10.12.1 - problems after update

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coxorange Author

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10.12.1 - problems after update

Hello, I just updated from 10.12 to 10.12.1.

Never before was an OS update such a catastrophe!

(BTW I updated because I was hoping the Mail attachment bug was fixed.)

Many apps which are running in the menu bar, are no longer displayed!

To be able to access them I have to close them via Activity Monitor

and then start them again. This happens always after restarting.

System Preferences no longer loads -> listed as Force Quit Application.

Preview no longer loads -> listed as Force Quit Application.

I stopped trying out more... Who knows how to fix this?

Else I could only restore my Time Machine backup (with 10.12.0), which would take at least 8 hours.

(I have a USB drive with a 10.12.0 installer too, but it doesn't allow to "downgrade"!)

iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, Late 2015), macOS Sierra (10.12)

Posted on Oct 25, 2016 5:39 AM

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Answer 1

keg55

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Oct 25, 2016 11:02 AM in response to coxorange

The only way to reinstall 10.12.1 on your Mac is to:

Erase your Macintosh HD - either from the Recovery HD or a USB thumb drive 10.12 installer.
Install 10.12 - either from the Recovery HD or a USB thumb drive 10.12 installer.
Restore your user accounts, data and apps.
Open the App Store app to install the 10.12.1 update.

Currently, there is no 10.12.1 full installer nor a 10.12.1 Delta updater.

You get to your Recovery HD by restarting while holding down Command+R.

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coxorange Author

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Oct 25, 2016 11:18 AM in response to keg55

keg55 wrote:

The only way to reinstall 10.12.1 on your Mac is to:

Erase your Macintosh HD - either from the Recovery HD or a USB thumb drive 10.12 installer.

Install 10.12 - either from the Recovery HD or a USB thumb drive 10.12 installer.

Restore your user accounts, data and apps.

Open the App Store app to install the 10.12.1 update.

Thank you. Another way would be to restore my Time Machine backup of yesterday (when I still had 10.12.0). Seems less problematic to me. (Erase Macintosh HD can lead to problems with Fusion drives, as I once had to learn; restoring apps (did you mean via Migration Assistant?) could lead to missing apps (as I had to learn e.g. my old Pages '09 had once not been re-installed; settings stored in initialization files etc. could get lost - a nightmare to check/compare and re-set.)

And I don't see how this could help (the way you suggested or restore of TM backup), bacause in both cases I would end up with updating to 10.12.1, just as I did this morning, which lead to the problems.

Any other ideas...? Thanks again.

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Answer 3

lemppari

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Oct 25, 2016 12:13 PM in response to coxorange

I have exactly the same problem. When starting my Macbook some icons just bounce. After force killing them I can start them again. This might take sometimes many tries. Sometimes some background programs are also not working correctly, for example Outlook thinks it's not activated. I have to restart again. All this started after upgrading to 10.12.1.

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Answer 4

Oct 25, 2016 12:25 PM in response to coxorange

Sometimes re-installing an update will help because sometimes

there may have been an unexpected burp in the system that fouled

something up during the update process.

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lemppari

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Oct 25, 2016 12:37 PM in response to woodmeister50

How can I re-install this update? It is not yet available as a separate download from Apple - Support - Downloads

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Answer 6

Oct 25, 2016 12:46 PM in response to lemppari

lemppari wrote:

How can I re-install this update? It is not yet available as a separate download from Apple - Support - Downloads

That is currently a conundrum.

It is surprising it is not available yet, neither is an updated full installer.

My experience has seen these occur within only a few hours of the MacApp Store

update being available. Not sure what the wait is in doing it this time around.

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keg55

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Oct 25, 2016 12:51 PM in response to coxorange

coxorange wrote:

And I don't see how this could help (the way you suggested or restore of TM backup), bacause in both cases I would end up with updating to 10.12.1, just as I did this morning, which lead to the problems.

Any other ideas...? Thanks again.

If you're trying to get things to work prior to the 10.12.1 update, then you have a couple of options, in my opinion.

