macOS Ventura 13 on unsupported Macs - using command button or arrow buttons in apps causes them to crash

[murdock1234]

If you open OCLP it looks like that it is "enabled", but it doesn't mean that it is enabled on your Laptop. You can also mount your EFI partition and you can check, if the KEXT FeatureUnlock is there or not.

Command Line (Terminal)

cd /Volumes sudo mkdir EFI sudo mount -t msdos /dev/disk0s1 /Volumes/EFI/ cd /Volumes/EFI/EFI/OC/Kexts ls -la

If "ls -la" don't show the Kext "FeatureUnlock.kext", it is not loaded. Also, if your Apps doesn't crash, you should be good anyway.


* the mount point could be on any other device. You can check this by running "diskutil list" and look for EFI.

 

[dictoresno]

If you open OCLP it looks like that it is "enabled", but it doesn't mean that it is enabled on your Laptop. You can also mount your EFI partition and you can check, if the KEXT FeatureUnlock is there or not.

Command Line (Terminal)

cd /Volume sudo mkdir EFI sudo mount -t msdos /dev/disk0s1 /Volumes/EFI/ cd /Volumes/EFI/EFI/OC/Kexts ls -la

If "ls -la" don't show the Kext "FeatureUnlock.kext", it is not loaded. Also, if your Apps doesn't crash, you should be good anyway.


* the mount point could be on any other device. You can check this by running "diskutil list" and look for EFI.

my EFI is disk0s1. it keeps giving me errors when I try to run the commands you gave me

 

[bogdanw]

Use
diskutil list physical
to identify the EFI partition then
sudo diskutil mount /dev/disk0s1; open /volumes/efi

 

[murdock1234]

@dictoresno

There was a typo.

 

[murdock1234]

OCLP 0.62 with FeatureUnlock 1.14 seems to fix the problem, I am now on Ventura 13.3 with Feature Unlock enabled and it works so far stable.

 

[mikew67]

Sigh... Doesn't fix this for me. In fact, I just entered a detailed report and accidentally hit the F13 key ==> CRASH! Lost all my input. Grrr..... Reentering...

• Running MacBookPro 10,1
• Using OCLP 0.6.2 with default settings, upgrade from macOS 13.2 to 13.3 went smoothly.
• But crashing on arrow-key-input returned.
• Using script in Murdock1234's msg above (#26), I verified that the FeatureUnlock.kext was installed at path:
  /Volumes/EFI/EFI/OC/Kexts/FeatureUnlock.kext
• Looking at the Info.plist file inside, I see the following lines:
  ...
  <key>CFBundleVersion</key>
  <string>1.1.4</string>
  ...
• I presume this is the "1.41" version Murdoch1234 is referring to.

So what to try next? Rebuild and reinstall EFI with FeatureUnlock turned off?

Thanks to everyone for the work to support unsupported Macs.

Mike

 

[bogdanw]

Where is 1.14 from?
Latest from acidanthera/FeatureUnlock is 1.1.3 (Feb 14)
https://github.com/acidanthera/FeatureUnlock/releases

 

[LlamaLarry]

Hmm, well this seems to be back for me after using OCLP 6.2 to get to Ventura 13.3. Turns out that I use the cursor keys quite a lot in iTerm.

ETA: I tried it with Partially Enabled Feature Unlock and for now the arrow keys work again, but sometimes that happened just by rebooting. I am able to select my camera as Continuity Camera (used to drop immediately), but I still can't get it to actually send video.

 

[mikew67]

Following msg #31 above:

• Disabled FeatureUnlock, rebuilt and loaded EFI, rebooted.
• Arrow keys are OK now (moving up and down email list in Apple Mail)
• But Quicken still crashes on editing transactions! (no change)

 

[murdock1234]

Is it not fixed, crashed again.

 

[mikew67]

Following my msgs #34 and #31 above.

Very confusing. With FeatureUnlocked disabled, email image content in Apple Mail messages is not being displayed. Turned FeatureUnlocked back on in EFI, rebooted. Email msgs now display OK. And arrow keys work! Go figure...

 

[tenet]

Following my msgs #34 and #31 above.

Very confusing. With FeatureUnlocked disabled, email image content in Apple Mail messages is not being displayed. Turned FeatureUnlocked back on in EFI, rebooted. Email msgs now display OK. And arrow keys work! Go figure...

