macOS 10.13.3 Update

[Yomiro]

I guess using Hackintosh is getting harder. While El Capitan can easily come up from many faults including the era. I guess now this is not as easy as the old one.

I've been constantly faced with problems since I switched to the last systems.

It's been always the case. That's why I keep multiple *running/working* copies.

1) Have a bootable USB MAC drive. A Clone of my current setup. So you can work on the broken system or do a restore.
2) Used to have TimeMachine backups. (*No longer working*)

With High Sierra, I love the snapshot feature. I had to use it twice since I upgraded to HS because I messed something up and my system wouldn't boot. It's much quicker than using the methods above.

 

[zipb]

I have bootable backups & sparse images of everything, and offsite copies. Normal computer hygiene.

 

[macnb]

Are you using APFS? I also had that problem and trying to install thru the app store didn't work either. It seemed to work then just didn't and said 10.13.2 when it rebooted.

Nope I'm using HFS+.

 

[elfcake]

It's been always the case. That's why I keep multiple *running/working* copies.

1) Have a bootable USB MAC drive. A Clone of my current setup. So you can work on the broken system or do a restore.
2) Used to have TimeMachine backups. (*No longer working*)

With High Sierra, I love the snapshot feature. I had to use it twice since I upgraded to HS because I messed something up and my system wouldn't boot. It's much quicker than using the methods above.

Snap Shot feature? Not familiar with that...

 

[MacDaddy123]

With each point release to High Sierra, on the hardware referenced in my profile, I:

1) Lose WiFi
2) Suffer from random reboots

Resolving these issues, and restoring system stability, involves booting into single user mode, updating the bootcache from there, and/or running installation of Rehabman's downloads. Sleep is still dodgy, but I can deal.

 

[Roberbond]

I can't see the update in the App Store. Although I can see and update other software.

If I write in the terminal:

softwareupdate -l

I can see:
Software Update found the following new or updated software:
* macOS High Sierra 10.13.3 Update-

I have this problem from 10.13.1. Any idea how to fix this?

 

[elfcake]

I can't see the update in the App Store. Although I can see and update other software.

If I write in the terminal:

softwareupdate -l

I can see:
Software Update found the following new or updated software:
* macOS High Sierra 10.13.3 Update-

I have this problem from 10.13.1. Any idea how to fix this?

If your system is working well with 13.2... don't mess with 13.3. Really cranky. I've had a system freeze (have not had one of those in years) and everything is glitchy (as many have posted here) . 13.3 might be one to pass on.

 

[elfcake]

With each point release to High Sierra, on the hardware referenced in my profile, I:

1) Lose WiFi
2) Suffer from random reboots

Resolving these issues, and restoring system stability, involves booting into single user mode, updating the bootcache from there, and/or running installation of Rehabman's downloads. Sleep is still dodgy, but I can deal.

Can you elaborate on the steps? Do you think this will solve the glitchiness, slowness to load (everything)?

 

[KenBotwinick]

If your system is working well with 13.2... don't mess with 13.3. Really cranky. I've had a system freeze (have not had one of those in years) and everything is glitchy (as many have posted here) . 13.3 might be one to pass on.

High Sierra in general has been buggy AF for me. I was so hopeful that 13.3 would get rid of some of the problems but now after installing it I get the Nvidia black screen during boot unless I disable nvidia and CUDA says "No GPU detected".

It's so unbelievably infuriating to not be able to solve this. Now I'm stuck at 1024x768 on only one monitor, with no graphics acceleration. I've never had any problem like this before.

None of the typical Nvidia black screen fixes seem to work for me. GAH!

 

[rudimania]

Same stuff here, the only way to solve it was to downgrade video driver. Went smooth then.

My issue was that I was getting a panic from a 2015 AppleIntelE1000e.kext hiding in my /library/extensions directory. I removed that and upgraded the one in /system/library/extensions and everything went great.

Hardest part was reviewing frame by frame the verbose mode video i made to determine were the panic was coming from. Lesson learned for sure. I also recommend the Nvidia clean recommended in the high-sierra upgrade notes on this site. That at least eliminates another known point of potential failure in high-sierra upgrades.

Working great now, but I am now strongly considering buying a real mac

Nah, what I am I saying, this is too much fun!