HOW DO I FIND APPS WITH INCOMPATIBLE EXTENSIONS

HOW DO I FIND APPS WITH INCOMPATIBLE EXTENSIONSHOW DO I FIND APPS WITH INCOMPATIBLE EXTENSIONS

Posted on Jul 19, 2020 2:13 PM

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Jul 19, 2020 3:19 PM in response to Mgreenway

I found that by running this command in the terminal, you get a text file in which there are written all the non-Apple's kernel extensions currently running. This command is helpful when trying to address the problem.

kextstat -kl | awk '!/com\.apple/{printf "%s %s\n", $6, $7}' | open -ef


Find processes by name:

lsof -c processname

Find processes by PID:

lsof -p 123


This works for some things:

sudo fs_usage | grep dev

for /dev/ files or similar.

lsof | grep "/Volumes/VolumeName"


From an Applications -> Utilities -> Terminal session you can issue the following command to see what 3rd party kernel extensions your system is currently using:

kextstat | grep -v com.apple


You should always wait a few iterations of a new OS to get the bugs worked out, that's likely a year from now!


No need to worry, but to see them, just don't upgrade to 10.16 if the developers don't have updates...


About this Mac>System Report>Software>Extensions, click on Obtained from Header, all that aren't Apple are Legacy.

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