You can restore from your Time Machine back up if this gets you to a point where you had no issues and don't allow the 10.12.1 update. Or do the steps I outlined and only migrate your user accounts and data. Then run App Store / Updates to update your OS (including 10.12.1), check things out and either migrate your apps over or manually reinstall and reconfigure them.

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coxorange Author

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Oct 25, 2016 1:08 PM in response to lemppari

lemppari wrote:

I have exactly the same problem...

Please also report it here:

http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html

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Answer 9

lemppari

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Oct 25, 2016 1:18 PM in response to coxorange

Done...

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Answer 10

lucouto

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Oct 26, 2016 12:35 AM in response to coxorange

Same thing is happening here and I just don't have the time to revert from TimeMachine or re-install everything... I'm getting nuts with this... Almost ALL the apps can't be opened at the first attempt (they keep bouncing at the dock). The solution is to force quit and then open it again.

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coxorange Author

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Oct 26, 2016 12:49 AM in response to lucouto

lucouto wrote:

Same thing is happening here and I just don't have the time to revert from TimeMachine or re-install everything... I'm getting nuts with this... Almost ALL the apps can't be opened at the first attempt (they keep bouncing at the dock)...

An idea:

Maybe my Kensington Trackball driver isn't to blame that it stopped working.

Maybe it's the same problem - only that I can't force quit it and retry,

because it's no user-accessible app, but a driver started by the system, and thus just once?

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Answer 12

Oct 26, 2016 1:09 AM in response to coxorange

You should be able to find the process in Activity Monitor and (force) quit it there.

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Answer 13

coxorange Author

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Oct 26, 2016 1:27 AM in response to Kurt J. Meyer

Kurt J. Meyer wrote:

You should be able to find the process in Activity Monitor and (force) quit it there.

What a great tip!!

I quitted the process "TrackballWorksHelper" (for my Kensington Trackball).

Then went to System Preferences > Users & Groups > Login Items

and there right-clicked TrackBallWorksHelper to show the app in Finder and restarted it.

(A normal Spotlight search didn't find it!!)

Thanks, at least my Trackball works again!

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Answer 14

kritz91

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Oct 26, 2016 2:06 AM in response to lucouto

Hey lucouto,

I am having the same exact problem. Most of the apps just keep bouncing, force quitting and restarting sometimes works. This is very frustrating.

I just created a thread for this particular problem here:

Apps not launching in 10.12.1 after boot / first try

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Answer 15

jfc87

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Oct 26, 2016 2:28 AM in response to coxorange

Exactly the same problems here.

Tried to repair disk und fix permission via third party application.

Process analysis of not working flux-process:

Sampling process 352 for 3 seconds with 1 millisecond of run time between samples
Couldn't find _sigtramp symbol in expected dylibs
Sampling completed, processing symbols...
Analysis of sampling Flux (pid 352) every 1 millisecond
Process:         Flux [352]
Path:            /Applications/Flux.app/Contents/MacOS/Flux
Load Address:    0x10a283000
Identifier:      org.herf.Flux
Version:         ???
Code Type:       X86-64
Parent Process:  ??? [1]


Date/Time:       2016-10-26 11:24:18.732 +0200
Launch Time:     2016-10-26 10:11:17.490 +0200
OS Version:      Mac OS X 10.12.1 (16B2555)
Report Version:  7
Analysis Tool:   /usr/bin/sample
----


Call graph:
    2603 Thread_3096: Main Thread   DispatchQueue_<multiple>
      2603 ???  (in <unknown binary>)  [0x10a283000]
        2603 _dyld_start  (in dyld) + 0  [0x1127f0000]


Total number in stack (recursive counted multiple, when >=5):


Sort by top of stack, same collapsed (when >= 5):
        _dyld_start  (in dyld)        2603


Binary Images:
       0x1127ef000 -        0x11282c287  dyld (0.0 - ???) <13A9466A-2576-3ABB-AD9D-D6BC16439B8F> /usr/lib/dyld
Sample analysis of process 352 written to file /dev/stdout

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