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Big Sur bug prevents upgrades to the next version

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Re: Big Sur bug prevents upgrades to the next version

#31

Post by VonGuard »

kashura wrote: post #21

My 2017 MBP got bricked trying to update to 11.1. Shut down for reboot, and never came back up. None of the troubleshooting steps worked. Apple won't budge since it was out warranty and wants $725 to fix it. They literally told me that maybe I should consider getting a new one. Such a joke. Really stuck, tbh, as i'm not sure if I should just fix it or forget it and leave the macbook world.

Leave the Mac behind. Run with great speed in the other direction. Things are SOOOO much better without Apple hardware in my house.

Re: Big Sur bug prevents upgrades to the next version

#32

Post by kashura »

VonGuard wrote: post #31
kashura wrote: post #21

My 2017 MBP got bricked trying to update to 11.1. Shut down for reboot, and never came back up. None of the troubleshooting steps worked. Apple won't budge since it was out warranty and wants $725 to fix it. They literally told me that maybe I should consider getting a new one. Such a joke. Really stuck, tbh, as i'm not sure if I should just fix it or forget it and leave the macbook world.

Leave the Mac behind. Run with great speed in the other direction. Things are SOOOO much better without Apple hardware in my house.

Do you have a recommendation? Although I'm a rookie, I do like using Mac OS as a host, and running VMs for Linux. I am not a big fan of doing any kind of development within Windows.

Re: Big Sur bug prevents upgrades to the next version

#33

Post by bufferoverflow »

jaequery wrote: post #2

this is literally a developers worst nightmare ... i experienced this one time when we released an android app. the auto updater broke. so we had to phone the customers to uninstall the app and install a new app. now this was with less than 1,000 users. i can only imagine how this would be like for company like Apple.

Your development shouldn't depend on one PC. Code in git, DB in backups. You should be able to restore your dev state very quickly from scratch. You could even use Docker.

Re: Big Sur bug prevents upgrades to the next version

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Post by trianglem »

kashura wrote: post #21

My 2017 MBP got bricked trying to update to 11.1. Shut down for reboot, and never came back up. None of the troubleshooting steps worked. Apple won't budge since it was out warranty and wants $725 to fix it. They literally told me that maybe I should consider getting a new one. Such a joke. Really stuck, tbh, as i'm not sure if I should just fix it or forget it and leave the macbook world.

Strip it for parts and sell those? Not sure if there’s a market.

Re: Big Sur bug prevents upgrades to the next version

#35

Post by smolyeet »

VonGuard wrote: post #31
kashura wrote: post #21

My 2017 MBP got bricked trying to update to 11.1. Shut down for reboot, and never came back up. None of the troubleshooting steps worked. Apple won't budge since it was out warranty and wants $725 to fix it. They literally told me that maybe I should consider getting a new one. Such a joke. Really stuck, tbh, as i'm not sure if I should just fix it or forget it and leave the macbook world.

Leave the Mac behind. Run with great speed in the other direction. Things are SOOOO much better without Apple hardware in my house.

this idea doesn't really work if you actually like macOS/Apple products.

Re: Big Sur bug prevents upgrades to the next version

#36

Post by TobTobXX »

jmull wrote: post #16

> Unfortunately, it is a client-side issue affecting both 11.0.1 and 11.1 clients. So there’s not much Apple can do to provide a fix. Seems rather unlikely to be true.

I can't really interpret what "client side" means for a system update. What would be the "server side"?

This would make sense, if you set up remote code execution for apple servers, but I could not imagine something horrible like that.

Re: Big Sur bug prevents upgrades to the next version

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Post by floatingatoll »

kashura wrote: post #21

My 2017 MBP got bricked trying to update to 11.1. Shut down for reboot, and never came back up. None of the troubleshooting steps worked. Apple won't budge since it was out warranty and wants $725 to fix it. They literally told me that maybe I should consider getting a new one. Such a joke. Really stuck, tbh, as i'm not sure if I should just fix it or forget it and leave the macbook world.

If it has Touch ID or a T2 chip inside, try DFUing it?

Re: Big Sur bug prevents upgrades to the next version

#39

Post by jmull »

TobTobXX wrote: post #36
jmull wrote: post #16

> Unfortunately, it is a client-side issue affecting both 11.0.1 and 11.1 clients. So there’s not much Apple can do to provide a fix. Seems rather unlikely to be true.

I can't really interpret what "client side" means for a system update. What would be the "server side"? This would make sense, if you set up remote code execution for apple servers, but I could not imagine something horrible like that.

In this case, client means your mac running macOS — there will be a system update process running on your mac.

The server is the the apple server the update process talks to to figure out what to download (and then to download it).

(I haven’t looked at it but there are probably multiple mac processes, with their own set of relationships, and multiple Apple services involved, but for the purpose of this issue, you can think of the client side being anything running on your mac, and server side as anything running on an Apple server.)

Re: Big Sur bug prevents upgrades to the next version

#40

Post by DiabloD3 »

kashura wrote: post #27
zamalek wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Have you tried installing Linux on it? It's bricked already, worth trying to salvage.

It won't turn on at all. Completely dead.

I'm all for jumping on the Apple hatewaggon, but I wonder if it is completely dead, and it just happened to die while performing an OSX upgrade? Stranger things have happened.
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