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- May 24, 2014
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- Motherboard
- Asus Z97-Pro Gamer
- CPU
- Intel Core i7 4770K 4x 3.50GHz
- Graphics
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080
Hello everyone,
today, completely out of the blue, my NVIDIA Web Drivers stopped working. When booting, after entering my FileVault password, the screen fades to black and stays like that. Verbose mode didn't show anything useful. I did not update anything nor change any hardware or setup, I've been on the latest update (17G14042) with appropriate web drivers since it came out. My hardware, including my GPU, works fine on Windows.
First thing trying to fix it was I disabled the web drivers and was able to accesses my system with the default drivers. When I tried to open the “NVIDIA Driver Manager” preferences pane, it got stuck in an endless loop of "System Preferences must quit and reopen". Same for the CUDA pane.
So I removed the drivers using the command line, as described here.
Then I tried to reinstall the WebDrivers. When opening the installer MacOS tells me:
So because my Clover setup is quite old, I updated it and all kernel extensions / drivers and ensured that NVRAM works properly. That didn't help.
Then I clicked on the question mark on the bottom-left corner of the error message (the one that says the installation can't be opened) and realised: The help page tells me that the developer certificate was revoked. So I researched that and found that Apple's status page shows that there is an issue with certificates and that they're working on it.
So assuming that it's a revoked certificate, and knowing that the installer is trustworthy (I mean I had it installed before), I removed the certificate from the main installer (NOTE: DO THIS ON YOUR OWN RISK!) by running
, which causes the installer preflight checks to go through, however the installation itself still fails. That's because there are two further installers packaged within that have the same problem. So using the Flat Package Manager from Apple (well, not really, I took it from an external source as Apple's developer site is down as well, sigh), I removed the signatures from the two installers within the package and re-ran it. This time it successfully installed the drivers.
After reboot, I was greeted with the same black screen I've had this morning, together with the endlessly refreshing preference panes. I went full circle for 8 hours.
I can't imagine I'm the only one with this problem? It couldn't be more inconvenient as I need to work on my thesis, so hoping that the problem magically goes away is not the best solution for me...
today, completely out of the blue, my NVIDIA Web Drivers stopped working. When booting, after entering my FileVault password, the screen fades to black and stays like that. Verbose mode didn't show anything useful. I did not update anything nor change any hardware or setup, I've been on the latest update (17G14042) with appropriate web drivers since it came out. My hardware, including my GPU, works fine on Windows.
First thing trying to fix it was I disabled the web drivers and was able to accesses my system with the default drivers. When I tried to open the “NVIDIA Driver Manager” preferences pane, it got stuck in an endless loop of "System Preferences must quit and reopen". Same for the CUDA pane.
So I removed the drivers using the command line, as described here.
Then I tried to reinstall the WebDrivers. When opening the installer MacOS tells me:
So because my Clover setup is quite old, I updated it and all kernel extensions / drivers and ensured that NVRAM works properly. That didn't help.
Then I clicked on the question mark on the bottom-left corner of the error message (the one that says the installation can't be opened) and realised: The help page tells me that the developer certificate was revoked. So I researched that and found that Apple's status page shows that there is an issue with certificates and that they're working on it.
So assuming that it's a revoked certificate, and knowing that the installer is trustworthy (I mean I had it installed before), I removed the certificate from the main installer (NOTE: DO THIS ON YOUR OWN RISK!) by running
Bash:
xattr -cr <installer>After reboot, I was greeted with the same black screen I've had this morning, together with the endlessly refreshing preference panes. I went full circle for 8 hours.
I can't imagine I'm the only one with this problem? It couldn't be more inconvenient as I need to work on my thesis, so hoping that the problem magically goes away is not the best solution for me...
