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Comment by saagarjha | Hacker News Reader

I have SIP disabled and Chrome installed…will my /var be broken by sometime tomorrow when Keystone runs? Can I just disable the launch agent to fix this?

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We have stopped pushing the affected version of Keystone, so if your computer has not been broken yet, it won't be.

If it has been broken but not rebooted:

  sudo rm -rf /Library/Google/GoogleSoftwareUpdate/GoogleSoftwareUpdate.bundle
  sudo ln /private/var /var

should fix it. That deletes Keystone and fixes the symlink. If it has been rebooted, these commands at a recovery console should repair the computer.

Chrome will subsequently ask for admin credentials to reinstall the updater next time you run it. This will not re-break the computer; the version of Keystone bundled with Chrome is older, and we have stopped serving the version affected by this issue.

Please don't run that command as stated. It deletes /var (because HN merged adjacent lines)

Edit: It has since been fixed.

I won't, don't worry ;) That code should probably be indented two spaces, like this:

  sudo rm -rf /Library/Google/GoogleSoftwareUpdate/GoogleSoftwareUpdate.bundle
  sudo ln /private/var /var

yikes! thanks, fixed.

I see a pattern here...

I doubt Hacker News automatically merging 2 lines into 1 line was the cause of the original bug.

You don't run your code through HN as a post-commit hook?

yikes! thanks, fixed.

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