Path: csiph.com!news.swapon.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Jolly Roger Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: Encryption stalled at 40% Date: 29 Mar 2017 18:04:03 GMT Organization: People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates Lines: 39 Message-ID: References: X-Trace: individual.net VJa0KosPqCwyyP/RMm3UGgAtLiNC8OrNzpBpj/OihC0unk/tJH Cancel-Lock: sha1:sEeiJYctYZFF8SjFuLT84W8WN90= Mail-Copies-To: nobody User-Agent: slrn/1.0.1 (Darwin) Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.system:103225 On 2017-03-29, Lewis wrote: > In message Lewis wrote: >> In message Jolly Roger wrote: >>> On 2017-03-28, Lewis wrote: >>>> I recently updated a mac mini server to 10.12.3 and enabled File Vault >>>> on it. After progressing very slowly, it has been stuck at 40% for three >>>> days. > >>> Have you tried restarting the machine during those three days? > >> Several times, since it hit three days, yes. It is still stuck at 40% >> after the most recent reboot yesterday morning. > > Ran Disk First Aid from Recovery. Took many hours. Rebooted. > > Encryption is still stuck at 40% > > $ export loop=1; while true; do echo -n "minute $loop " | \ > diskutil cs list | grep "Conversion Progress"; sleep 60; \ > loop=$((loop_1)); sleep 60; done > > Minute 87 Conversion Progress: 40% > Minute 88 Conversion Progress: 40% > Minute 89 Conversion Progress: 40% > Minute 90 Conversion Progress: Failed > Minute 91 Conversion Progress: 40% > etc. > > I get the occasional "Failed" and mostly just 40%. Quite interesting. I've never seen FileVault fail. Any messages in the system log about it? -- E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my ravenous SPAM filter. I often ignore posts from Google. Use a real news client instead. JR