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Got a recent Mac and Boot Camp? You’ll need unofficial drivers.

(Or: The sad state of Apple’s Boot Camp support)

If you use Boot Camp with the official AMD GPU drivers the Boot Camp assistant installs, you’ll notice that many recent games in Windows 10 will issue warnings about outdated AMD GPU drivers and/or will simply crash (e.g. after a couple of minutes, like Forza Horizon 4).

Apparently, the only remedy is installing unofficial AMD drivers from https://www.bootcampdrivers.com (kudos!). It worked fine for me ( Adrenalin 19.1.2 V3 on a 15 inch MBP late 2018 with an AMD Radeon Pro 560X) – the games stopped crashing – BUT apparently, installing unofficial drivers from the above web site happens to void your Apple Care warranty (read: You do it at your own risk).

This means that one has the choice to either void the warranty or stick with an unacceptably buggy Boot Camp installation. Really, Apple?

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Zimbra Desktop Update to 7.2.5 on Mac OS X Mavericks

When Updating Zimbra Desktop (documentation) to the latest version on Mac OS X 10.9.3 (Mavericks), the installation of the update fails. The hint how to work around this bug is quite subtle, well hidden in the Zimbra Desktop 7.2.5 release notes and even wrong and misleading, so here’s the corrected hint:

Issue # 88878: Unable to install Zimbra Desktop on OS X Mavericks machine.
Workaround: If launching Zimbra Desktop fails on an
OS X Mavericks machine, you can override your security
settings to open Zimbra Desktop:
1. In the Finder, locate the Zimbra Desktop .mpkg file. This
can likely be found in the Applications folder [wrong, see my notes below!].
2. Press the Control-key and click the file.
3. Choose Open from the pop-up menu.
4. Click Open.

Important hint: The ‘Zimbra Desktop.mpkg’ file is NOT located in the Applications folder though, but in a mounted ‘update.dmg’ image, named “Zimbra Desktop Installer” (its icon is probably shown on your desktop), and only as long as the warning dialog is being displayed (do NOT close it before running ‘Zimbra Desktop.mpkg’!). Further, auto-mounting of update.dmg only works the first time right after booting – otherwise, you either need to reboot your Mac or manually mount

/private/tmp/zdupdate/update.dmg

(e.g. by copying [optional] and double-clicking it).

Addendum: This update was obviously packaged in a rush and wasn’t tested well on Mac OS X Mavericks (I seriously hope that’s not a bad omen for the future support of ZD on Mac OS X!). For example, after updating ZD to 7.2.5 GA build 12038, I can’t compose new messages anymore as there’s the following Java error when clicking on the “New” button:

HTTP ERROR 500

Problem accessing /zimbra/public/launchNewWindow.jsp. Reason:

    PWC6033: Unable to compile class for JSP

PWC6199: Generated servlet error:
The type java.util.regex.Pattern cannot be resolved. It is indirectly referenced from required .class files

PWC6199: Generated servlet error:
The import java.util.regex.Pattern cannot be resolved

Caused by:

org.apache.jasper.JasperException: PWC6033: Unable to compile class for JSP

PWC6199: Generated servlet error:
The type java.util.regex.Pattern cannot be resolved. It is indirectly referenced from required .class files

PWC6199: Generated servlet error:
The import java.util.regex.Pattern cannot be resolved


	at org.apache.jasper.compiler.DefaultErrorHandler.javacError(DefaultErrorHandler.java:123)
	at org.apache.jasper.compiler.ErrorDispatcher.javacError(ErrorDispatcher.java:296)
	at org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.generateClass(Compiler.java:376)
	at org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.compile(Compiler.java:437)
	at org.apache.jasper.JspCompilationContext.compile(JspCompilationContext.java:608)
	at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:360)
	at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:486)
	at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:380)
	at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:814)
	at com.zimbra.webClient.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:64)
	at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHolder.handle(ServletHolder.java:511)
	at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1166)
	at com.zimbra.cs.servlet.SetHeaderFilter.doFilter(SetHeaderFilter.java:79)
	at com.zimbra.webClient.filters.SetHeaderFilter.doFilter(SetHeaderFilter.java:239)
	at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1157)
	at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.handle(ServletHandler.java:388)
	at org.mortbay.jetty.security.SecurityHandler.handle(SecurityHandler.java:218)
	at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.SessionHandler.handle(SessionHandler.java:182)
	at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.ContextHandler.handle(ContextHandler.java:765)
	at org.mortbay.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext.handle(WebAppContext.java:422)
	at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.ContextHandlerCollection.handle(ContextHandlerCollection.java:230)
	at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.HandlerCollection.handle(HandlerCollection.java:114)
	at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.HandlerWrapper.handle(HandlerWrapper.java:152)
	at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.rewrite.RewriteHandler.handle(RewriteHandler.java:230)
	at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.HandlerWrapper.handle(HandlerWrapper.java:152)
	at org.mortbay.jetty.Server.handle(Server.java:326)
	at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpConnection.handleRequest(HttpConnection.java:585)
	at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpConnection$RequestHandler.headerComplete(HttpConnection.java:971)
	at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpParser.parseNext(HttpParser.java:549)
	at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpParser.parseAvailable(HttpParser.java:212)
	at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpConnection.handle(HttpConnection.java:415)
	at org.mortbay.io.nio.SelectChannelEndPoint.run(SelectChannelEndPoint.java:429)
	at org.mortbay.thread.BoundedThreadPool$PoolThread.run(BoundedThreadPool.java:451)

Composing new messages on the ZCS web interface still works fine.