My MacBook Pro (Retina) Freeze up Randomly

UPDATE:

Seems my problem is indeed solved by using GfxCardStatus and putting it in discrete mode.. No more freezes for an hour already 🙂

I get the impression that the freezes are happening when doing cpu intensive stuff, so crash by overheating. By not using the integrated graphics, there could be less heat production of the main chipset. Now it's the nvidia chip doing the work, it seems better capable of handling the heat... Just guessing...

When I ran GfxCardStatus the MBP was using the intel integrated chip, seems odd, knowing it is plugged in, 100% charged.. I thought the Intel chip was used when on battery power.

Same problem here. Going to try GFxCardStatus to see if I can at least mitigate the problem.

Really annoying...

Chiming in, seeming to have the same or similar issues. Had a couple of kernel panics in a row yesterday, stack trace on reboot seemed to have graphics-like modules in it. Also (and perhaps more impactful to me) is that virtually 80% of my wake-by-opening-clamshell results in a black screen, yet it's clearly backlit (the apple logo on the other side of the screen is glowing). I have to hold down the power button for 5 seconds to force-kill the machine. Every day!

Hopefully this is enough to go on here - I'll open an apple radar if necessary, but I'm also trying out the gfxCard menu thing, and keeping it on the discrete GPU to see if that affects things.

panic(cpu 6 caller 0xffffff80052b7b95): Kernel trap at 0xffffff7f86358e0b, type 14=page fault, registers:

CR0: 0x0000000080010033, CR2: 0x0000000000000000, CR3: 0x00000001d1a92095, CR4: 0x00000000001606e0

RAX: 0x0000000000000000, RBX: 0x0000000000000000, RCX: 0xffffff800585cba0, RDX: 0xffffff802e586c08

RSP: 0xffffff81519eb810, RBP: 0xffffff81519eb830, RSI: 0x0000000000000003, RDI: 0x0000000000000004

R8: 0x00000000000013ea, R9: 0x0000000000000000, R10: 0x0000000000000000, R11: 0x00000000baae0005

R12: 0xffffff80d8a3abe0, R13: 0xffffff802e81c000, R14: 0xffffff802d9c8400, R15: 0x000000000000001a

RFL: 0x0000000000010286, RIP: 0xffffff7f86358e0b, CS: 0x0000000000000008, SS: 0x0000000000000010

Fault CR2: 0x0000000000000000, Error code: 0x0000000000000000, Fault CPU: 0x6

Backtrace (CPU 6), Frame : Return Address

0xffffff81519eb4b0 : 0xffffff800521d5f6

0xffffff81519eb520 : 0xffffff80052b7b95

0xffffff81519eb6f0 : 0xffffff80052ce4ad

0xffffff81519eb710 : 0xffffff7f86358e0b

0xffffff81519eb830 : 0xffffff7f86a2c680

0xffffff81519ebc60 : 0xffffff7f869c8efa

0xffffff81519ebc90 : 0xffffff7f869ccf9f

0xffffff81519ebcb0 : 0xffffff7f8635b2a4

0xffffff81519ebcd0 : 0xffffff7f8635b237

0xffffff81519ebd00 : 0xffffff7f869e48cc

0xffffff81519ebd30 : 0xffffff7f869c95d2

0xffffff81519ebd80 : 0xffffff7f869e304f

0xffffff81519ebdb0 : 0xffffff7f86a23e25

0xffffff81519ebde0 : 0xffffff7f869e57b2

0xffffff81519ebe00 : 0xffffff7f86a07b4f

0xffffff81519ebe20 : 0xffffff7f869e57f9

0xffffff81519ebe40 : 0xffffff8005662ef5

0xffffff81519ebe60 : 0xffffff8005294456

0xffffff81519ebe80 : 0xffffff8005220abd

0xffffff81519ebeb0 : 0xffffff8005210448

0xffffff81519ebf00 : 0xffffff80052195fb

0xffffff81519ebf70 : 0xffffff80052a5ad6

0xffffff81519ebfb0 : 0xffffff80052ced13

Kernel Extensions in backtrace:

com.apple.GeForce(8.0)[91C40470-82BA-329A-A9D7-4C70F28275FD]@0xffffff7f869c3000 ->0xffffff7f86a85fff

