softwareupdate --fetch-full-installer 15.3.1
Scanning for installer
Install failed with error: Installation failed
Error Domain=PKDownloadError Code=8 "(null)" UserInfo={NSUnderlyingError=0x600000ff11d0 {Error Domain=NSURLErrorDomain Code=-1200 "An SSL error has occurred and a secure connection to the server cannot be made." UserInfo={_kCFStreamErrorCodeKey=-9860, NSLocalizedRecoverySuggestion=Would you like to connect to the server anyway?, _NSURLErrorFailingURLSessionTaskErrorKey=LocalDataTask <07255B04-39B3-488E-9E16-88AD2FAFB926>.<1>, _NSURLErrorRelatedURLSessionTaskErrorKey=(
"LocalDataTask <07255B04-39B3-488E-9E16-88AD2FAFB926>.<1>"
), NSLocalizedDescription=An SSL error has occurred and a secure connection to the server cannot be made., NSErrorFailingURLStringKey=https://swcdn.apple.com/content/dow...t0eyfr278z60061tw15x7g40/InstallAssistant.pkg, _kCFStreamErrorDomainKey=3, NSErrorFailingURLKey=https://swcdn.apple.com/content/dow...t0eyfr278z60061tw15x7g40/InstallAssistant.pkg}}}
However on second and third tries download was successful. And downloading by link works fine with DuckDudkGo. But it still downloads OK with Safari then deletes from the download folder a split second after the download is finished.
There was a lot of discussion about the Cryptex (SP?) disk that showed up in Disk Utility, which a lot of folks speculated was related to FileVault. I do not think that is the case. I had so many problems with my 2019 Intel iMac 5K and Sequoia that I bought a iMac M4. I restored from Time Machine. In the setup process I was asked if I wanted FileSafe on and I said yes. When I run Disk Utility it only shows the drives I expect to be there. No Cryptex disk.
I have also no Cryptex on my M4 Pro Mini. I'll do a clean install on the M3 iMac soon and see if they'll come back there.
Really strange that Safari and Terminal doesn't work for the installers but another browser works normally. Doesn't really look like a hardware issue, but who knows...
I made a clean install on my new Mac and just copied some things over via Network. I wanted to use a Thunderbolt Bridge but the speed indicated just Ethernet was used.
I forgot the boot drive was external and I could have just connected it to the new Mac. 🙈 But I'll try soon if I can boot from it on the new Mac too.
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At this point I've spent what? Over four months jacking with Sequoia? I'm to the point where I'll believe just about anything.
The best versions of Sequoia were all betas and maybe also the final of 15.0. Strange things startet after Intelligence was implemented even if it was never turned on.
But I still believe those Cryptexes only showed up for me because I enabled Intelligence on an external boot drive. Or it was just a coincidence.
The strange thing is, they aren't even Cryptexes anymore. They are empty formatted FAT drives, that just appear sometimes and then also on my desktop. I can eject them and they'll come back a few days later. At least that was the last state on my iMac.
But the only real problems were when video players stopped working for a while and that came back in a later version and the screen not waking up from sleep. Otherwise it was and is very stable from the beginning until now. At least for me.
When an app crashed often (like Adguard and Adguard VPN), the next update of that app fixed it. I even think those were the only ones that had a problem, sometimes after a new beta update.
A complete crash (Kernel panic or so) never happened.
At the moment my biggest problem is Private Relay is turning off and on itself several times a day (there is a notification that it is not available or it is available again) or a message comes up saying my network connection isn't compatible with Private Relay.
This already started when the iMac stood next to the Mini and only the Mini is affected. Both connected via Ethernet to the Router.
But in the meantime it works normally.
While it is not available I sometime can't use Safari.
I also sometimes get a this NFS eorror message I already posted. I think connecting the two Macs via Network in Finder started something. This Mac is still a Server for the other one or so and I don't know how to turn it off.
