Kernel Panic after upgrading to 10.14.4

I recently updated two 2013 Mac Pros to 10.14.4 and immediately they started having kernel panics after about five minutes. It even happens in recovery mode. I eventually swapped hard drives with another Mac Pro that hadn't been upgraded, and it seems to run stable there. The hard drive without 10.14.4 seems to be running fine in the machine that was panicking. Currently I've at least got one machine up and going, but it's frustrating. Anyone else ran into this problem?


The panic I'm getting can be seen at this Github gist. It seems to always be a different process, and sometimes the panic message is slightly different, but it always seems to be some form the NMIPI for Unresponsive Processor panic.



Mac Pro, macOS 10.14

Posted on Apr 2, 2019 7:05 AM

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Posted on Jun 5, 2019 10:22 PM

I have swapped my 64GBs of aftermarket RAM with the same amount of OEM Apple RAM borrowed from another Mac Pro. So far so good after 24 hours.


I have also upgraded to 10.4.6, but I am more inclined to believe that it is the OEM RAM that is making things more stable. It would make sense that Apple tests their OS with mostly stock hardware, and some odd bug fell through the cracks and is hitting systems with aftermarket RAM/SSD.


I will circle back if anything changes. By the way, the donor Mac Pro is currently running El Capitan with my original aftermarket RAM, no issues to report.

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Apr 20, 2019 7:26 PM in response to macpro_ak

It works fine if you boot up in Safe Mode, but then of course the machine isn't really usable. So now it's a matter of swapping out 300+ System extensions to see which one is the culprit... I wish Apple wouldn't make it so hard to revert back to a previous OS... once you have 10.14.4 installed there is no way how you can get back to 10.14.3 except a cloned copy of the previous system :(

Apr 25, 2019 6:25 AM in response to darthsabbath

Same problems here ... Mac Pro with 129.0.0.0, kernel panics started with 10.14.4


Most common (but not always):

Panic(CPU 19, time 32198753185467): NMIPI for unresponsive processor: TLB flush timeout, TLB state:0x0


Unfortunately I also updated drivers for a Lacie Big12 RAID box at the same time -- creating confusion on what was the source of the problem. Spent a lot of time reinstalling fresh to have the same problems persisting.

May 2, 2019 6:38 PM in response to darthsabbath

Mac Pro 2013, 8 core user.


I'm a photography and videography, since update to 10.14.4 or even I had clean install, but constantly crashing with kernel panics when using:


1.) Canon Digital Photo Professional when batch process photos

2.) Adobe Premiere

3.) Time Machine (fixed with clean rebuilt)


Screen flickering when using Chrome browser


System report to apple but no response and call apple support but no one can help or known this issue.


Thank you.

May 3, 2019 9:19 PM in response to calledmeandrew

I wiped my SSD and put a fresh copy of 10.14.3 back on my 6,1 MacPro. This has been stable for 5 days now, no issues. I have done a lot of stress testing, and have Thunderbolt 2 as well as Thunderbolt 3 to 2 storage devices connected (I see some people are saying this may be causing some of these Panics). Zero issues.

I am not quite sure why as of yet, but my BootROM is still:

Boot ROM Version: MP61.0120.B00

It never seemed to update during 10.14.4 or any of the 10.14.5.x. So if your BootROM version is different from mine, you may not be as lucky with rolling back to 10.14.3.

Side note - anyone else have their comments deleted? This thread was 4 pages long just a few days ago.......

May 15, 2019 2:54 PM in response to Grant Bennet-Alder

I'm simply speculating based on volume. There's a ton of these trashcans in the wild but respectively there's not many of us complaining about an issue thats more than apparent. Makes me question whether there's an additional factor thats keeping Apple from getting flooded.


With respect to memory, I'm unfortunately not well enough versed to know whether timings could cause wait states that might adversely cascade into the unresponsive processor panic. Without knowing what Apple is doing under the hood ... it's all speculation at this point. I'm just questioning why isn't there more uproar, especially considering the cost of the machine.


Sadly, I'm having to mothball mine until this gets resolved.

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