{"id":27217,"date":"2019-11-06T16:37:03","date_gmt":"2019-11-06T21:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=27217"},"modified":"2019-11-20T13:22:31","modified_gmt":"2019-11-20T18:22:31","slug":"dont-interrupt-the-installation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/06\/dont-interrupt-the-installation\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&rsquo;t Interrupt the Installation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tidbits.com\/2019\/11\/06\/dont-interrupt-security-update-2019-001-mojaves-installation\/\">Adam Engst<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/tidbits.com\/2019\/11\/06\/dont-interrupt-security-update-2019-001-mojaves-installation\/\">\n<p>The details vary, but all revolve around problems at boot, with complete lockups, accounts not available, current passwords not working, the login window reappearing after the user enters the password, or a crash screen after login. So far, it seems that only Macs with the T1 or T2 security chip are affected&mdash;that includes the MacBook Pro with Touch Bar (2016 and later), iMac Pro, MacBook Air (2018), and Mac mini (2018).<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>In the end, my advice is simply to go ahead with installing Security Update 2019-001 (Mojave), with two important caveats. First, make sure you have good backups before starting, in case the worst happens. That&rsquo;s always a good plan anyway. Second, do not interrupt the installation process! It may take longer than you expect, but let it run as long as it needs.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I don&rsquo;t know what I&rsquo;m going to do once I get a T2 Mac because, since macOS 10.10 or so, probably 50% of my macOS updates get stuck and don&rsquo;t complete the first time. I end up waiting several hours or overnight before giving up and hard resetting the Mac.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adam Engst: The details vary, but all revolve around problems at boot, with complete lockups, accounts not available, current passwords not working, the login window reappearing after the user enters the password, or a crash screen after login. So far, it seems that only Macs with the T1 or T2 security chip are affected&mdash;that includes [&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":"2019-11-06T21:37:09Z","apple_news_api_id":"f073d7a6-d444-4869-b00d-f04e82d2f609","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2019-11-20T18:22:37Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/A8HPXptRESGmwDfBOgtL2CQ","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":[1607,1780,30,1609],"class_list":["post-27217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple-t2","tag-installer","tag-mac","tag-macos-10-14"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27217","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=27217"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27308,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27217\/revisions\/27308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}