Re:Apple Is Looking for Linux Kernel Developers
by TheAceOfHearts on Sunday April 01, 2018 @03:14PM
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Have you run a drive test? If you're having storage errors it could manifest itself in weird ways.
Re:Apple Is Looking for Linux Kernel Developers
by primitur on Sunday April 01, 2018 @03:25PM
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Yes, I've done it and Disk Utility doesn't think there's anything wrong. But yet, I've tried over and over to make a disk image - of different disks, even - and every single time I get the error "no usable disk image found". At this point, after having scoured the web for clues, I can only conclude: this is a bug in MacOS.
I'm now trying to do a full update to the latest release, and see if it works beyond that point - but if it doesn't, the good ol' tarball approach is all I've got left.
I think Apple has some QA issues.
On the other hand, it may work against us, having Apple involved in Linux things. I'm not sold either way - but I sit here, re-installing MacOS on two Macbook Pro's, both of which absolutely refuse to make a usable/safe disk image out of their own disks. This is such a frustrating conundrum, it feels like Solaris in the 90's. I can only hope something changes at Apple, or else I'm just going to wipe MacOS and put Linux on these machines. That is quite a watershed, imho.