"An unknown error has occurred " app store login problem solution hackintosh

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After upgrading my hackintosh installation to mountain lion 10.8.2 .. i start facing weird problem and that was whenever i tried to login to apple my apple account . iTunes and iCloud worked well but App Store its start throwing "An unknown error has occurred " .
Previously I faced other problem , and it was solved it with inserting " PCIRootID = 1 " in my boot plist
but this problem was not that simple .. after searching and looking at logs .. if found a perfectly working solution

Problem Looks Like This :

apple app store login problem


Steps to solve this problem : 

Before Doing Anything Make sure you have " en0 " as your primary interface 
1 :  download EFI studio and chameleon wizard 
2 :  Open EFI studio
3: click on Select Device and from drop-down choose Ethernet  and Click Add Device 


4: copy HexString to clipboard


5: manually add device properties in org.chameleon.Boot.plist or use chameleon wizard app

6 : paste and click save

7 :  updated chameleon boot plist will look like this 




8: Repair Permissions and reboot 



have fun
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7 comments:

  1. Carlos OrnellaOctober 20, 2012 at 8:36 PM

    THANK YOU SIR!!!


    +10,000


    HOURS WASTED IN THIS ERROR


    THANK YOU ROOOOK!

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  2. Flávio Oliveira E SantosOctober 26, 2012 at 3:42 AM

    after I do that my lion dont boot... what I need to do to fix it?

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  3. Alok YadavOctober 26, 2012 at 2:38 PM

    try to boot with



    -x

    if it don't work
    insert mountain lion usb and open termianl from utilities and edit org.chameleon.Boot.Plist

    and remove that string and key

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  4. slvrmoontigerOctober 30, 2012 at 6:11 AM

    I've got this problem in Snow Leopard I downloaded EFI Studio selected Ethernet and clicked Add Device and it says device not found on this machine.

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  5. Alok YadavOctober 30, 2012 at 8:11 AM

    use io registry explorer
    to find out more about your hardware

    ReplyDelete
  6. mikeNovember 5, 2012 at 8:56 AM

    mine longer booted as well. was able to get it back using the mtn lion install usb and deleted the lines through vim in terminal. is there followup method?

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  7. jakeNovember 14, 2012 at 5:14 AM

    Works like a charm. Thank you!

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