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Mac Mini freezes

Hello everyone,


I have the latest Mac Mini, purchased it about two months ago. Few days ago I updated to Mountain Lion, and my Mini keeps on freezing every hour or so while i'm on the internet, by freezing I mean I can move the cursor around but I can't click anything, and then when I keep on clicking the rainbow bubble pops up.


The weirdest part is that I can't even shut it down by keeping the power button pressed, the hard drive clicks once and it doesn't let you shut it down, so i have to resort to pulling the power cable out! This all started happening when I updated to Mountain Lion.


Any help would be appreciated!


Thanks.

Mac mini, OS X Mountain Lion

Posted on Jul 30, 2012 4:59 PM

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Posted on Apr 17, 2017 11:52 AM

Hi


I was having the same problem. I have a mac mini (Late 2012) with El Capitan 10.11.6


Same issue. Random freezing. After hours of search without succes I tried the following options:


-Started in Safe mode


-Reseted The PRAM and SMC


Finaly, Run Onyx in automation option.


After doing all that stuff with no succes, I just dissabled the firewall and my mac runs now without freezes since 3 days ago.


Maybe this helps.

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Apr 17, 2017 11:52 AM in response to Fozii

Hi


I was having the same problem. I have a mac mini (Late 2012) with El Capitan 10.11.6


Same issue. Random freezing. After hours of search without succes I tried the following options:


-Started in Safe mode


-Reseted The PRAM and SMC


Finaly, Run Onyx in automation option.


After doing all that stuff with no succes, I just dissabled the firewall and my mac runs now without freezes since 3 days ago.


Maybe this helps.

Jul 30, 2012 5:11 PM in response to Fozii

Open Activity Monitor in Applications>Utilities, select All Processes & sort on CPU%, any indications there?


How much RAM & free space do you have also, click on the Memory & Disk Usage Tabs.


Open Console in Utilities & see if there are any clues or repeating messages when this happens.


In the Memory tab, are there a lot of Pageouts?

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Jul 31, 2012 3:24 PM in response to Fozii

Hi all.

i have the same problem since yesterday, My new mini freezes without having high CPU load or memory

consumptions, no shut down possible only power button, i tried to keep it powered off for a while without

the power cord plugged in and it seemed that he worked longer after, but also no heat problem I use istat menues

no high temperature to see. I had also problems immediately after installing Mountai lion with my external HD

i had to restart several times that they were recognized but after it worked just the directory listing for the

external HD was always very slow, and als the copy speed while backing up, it looks there is an I/O problem


please help a.s.a.p

Aug 1, 2012 3:24 AM in response to Fozii

Theese are the last minutes before the last freezing...I can't understand anything...


01/08/12 12:12:53,000 kernel[0]: ACPI: System State [S0 S3 S4 S5] (S3)

01/08/12 12:12:53,000 kernel[0]: AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement: Turbo Ratios 0046

01/08/12 12:12:53,000 kernel[0]: AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement: (built 23:03:24 Jun 24 2012) initialization complete

01/08/12 12:12:53,000 kernel[0]: PFM64 (36 cpu) 0xf10000000, 0xf0000000

01/08/12 12:12:53,000 kernel[0]: [ PCI configuration begin ]

01/08/12 12:12:53,000 kernel[0]: Sleep failure code 0x00000000 0x31000000

01/08/12 12:12:53,000 kernel[0]: console relocated to 0xf11000000

01/08/12 12:12:53,000 kernel[0]: PCI configuration changed (bridge=16 device=4 cardbus=0)

01/08/12 12:12:53,000 kernel[0]: [ PCI configuration end, bridges 13 devices 16 ]

01/08/12 12:12:53,000 kernel[0]: mbinit: done [96 MB total pool size, (64/32) split]

01/08/12 12:12:53,000 kernel[0]: Pthread support ABORTS when sync kernel primitives misused

01/08/12 12:12:53,000 kernel[0]: rooting via boot-uuid from /chosen: D97E7A40-8403-3CE6-99DF-F053FBB083E8

01/08/12 12:12:53,000 kernel[0]: Waiting on <dict ID="0"><key>IOProviderClass</key><string ID="1">IOResources</string><key>IOResourceMatch</key><string ID="2">boot-uuid-media</string></dict>

01/08/12 12:12:53,000 kernel[0]: com.apple.AppleFSCompressionTypeZlib kmod start

01/08/12 12:12:53,000 kernel[0]: com.apple.AppleFSCompressionTypeDataless kmod start

