Path: ...!news.mixmin.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail
From: Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.systems,uk.comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Updating macOS Ventura v13.6.9 to v13.7 got stuck when I was out.
 :/
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2024 13:07:24 -0700
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
Lines: 34
Message-ID: <vccnht$3m6mk$1@dont-email.me>
References: <DpWdnfLVZORFVHX7nZ2dnZfqn_idnZ2d@earthlink.com>
 <vcb24n$bc81$1@solani.org>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Injection-Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2024 22:07:25 +0200 (CEST)
Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="978edfb966b4523b498160fe0ca4c625";
	logging-data="3873492"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org";	posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+rYggk2Ysi4VGMl1RS3Bo4KfPaECVYgBE="
User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird
Cancel-Lock: sha1:SbMsZwAVxFRLbWRi4x81w8xr12U=
Content-Language: en-CA
In-Reply-To: <vcb24n$bc81$1@solani.org>
Bytes: 2635

On 2024-09-16 21:55, Jörg Lorenz wrote:
> On 17.09.24 02:14, Ant wrote:
>> Updating macOS Ventura v13.6.9 to v13.7 got stuck when I was out. :/
>> Basically, I told 13" Intel 2020 MBP's macOS to update its Safari and
>> macOS Ventura to v13.7 while I was out since it takes a while to
>> download, prepare, upgrade, and finish. I came home and MBP was
>> asleep. I thought it was done so I woke it up and the screen blinked
>> and showed me
>> https://matrix.zimage.com/_matrix/media/v3/download/ross154.net/ 
>> rJetbpwFfEkNGXPcPaJwxlmU/FullSizeRender.jpg
>> (photo). I waited for 15 minutes, and it was still there at the same
>> status. MBP wasn't even warm so it's not doing anything I think.
>> Usually, upgrades makes MBP warm/hot. :(
>>
>> So, I held the power button to force a shut off, booted back up, but
>> nothing. I tried again without power AC, monitor, and 3.5mm speaker
>> cable. Now, it worked. That scared me. I was able to boot up and log
>> into macOS Ventura v13.6.9.
>>
>> So, should I try again since I never had this issue before? :/ Thank you
>> for reading and hopefully answering soon. :)
> 
> Upgrade to 15.0 "Sequoia".
> What you are doing is utter nonsense to upgrade to a system out of support.


Why would it be "utter nonsense" to apply an upDATE to an OS?

Presumably, the most recent updates to Ventura are for bugs that Apple 
identified, rather than to add new features.

macOS Venture 13.7 was released YESTERDAY.

So why wouldn't you want that?