Kernel Panic after upgrading to 10.14.4

Thanks for the update. I appreciate your effort in trying out the new releases. Like everyone else here, I also have a mp 2013 that started to reboot with 10.14.4. Rolled back to .3 and everything is ok. Apple support was, well, worse than useless (I think they actively try to waste your time hoping you'll go away).

Is there any sign that Apple has even acknowledged this issue?

How many have upgraded to 10.14.6 Beta, have reset all caches, and are still having problems? Like I said, running for 7 days now - with no panics. The only I got was before running Onyx and shutting the Mac Pro off entirely.

mikehar - Open a case here and they will call you back. They will probably tell you that it sounds like a hardware problem and to bring it into a store. Reference this apple discussion thread citing several people who can demonstrate that it is (most likely) not a hardware issue.

https://getsupport.apple.com/?caller=psp&PRKEYS=PF6

SkippyV--

a recent post on this thread was by Daniel Stoddart, who had mixed Registered and Un-Registered DIMMs in his Mac Pro. It did not start crashing until 10.14.4 or 10.14.5, and stopped when he upgraded his DIMMs to all the same kind.

So your suggestion that RAM might be related may have something to it.

But there may be something else using crashes as well.

I opened a case with Apple about this. Tonight I ran a Safe Boot, and per the instructions of the lady at Apple, deleted my login items and restarted. (running 10.14.5) I have since not had a kernel panic now for 5 hours. Not sure if this is dumb luck, or if the issue has been resolved. The issue would sometimes happen multiple times over the course of 20 mins, or it would be panic free for several hours. Who knows?

In other news... Not sure if this is related or a coincidence, but I looked at the memory tab in About This Mac and realized that only 8gb of the original factory installed 12gb of ram was being recognized. I removed the ram not being seen by the computer (slot 2) and moved it to a different slot (3), reboot it, and now all 12gb are being seen. I suppose its possible, however unlikely sitting in my rack, that the Mac was jostled enough for the ram to become unseated. All 3 sticks are being seen now, so It doesn't appear that the ram went bad.

I'm tired of thinking about this. Going to bed. lol

Many of us are also out of warranty as well which makes it upsetting that we can't go into the Apple store for a free diagnostic and repair.

You can always go (with appointment) to an Apple-owned store for free diagnosis. They will work with you on your problem. It is far easier for them to be dismissive and say there was no problem, since the diagnostic does not find anything wrong. They have the ability to push the problem up the chain toward Engineering, but you have to be assertive to get that result.

So I installed my OEM Apple SSD and installed the Catalina beta to it. I then reinstalled my OWC SSD and booted back into Mojave 10.4.5 (release version). The Boot ROM is now 132.0.0.0.0. I'll update the thread in a week or so about whether I get any more kernel panics.

It's not a thermal issue - when I load 10.14.4 / 10.14.5 istat menus shows temperatures normal. I've always had the fan spinning minimum1000rpm (increases with heat) in order to keep all of the hardware safe. I think Apple's default minimum is 600 or 800?

I'm stable right now with 10.14.3, just waiting for 10.14.6 final release before giving upgrading a shot.

What in the world are you talking about when you say you want to learn about "some of these things".

This thread has 12 pages with more than 75 postings. it is mostly dealing with the firmware versions for the Mac Pro 2013 and MacOS 10.14.3, .4, and .5 If you have read all these postings, you know as much about these issues as any "regular users" outside of the developers who wrote and debugged that code.

I finally installed Mojave 10.14.3 back on my Mac pro. The kernel panics stopped and things are running ok. This is a bug in 10.14.4.

still no crash from 14.6 beta. Usually get panic from my think or swim application however nothing yet will update tomorrow

I have installed the latest 10.14.6 BETA 3 version of the system and whether it is stable. However, the Boot ROM version is still 130.0.0.0.0

Don't know why?