Chrome D ? Update That Addresses

Weve paused the release while we finalize a new update that addresses the problem.

At the time, the common denominator among impacted machines seemed to be the presence of Avid s Media Composer software.

Avids leadership updated users of its software throughout the day, advising them to back up their work and not to reboot their machines.

Today, Avid is confirming that the root cause for a reboot issue encountered by some of our customers has been identified and is unrelated to Avid and its creative tools, the company said in a statement, adding that it hadnt received any reports of data loss from its customers.

We owe our special thanks to Avids customer and user community for their typically strong show of support at this time, especially to those who welcomed our engineers into their studios to troubleshoot.

On computers that had Apples System Integrity Protection disabled, the update corrupted the computers file system, making it impossible to reboot.

System Integrity Protection is an Apple technology that is meant to ensure that malicious software doesnt corrupt core system files.

If you have not taken steps to disable System Integrity Protection and your computer is on OS X 10.9 or later, this issue cannot affect you, the forum post reads.

A possible connection to Chrome was first detailed on the Mr.

Macintosh blog Tuesday afternoon.

Chrome D ? Professional Editing Setups

One working theory is that the bug hit video editors the hardest because many of them had to disable System Integrity Protection in order to work with external audio and video devices that are common in professional editing setups.

On Monday, there had also been some suggestions that the hardware dongles used for licensing Avid may have played some role in the shut-downs.

The reason that so many machines were affected by a corrupted Chrome update can likely be attributed to those machines being connected to the internet something Hollywood security experts have long advised against.

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