This already started when the iMac stood next to the Mini and only the Mini is affected. Both connected via Ethernet to the Router.
But in the meantime it works normally.
While it is not available I sometime can't use Safari.
I also sometimes get a this NFS eorror message I already posted. I think connecting the two Macs via Network in Finder started something. This Mac is still a Server for the other one or so and I don't know how to turn it off.
You can also just report your own post with the reason "wrong thread" or whatever it is. But just deleting the content by editing should be ok if you don't do it permanently.
If you pay for a membership, you can delete your own posts I think.
A weird one for me today:
I bought an SD card reader and tested transfer then something strange happened: I had two folders in my trash bin and was unable to delete them with all known methods: disable csr, terminal, etc…
Fortunately, I had a good CCC backup and just had to restore it! More strange is that the files weren’t showing in my admin account nor in my Ventura partition! Disconnecting every external drive didn’t helped neither.
I was warned by « permission denied ». Safe mode was also a no go! MacMini 2018 BTW.
I bought an SD card reader and tested transfer then something strange happened: I had two folders in my trash bin and was unable to delete them with all known methods: disable csr, terminal, etc…
Fortunately, I had a good CCC backup and just had to restore it! More strange is that the files weren’t showing in my admin account nor in my Ventura partition! Disconnecting every external drive didn’t helped neither.
I was warned by « permission denied ». Safe mode was also a no go! MacMini 2018 BTW.
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As a lot of you noticed, I had problems on my 2019 Intel iMac 5K at Sequoia's release and continuing with subsequent beta and release versions. The biggest problem was I would reformat my internal SSD, reinstall Sequoia and restore via Time Machine. Everything would be great for a few days until I'd run Disk Utility, and it would tell me the disk was corrupted. Even booting into Recovery wouldn't fix the corruption.
On several messages boards folks would tell me there had to be a hardware problem, either the SSD or another component, as no software would corrupt a disk.
Despite buying the very top-of-the-line iMac in 2019, I decided it was prudent to buy a new iMac rather than try to get this one fixed. By going to an M4 iMac I'd lose screen size but very little elsewhere and I'd pick up all the new, fancy features of Apple Silicon.
My new iMac arrived on Thursday and I copied over my applications and data on Friday from Time Machine. Everything seemed fine until I ran Disk Utility yesterday and discovered the new iMac's disk was just as corrupted as the old one.
I'm going to call Apple in a few minutes. I'll let you know what they say.
On several messages boards folks would tell me there had to be a hardware problem, either the SSD or another component, as no software would corrupt a disk.
Despite buying the very top-of-the-line iMac in 2019, I decided it was prudent to buy a new iMac rather than try to get this one fixed. By going to an M4 iMac I'd lose screen size but very little elsewhere and I'd pick up all the new, fancy features of Apple Silicon.
My new iMac arrived on Thursday and I copied over my applications and data on Friday from Time Machine. Everything seemed fine until I ran Disk Utility yesterday and discovered the new iMac's disk was just as corrupted as the old one.
I'm going to call Apple in a few minutes. I'll let you know what they say.
I hope 15.4 will fix my Private Relay issue. It's always not available and then available again. I permanently get those messages and then Safari sometimes doesn't work because of that.
Maybe I should just do everything in Firefox, now that the Passwords extension is there.
I fear it won't be fixed, it was already there in December, with the iMac standing next to it without that problem.
I could try another Ethernet port on a dock. But I payed extra to have a 10Gbps port and now that one could be responsible for that issue. I don't need that speed at the moment, so I'll just wait for the next update to fix it, hopefully in a few minutes.
Maybe I should just do everything in Firefox, now that the Passwords extension is there.
I fear it won't be fixed, it was already there in December, with the iMac standing next to it without that problem.
I could try another Ethernet port on a dock. But I payed extra to have a 10Gbps port and now that one could be responsible for that issue. I don't need that speed at the moment, so I'll just wait for the next update to fix it, hopefully in a few minutes.
