Processes getting wedged in "U" (uninterruptible wait) state after Security Update 2020-003

[Franco Vaccari]

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…

Franco



> On 29 May 2020, at 12:09, Greg Earle <earle at isolar.DynDNS.ORG> wrote:
> 
> On 28 May 2020, at 17:56, Franco Vaccari wrote:
> 
>> Since I’ve SIP enabled and no problems, maybe give it a try and enable it… Who knows…
>> 
>> And if you use Console app, you can filter by process name or PID to (maybe) find the messages related to your troubles
> 
> Update:
> 
> I've found a post on a Hackintosh site that describes the issue exactly:
> 
> https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/solved-taskgated-service-exited-with-abnormal-code-2.263859/
> 
> Every 10 seconds I was getting these error messages in "/var/log/system.log":
> 
> May 29 02:49:05 whdmac com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.taskgated[394]): Service exited with abnormal code: 2
> May 29 02:49:05 whdmac com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.taskgated): Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.
> 
> I took the poster's advice and unloaded the 2 "taskgated" LaunchDaemons and now my MacPorts binaries are working again.  I have no idea why Security Update 2020-003 broke this particular Mac's "taskgated" but like the poster it looks like I'll probably have to re-install Mojave to try and fix it.
> 
> Thanks to Franco Vaccari and Prokash Sinha for their kind responses.
> 
> 	- Greg