macOS 10.15.6 Update

[Jamesbond007]

If you use virtualization software like VMware Fusion, you should avoid 10.15.6 for now as it may cause crashes:

VMware Engineer Confirms macOS Catalina 10.15.6 Bug Causes Crashes with Virtualization

macOS Catalina 10.15.6 seems to have introduced a bug that causes system crashes, especially when using virtualization software such as VirtualBox or...

www.macrumors.com

 

[dddirtman]

updated no issues

 

[astrobruin]

Success! I had an initial hiccough during the install with Clover 5120, but sorted it thanks to prior comments!!

Appears to be working well!
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Details, in case anyone finds them useful:

Started with 10.15.4 (I skipped an intermediate update)
Booting via Clover 5120 (initially)
Updated via the System Preferences

Initially started well:
7 minutes - Boot black screen, white apple. But it then rebooted to login screen.

I read the the last few pages here, then downgraded from Clover 5120 to Clover 5119.

On restart with Clover 5119, it resumed the install. Just like that!
1 minute - Reboot "Boot MacOS Install from [Drive name]. Light gray background, dark gray apple
8 minutes - Black background, white apple progress bar. "Estimated Time 43 minutes" (was only 8)

1 minute - Reboot - Boot MacOS from [drive name]
3 minutes - Light gray background, dark gray apple
20 seconds - Black background, white apple progress bar.

21 minutes of active installing (7 initial + 14 minutes after downgrading to Clover 5119)
Plus a few extra minutes to research why the first attempt failed, then to download, and reinstall the downgraded Clover 5199 bootloader.

 

[danielfes]

Updated without a problem. Even during the boots, Clover chose the right drive every time.

 

[Gobias]

Updated via System Preferences without issues. Installation was very quick (<10 minutes).

 

[Silvy]

Updated with a couple of reboots (first from installer inside macOS, the other one after the update booted from “Install macOS from Catalina“).
Actually everithing seems to be working fine.

I stil have in clover a “Install from Catalina - Data” disk, but I can ignore it.

 

[balder16]

Updated two days ago from 10.15.2. I had some problems with the HDMI not working, which were solved in the last released of WhateverGreen (1.4.1). Then I faced a problem of my monitor not waking up after it goes to sleep (unless I turned it off/on again) which was solved by this thread.

 

[yurid]

Updated no issues from 10.15.5. It took just 7 min with 1 restart. Updated from System Preferences using Clover 5120.