[NANOG] Re: Apple-centric reboot event in Southern California

[Jay Hennigan via NANOG <nanog () lists nanog org>]

On 3/13/25 11:45, Mel Beckman via NANOG wrote:
> I am in Ventura county, California, and just now at 11:30AM PT we had an iPhone, an iPad, and an iMac all crash 
> simultaneously. The Ethernet-connected iMac had a black screen of death, and the iOS devices were on WiFi and had to be 
> power cycled. These would seem to have to have been network-initiated events, and the iPad when it came back online 
> said “Your device has been updated to 18.3.2”. The iPhone 16Pro, was updated to 18.3.2. yesterday and displayed no 
> unusual message upon power-on. The iMac is an older model Retina 5K 27” from 2014 running MacOS 10.11.6.

I had something similar happen to an Intel Macbook Pro. Yesterday 
evening I got a pop-up that there was an update available, and was given 
the option to "Try later tonight", which I accepted.

When I opened the laptop this morning it immediately went through the 
update process, multiple screens with Apple logos and progress bars, 
taking a good six minutes to boot. It is now running MacOS Sierra 15.3.2 
and seems to be functioning OK, but I wouldn't be surprised to find some 
things broken like custom SSH settings, etc. that Apple seems to like to 
mess with during upgrades.

This seemed to be a regular software update except that it waited until 
I opened the lid this morning rather than happening in the middle of the 
night.

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Jay Hennigan - jay () west net
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