Welp, I spoke too soon. I made the mistake of enabling FileVault, which has created all sorts of issues. I enabled FileVault which ran "overnight" and told me it finished in the morning, however, it seems to not ever actually finish as every time I restart the machine it restarts. I cannot update the system because it is "in the middle of being encrypted". Any thoughts on ways to get it to finish the encryption so that I can install the update? The farthest I get with the update is after the encryption "finishes" but then on the reboot it stops with the apple logo and smallest progress bar. Even booting in verbose mode doesn't seem to let me see the reason why it hangs, but I fear that it may be related to the encryption.
Also side issue, but I can't seem to get a USB 3.2 Gen 2 card reader to work with the thunderbolt port.
I should add, this is on
Aurous Xtreme - F9i
Samsung 970 Evo (nonplus)
OC 0.6.6 (never had a previous OC working and I chose this release to switch from clover)
I will also add the possibly related fact that I cannot perform a time machine backup, likely due to corrupted local snapshots, which I cannot delete.