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Last active June 20, 2024 09:45
OSX Install Dates

Various Versions of macOS/OSX will fail on install for various reasons. You can fix them by disconnecting from your wifi or network or resetting your NVRAM. Booting from your USB stick, opening terminal and doing: date ########## where the # nubers are below. Format is: MMDDhhmmYY

10.16 - 0.5 Leopard   - date 0101010121 <- Currently not needed
10.15 - Catalina      - date 0101010120 <- Currently not needed
10.14 - Mojave        - date 0101010119 <- Currently not needed
10.13 - High Sierra   - date 0101010118

10.12 - Sierra - date 0101010117

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nmilford / gist:5698431
Created June 3, 2013 14:13
Chef run failures on Encoding::InvalidByteSequenceError: "\xC3" on US-ASCII
Encoding::InvalidByteSequenceError: "\xC3" on US-ASCII
/opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-10.18.2/lib/chef/node.rb:502:in `encode'
/opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-10.18.2/lib/chef/node.rb:502:in `to_json'
/opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-10.18.2/lib/chef/node.rb:502:in `to_json'
/opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-10.18.2/lib/chef/node.rb:502:in `to_json'
/opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-10.18.2/lib/chef/node.rb:502:in `to_json'
/opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-10.18.2/lib/chef/node.rb:502:in `to_json'
/opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-10.18.2/lib/chef/node.rb:502:in `to_json'
/opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-10.18.2/lib/chef/json_compat.rb:45:in `to_json'
/opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-10.18.2/lib/chef/rest.rb:245:in `api_request'