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Re: Sign in app store issues after 10.6.8 update Fix

None of these solutions are working for me. The error I get is a device or my computer can not be verified. When I don't get that I get connection failed.

I'm stuck.
 
Re: Sign in app store issues after 10.6.8 update Fix

Ok, this is weird. I tried a second time to set PCIRoot to 1 and the app store now works. However, it killed my second monitor, so that command disables one of my DVI ports. Any work arounds for this?
 
Re: Sign in app store issues after 10.6.8 update Fix

Yeah me too, can some one please explain the following (also have posted else where, sorry)

I no longer get the GUID error but still can't login. Is there a login lock up feature on the apple side or some thing?
 

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Re: Sign in app store issues after 10.6.8 update Fix

So those of you that have the app store working can you please post the full content of the following two files? I have pasted the contents of what I've got.

/Library/Preference/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.Boot.plist

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>Kernel</key>
<string>mach_kernel</string>
<key>PCIRootUID</key>
<string>1</string>
<key>EthernetBuiltIn</key>
<string>Yes</string>
</dict>
</plist>


and

/Extra/com.apple.Boot.plist

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>Kernel</key>
<string>mach_kernel</string>
<key>Kernel Flags</key>
<string>arch=i386</string>? <key>PCIRootUID</key>
<string>1</string>
<key>GraphicsEnabler</key>
<string>Yes</string>
<key>Instant Menu</key>
<string>Yes</string>
<key>Legacy Logo</key>
<string>Yes</string>
<key>EthernetBuiltIn</key>
<string>Yes</string>
</dict>
</plist>

Do you have these files different then each other?

Thanks
 
Re: Sign in app store issues after 10.6.8 update Fix

I can't make it worked.

First I'm adding the below string in com.apple.Boot.plist
<key>PCIRootUID</key>
<string>1</string>
<key>EthernetBuiltIn</key>
<string>Yes</string>

the delete NetworkInterfaces.plist

then delete anything on
System preferences/Network

reboot

Go to System preferences/Network and add all the things.

But still none of these solutions are working for me. Try it several times, still no luck. Am I doing the right step? Or missing something here?
 
Re: Sign in app store issues after 10.6.8 update Fix

I had the same problem, nothing helped, but I fixed it by generating EFI String for my ethernet card and adding it to boot.plist file. You can google it. It is done with terminal app gfxutil.

Though I'm using not 10.6.8, but something newer :mrgreen: But it seems the problem is the same.
 
Re: Sign in app store issues after 10.6.8 update Fix

Astpr0 said:
I had the same problem, nothing helped, but I fixed it by generating EFI String for my ethernet card and adding it to boot.plist file.

Does it matter whether or not it's an ethernet or wireless card?
 
Re: Sign in app store issues after 10.6.8 update Fix

Riad said:
Astpr0 said:
I had the same problem, nothing helped, but I fixed it by generating EFI String for my ethernet card and adding it to boot.plist file.

Does it matter whether or not it's an ethernet or wireless card?

I guess the question would be how do I find out the Device path for my AirPort Card that is installed in PCIE2? It does not show up under PCI cards under Hardware. I ran the 'ioreg' command but don't know what to look for. If I run 'gfxutil -f ethernet', yes, I get a string and all that. But that's for ethernet card, not my Airport Extreme card (AirPort Extreme (0x14E4, 0x8E)), right? At this point I am willing to try any thing.

Thanks
 
Re: Sign in app store issues after 10.6.8 update Fix

I googled it and it seems that internal name for wireless cards is also "ethernet". Also I found a guide how to install dual video cards (MB this will work for network cards). You need to get first card location, then put the card away from the computer (physically) and install the second card to second slot and get its location. Then you generate the hex for both cards by adding them both to plist. So you might try uninstalling your lan card and then getting location for wireless card. I'm not sure this will work, I haven't tried it myself.
 
Re: Sign in app store issues after 10.6.8 update Fix

Thanks for the EFI solution using gfxutil; I can now login to the App Store after generating and putting the hex format of the EFI string in both com.apple.Boot.plist files in /Extra and /L/P/SystemConfiguration directories. With one caveat though: in "About This Mac > More Info > Hardware > PCI Cards" I see no cards; neither my NV or Airport Extreme card. But every thing seems to be working fine.

So here's what I did, I did not use ethernet to generate the EFI hex string; rather used the device path for the Actual Airport Extreme.

1. Find the device path for Airport Extreme
- Run 'ioreg' command in the terminal as sudo user and redirect the output to a file
- The search for the word "AirPort" and found the followings:
+-o pci14e4,432b@0 <class IOPCIDevice, id 0x1000001e3, registered, matched, active, busy 0 (12209 ms), retain 10>
| | | +-o AirPort_Brcm43224 <class AirPort_Brcm43224, id 0x100000312, registered, matched, active, busy 0 (7 ms), retain 8>
| | | +-o AirPort_Brcm43224Interface <class AirPort_Brcm43224Interface, id 0x100000315, registered, matched, active, busy 0 (8 ms), retain 10>
| | | +-o IONetworkStack <class IONetworkStack, id 0x10000034e, registered, matched, active, busy 0 (1 ms), retain 9>
| | | +-o IONetworkStackUserClient <class IONetworkStackUserClient, id 0x100000354, !registered, !matched, active, busy 0, retain 5>
- The bold portion before the '@' symbol is the device string for my Airport Extreme card

2. Run the gfxutil to get the Device path string

bash-3.2# gfxutil -f pci14e4,432b
DevicePath = PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x1c,0x7)/Pci(0x0,0x0)
bash-3.2#

3. Then I created a txt file, with .plist extension (airport.plist) file in my home directory that looked the followings:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x1c,0x7)/Pci(0x0,0x0)</key>
<dict>
<key>built-in</key>
<string>0x01</string>
</dict>
</dict>
</plist>

4. Then I made sure that this file is in plain text. In TextEdit, went to the format menu and clicked "Make Plain Text".

5. Create a hex string then a txt file of the whole thing; ran the followings in the terminal
- gfxutil -i xml -o hex airport.plist airport.hex
- mv airport.hex airport.txt

6. I then had the following string in the airport.txt file
4b00000001000000010000003f0000000100000002010c00d041030a0000000001010600071c0101060000007fff0400160000006200750069006c0074002d0069006e0000000500000001

7. I copied this string in both com.apple.Boot.plist files in the directory I mentioned above. This file in the /L/P/SystemConfiguration directory then looked like the following. I had to change the permissions for this file and SystemConfiguration directory to be able to change the file:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<key>Kernel</key>
<string>mach_kernel</string><dict>
<key>Kernel Flags</key>
<string></string>
<key>PCIRootUID</key>
<string>1</string>
<key>device-properties</key>
<string>4b00000001000000010000003f0000000100000002010c00d041030a0000000001010600071c0101060000007fff0400160000006200750069006c0074002d0069006e0000000500000001</string>
<key>EthernetBuiltIn</key>
<string>Yes</string>
</dict>
</plist>

7. Then I removed the NetworkInterfaces.plist file from the directory I mentioned in step 6 above and repaired all disk permission using the disk utility.

8. Rebooted and finally I could login to the App Store.



I don't know whether or not this is sustainable. I would like to see both my Video and Airport Extreme cards in the Hardware PCI Card list and I think there is a way to do that similar to this. Right now every thing is functional and not having them showing up in there is not causing any issue but I will try that anyway.
 
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