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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 Jul 17, 2019 2:05 PM

I started having this problem on 10.14.5 yesterday. After reading through all the options and trying various things, I believe that one or more of the following helped me (sorry I couldn't be more scientific as I didn't have time to figure out precisely which one):


  1. Reset the SMC How to reset the System Management Controller (SMC) on your Mac - Apple Support
  2. Physically cleaned the Mac Pro by removing the case and using compressed air on it.
  3. Reformatted one of my external backup drives.


I also tried turning off SecuritySpy (just upgraded it) and turning off VMWare Fusion. I even pointed a fan at it.


Once this problem started, the machine only stayed up for a few hours; I'm going on 18 hours without a problem and with decent load and disk I/O.


Based on my reading of the thread, I tend to think there is/was a thermal issue (my office did get hot yesterday), so resetting the SMC and cleaning out the machine may have helped get the fans going at the right time and keeping the temperature within reasonable limits.


I hope this helps someone.


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Apr 26, 2019 11:22 AM in response to darthsabbath

Neither, which is strange.


/usr/libexec/firmwarecheckers/eficheck/eficheck --integrity-check

EFI Version: MP61.88Z.0120.B00.1708080652

Matching allowlist not found in EFIAllowListShipping. Searching in EFIAllowListAll.

Fetching allowlist data update.

Waiting for allowlist data download to complete.

Allowlist data update failed with error = 102.

Primary allowlist version match not found for version MP61.88Z.0120.B00.1708080652.

Apr 26, 2019 5:22 PM in response to neuronaut

You can safely download and install 10.14.5 (18F118d) / Boot Rom 130.0.0.0.0. I installed it the other day on

my MacPro6,1, and since then I have had no CPU Panics. I hadn't rebooted for a few days, but last night I did, and I have done so today as well. I usually could not get into OSX and do anything, before a CPU Panic appeared, unless I logged in "slowly" - by waiting about 10 min. at the login screen, but since yesterday I have not had any issues. I logged in immediately and put some pressure on the system, and still no problems.


Of course they may still appear, but Boot Rom 130.0.0.0.0 seems to have done the trick.

Apr 29, 2019 7:02 PM in response to darthsabbath

I have the same issue since upgrading to 10.14.4 and after reading some of the posts here, I updated to 10.14.5 beta 3. Since the beta update, the panic attacks completely stopped for over a week until I updated to beta 4. After the last update, it immediately crashed after booting up. Prior to the start of this issue, I had made zero system changes or software updates/installations. So, if you are on beta 3 and seem to be doing fine, probably should refrain from updating to beta 4.


*** Panic Report ***

Panic(CPU 11, time 6131464400742): NMIPI for unresponsive processor: TLB flush timeout, TLB state:0x0


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 1:24 PM in response to darthsabbath

same issue here ever since I updated to 10.14.4. I brought it to apple for checking, they first told me either SSD or power supply, quoted me 4-500 for fix it, after ship it away to service center, came back with over 1200 for replace logic board. I was ****** then declined the fix, took it home and replaced SSD and logic board by myself with apple parts. Same issue, after I read this forum, I then start to think of apple bugs. I'm going to roll back to previous IOS for now until apple fix it.

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 4, 2019 3:14 PM in response to darthsabbath

Well, after read about this discussion, I brought my Mac Pro late 2013 to local apple for roll back my IOS, they don't have or they don't want to provide 10.14.3 but be able to put a fresh High Sierra 10.13.6, went home set up and running until now, it's been half day gone, no more panic no more reboot. I can pretty much confirm it's issue of 10.14.4.

May 7, 2019 6:17 AM in response to calledmeandrew

So I keep getting this kernel panic. Called apple, they said it was my problem. Everything was working fine before updating to 10.14.4... seems to point to apples problem.


