Latest MacOSX INSTANT BLACK SCREEN crash with absolutely no message!

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Latest MacOSX INSTANT BLACK SCREEN crash with absolutely no message!

Crashes occur on a regular basis 5-15min when I am using my mac as usual (no specific software is causing it). And at any time not a single error, crash or message is displayed!

I've checked my disk with disk utility. Checked the hardware. Did ALL of these apple startup checks. They say everything is perfect!

Reinstalled OSX (though the same menu where you find disk utility). Still the problem persists and its driving me nuts!

After every crash a new "flavours.ignitor_DATE-3_NAME-MacBook-Pro.crash" file appears in the system reports section of the Console app. Below is the latest one.

flavours.ignitor_DATE-3_NAME-MacBook-Pro

MacBook Pro 15", 10.14

Posted on Feb 20, 2019 8:22 AM

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Answer 1

BDAqua

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Feb 24, 2019 10:13 AM in response to metaTinker

Shutdown Cause: -128 unknown Possibly linked to memory issue. If the issue is persistent, try replacing the RAM with known-good if your hardware has removable RAM.

The Apple HW test isn't very reliable for testing RAM, it can be trusted if it finds an error, but not if it doesn't.

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dialabrain

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Feb 20, 2019 8:30 AM in response to metaTinker

There was an app called Flavours. Don't know if it's related.

http://flavours.interacto.net/

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metaTinker Author

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Mar 8, 2019 11:33 AM in response to BDAqua

Crashes happened in Safe boot too. Usually every 10min but at other times hours apart. Next step (tomorrow) is to boot from an external disk and see what happens

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metaTinker Author

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Feb 20, 2019 9:21 AM in response to dialabrain

Never installed that. I recommend taking a look at the file snippet. It seems to me like some rather deep system file. And the 1st few lines of the dispatch queue clearly indicated its a system (OSX kernel) problem.

Here's the beginning of that file

Process: flavours.ignitor [203]

Path: /usr/local/bin/flavours.ignitor

Identifier: flavours.ignitor

Version: ???

Code Type: X86-64 (Native)

Parent Process: launchd [1]

Responsible: flavours.ignitor [203]

User ID: 202

Date/Time: 2019-02-20 16:57:34.006 +0100

OS Version: Mac OS X 10.14.3 (18D109)

Report Version: 12

Anonymous UUID: 8FF812DA-C10C-BAB6-937F-8A3E09EC3660

Time Awake Since Boot: 31 seconds

System Integrity Protection: enabled

Crashed Thread: 0 Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread

Exception Type: EXC_CRASH (SIGABRT)

Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000

Exception Note: EXC_CORPSE_NOTIFY

Termination Reason: Namespace OBJC, Code 0x2

Application Specific Information:

dyld: launch, running initializers

/usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib

Thread 0 Crashed:: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread

0 libsystem_kernel.dylib 0x00000001062a301e __abort_with_payload + 10

1 libsystem_kernel.dylib 0x000000010629e541 abort_with_payload_wrapper_internal + 82

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BDAqua

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Mar 8, 2019 10:47 AM in response to metaTinker

Agreed, thanks for the report, how often does it happen?

Does it ever happen if you Safe Boot?

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metaTinker Author

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Feb 24, 2019 7:25 AM in response to BDAqua

I have no clue why I had: net.interacto.flavours.helper.plist

I removed all the non-native plists and the problem persists. Now I don't even get a .crash file in Console.app so I have even less of a clue about what is happening. EtreCheck says this tough: Last Shutdown Cause: -128 - Unknown

from what I have read it could be a hardware problem however I have run full diagnostics which said that everything was fine.

PS. CleanMyMac and JetBrainsToolbox had been installed and used by me since a while with 0 hiccups.

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BDAqua

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Feb 20, 2019 8:46 AM in response to dialabrain

Good suggestion...

A fine selection of 128 themes for Yosemite.

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metaTinker Author

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Feb 20, 2019 1:50 PM in response to BDAqua

Here it is. I checked it all I didn't see anything weird.

etrecheck report

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BDAqua

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Mar 8, 2019 12:05 PM in response to metaTinker

OK.

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BDAqua

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Feb 20, 2019 11:13 AM in response to metaTinker

Seems involved with freezes here...

10/18/14 7:02:20.079 PM flavours.ignitor[361]: Launch Services ::> changed environment

10/18/14 7:02:20.079 PM flavours.ignitor[361]: Launch Services ::> launched agent

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6607836

Post a report from this please...

EtreCheck is a simple little app to display the important details of your system configuration and allow you to copy that information to the Clipboard. It is meant to be used with Apple Support Communities to help people help you with your Mac.

http://www.etresoft.com/etrecheck

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BDAqua

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Feb 20, 2019 4:57 PM in response to metaTinker

There is more than one of these, I'd delete them even though it says they aren't running.

Uninstall & get rid of every indicacation of com.macpaw.CleanMyMac4.Agent.plist

What is it that installed these 2?

com.spyresoft.dockmodhelper.plist

net.interacto.flavours.helper.plist

How long has jetbrains.toolbox been installed?

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metaTinker Author

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Mar 8, 2019 8:33 AM in response to BDAqua

Update.

Ran many different tests done a bunch of things. Still no clue why. I’m not replacing any components yet cause I have no clue what at fault. It might also be the SSD. Thanks for the help anyways but apple could have made an OS that helps us find such problems easier

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