Opening App Store freezes Catalina

[riverLethe]

I finally got Catalina up and running on my Thinkcentre m93p and I only have a couple issues. Opening the App Store causes the system to freeze, requiring a force reset.

I read a forum thread regarding a similar problem on Mojave and I can confirm that Lilu and Whatevergreen are installed and updated.

Has anyone experienced something similar? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

 

[GrzegorzB]

I have exactly the same issue on desktop (motherboard Z97-G43 + i5-4690K).
I can confirm that Lilu and WhateverGreen don't change anything.

In my case opening the "App Store" causes immediate system crash, or system freeze after few seconds.

I didn't find any solution till now.

 

[Litolas]

I finally got Catalina up and running on my Thinkcentre m93p and I only have a couple issues. Opening the App Store causes the system to freeze, requiring a force reset.

I read a forum thread regarding a similar problem on Mojave and I can confirm that Lilu and Whatevergreen are installed and updated.

Has anyone experienced something similar? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Same machine and same issue (m93p Tiny i5-4570T HD460 macOS Catalina version 10.15.1).

 

[Litolas]

I was able to fix the issue. I had Intel Graphics injection on and FakePCIID_Intel_HD_Graphics.kext. Those should not be used with WhateverGreen.kext in the most recent versions.

I updated Clover to 5098. Kept the following kexts in Clover with the latest version available for each: AppleALC.kext, FakeSMC.kext, InetlMausiEthernet.kext, Lilu.kext, and WhateverGreen.kext.

I removed in the config file the Intel Graphics injection, and removed FakePCIID*.kext, from Clover.
I used KextBeast to install the same kexts in Clover to S/L/E and L/E.

I do not have any freezing issues, and fixed some graphics corruption I had before the upgrade to Catalina.

The only remaining issue I have now, and might be unrelated to the graphics configuration, is that when rebooting, turning on/off the ThinkCentre m93p Tiny, it is stuck in the Lenovo logo. I had to replace my Hackintosh SSD with a Windows HDD for the m93p to boot once, and then I can replace back to my Hackintosh SSD to be able to boot Catalina or access the BIOS menu.

I followed the information from:

An iDiot's Guide To Lilu and its Plug-ins

An iDiot's Guide To Lilu and its Plug-in's Last Update: 22nd Jan 2021 (Add note about OpenCore config.plist modifications) About this Guide Note: This guide was written when Clover was the boot loader of choice as such the config.plist examples in this guide are mostley Clover specific ... if...

www.tonymacx86.com

and used Hackintool to check the latest kext versions and superseded kexts.

 

[riverLethe]

update: I just tried adding the -liluforce argument to make sure that Lilu was running. The issue is still present. All kexts are updated.

I also found another thread on the same topic: https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/app-store-causes-freeze-after-catalina-update.285005/

 

[Blizzard-Ice]

I'm still having the same issue. Every time I open App Store or embedded videos in Safari the system freezes completely. I'm running a Dell Optiplex 9020 i5 with Intel HD 4600. I've updated Lilu and WhateverGreen Kext to the latest version and I tried every suggestion I found in this Forum and elsewhere without success. Lilu and WhateverGreen seems to NOT load.

Does anyone have a suggestion? What I'm doing wrong?

Thanks!

 

[riverLethe]

I fixed it! I added the -wegbeta boot flag to clover, and it works!!

-wegbeta enables whatevergreen on unsupported OS's

 

[Blizzard-Ice]

I fixed it! I added the -wegbeta boot flag to clover, and it works!!

-wegbeta enables whatevergreen on unsupported OS's

Thank you so much @riverLethe !!! You're the best!!! Your fix works!!! When everything else I tried failed, and after spending a couple of days trying to fix it, I did what you suggested and added -wegbeta to my config.plist file and everything works like a charm! I'm so happy! Thank you!

 

[rowl3y]

Hi, I'm still getting this problem, I have added the -wegbeta but nothing from the app store will download.

 

[tsura88]

Can someone zip up there EFI config for the Lenovo M93p OR explain how to add the -wegbeta string to config