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 25, 2019 7:56 PM in response to SkippyV

Has anyone found if upgrading to 10.14.5 (18F118d), MacPro6,1, Boot ROM ver. 130.0.0.0.0 has fixed the issues? That's what I am running, but I haven't rebooted since upgrading to 10.14.5 (18F118d)... and right now my Mac Pro is running perfectly. I also did find that if I rebooted, and left the Mac Pro sitting at the login screen, for perhaps 10 min., and then logged in, then all would be fine...

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 11, 2019 8:54 AM in response to nambrosch

Mac Pro (Late 2013)

2.7 GHz 12-Core Intel Xeon E5

64 GB 1866 MHz DDR3

AMD FirePro D300 2048 MB

Here is my mac Pro spec, at first it was panic by SSD and power supply. The Apple rep told me maybe either SSD, Logic board or power supply. So I replaced the SSD and logic board, then became CPU panic. I even put my old SSD and logic board back for running high sierra, no issues at all, that's why I confirmed it's bugs for 10.14.4 or high version.

May 25, 2019 8:07 PM in response to mikehar

mikehar - the disconnect between customer-facing support and engineering is pretty typical, especially with large companies. I do not fault them entirely but am disappointed as well. I doubt you will be getting a useful response from them on an issue like this on twitter.


If you don't mind, please open a support case and reference this thread. They will call you and ask to run some hardware diagnostics before proceeding with the case.

Jun 5, 2019 2:52 AM in response to _Vinc_

My machine has original OEM RAM and I’m still experiencing constant kernel panics. Interesting enough this coincided with installing an OWC 1TB SSD. As soon as I put Apple OEM SSD back in the machine runs fine. Place 3rd party SSD and constant kernel panics. OWC is actually sending me a replacement drive now as the last two are no longer visible to the machine but work fine in other computers.

Jun 6, 2019 11:13 PM in response to darthsabbath

I am hitting this issue too. Running aftermarket RAM and aftermarket SSD.


10.14.3 was running rock solidly. 10.14.4, **** hit the fan. KP every 5 mins.


I just updated to 10.14.5. Been running on it for 10 mins now. Will report if I keep hitting this issue.


Apple probably broke something in the update when it relates to aftermarket RAM and SSD. Their own internal testing probably only uses OEM RAM/SSD.


Isn't it just amazing when you buy a $4000 computer, and then spend $2000 upgrading it, and it just becomes completely unusable after a software update?


I am just at the very end of patience with Apple.

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