yikes. having written aax plugins for a while, i have to say, i’m kind of surprised this came from AVID. from what it sounds like (having scraped the surface), it’s not their editing software (Pro Tools, et al.) but their copy protection management tool/device driver - iLok.<p>i’m sure there are some very anxious engineers in the AVID offices today.
This is what Avid sends you after creating an account:<p>Your iLok account allows you to:<p><pre><code> - Use the free iLok License Manager application to manage your licenses
- Take advantage of Zero Downtime and Theft & Loss Coverage premium services to help protect your investment
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<i>Take advantage of Zero Downtime</i> I never understand what they mean with this, but now it definitely lost all its meaning.
rule 1 of hollywood tech support:<p>Always take what the editor says with a massive pinch of salt.<p>I spent ten years in the movie industry, and the people that were the most forthright, and almost universally wrong about technical things were editors.<p>"The monitor is out of grade" No, you've set the background lights to red.<p>"The sound is out of sync" No, you've turned off the amp and somehow managed to get the crappy test tv to play sound<p>"the hardrive is corrupt" no, its clearly asking you to update OSX<p>my personal favorite:<p>"my station is slow" No, what you appear to be doing is copying 135 TBs of data from one share to another.
Someone on Reddit posted some more details.<p>Apparently it's iLok removing the /var directory.<p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/d8nxhk/mysterious_avid_issue_knocks_out_mac_pro/f1bnun2/" rel="nofollow">https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/d8nxhk/mysterious_av...</a>
This site says Chrome Updater is the cause of the problem: <a href="https://mrmacintosh.com/google-chrome-keystone-is-modifying-var-symlink-on-non-sip-macs-causing-boot-issues/" rel="nofollow">https://mrmacintosh.com/google-chrome-keystone-is-modifying-...</a><p>It only happens on Macs with SIP disabled, which includes a lot of Mac Pros with Avid (for third-party video card support)
Sounds like the case when EvE Online removed some Windows boot files: <a href="https://www.eveonline.com/article/about-the-boot.ini-issue" rel="nofollow">https://www.eveonline.com/article/about-the-boot.ini-issue</a>
Oh man I’d hate to be on the receiving end of this shit storm. There’s a film called swimming with sharks [1] that perfectly illustrates the wrath of producers<p>[1] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swimming_with_Sharks" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swimming_with_Sharks</a>
Is this really an issue localised to LA? I've worked for companies equipped with Avid suites that were (at least in geographic terms) as far away as you can get from LA.
The use of 'trashcan' to refer to the MacPro by multiple users in the link is pretty amusing.<p>> Has anyone had their trashcans go down today out of nowhere?
>Film and TV editors across Los Angeles were sweating Monday evening as their workstations were refusing to reboot<p>The irony of something refusing to reboot in Hollywood. Hopefully the production of Star Wars 12, Rambo 8 and Terminator 9 has not been too disrupted.