Hello,
I have just installed the 2018-001 update for Sierra 10.12.06, following the advice of posts in this thread:
- Updated Clover to r4392,
- Updated Lilu.kext and NvidiaGraphicsFixup.kext to latest versions (1.2.2),
- Re-booted (everything working as expected).
- Installed the 2018-001 Security Update (together with the Safari 11.0.3 and other updates).
- Re-booted OK but NVIDIA Web drivers were out of date.
- Updated the NVIDIA Web drivers via the NVIDIA Web manager (got an error/failed installation at final validation stage).
- Re-booted OK and the NVIDIA Web manager reports that I am using the latest drivers (378.05.05.25f06) corresponding to my mac OS build (16G1212). I did not get any screen tearing/artifacts.
But now Mail, Safari, Maps and App Store applications have their windows empty/blank.
I can see the list of emails in my mailboxes but the preview pane (or if I open an email) remains desperately empty/blank.
Same goes with Safari where my tabs do not display the pages content !
Same behavior with Maps and with App Store applications.
I have since tried uninstaling the NVIDIA Web drivers and manager but nothing changed.
Trying to re-install the NVIDIA Web drivers I get the same error message at the end of the installation process:
Any ideas ?
Anyone with the same strange behavior after applying the security update ?
Thank you for your help.
02/06/2018 EDIT: The U-Turn ;-)
Seeing the mess created with all Apple applications (Mail, App Store, Safari, Maps, iTunes (Store)) I decided to remove the 2018-001 Security Update to be able again to enjoy a useful computer.
From being badly burned by a previous failure that required me to do a complete re-install of OS X, I had learned the lesson and set-up TimeMachine (in addition to regularly cloning my startup disk to a USB stick !).
I was therefore able to Restore my whole system to just before the installation of the "cursed" update:
- At the Clover screen, I selected to boot the Recovery partition. I was greeted by the recovery utilities menu.
- Selected the "Restore from a TimeMachine Backup" option and continued to select the TimeMachine disk, and date and time of the backup to restore.
15 minutes later the machine re-booted and I was back into my working installation
It is worth mentioning that I did not revert the changes to the EFI partition. So
Clover, the
Lilu and
NvidiaGraphicsFixup kexts are kept to their latest updates. I also updated the
IntelMausiEthernet.kext to its 2.3.0 version for good measure.
Now all apps work as expected and I have not observed any issues...