New versions of Sierra and High Sierra Security Update 2019-002

[carlo_anselmi]

New versions of Sierra and High Sierra Security Update 2019-002
For Sierra, now build 16G1918;
For High Sierra, now build 17G6030.

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[sshort]

On Friday I encountered a few users on Sierra that had a failed security update. A variety of SMC and PRAM resets were able to get the user logged back in, and I noticed this second security update. I'm wondering if the original was causing issues so they had to issue a new build. The second update applied successfully without issue.

Haven't seen any High Sierra or Mojave machines with the failed update, though.

[bainter]

Out of 12 Sierra Macs, mostly iMacs, updated to 16G1918, so far one had a curious issue where the user was able to login, but an error dialog displays:

Finder quit unexpectedly while using the Finder plug-in.

Choices are to Ignore or Report. Clicking either fails to dismiss the dialog. Finder operations are very slow, documents not seen and volumes are inaccessible. System log reveals repeating entries:

Apr 1 10:15:10 Mac HD com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.Finder): Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 1 seconds. Apr 1 10:15:11 Mac HD com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.Finder[3866]): Binary is improperly signed.

In the end, Internet Recovery of currently installed OS installation and upgrade to current version resolved the issue.

[KSchroeder]

We've had failure reports for this one on at least 3 machines (probably more that just haven't trickled their way to my team yet), one of them being my own test 2015MBP. I got the failure, rebooted once, got another failure "macOS could not be installed on your computer" and after a 3rd reboot it finally loaded normally. The update still shows as ready in AppStore.

Anyone with the issues have any 3rd party security tools running? We have a web proxy/DLP tool and a next-gen AV client that I'm suspect of...

[KSchroeder]

So it failed on my Mac, then after multiple reboots, I was able to get logged in again...now when I run softwareupdate --list --verbose --force I get nothing...anyone else seeing this?

[alexjdale]

After updating, my AD account was locked out. Hadn't had that happen after an update in quite a while. Something to keep in mind if a person can't log in after updating.

[LeeGibson]

I talked with Apple Enterprise this morning and they advised of a bug report that was issued today on their Radar (Bug Reporting) #49161314 regarding 2019-002.

[bpavlov]

You guys might be interested in this feature request: https://www.jamf.com/jamf-nation/feature-requests/7285/add-softwareupdate-restart-support
Fact is despite the oddities with the updates Apple is releasing, Jamf also has failed to update its Software Update policy payload.