I have an older M-Audio Firewire audio interface that I use with my Mid 2011 Mac Mini. It's running OS X El Capitan 10.11.6. M-Audio never made drivers for this version of OS X, so I have to disable "System Integrity Protection" for the audio interface to work. I do this by booting to recovery > Terminal: csrutil disable
then rebooting normally.
However, I have an issue where I cannot logout, restart or shutdown "cleanly." What I typically do is run the sudo restart now
command to reboot, or sudo pkill loginwindow
to log out. EDIT: What I mean here is OS X (El Cap) is getting "stuck" (just hanging indefinitely) when I try to either a.)logout b.)restart or c.)shutdown. It just does not work, so I use terminal commands to force it, but I want to stop having to do this.
Could this issue be related to disabling SIP? EDIT: I have disabled SIP, no change. They are not related.
hangs
it is usually because one or more specific processes are at fault. Could you check the output ofps aux
in terminal if there might be any processes take a large amount of CPU or MEM usage?ps aux
output for any M-audio related processes (you could useps aux | grep -i whatyouarelookingfor
to ease your search). Kill these processes and execute a regular reboot. Did that help? It might be macOS gets stuck on trying to close these processes if they aren't actually compatible anymore..