dependency: com.apple.NVDAResman(8.0.0)[6A699209-FB98-316B-A3C0-DCA82AA8C86B]@0xffffff7f859 1d000

dependency: com.apple.iokit.IONDRVSupport(2.3.4)[E37F420A-B5CD-38ED-9441-5247583B6ACE]@0xff ffff7f85909000

dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.7)[8C9E06A4-13D0-33F5-A377-9E36F0ECC229]@0xffffff 7f85892000

dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily(2.3.4)[5D671681-D21B-3CCA-9810-B15E648C1B27]@0 xffffff7f858c6000

com.apple.iokit.IOSurface(86.0.2)[7199A934-B665-33C1-A15A-F56A811A1C2B]@0xfffff f7f86357000->0xffffff7f86368fff

BSD process name corresponding to current thread: PluginProcess

This is definitely a GPU switching issue.

Apple should really release a patch to fix this ASAP!!

How can a machine like the rMBP crash while running simple Flash videos!? Ridiculous!

By the way, this also happens when I try to run some .mp4 videos using quicktime. ***😠

Update: Does anyone know if 10.8.2 has a fix for this? Just read that it was just released.

This appears to have fixed the MBP-R freeze issue in my case:

1.) Applications > Disk Utility > (click on your drive) > Verify Disk Permissions

2.) After 'Verify', click on > Repair Disk Permissions

I recommend anybody with freeze issue to try above steps.

I've just started to experience this problem since I'm running 10.8.2. So upgrading to 8.2 will not solve the problem.

Just adding on same issue with rMBP since the firmware update, actually crashed directly after the latest update. Simple applications I normally use are causing complete freezes. How is this acceptable, where is the QA? I have had to reinstall 4 times total two complete wipes to get a semi working 3000$ paperweight.

My feelings exactly.

I also had the freezing issue with the retina Macbook Pro and since I performed the 10.8.2 and firmware update, I didn't face the issue anymore.

Same problem here. MBP 2 weeks old containing new Installation of OSX 10.8.2!

Got 5 freeze this day!

I was unable to open the Retina Pro from sleep without seeing a black screen and needing to hard boot it (hold the power key for 5 seconds). Was also experiencing kernel panics (though less frequently than some of you here).

The good news is that the 10.8.2 and I suspect far more importantly, the EFI Firmware Upgrade seems to have completely resolved things for me. No panics, wake from sleep works as I expect it.

Whew.

I had the same problem (upgraded efi bios, 10.8.2 ), but fixing the videocard to integraded solved the problem of freezes for me. The only problem now is, that I'm consuming much more battery.

Since upgrading my rMBP to 10.8.2 and the firmware at the begining of this week, the machine has started to freeze randomly a couple of times.

The first two times I woke the Macbook up from sleep, and the cursor would'nt move. Nothing would work so I had to do a hard reset. I've been working on it since and up until this minute, it's been fine.

This time, mail crashed and all of a sudden, none of my gestures work (can't swipt to mission control), and infact the whole trackpad and keyboard is frozen. I seem to be able to type only on my external keyboard and use my mouse.

I hope Apple release a fix asap - I need this for work as a freelacer, so any down time is a nightmare.

Phillip J Fry wrote:

The first two times I woke the Macbook up from sleep, and the cursor would'nt move. Nothing would work so I had to do a hard reset.

I've been experiencing the same thing. After doing a hard reset the first time, when it's happened since then, I've waited it out and found that the login dialog started repsonding after < 1 min.

It's utter crap. I'm typing this now after two crashes - one of which is happening as I type. Basically, my Wacom tablet stopped working, and every other usb device stopped too. Now I can't get into system settings or force quit anything. It's completely unresponsive! This is after a restart, and I'd barely done anything at all.

I don't know what to do!? It makes matters even worse that I have a bunch of deadlines - one of which is tomorrow, but if this keeps happening to the mbp, I'm a bit screwed.

It must either be the update to 10.8.2 or the firmware, because everything worked perfectly up until now.

I don't really want to waste time doing a clean install. Has Apple given any word yet on any problems with the update, and is it just rMBP models affected?

Oh - and I've noticed the ghosting issue recently too!