i just updated to 10.9.2 and now when i try and airplay mirror to my Apple TV, it sends the audio but just shows a black screen and i can't drag anything to it. It doesn't show any of the options for external displays in the displays section of System Preferences.
Any ideas? i tried reapplying the combo update with no luck
iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9.1)
casein2006 wrote:
according to Apple, yes. The Wireless Mutimedia person i spoke with stated that even though it is a core Apple functionality, Safe Mode is designed to run the minimum amount of things as to troubleshoot and marrow down issues.
i don't remember who it was, but whoever said they use to work at Apple and that they probably don't read the threads for issues etc...i just recieved an email from someone in Engineering that referred to the thread and asked for information to help sort it out and figure out what is going on.
Probably because of the media attention...
http://www.tuaw.com/2014/02/28/reports-say-os-x-10-9-2-breaks-airplay-mirroring- and-other-news/
http://www.mactrast.com/2014/02/mac-users-say-os-x-10-9-2-breaks-airplay-mirrori ng/
Hopefully I can reproduce it on my home machine. I have 10.9.2 with AirParrot installed, I just haven't used AirPlay recently so I wouldn't know whether I was affected or not.
It is true that these threads are not officially monitored by Apple employees. However, as you have noted, when an issue arises, it is possible that Apple will take notice and begin an investigation. Keep in mind that issues on a thread, or on blogs, are typically representative of the vocal minority, and don't necessarily represent a widespread or systemic issue.
As a side note, I have not been able to reproduce any of these issues on any of my machines, although that is not surprising, considering most of my Macs are 2012 or newer.
Please let me know if my above fixes have worked for you or if they don't - I may be able to do further investigation if these fixes do not resolve your issue.
Message was edited by: MikeT3Com
so i have completely removed all traces of Airparrot. and after a anxious reboot, the problem still persists.
Even though Airparrot was a common app a lot of us seemed to have, i figured it was something else. I literally changed nothing from the time i was using mirroring before the update to directly after and something affected mirroring. Will look in aforementioned places and report back.
Also, totally unrelated. but has anyone any clue on what might be causing this? i've had it since the release of Mavericks and not prior. It is fairly infrequent but can be at certain times.
Are you referring to the menu bar staying in the foreground while using MissionControl?
I have not seen that issue nor was I able to reproduce it, but if I had to guess what is causing it, I would guess this:
"Displays have separate spaces"
Two separate menubars. May be causing an issue with Mission Control. Just a guess though.
I have a solution for all you suffering from this problem to try. There is an Airparrot file, at least I think it is an Airparrot file as it is referred on the Airparrot site, that is called:
APExtFramebuffer
and it resides at: System/Library/Extensions
I have just moved this file to trash rebooted and I have got back Mirroring in Airplay.
I had previously installed Airparrot on a system I migrated to my 27 inch late 2013 iMac running Mavericks 10.9.2 and although I thought I had deleted Airparrot fully prior to the migration clearly I had not.
Good Luck!
Had an email from Apple over the situation, didn't someone say that Apple never looked at these discusions!!!!
Hello,
I wanted to contact you on behalf of Apple Engineering regarding a discussions forum posting you made about not being able to mirror your computer with Apple TV after 10.9.2 update. Are you still having this issue ? If you are still having the issue please let me know what software version is running on the Apple TV. It will show at Settings>General>About. Does the Apple TV require a password or PIN for AirPlay ? The Mac does show 10.9.2 at Apple>About This Mac ? Please also provide a detailed description of the issue. If you could provide screenshots that would be helpful.
If they get back to me I'll post it.
Meanwhile AirParrot still works.
Cheers
That shouldn't matter. That only applies to when your using an extra monitor or airplay mirroring. both of which i wasn't doing when it occured in that screenshot.
Plus that is an invaluable setting especially when it comes to using my Apple TV as an extended monitor. I have tried turning that off and it doesn't fix it.
Anybody else's help would be appreciated
Per someone else above, this has gotten press so that's probably why. And that's the excat email i recieved word for word.
That means that Apple is gathering data about this, and Engineering is looking into a resolution, or at least a cause. If it is indeed a 3rd party issue, then Apple won't be able to issue a fix. But it seems like it's not the AirParrot issue, at least, so maybe we can get a fix.
fix confirmed!
on my end at least, followed those instructions even after using the Airparrot removal tool and after restart it was back just like it's always been.
So you don't have to go hunt for the files, the sudo commands are in this article.
So you're saying that you removed AirParrot and it resolved the issue? I thought some others either didn't have AirParrot, or weren't able to resolve by removing AirParrot?
Everybody that has this issue has AirParrot installed or previously installed.
Well if that is the truth, we know the solution. Get rid of it.
Airplay mirroring broke in 10.9.2
