{"id":21265,"date":"2018-04-17T15:04:41","date_gmt":"2018-04-17T19:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=21265"},"modified":"2021-06-30T16:33:47","modified_gmt":"2021-06-30T20:33:47","slug":"macos-10-13-4-causing-installation-log-failures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/17\/macos-10-13-4-causing-installation-log-failures\/","title":{"rendered":"macOS 10.13.4 Causing Installation Log Failures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tidbits.com\/2018\/04\/13\/macos-10-13-4-causing-installation-log-failures\/\">Adam Engst<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/tidbits.com\/2018\/04\/13\/macos-10-13-4-causing-installation-log-failures\/\"><p>So let&rsquo;s recap. In three separate instances, a Mac that&rsquo;s running macOS 10.13.3 starts running slowly. Upon restart &mdash; without the user asking to install 10.13.4 &mdash; the Mac boots into the Installation Log app and shows an error saying the macOS installation couldn&rsquo;t be completed. Restarting doesn&rsquo;t help, but the first thing to try is holding down Option as the Mac boots and selecting the primary drive. If that doesn&rsquo;t work, boot into macOS Recovery and reinstall the operating system. No data will be lost either way, but hey, make sure you have backups anyway!<\/p><p>How common is this problem? Unclear, although there&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/apple.stackexchange.com\/questions\/321244\/installation-of-macos-high-sierra-update-10-13-4-failed-how-do-i-recover-withou\">a discussion of it on AskDifferent<\/a> that covers the same ground I did. If you&rsquo;ve already upgraded to macOS 10.13.4, you&rsquo;re probably safe. But if you&rsquo;ve been holding off upgrading, which is usually the cautious thing to do, be aware that it&rsquo;s possible you might encounter this situation on your next restart.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Freaky.<\/p>\n<p>Previously: <a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/30\/macos-10-13-4\/\">macOS 10.13.4<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adam Engst: So let&rsquo;s recap. In three separate instances, a Mac that&rsquo;s running macOS 10.13.3 starts running slowly. Upon restart &mdash; without the user asking to install 10.13.4 &mdash; the Mac boots into the Installation Log app and shows an error saying the macOS installation couldn&rsquo;t be completed. Restarting doesn&rsquo;t help, but the first thing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2018-04-17T19:04:43Z","apple_news_api_id":"964034e7-12a4-4597-9901-cf6f155b09e6","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2021-06-30T20:33:51Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AlkA05xKkRZeZAc9vFVsJ5g","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[30,1529,2088],"class_list":["post-21265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-mac","tag-macos-10-13","tag-macos-recovery"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21265"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21266,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21265\/revisions\/21266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}