“No Bag Entry” when trying to reinstall Sierra
Was given a MacBook Air (2013) secondhand, with one stipulation being that I delete the previous owner’s info and items off of the Macbook before I started using it. Did that to Apple’s specifications on their website, but whenever it boots into Recovery Mode and I click on reinstall Sierra, I get a «no bag entry» error after clicking go on the MacOS Sierra screen.
I’m at my wits end, and this is basically my last option before I call it quits. Can anyone guide me?
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Make sure you’re connected to internet before you enter the re-install flow. The machine needs to talk to Apple’s servers to verify the license, that’s why this error comes up.
My suggestion is to create a bootable flash drive with the macOS Sierra installer on it.
- Boot from the flash drive.
- Erase the internal harddisk.
- Reinstall macOS Sierra.
Preparation:
- Download macOS Sierra Installer from the Mac App Store. Once the download completes, it will automatically launch. Quit macOS Sierra Installer app without performing the installation.
- Take a 16GB or larger USB flash drive to create a bootable Sierra installer. This flash drive is only needed for a clean install on your Mac’s startup drive.
How to create a bootable flash drive:
First, make sure your USB flash drive is formatted and named as “Untitled”.
- To format a USB drive launch Disk Utility (Finder -> /Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility).
- Select your USB drive under External.
- Click the Erase tab at the top of the Disk Utility window. Select Mac OS Extended (Journaled) from the format list. Then, click the Erase button. When the process is complete, click Done, and close the Disk Utility window.
- If your drive is named something else, you need to rename it (Open Finder -> right click on the USB drive and choose Rename).
Now, your USB flash drive is ready.
Launch Terminal (Finder/Applications/Utilities/Terminal)
Enter the following text into Terminal. It may be best to just copy it from here (try triple-clicking) and paste it in.
sudo /Applications/Install\ macOS\ Sierra.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia —volume /Volumes/Untitled —applicationpath /Applications/Install\ macOS\ Sierra.app —nointeraction
Terminal will ask you for an admin password (the one you use to log in). It won’t display characters when you type, so just do it. Hit Return. You’ll see that Terminal erases your drive. Then, Terminal will copy the installer file to your disk. This will take a few minutes. When the process is complete, the Terminal window will report «Done.» You can quit Terminal and your bootable macOS Sierra installer USB drive is ready for use.
- Plug in the bootable macOS Sierra installer USB drive to your Mac.
- Restart your Mac while holding the Option key or Cmd+R. Make sure to keep it pressed!
- When Mac restarts, you’ll see the macOS Startup Manager with a list of bootable devices that your Mac can start up from.
- Use the arrow keys to choose your USB drive with macOS Sierra installer. Press Enter.
- Select Disk Utility.
- In the window, at the top of the left bar, select your Mac’s Main Drive (it looks like a MacintoshHD).
- Select the Erase tab located next to the First Aid button at the top.
- Near the center of the window, select the Format drop-down list and select Mac OS X Extended (Journaled) type.
- Click Erase (Note: this will erase all your data from your main drive!) and give the drive some time to format.
- When it’s done, close Disk Utility and select “Install macOS” from the menu.
- Select your main drive and install the new macOS Sierra 10.12.
Question: Q: «No bag entry» error when trying to restore MacBook to factory settings.
In a nutshell, I have purchased a new MacBook, and I am selling my old one (2013 retina model). It is on the latest macOS Sierra. Naturally, I would like to restore it to factory settings before selling it to a stranger. However, I have encountered substantial difficulties in trying to restore it.
I ran through these steps:
- deauthorized the MacBook on iTunes;
- signed out of iCloud in system preferences;
- turned off FileVault in system preferences;
- turned off the Mac, then turned on pressing Command-R;
- Disk Utility > I erased the drive;
Now, there is a very large problem. First of all my Mac won’t connect to Wi-Fi anymore. If the network is WPA/WPA2 Enterprise (which it is at school where I live), it cannot connect because I need username and password to connect, but the MacBook only asks for password, as if it only allowed for WPA2 Personal. In fact, it would connect to a regular old WPA2 Personal network. When connected to the local coffee shop free wifi, I tried to download a new copy of macOS Sierra, but after about 30 seconds of spinning wheel, I would get the «No bag entry» error, and the computer would return to the opening screen you get when booting with Command-R.
There is is. No explanation in the dialogue box, no indication as of what to do. Nothing but «No bag entry». I have no earthly clue what that means. bag? huh? I tried different wifi networks and no matter how strong or secure or whatever the networks were, the only thing that changed was the time it took the MacBook to give me this error. On strong connections it would take half a second. On weaker connections it took up to two minutes. It was a very frustrating problem. I resolved it by taking it to the IT office at school, but the man who repaired it made no comment. If anyone on here knows what this is, I would love to know, out of curiosity or for future reference, if anything else. I really appreciate it!
