This is a bit weird. There's a new MacOS update available - Sequoia 15.1.1 - and I've downloaded it and I'm ready to install.
When I click on 'Update' it asks for my password. I type it in, but the dialog box shakes its head in the "Wrong Password" way. It *is* the right password. I can log in with it, I can change it using Settings > Touch ID& Password, but the Update dialog won't accept it.
On 20.11.24 09:45, Martin S Taylor wrote:
This is a bit weird. There's a new MacOS update available - Sequoia 15.1.1 -
and I've downloaded it and I'm ready to install.
That is done automatically by the internal updater.
Settings - General - Softwareupdate
The update can also be initiated there manually.
When I click on 'Update' it asks for my password. I type it in, but the dialog box shakes its head in the "Wrong Password" way. It *is* the right password. I can log in with it, I can change it using Settings > Touch ID& Password, but the Update dialog won't accept it.
On 20 Nov 2024, Jörg Lorenz wrote
(in article <vhkagc$e8hs$1@solani.org>):
On 20.11.24 09:45, Martin S Taylor wrote:
This is a bit weird. There's a new MacOS update available - Sequoia 15.1.1 -
and I've downloaded it and I'm ready to install.
That is done automatically by the internal updater.
Settings - General - Softwareupdate
The update can also be initiated there manually.
Not on my machine it can't – that was the point of my post. Read the next paragraph.
MST
When I click on 'Update' it asks for my password. I type it in, but the
dialog box shakes its head in the "Wrong Password" way. It *is* the right >>> password. I can log in with it, I can change it using Settings > Touch ID& >>> Password, but the Update dialog won't accept it.
If I boot from another partition (which does have Sequoia 15.1.1) I then try to change the Startup Disk to my preferred one. I get a message which says something to the effect of "You can change to this startup disk if you really want to, but there no users have authorised accounts, so you won't be able to update the system."
This is a bit weird. There's a new MacOS update available - Sequoia 15.1.1 - and I've downloaded it and I'm ready to install.
When I click on 'Update' it asks for my password. I type it in, but the dialog box shakes its head in the "Wrong Password" way. It *is* the right password. I can log in with it, I can change it using Settings > Touch ID& Password, but the Update dialog won't accept it.
It's not asking for your Apple ID password is it? I find MacOS is desperate to have an Apple ID login even when I don't use Apple services, and I've had to enter an Apple ID login to download updates in the past.
If I boot from another partition (which does have Sequoia 15.1.1) I then try
to change the Startup Disk to my preferred one. I get a message which says something to the effect of "You can change to this startup disk if you really
want to, but there no users have authorised accounts, so you won't be able to
update the system."
A bit of a sledgehammer job but if you start up your 15.1.1 volume in recovery mode you should in theory be able to re-install its macOS version
to another volume.
"there are no authorised users on this volume, so you won't be able to update the system". But until there's a new update, this is not causing me any hardship at all.
Except... I still get the message that
"there are no authorised users on this volume, so you won't be able to update
the system". But until there's a new update, this is not causing me any hardship at all.
This may be a supid question, but:
Can you log into this volume?
If so, can you create a new authorised user on it? Either by logging
in, or by using a different OS?
| Sysop: | Keyop |
|---|---|
| Location: | Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, UK |
| Users: | 546 |
| Nodes: | 16 (2 / 14) |
| Uptime: | 00:51:56 |
| Calls: | 10,385 |
| Calls today: | 2 |
| Files: | 14,057 |
| Messages: | 6,416,573 |