Sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that—macOS 14.4 deems us unfit to kickstart

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2 years ago

Anyone who's been working with macOS (OS X) for a while is probably familiar with the Terminal command to control launchd Agents and Daemons (launchctl).

I was saddened after installing macOS Sonoma 14.4 that it's apparently been decided that users are unqualified to control these daemons.

A simple example: to fix all sorts of random audio issues, it used to be possible to restart coreaudiod with:

    sudo launchctl kickstart -kp system/com.apple.audio.coreaudiod

But that command now returns:

    Could not kickstart service "com.apple.audio.coreaudiod": 1: Operation not permitted

I've reported this to Apple via FB13601345. So far I've not received any response.

[0] https://gist.github.com/felipecsl/5177790

[1] https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/187983/sudo-killall-coreaudiod-made-it-so-i-dont-have-any-sound-at-all

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