Icons in menu bar and standard menus are invisible!

What you can do is going back to 10.8.2. Just reinstall the OS (without formating the SSD) and install 10.8.2.

This is what I did as the last step before I did a new installation.

I do understand all of your arguments, I told them apple as well.

I also want to work with my computer and not investigate on problems they introduced.

I'm currently trying the "no hibernation" workaround - which is a bit better than complete shutdown instead of hibernation... I have no base image (10.8.0) required to downgrade to 10.8.2 - and there's no download.

Argh! A really expensive notebook (MBPr) that is not capable of using hibernation!!!

Dear Everyone:

I don't think there's a solution from Apple forthcoming. This doesn't seem to effect every 10.8 user, so there's likely something we all have in common.

Let's try to collect some information about our machines - maybe something we all share will stand out. Please visit this link and answer the short survey:

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/S8HCVLV

To answer some of the questions, you will need to Click "Apple", "About this Mac", "More Info", "System Report".

I will be happy to share the results of the survey with anyone who is interested, but maybe we will notice a commonality that may lead us to a solution.

.. and a note about the "installed software" questions:

I included everything that *I* run - it seemed like a good place to start, and if we all have an application in common, then it will be something that I have installed - hence the short (and maybe a little weird) list of applications.

Thanks this work for me perfectly....

🙂

Okey, now I tried the following:

1. installed applejack

2. run mbr in single user mode using cmd + r

3. run applejack

4. entered return on applejack error, that its not possible to find the virtual memory somewhat

5. cleaned the plist settings global and after it for my corrupt user account

6. cleaned the cache files global and after it for my corrupt user account

7. restart

and ... tataaaa

everything works fine now

Thanks for information.

Sad to know that my solution is just workaround.

Fortunately in my case using "no hibernation mode" is advantage. It frees up extra 8Gb of small mba's 128Gb SSD and keeps out of frequent write operations.

But still, fully agree with you - the fact that "the most advanced operation system" has bug that apple is not going to fix makes me feel sad..

I didn't read the whole thread (7 pages !) but a reboot in safe mode then another reboot restored my icons.

See this thread : https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4172568?answerId=21866838022#21866838022

Disabling Hibernation at all seems to be a successful _WORK AROUND_ for the OS-X bug in 10.8.

Unfortunately the OS-X bug occuring during wake-up from hibernation / suspend to disk _CAN DAMAGE FILES_ and force unpredictable results.

The last time the bug occured (before I disabled hibernation / suspend to disk), it has corrupted the system. Chrome, Apple Pages and Apple Numbers could not start - all of them crashed during application startup. I had to re-install OS-X and Chrome, Pages and Numbers start successfully.

A 2600 EUR notebook that's not capable of suspend-to-disk...

I did a complete reinstall of 10.8.3 without any applications, and since 2 weeks the bug did not reoccur. But I do know it´s still there. And I know if it happens the first time, it will occur again very soon.

@Past_Tense: Can you give us the results of the survey, I really would be interested about the commonalities.

Hola, no hablo ingles, pero he correigo el problema que comentas,

Mi solucion fue:

Entrar en modo seguro: Reinicias tu MBP, y al sonido precionas Mayus(Shift), despues de eso iniciara en modo seguro y se tardara un poco.

2.-Instalas CCleaner para mac y corres todos los procesos

3.-Instalas Onyx la version 2.6.8

Y ejecutas todos los procesos o mas bien tareas,

cuando termines, reinicia tu equipo y veras que todo estara bien!!!! e incluso en modo seguro ya aparecen los iconos perdidos en el finder y en la barra de menus 😀

Google traslate:

hello,

My solution was as follows

1 -. Start my macbook pro in safe mode, that you do it by restarting the computer and after the sound, press mayus (shift), the mac start in safe mode, start it normally, and even see that finder icons now appear like the incons from the menu bar.

2. - Download and install ccleaner, and execute all task, close CCleaner

3 -. download and install version Onyx 2.6.8 and execute all tasks, without exception, on the part of parameters you restore all values ​​included in each tab.

4-. reboor your MBP 😀

Well that's it, it was not necessary to reinstall the system,

The problem is rather with the current user, because if you start or create another user see that everything works correctly.

Hola, no hablo ingles, pero he correigo el problema que comentas,

Mi solucion fue:

Entrar en modo seguro: Reinicias tu MBP, y al sonido precionas Mayus(Shift), despues de eso iniciara en modo seguro y se tardara un poco.

2.-Instalas CCleaner para mac y corres todos los procesos

3.-Instalas Onyx la version 2.6.8

Y ejecutas todos los procesos o mas bien tareas,

cuando termines, reinicia tu equipo y veras que todo estara bien!!!! e incluso en modo seguro ya aparecen los iconos perdidos en el finder y en la barra de menus 😀

Google traslate:

hello,

My solution was as follows

1 -. Start my macbook pro in safe mode, that you do it by restarting the computer and after the sound, press mayus (shift), the mac start in safe mode, start it normally, and even see that finder icons now appear like the incons from the menu bar.

2. - Download and install ccleaner, and execute all task, close CCleaner

3 -. download and install version Onyx 2.6.8 and execute all tasks, without exception, on the part of parameters you restore all values ​​included in each tab.

4-. reboor your MBP 😀

Well that's it, it was not necessary to reinstall the system,

The problem is rather with the current user, because if you start or create another user see that everything works correctly.

Hola, no hablo ingles, pero he correigo el problema que comentas,

Mi solucion fue:

Entrar en modo seguro: Reinicias tu MBP, y al sonido precionas Mayus(Shift), despues de eso iniciara en modo seguro y se tardara un poco.

2.-Instalas CCleaner para mac y corres todos los procesos

3.-Instalas Onyx la version 2.6.8

Y ejecutas todos los procesos o mas bien tareas,

cuando termines, reinicia tu equipo y veras que todo estara bien!!!! e incluso en modo seguro ya aparecen los iconos perdidos en el finder y en la barra de menus 😀

Google traslate:

hello,

My solution was as follows

1 -. Start my macbook pro in safe mode, that you do it by restarting the computer and after the sound, press mayus (shift), the mac start in safe mode, start it normally, and even see that finder icons now appear like the incons from the menu bar.

2. - Download and install ccleaner, and execute all task, close CCleaner

3 -. download and install version Onyx 2.6.8 and execute all tasks, without exception, on the part of parameters you restore all values ​​included in each tab.

4-. reboor your MBP 😀

Well that's it, it was not necessary to reinstall the system,

The problem is rather with the current user, because if you start or create another user see that everything works correctly.

Sorry for the delay, I was travelling, and SurveyMoney doesn't notify you when the survey is completed - I thought there were only 3 responses, when in fact 12 had built up.

Unfortunately, there are no 100% commonalities in any of the responses. Worthless, as far as I am concerned. Even the chipsets are different in most cases.

I wrote up my solution (that is still working fine 2 weeks later) here:

My report on the Macbook Pro Graphics Issue

Good luck, everyone!

-JC

After about 3 weeks, the error reoccured.

It is now forwarded to Apple Hardware Engineering for Portable Computers.

I hope they do provide a solution. Because since this error reoccured it shows almost every time the computer wakes up from hibernation.

I am really frustrated. Next step will be to sell the Macbook and change back to a Windows System 😟

gfingerl:

You say "without applications", but did you bring your preferences/home directory over? How clean was your re-install?