01/08/12 12:12:53,000 kernel[0]: 2.5.3 Little Snitch: starting

01/08/12 12:12:53,000 kernel[0]: com.apple.AppleFSCompressionTypeZlib load succeeded

01/08/12 12:12:53,000 kernel[0]: com.apple.AppleFSCompressionTypeDataless load succeeded

01/08/12 12:12:53,000 kernel[0]: AppleIntelCPUPowerManagementClient: ready

01/08/12 12:12:53,000 kernel[0]: Got boot device = IOService:/AppleACPIPlatformExpert/PCI0@0/AppleACPIPCI/SATA@1F,2/AppleIntelPchS eriesAHCI/PRT0@0/IOAHCIDevice@0/AppleAHCIDiskDriver/IOAHCIBlockStorageDevice/IOB lockStorageDriver/Hitachi HTS545050B9A302 Media/IOGUIDPartitionScheme/Customer@2

01/08/12 12:12:53,000 kernel[0]: BSD root: disk0s2, major 1, minor 2

01/08/12 12:12:53,000 kernel[0]: BTCOEXIST off

01/08/12 12:12:53,000 kernel[0]: BRCM tunables:

01/08/12 12:12:53,000 kernel[0]: pullmode[1] txringsize[ 256] reapmin[ 32] reapcount[ 128]

01/08/12 12:12:53,000 kernel[0]: highWaterMark: VO[ 192] VI[ 192] BE[ 192] BK[ 192]

01/08/12 12:12:53,000 kernel[0]: jnl: unknown-dev: replay_journal: from: 33657856 to: 38663680 (joffset 0xe38a000)

01/08/12 12:12:53,000 kernel[0]: FireWire (OHCI) TI ID 823f built-in now active, GUID c82a14fffeeb7372; max speed s800.

01/08/12 12:12:53,000 kernel[0]: jnl: unknown-dev: journal replay done.

01/08/12 12:12:53,000 kernel[0]: Kernel is LP64

01/08/12 12:12:53,000 kernel[0]: hfs: Removed 42 orphaned / unlinked files and 266 directories

01/08/12 12:12:59,425 fseventsd[46]: event logs in /.fseventsd out of sync with volume. destroying old logs. (54253 25 54298)

01/08/12 12:12:59,425 hidd[45]: Posting 'com.apple.iokit.hid.displayStatus' notifyState=1

01/08/12 12:12:59,459 hidd[45]: void __IOHIDLoadBundles(): Loaded 0 HID plugins

01/08/12 12:12:59,756 fseventsd[46]: log dir: /.fseventsd getting new uuid: DED78CEB-7375-42E8-8EB1-A90EC9DFD06E

01/08/12 12:12:59,000 kernel[0]: macx_swapon SUCCESS

01/08/12 12:13:03,000 kernel[0]: BCM5701Enet: Ethernet address c8:2a:14:59:52:c3

01/08/12 12:13:03,000 kernel[0]: AirPort_Brcm4331: Ethernet address 28:cf:da:01:0e:c5

01/08/12 12:13:03,000 kernel[0]: IO80211Controller::dataLinkLayerAttachComplete(): adding AppleEFINVRAM notification

01/08/12 12:13:03,000 kernel[0]: IO80211Interface::efiNVRAMPublished():

01/08/12 12:13:03,000 kernel[0]: Waiting for DSMOS...

01/08/12 12:13:03,212 mDNSResponder[38]: mDNSResponder mDNSResponder-379.27 (Jun 20 2012 15:40:55) starting OSXVers 12

01/08/12 12:13:03,228 airportd[66]: _processDLILEvent: en1 attached (down)

01/08/12 12:13:03,230 coreservicesd[62]: FindBestLSSession(), no match for inSessionID 0xfffffffffffffffc auditTokenInfo( uid=0 euid=0 auSessionID=100000 create=false

01/08/12 12:13:03,259 appleeventsd[51]: main: Starting up

01/08/12 12:13:03,266 com.apple.usbmuxd[25]: usbmuxd-296 on Jul 8 2012 at 19:58:36, running 64 bit

01/08/12 12:13:03,000 kernel[0]: createVirtIf(): ifRole = 1

01/08/12 12:13:03,000 kernel[0]: in func createVirtualInterface ifRole = 1

01/08/12 12:13:03,000 kernel[0]: AirPort_Brcm4331_P2PInterface::init name <p2p0> role 1 this 0xffffff802317c000

01/08/12 12:13:03,000 kernel[0]: AirPort_Brcm4331_P2PInterface::init() <p2p> role 1

