10.13b2 Constantly Locking

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djchrisallen OP
Created Jun ’17
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I've had to force restart at least 30x today - this is insane.


10.13b1 was really solid. I really had no problems other than typical battery life issues, some random memory leaks, and mail.app acting a little wonky, but overall for an initial beta, I was impressed.


Then I installed 10.13b2 and nothing is the same. My fans continue to run. There are constant lockups at no particular time. The machine itself is warm to the touch.


Is anyone else experiencing these issues? I can't reproduce for any specific reason as it seems sporadic. Initially, I thought it was locking up while connecting to my iMac as a secondary display. However, I continued using the machine by itself and I'm experiencing the same struggles.


This is becoming entirely unusable. I might have to do a full wipe and restore back to 10.12 (not even sure I can with APFS).


*spare me the lecture on installing beta's on a primary machine - it's not.

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grahamperrin OP
Jun ’17

Please describe the hardware and peripherals.


> … full wipe and restore back to 10.12 (not even sure I can with APFS). …


It should be possible; the fullness should include losing the APFS container.

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OcfromOC OP
Jun ’17

Same here. Seems to be mostly from web browsing. A animated gif or auto play video will set it off most of the time. But there have been other times using Photoshop where it locks up. So suspecting a graphics issue.


Extremely frustrating.

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sybrrgeek OP
Jun ’17

Same here...it seems to be when I'm using Chrome...

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MasterOfTragedy OP
Jun ’17

Same for me. It freezes, sometimes shows some artifacts on screen before and then reboots.

Had at least 30 reboots today. Sometimes I even can’t manage to type my password at login before it freezes again.

Macbook Pro 13” Late 2012 with 16GB RAM.

This has to be the most unusable and unstable MacOS beta version I’ve ever tested.

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OcfromOC OP
Jun ’17

I have a mid 2014 MacBook Pro Retina, 15-inch, 2.5ghz i7 16gb.


Like stated above it's been crashing at least 20-30 times a day since upgrading to beta two.


I've tried killing all my start up items (Adobe Creative Cloud, Right Font and a few others). Reset PRAM, SMC, tried to do a disk first aid fix but it locks and doesn't come out of it (laptop worked for 24 hours on it). deleted and moved countless plists and tried any fix I could find on the forums. Didn't seem to have any effect.


My kernel task is up there and my WindowServer has been fluctuating. Not sure if it's related. The WindowServer thing made me think that it's happening a majority of the time with Chrome and Safari because when browsing the web you're constantly redrawing the window. I have also gotten it to crash while quickly opening Finder windows and menu options with no Safari or Chrome open.


I'm running multiple monitors (2 28inchers) but have also gotten it to crash without the monitors.


Today things are a little better. So now I'm starting to think Spotlight's indexing might be a culprit. I'm on my business MBPR the majority of the time and haven't really given this one a chance to stay powered on and continue index'ing. This morning was the first time.

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stek OP
Jun ’17

I found that SwitchRes-X and any other res-switcher causes a lock up about every 2 hours - sound still working but no input of GFX movement.


Poweron/off only solution.

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rogerhe OP
Jun ’17

MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2014) here with 2,8 GHz Intel Core i7 and 16 GB 1600 MHz DDR3.

I'm having the same issues, mainly with GPU intensive tasks (operations in Photos for instance).

The system will freeze completely for a short while (sometimes several minutes) and sometimes it will lock up completely and only a reboot will help.


Using gfxCardStatus to switch to the integrated GPU (an integrated Intel Iris one instead of the Nvidia GTX 750M dedicated GPU) stops the problems completely, but makes my system slower.

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djchrisallen OP
Jul ’17

10.13b3 installed.


"Let's test this, shall we?"


/me opens Illustrator.app


Hard lockup.


/me throws laptop out the window


#betalife

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