Kext error apples drivers

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gabosjcr Author

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Kext error apples drivers

A lot of the apple drivers show error message where the drivers are not signed, not loaded.

Mac mini, macOS 13.3

Posted on Apr 21, 2023 12:58 PM

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John Galt

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Apr 21, 2023 4:54 PM in response to gabosjcr

Apple did not impose code signing and notarization until a few years ago. Those files appear to be left over from migrating an earlier Mac's content. You may even find files that were installed by Apple on earlier operating systems whose "obtained from" will also show "unknown".

In that location they do not appear to be useful for anything, assuming that is your concern.

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gabosjcr Author

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Apr 21, 2023 4:14 PM in response to John Galt

Hi John.

Device: Mac mini M1, 2020

MacOS: Ventura 13.3.1

I was trying to describe what it shows in the system report (Section Software, subsections for Applications, Extensions and Frameworks) where most of files show as “unknown”, “not signed”, and “not loaded” from the corresponding columns named as “Notarized”, “loaded”, and “Obtained from”.

I searched for the possible error based in the field “Validity Errors” from the report.

Examples from Applications, from the Software Section of the Report:

com.adobe.uxp.devtools:

Obtained from: Unknown

Kind: Other

Location: /Users/usr/Library/HTTPStorages/com.adobe.uxp.devtools.app

com.apple.ctcategories:

Obtained from: Unknown

Kind: Other

Location: /Users/usr/Library/HTTPStorages/com.apple.ctcategories.service

com.microsoft.openxml.excel:

Obtained from: Unknown