Anonymous UUID: 2F29CDCB-EC14-9E56-0471-2B1BA52442E9


Tue May 7 07:14:11 2019


*** Panic Report ***

Panic(CPU 5, time 51756256528092): NMIPI for unresponsive processor: TLB flush timeout, TLB state:0x0

RAX: 0x0000000005000000, RBX: 0xffffff80136c6800, RCX: 0x0000000027b36000, RDX: 0x000000000000ffff

RSP: 0xffffffa78ff23b30, RBP: 0xffffffa78ff23b80, RSI: 0x0000000000000ff8, RDI: 0xffffff80136c6800

R8: 0xfffffffffffffff8, R9: 0x0000000000000000, R10: 0xffffff80c6f324d8, R11: 0x0000000000000000

R12: 0x0010000000000000, R13: 0xffffff80136c6800, R14: 0xffffff86a7e36000, R15: 0x0000000000000004

RFL: 0x0000000000000246, RIP: 0xffffff8012ecae64, CS: 0x0000000000000008, SS: 0x0000000000000010

Backtrace (CPU 5), Frame : Return Address

0xffffff8747708f70 : 0xffffff8012ed4cca

0xffffff8747708fd0 : 0xffffff8012d55ced

0xffffffa78ff23b80 : 0xffffff8012eb450a

0xffffffa78ff23ca0 : 0xffffff8012e3ad55

0xffffffa78ff23d70 : 0xffffff8012db4fff

0xffffffa78ff23de0 : 0xffffff8012d88a0b

0xffffffa78ff23e50 : 0xffffff8012d9d2df

0xffffffa78ff23ef0 : 0xffffff8012ebb7b7

0xffffffa78ff23fa0 : 0xffffff8012d56326


BSD process name corresponding to current thread: cfprefsd


Mac OS version:

18F118d


Kernel version:

Darwin Kernel Version 18.6.0: Mon Apr 15 21:18:10 PDT 2019; root:xnu-4903.260.85.100.1~1/RELEASE_X86_64

Kernel UUID: 238A1434-CDDC-33D3-B264-0751968D51C4

Kernel slide: 0x0000000012a00000

Kernel text base: 0xffffff8012c00000

__HIB text base: 0xffffff8012b00000

System model name: MacPro6,1 (Mac-F60DEB81FF30ACF6)

May 8, 2019 9:57 AM in response to macatak9929

My 2013 nmp running 10.14.5 beta 4 was sitting over the weekend and actually didn't crash at all. Monday/Tuesday was fine too. Tuesday night I installed beta 5 and the crashes started again, even when completely idle with no software open. Another user earlier in this thread experienced similar behavior with beta 3->4. Documenting my most recent crash, hopefully it helps someone.


https://gist.github.com/nambrosch/90bcce4b1f6082efa48c62e311fa78b7


I really want to stress that this was happening with a non-beta release and I only switched to the beta release with the hope that there was a fix.

May 8, 2019 10:07 AM in response to nambrosch

I was running 10.14.3 for past couple months, never had any issues. Updated to 10.14.4, nightmare started. After brought to apple for fix some none exist issues, replaced SSD, Logic board as what apple told me. still the same. tried 10.14.5 beta 5, unresolved. downgraded to high sierra, running for like a week, no crashed no panic. Definitely apple software issues. CONFIRMED!!

May 9, 2019 4:38 PM in response to Tangoev

After a stable 10.14.4, now 10.14.5 (18F131a) is causing me all sorts of problems. Yesterday I gave up. I couldn't even get to where I could check email etc. on my Mac Pro. Apple really has to sort this out. I know we are on Beta software, but you'd think they sorted out issues as supposed to making them...


Today I left the Mac Pro running when I left for work, and it seems it restarted some 2 hours ago. At least that is what iStat Mini tells me the uptime is.

May 11, 2019 8:42 AM in response to neuronaut

I'm not taking chance to update now as running smoothly with high sierra. 10.14.4 gave me so much hassles and obviously Apple dont know anything about it. They dont even aware of this issue when I bring my mac pro for issues. They just gave me run around with SSD, Logic board, power supply BS. I spent ton of time and money for their BS and finally settle down with high sierra. Report already filed like a month ago and never get any replies from Apple.

Kernel Panic after upgrading to 10.14.4

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