warning: crypto_val: object (oid 0x4): invalid state.key_revision (0)

i was waiting for 10.13.4 update to fix this issue and was very happy to find out this morning, that this update is finally here. But... my iMac Pro is dead now. I'm waiting for hour and a half now, but screen is black and nothing is happening. I will wait a little bit longer, but seems like Apple just forced me to erase disk and start from 0. I can't tell how angry i am now!

So after long time waiting, i've decided to force shutdown my iMac Pro in a middle of updating process. When it booted again updating process continued as normal. I think. So now i have 10.13.4, but guess what... crypto_val is still there! Files are still disappearing. Non of these issues are solved. I'm going to erase disk and install from scratch one day, but now i just don't have time for that. And its not an hour or so, its a whole dam day!

Steve Jobs, please, if you can read this from somewhere in a "cloud", make some influence on Tim.

Based on the post of ag_316, I've just installed the new macOS too. I was quite near to an heart attach: During installation, my iMac Pro shut down but not came up again. I took some pressings of the power button. It seemed installation was loopng, but it wasn't. Now it is running again as a charm. Should I try to install some widgets to dashboard again? I'll decide during the weekend...

I'm curious to find out if the full wipe and restore is resolving the problem. My current problem seems to be able to wait a bit, but not long. Before I do I'l like to know if it is resolving the problem and looking to be a long term solution ??

thanks and hope you're enjoying your IMac Pro.

FYI after one full day of use, system worked well for about 12 hours. Then there was just hangups. Reloaded and selected do not open apps, it then immediately hung up again. Had to do a hard reset again to get it working.

I think this is related to MacOS, as I had similar issues with my old computer (high end iMac), which lead me to upgrade. In other words I think it’s just poor coding.

The sad part is I moved from Windows to Mac because of stability issues a long time ago. Mac was more stable until Steve Jobs died. I have seen a steady decline in the quality of their coding and products since then. I’d be surprised if MSFT would be better since they are a corporate for profit behemoth as well.

Could I get some feedback please ?

I've held off on doing the wipe and reinstall as my problem was rather minor. I'm wondering if the wipe and reinstall is looking like a long term fix or has the problem come back for anyone ?

Thanks for all the replies .

Ken

Thank you Olaf. I saw your other posts and was wondering if things are still good. Apple has advised me to do the full wipe and restore. Since my situation wasn't as bad as other have reported, I've held off. This is the first I've heard about iStat Pro. I also have that on my machine. What type of problems have you found with it ? I have not noticed any yet ...

thanks

Ken

Ken: With iStatPro my iMac Pro powered off "by itself" or keyboard and/or trackpad freezed.

One crazy thing: Up to the last update some days ago it took up to 5-10 seconds up to I was able to key in my passwort after choosing the account. That's now gone.

Olaf

I think many of us (including me) did. I'm surprised it took so much time to be "known to the engineering team". I wish I knew someone in that team to bypass all that support bureaucracy. Apple Agility is close to ZERO.

I'm not doing the wipe and reinstall thing, too much time consuming. If it's software, then they can investigate and fix it !

It's my take from many calls with Apple, and also having worked at Apple is that don't get real serious about things unless they get support calls. Communities forums are good for us community dwellers but there is nothing like yelling at a support tech on the phone about a $12K machine that is ******* up.

Does anyone have any evidence that the crypto_val issue actually caused problems ? Asking because I'm dreading the reinstall.. Don't have many issues, and they may not even be related to the crypto_val ? ?

That’s good to know. Out of interest, did the reinstall sort out the screen brightness glitch too (ie after a full reboot, does the screen brightness reset itself to c90% ?)

I’d be tempted to pull the trigger on a reinstall if refreshing the OS sorts this out also.

I’ve never used Time Machine - does this back up all additional 3rd party software, plugins etc too? Reinstalling all of that, passwords, settings, licence servers etc, is what puts me off. Took me nearly three days to manually migrate from my 2012 iMac!

Thanks. Do you know what's lost in the process ? I mean if the migration is different from a restore, there might also be some stuff which is not put back on the new installation ? I might follow that process but I still need some peace of mind.

Side note : when you do the reinstall, the OS is downloaded I presume, therefore if you have a slow internet, will take some more hours.

UPDATE: Yesterday afternoon, when I got home I notice the iMac Pro had rebooted itself. I got the Kernel Panic message again after a system generated reboot. Which is quite irritating. Leads me to believe that there is more to this story than Apple is letting on too. I have not changed any of the applications that I was previously running on a Mac Pro, and I never once got this.

When I ran first aid in the disk utility menu, I DID NOT however get the "Warning: Crypto..." message.

Anybody else out there get a Kernel Panic after a full erase and reinstall?

Yes I was quite disappointed with the Apple senior support person too. When I tried to explain it to him, the issues, he had never heard of this before and had to look up what to do. He was worthless. When I realized I knew a lot more about Macs than he did, the call was over.

Glad your reinstall went well.