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Re:Apple's had a shockingly bad week of software problems by bob_theslob646 on Saturday December 02, 2017 @09:47AM (#15832008)
>Let’s recap the week of Apple software problems:

- macOS High Sierra critical flaw with root admin access

- macOS High Sierra update released, but breaks file sharing

- iOS 11 crashing on some iPhones due to a date bug

- macOS High Sierra fix not installing correctly on some systems

-iOS 11.2 released early to fix iPhone crash bug

Yeah I would say that is a pretty bad week

Re:Apple's had a shockingly bad week of software problems by pducks32 on Saturday December 02, 2017 @09:49AM (#15832020)
Don’t forget console being spammed with hundreds of “Month 13” messages a second!
Re:Apple's had a shockingly bad week of software problems by daveorzach on Saturday December 02, 2017 @10:24AM (#15832195)
Thanks for the heads up. I wonder what will happen first, Apple releases a fix or the logs fill up my disk?
Re:Apple's had a shockingly bad week of software problems by fbelzile on Saturday December 02, 2017 @10:25AM (#15832196)
That's what that was! I was up late last night trying to debug my app because of this.
Re:Apple's had a shockingly bad week of software problems by pducks32 on Saturday December 02, 2017 @12:28PM (#15832916)
Yup something to do with mdworker IIRC.
Re:Apple's had a shockingly bad week of software problems by Alex3917 on Saturday December 02, 2017 @10:33AM (#15832254)
The transition to APFS also went flawlessly, above and beyond anyone's expectations.
Re:Apple's had a shockingly bad week of software problems by dannyw on Saturday December 02, 2017 @11:11AM (#15832492)
Really? That transition introduced “store encryption password in plaintext, as password hint” - http://mashable.com/2017/10/06/high-sierra-password-fix-appl...
Re:Apple's had a shockingly bad week of software problems by chmars on Saturday December 02, 2017 @11:06AM (#15832454)
Re:Apple's had a shockingly bad week of software problems by mcny on Saturday December 02, 2017 @10:51AM (#15832357)
Apparently, apple won't implement apfs for people on spinning rust so I can't get it on an iMac which made upgrading to high sierra easier. How did it go for people on macbooks?
Re:Apple's had a shockingly bad week of software problems by qubex on Saturday December 02, 2017 @11:03AM (#15832432)
Nor for RAID drives, whatever the substrate... except that by virtue of my participation in the beta programme, my Mac's RAID-0 array was converted before they decided to change track, and now after I wiped my system to restart anew I have literally no way of getting my system back to the initial state it was in.
Re:Apple's had a shockingly bad week of software problems by TheCondor on Saturday December 02, 2017 @11:06AM (#15832456)
You can convert those disks, they don’t do it automatically though. Diskutility has a convert option.
Re:Apple's had a shockingly bad week of software problems by kristofferR on Saturday December 02, 2017 @01:32PM (#15833224)
That's a dumb idea, the file system is designed for flash memory, not spinning disks.
Re:Apple's had a shockingly bad week of software problems by ksec on Saturday December 02, 2017 @01:37PM (#15833245)
flawlessly - for iOS users only.
Re:Apple's had a shockingly bad week of software problems by TheCoreh on Saturday December 02, 2017 @10:25AM (#15832201)
They also released 10.13.1, which undid the patch for the root login issue.
Re:Apple's had a shockingly bad week of software problems by judge2020 on Saturday December 02, 2017 @10:34AM (#15832258)
That's basically this point

> - macOS High Sierra fix not installing correctly on some system

But 10.13.1 has been out for a while, the root issue only resurfaces if you upgrade from 10.13 -> 10.13.1 after the patch is automatically installed.

Re:Apple's had a shockingly bad week of software problems by TheCoreh on Saturday December 02, 2017 @10:45AM (#15832315)
Oops, my bad then, I misinterpreted the news yesterday about that. Do they at least prompt you to reapply the patch after updating?
Re:Apple's had a shockingly bad week of software problems by mikeash on Saturday December 02, 2017 @10:30AM (#15832234)
10.13.1 was released more than a month ago.