MacBook Pro with Retina display, macOS Sierra (10.12.3), 13 inch, 2013 model
Posted on Jul 2, 2017 2:59 PM
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How To Do A Factory Reset
Selection A should be used on computers that came with Lion or later when factory new. Selection B is for Macs that came originally with Snow Leopard or earlier.
B. Factory Reset Your Pre-Lion Mac
Follow these instructions until you get to Step 5: Factory reset your Mac — Apple Support . At Step 5 you will need a Snow Leopard DVD or the installer disc that came with the computer.
- Boot the computer using the Snow Leopard Installer Disc or the Disc 1 that came with your computer. Insert the disc into the optical drive and restart the computer. After the chime press and hold down the «C» key. Release the key when you see a small spinning gear appear below the dark gray Apple logo.
- After the installer loads select your language and click on the Continue button. When the menu bar appears select Disk Utility from the Utilities’ menu. After Disk Utility loads select the hard drive entry from the left side list (un-dented entry — mfgr.’s ID and drive size.) Click on the Partition tab in the Disk Utility main window. Set the number of partitions to one (1) from the Partitions drop down menu, click on Options button and select GUID, click on OK, then set the format type to MacOS Extended (Journaled), then click on the Apply button.
- When the formatting has finished quit Disk Utility. Proceed with the OS X installation and follow the directions included with the installer.
- If you are planning to sell or give your computer away, then do the following: After you reformat your hard drive and reinstall OS X, the computer restarts to a Welcome screen and asks you to choose a country or region. If you want to leave the Mac in an out-of-box state, don’t continue with the setup of your system. Instead, press Command-Q to shut down the Mac. When the new owner turns on the Mac, the Setup Assistant will guide them through the setup process.
Question: Q: what does no bag entry mean when resting a macbook
Posted on Sep 21, 2017 3:45 PM
Posted on Sep 22, 2017 7:38 AM
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Really it could be as easy as you’re not connected to the internet. Once WiFi is turned on, open the network utility and click on apple support which will allow you to pull up a web browser. Then it’ll prompt you for your WiFi password in order to connect to the internet. Once connected, back out and go back to Mac OS reinstall. It shouldn’t show the no bag error any more. Worked for me, hope this helps.
Oct 25, 2017 1:17 PM
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Writing an effective Apple Support Communities question — https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-5931
Sep 21, 2017 3:46 PM
Sep 22, 2017 7:38 AM
Really it could be as easy as you’re not connected to the internet. Once WiFi is turned on, open the network utility and click on apple support which will allow you to pull up a web browser. Then it’ll prompt you for your WiFi password in order to connect to the internet. Once connected, back out and go back to Mac OS reinstall. It shouldn’t show the no bag error any more. Worked for me, hope this helps.
Oct 25, 2017 1:17 PM
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No bag entry — Cocoa
I am working on a app written in Swift for Mac . I am using XCode 6.4 on OSX 10.10.4
I recently noticed some weird messages regarding in app purchases.
Initially when I run the app the method request:didFailWithError of SKProductsRequestDelegate is invoked as seen below
This code snippet prints Failed: No bag entry
Further, to solve this I cleaned the project to remove the old binary. When I try to execute the newly build binary from finder it says
After clicking on Sign In nothing happens.
Questions
- What exactly is No bag Entry ?
- Why is the alert (present in image) saying that I have already purchased the app, although I am testing in App Store Sandbox ?
The reason I am executing the App from Finder(outside Xcode) is that Mac applications are required to be executed outside Xcode for first time, so that it can fetch the Receipt from Apple Server
Mac App store is kept logged out through the entire process
This error popped up with out any reason. I am pretty much sure that something has to be done outside Xcode.
Update
Apple has updated the Technical note TN2206 on July 27 and the change is titled
Cover changes to linking to dynamic libraries outside of an app bundle.
I have dynamically linked openssl library in my app, I guess it has something to do with it.
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I’ve seen the «No bag entry» error passed to my -request:didFailWithError: method in my SKProductsRequestDelegate twice so far whilst developing and testing my Mac app.
The full NSError I’ve seen is:
I don’t know what p2-product-offers is: this isn’t a string I’m using in my app.
From searching the web, it seems that ISErrorDomain is something to do with StoreKit.
Both times I’ve seen this, my Internet connection has been a bit flakey. My current guess is that this error means «the Internet connection dropped whilst StoreKit was retrieving the product information».