If running Antares on Mac, Mojave or later, read this
Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2022 12:00 am
As I've mentioned in a few posts, I'm in the middle of Apple Support Hell. Long story short, after updating to Monterey 12.2, something has been hanging up my system, I can't get Apple to run a start-up trace to find the culprit and they're talking about replacing hardware…
While going through every plug, license, app etc. making sure I was up to date, I found the culprit. Antares is using a run time from WIBU Systems called CodeMeter. The version I had loaded a kext that was causing too many problems to count. I saw the following and wondered.
https://www.wibu.com/us/support/user/do ... tware.html
My Mac now boots in seconds again, Option Boot works again, I can get back into the Recovery partition, boot from an external… yea, my Mac was having major problems.
I don't know if any company is using this other than Antares. Since I've not used Autotune in a few years, thinking of yanking it out of my system altogether.
Now to have another talk with Apple Support…
While going through every plug, license, app etc. making sure I was up to date, I found the culprit. Antares is using a run time from WIBU Systems called CodeMeter. The version I had loaded a kext that was causing too many problems to count. I saw the following and wondered.
Huh? Anyway, I downloaded and installed version 7.40 21-12-2021 and rebooted.CodeMeter Runtime no longer contains a Kernel Extension (kext).
https://www.wibu.com/us/support/user/do ... tware.html
My Mac now boots in seconds again, Option Boot works again, I can get back into the Recovery partition, boot from an external… yea, my Mac was having major problems.
I don't know if any company is using this other than Antares. Since I've not used Autotune in a few years, thinking of yanking it out of my system altogether.
Now to have another talk with Apple Support…