360controller: Macbook air fails boot after 1.0.0-alpha.2

[Zhorack]

Type of Controller

Xbox 360 wired

OS Version

maybe 10.11.6

Driver Version

1.0.0-alpha.2

Connection Method

Wired

Device Name and Info

MacBook Air 3-4 years old.

Response of Controller

N/A

Response in Preference Pane

N/A

Detailed Explaination of Issue

What i did:
I installed the following driver: https://github.com/360Controller/360Controller/releases/tag/v1.0.0-alpha.2
And restarted.

Result:
The Macbook air boots, sounds the boot sound, shows the Apple logo with loading bar. The bar loads to about 60% then stops and stays. I waited for 20 minutes and then turned it off.

What I tried:
1 safe mode boot. Result: It boots and the bar that earlier went to 60% now goes to what looks like 100% and stays there. I turned off again after 20 minutes.
2 i did hardware test boot by pressing "D" key. Result: It returned only that the battery is getting older.
3 i did "command + option + R + P" keys boot to clear PRAM. Result: screen flashed and rebooted and issue is still there.

I have not tried "V" key boot.

[PokeCaptain]

Try booting up in Verbose Mode by holding CMD+V at boot. It won’t fix it, but the output may prove useful

[FranticRain]

If you just hold Command + R, you'll get back in to the "Recovery Partition." First, when you get into the recovery partition, open up the disk utility, and find the drive that contains your operating system and files. In most cases, it's Macintosh HD. Click on that disk, and in the top bar, press the "Mount" button. It should prompt you for a password so it can unlock the disk. If you don't remember what it is, it probably is the same as your user login password. Now your disk is mounted.

Now open up the terminal. You need to cd into /Volumes/Macintosh HD/Library/Extensions. Don't forget to swap Macintosh HD with your disk name, if it is different. If you run ls in the directory, it will show you all of the installed extensions.

Delete these by running these commands:

rm -rf 360Controller.kext Wireless360Controller.kext WirelessGamingReceiver.kext

You may also need to delete the preference pane located in /Volumes/Macintosh HD/Library/PreferencePanes. It is called Pref360Control.prefPane. If you were to cd to that directory, you would run this command:

rm -rf Pref360Control.prefPane

Here's all of those steps again in a single line: Make sure to replace Macintosh HD with the name of your hard drive if it is different.

rm -rf "/Volumes/Macintosh HD/Library/Extensions/360Controller.kext" \
"/Volumes/Macintosh HD/Library/Extensions/WirelessGamingReceiver.kext" \
"/Volumes/Macintosh HD/Library/Extensions/Wireless360Controller.kext" \
"/Volumes/Macintosh HD/Library/PreferencePanes/Pref360Control.prefPane"

This was probably caused by some sort of incompatibility with the version I built and 10.11. This should remove all traces of the driver from your system. Let me know if this isn't clear or if you need some more help.

[J-Zeitler]

Had this issue as well with the following system:

After driver installation I was prompted for a reboot, rebooted and had the same ~20min loading bar (mine eventually went up to 100%) but did not ever get into the OS.

Can confirm that removing the driver as suggested by @FranticRain above does indeed solve this problem and I'm able to boot as normal again

[Zhorack]

I am a newbie at navigating the recovery partition. I tried the commands and got the response "sudo: command not found". What beginner mistake am I making?
Thank you!

[FranticRain]

@Zhorack I forget if you are root or not in the recovery partition. Try running the commands without sudo and see what happens.

[FranticRain]

@J-Zeitler Just to confirm, did you have this issue with the alpha version or the old version? If that's happening in the alpha version with 10.14, that's very disappointing to hear.

[Zhorack]

@FranticRain it worked! Thanks alot! Now, do you believe any version will work for my macbook air?

[FranticRain]

@Zhorack Stable 0.16.x versions should work. But I'm also going to release a 1.0.0alpha-3 soon that should work on your system. I'd appreciate it if you could give it a shot. I'll leave this open until we can confirm that alpha-3 fixes this issue.

[FranticRain]

@Zhorack And alpha-3 is now out. Please give it a shot and let me know if it fixes this issue.

[J-Zeitler]

@FranticRain I only tried the alpha2, this one: https://github.com/360Controller/360Controller/releases/tag/v1.0.0-alpha.2

then reverted to 0.16.11 which seems to work for my use case. Btw, real props for the deadzone adjustment feature. Makes my old crappy controller with half-broken thumsticks work!

[FranticRain]

@J-Zeitler That's unfortunate. I had hoped that 1.0.0 would have fixed that issue. Now I have no idea what the cause of this hang on boot is...

[J-Zeitler]

Saw that you released an alpha3. Could try that one as well, may not have time until the weekend again though. In the meantime, let me know what system checks to run if I get that same behavior again. Perhaps i could provide some logdumps on what the OS tries to do when trying to boot/load the driver

[FranticRain]

alpha-3 shouldn't solve your problems, but you're more than welcome to give it a shot. If you want to try and find out why it's broken, holding down Command + V during boot will give you verbose output during boot. Theoretically it will hang on a line and that will be a clue as to what has gone wrong.

[FranticRain]

Closing this down since the original poster's issue has been resolved.