This post is part cautionary tale and part asking for advice. About a week ago I had issues with OCLP when I updated from Monterey to Sonoma. They were resolved when I was able to install patches. Until today, my laptop went black, and my laptop was back to where it was a week ago: prompting for a password, sluggishly opening my desktop, then returning back to the lock screen. A login loop.
I assumed this issue was the same as last time so I reverted the patches and went to reinstall them, but this time I noticed the error message said, "An update is in progress on your machine and patching cannot continue until it is cancelled or finished."
I went into safe mode and checked my settings, and auto-updates were enabled, presumably by default after I updated to Sonoma. I turned it off but was still stuck in the login loop when exiting safe mode. The fix for this is explained really well in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbMYXwUmmfw
Unfortunately, I saw this video too late. Now my Mac is queued up for an update that I can't accept because I can only access it in safe mode, but safe mode without the OCLP patches cannot connect to wifi and so cannot run an update. I think I'll have to wipe my drive because I can't see any way to fix this (besides maybe getting an ethernet cable but if my laptop won't connect to a phone hotspot through USB then I doubt another cable will work). If anyone has any suggestions, I'd appreciate them.
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