Please keep us posted?! This bug really does like to appear whenever and when it does it sticks around till you restart the machine which really is time consuming! Ps I believe this was mentioned already though is there a link to the forum/bug report of this on the OCLP site ? Thanks

 

[bogdanw]

FeatureUnlock 1.1.4 has been released https://github.com/acidanthera/FeatureUnlock/releases
"Added Continuity Camera unlocking for pre-Kaby Lake CPUIDs"

Ps I believe this was mentioned already though is there a link to the forum/bug report of this on the OCLP site ? Thanks

What OCLP site? The developers do not allow new issues to be opened on https://github.com/dortania/OpenCore-Legacy-Patcher/issues
There is only that OpenCore Patcher Paradise Discord Server https://discord.gg/rqdPgH8xSN

 

[mikew67]

Following my chain of msgs above (last is #36), on my MacBook Pro 10,1 (Retina, 15", early 2013) running macOS Ventura 13.3 (22E252), with EFI produced by OCLP v0.6.2, I have found a hard, app-crashing bug with the Quicken 7.0 financial app whenever I try to edit a field in a financial transaction when the window is displayed on my external monitor, a Dell 2413 monitor connected to the HDMI port. However, if I run the same app with the Quicken account window being displayed on the internal Retina display, it runs fine. IIRC, the external display is being driven by the internal Intel HD Graphics 4000 GPU, while external displays are driven by the also internal NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M GPU. (This may not be correct -- the System Report currently shows no display under the Intel "video card" and both Retina and Dell displays under the nVidia card.

In any case, I hope this report is useful to the OCLP developers in chasing these bugs.

Mike

PS: Since Quicken is a cross-platform app, I suspect it use the commercial Qt graphics framework (or similar). Wonder if other users have found similar crashing behavior with other Qt-based apps?

 

[LlamaLarry]

Wrong OCLP thread.

 

[mikew67]

Hurrah! 👏🏻 OCLP v0.6.3 fixed the problems I noted in the thread of my prior messages above (#39, etc.) Both Quicken and Fusion 360 appear to run OK on both my internal Retina and external Dell display now.

Many, many thanks to khronokernel, et al.

Mike

 

[mikew67]

Double Hurrah 👏🏻👏🏻 As noted in the last msg, OCLP v0.6.3 fixed the problem in my "Ivy Bridge" MBP 10,1 with my external display. Crashing on arrow key, etc., keyboard input remained. Safari was extremely unstable with a specific website with which Firefox has no problem.

Now OCLP v0.6.4 has just been released with the comment on GitHub "primarily a hot fix release for 2012 Macs with Ivy Bridge CPUs that experienced Safari Rendering Issues." That's my machine. Noted problems fixed.

Thanks again to khronokernel, et al, especially for the fast response to this issue.

Please check this OCLP release with your system. If this is a general fix for this last issue, we can close this thread!

Mike

 

[mikew67]

Sigh... raining on my own parade. With OCLP v0.6.4 and macOS 13.3, I'm still seeing app crashes in some apps with certain cmd-key combinations and arrow keys. Seems to be prevalent in Apple apps, e.g., Mail and Safari. Wonder if it depends on the graphics framework used by the app, e.g., SwiftUI? Or are we back to a FeatureUnlock issue?

Mike (who's like the mad scientist in the "Doctor Strangelove" movie who can't keep himself from flinging his arm up in a "Heil, Hitler" salute -- in my case, my fingers from automatically hitting cmd-v to do a paste and crashing the app, when a right-button mouse click on the paste cmd would suffice and avoids the crash -- sorry for my attempt at humor which probably escapes all you younger folks and non-Hollywood movie mavens.)

 

[dictoresno]

Sigh... raining on my own parade. With OCLP v0.6.4 and macOS 13.3, I'm still seeing app crashes in some apps with certain cmd-key combinations and arrow keys. Seems to be prevalent in Apple apps, e.g., Mail and Safari. Wonder if it depends on the graphics framework used by the app, e.g., SwiftUI? Or are we back to a FeatureUnlock issue?

Mike (who's like the mad scientist in the "Doctor Strangelove" movie who can't keep himself from flinging his arm up in a "Heil, Hitler" salute -- in my case, my fingers from automatically hitting cmd-v to do a paste and crashing the app, when a right-button mouse click on the paste cmd would suffice and avoids the crash -- sorry for my attempt at humor which probably escapes all you younger folks and non-Hollywood movie mavens.)

I honestly haven't seen this issue in awhile now. im now using a 2014 Mac mini on 13.2.1 and just upgraded to 13.3.1 and the issue has yet to be seen. even on my late 2015 iMac where I originally saw the issue, it stopped eventually but I don't know if it was related to the OCLP version updates or Ventura. I never did anything to rectify it regarding the featureunlock.

 

[Anubis777]

Macbook Air 7.1 11” 2015: After update with Sequoia (15.0 RC) on board to OCLP 2.0.0, I have had app crashing issues with copying, left arrow, and even dock. Then I changed in OCLP settings (Advanced) FeatureUnclock from „enabled” to ”partial” and reinstalled OC. Now the Sequoia works fine (v.fast!). So far, so good.