I have a Mac Mini that I mostly use via ssh for various tasks. It has no screen or mouse attached, so a VO trap like this is perhaps more troublesome than usual.
The problem has persisted for half an hour or so by now, and the current load average does not appear to indicate any active update processes that might soon finish. I think it will be necessary for me to get these two popups properly closed before my Finder will appear. I'm afraid of using Command-Q to close the windowless Installer Progress in case that breaks this final installation sequence. I did try opening a GUI app via the "open -a" shell command, with the theory that then closing it might naturally land me in one of the popups. Sadly though, the app opened but without becoming available for focus and without saying or doing anything obvious; so I killed it from a shell. On Wed, Oct 27, 2021 at 06:10:32PM -0400, Jonathan C. Cohn wrote: sounds familiar, but I believe it goes away on its own. I didn't know you were a Mac user. Jonathan Sent from my iPhone > On Oct 27, 2021, at 6:04 PM, Doug Lee <[email protected]> wrote: > > Wondering if anyone else has seen this, and if anyone knows a way out. > > I upgraded to Monterey from Big Sur today. After the final system restart, I > landed in the following, seemingly impossible situation: > > Focus is in an Installer Progress thing for which VoiceOver says, "Installer > Progress has no windows." > > VO-N says there are no notifications available, which surprises me because of > the next item and because I am getting the regular little pings that > typically mean I have a pending notification. > > Typing VO-F1 twice brings up a two-item list. From this, I can see that I > have a System Dialogs item where VoiceOver is asking permission to use > BlueTooth, and a Setup Assistant item called Analitics. However, activating > either of these does not move focus or allow the VO cursor to navigate. VO > cursoring continues to say "Installer Progress has > no windows." > > Command-Tab dings and does nothing, VO-F2 twice says there are no windows, > and trying to move focus to VO or VO to mouse both fail with messages. > > Cursor tracking is enabled; I toggled that just to make sure. > > This funny inability to get into popups started in Big Sur for me, which is > why my subject line says "and possibly Big Sur." > > Ideas welcome. -- Doug Lee [email protected] http://www.dlee.org The very smart may feel they have nothing to learn from anyone; The very wise will find something to learn from everyone. (7/14/01) -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: [email protected] and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/macvisionaries/20211027221710.bctsqhyf62jviiso%40mini.home.
