On 29 May 2020, at 4:47, Franco Vaccari wrote:
I would try other options before reinstalling the system, who knows,
reinstalling the developer tools, restarting with shift to clean
caches, reinstalling the security update, but ok, maybe reinstalling
everything from backup may be the easiest…
Let us know how it went…
Just to summarize the (apparent) solution for the list:
It looks like Security Update 2020-003 changed the "taskgated" plist
file
/System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.taskgated.plist
It added a single line with a new "-sp" switch:
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whdmac:~ root# diff -rC 3
/System/Library/LaunchDaemons/*com.apple.taskgated.plist*
***
/System/Library/LaunchDaemons/DO_NOT_USE_com.apple.taskgated.plist_BAD 2020-04-16
21:28:38.000000000 -0700
--- /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.taskgated.plist 2019-04-14
18:58:56.000000000 -0700
***************
*** 19,25 ****
<key>ProgramArguments</key>
<array>
<string>/usr/libexec/taskgated</string>
- <string>-sp</string>
</array>
</dict>
</plist>
--- 19,24 ----
--
The trouble is, "taskgated" does not seem to support "-sp":
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whdmac:/ root# /usr/libexec/taskgated -sp
taskgated: invalid option -- s
Usage: taskgated [-ps] [-t seconds] [-i pid]
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So, I don't understand why Apple added this switch.
I also don't understand why everyone who installed this Security Update
has not also been affected by this?!?
Anyway, I removed the "-sp" line, rebooted, and now everything works
again - "taskgated" is running and isn't exiting anymore, my Postgres
server is running happily, and my MacPorts binaries are running without
wedging.
Apologies for the slightly off-topic thread ...
- Greg