01/08/12 12:13:03,000 kernel[0]: Created virtif 0xffffff802317c000 p2p0

01/08/12 12:13:03,000 kernel[0]: [IOBluetoothHCIController][start] -- completed

01/08/12 12:13:03,000 kernel[0]: IOBluetoothUSBDFU::probe

01/08/12 12:13:03,000 kernel[0]: IOBluetoothUSBDFU::probe ProductID - 0x8281 FirmwareVersion - 0x0086

01/08/12 12:13:03,000 kernel[0]: [BroadcomBluetoothHCIControllerUSBTransport][start] -- completed

01/08/12 12:13:03,000 kernel[0]: [IOBluetoothHCIController][staticBluetoothHCIControllerTransportShowsUp] -- Received Bluetooth Controller register service notification

01/08/12 12:13:03,000 kernel[0]: Previous Shutdown Cause: 3

01/08/12 12:13:03,000 kernel[0]: [IOBluetoothHCIController::setConfigState] calling registerService

01/08/12 12:13:04,000 kernel[0]: DSMOS has arrived

01/08/12 12:13:04,709 mds[37]: (Normal) FMW: FMW 0 0

01/08/12 12:13:04,910 com.apple.SecurityServer[20]: Session 100000 created

01/08/12 12:13:07,000 kernel[0]: AirPort: Link Down on en1. Reason 1 (Unspecified).

01/08/12 12:13:07,000 kernel[0]: en1::IO80211Interface::postMessage bssid changed

01/08/12 12:13:07,515 configd[18]: network changed.

01/08/12 12:13:07,515 configd[18]: setting hostname to "Eduardos-Mac-mini.local"

01/08/12 12:13:08,822 com.apple.SecurityServer[20]: Entering service

01/08/12 12:13:08,859 systemkeychain[69]: done file: /var/run/systemkeychaincheck.done

01/08/12 12:13:08,879 mDNSResponder[38]: D2D_IPC: Loaded

01/08/12 12:13:08,879 mDNSResponder[38]: D2DInitialize succeeded

01/08/12 12:13:08,883 configd[18]: network changed: DNS*

01/08/12 12:13:08,905 apsd[57]: CGSLookupServerRootPort: Failed to look up the port for "com.apple.windowserver.active" (1102)

01/08/12 12:13:08,906 apsd[57]: CGSLookupServerRootPort: Failed to look up the port for "com.apple.windowserver.active" (1102)

01/08/12 12:13:08,912 loginwindow[41]: Login Window Application Started

01/08/12 12:13:09,006 awacsd[55]: Starting awacsd connectivity-77 (Jun 20 2012 15:40:49)

01/08/12 12:13:09,018 WindowServer[94]: Server is starting up

01/08/12 12:13:09,020 awacsd[55]: InnerStore CopyAllZones: no info in Dynamic Store

01/08/12 12:13:09,052 UserEventAgent[13]: Captive: [HandleNetworkInformationChanged:2435] nwi_state_copy returned NULL

01/08/12 12:13:10,508 WindowServer[94]: Session 256 retained (2 references)

01/08/12 12:13:10,509 WindowServer[94]: Session 256 released (1 references)

01/08/12 12:13:10,521 WindowServer[94]: Session 256 retained (2 references)

01/08/12 12:13:10,522 WindowServer[94]: init_page_flip: page flip mode is on

01/08/12 12:13:10,550 digest-service[100]: label: default

01/08/12 12:13:10,551 digest-service[100]: dbname: od:/Local/Default

01/08/12 12:13:10,551 digest-service[100]: mkey_file: /var/db/krb5kdc/m-key

01/08/12 12:13:10,551 digest-service[100]: acl_file: /var/db/krb5kdc/kadmind.acl

01/08/12 12:13:10,553 digest-service[100]: digest-request: uid=0

01/08/12 12:13:10,579 aosnotifyd[103]: bootstrap_look_up failed (44e)

01/08/12 12:13:10,580 rpcsvchost[104]: sandbox_init: com.apple.msrpc.netlogon.sb succeeded

01/08/12 12:13:10,585 digest-service[100]: digest-request: init request

01/08/12 12:13:10,590 digest-service[100]: digest-request: init return domain: BUILTIN server: EDUARDOS-MAC-MINI

01/08/12 12:13:11,077 netbiosd[81]: Unable to start NetBIOS name service:

01/08/12 12:13:12,000 kernel[0]: en1: 802.11d country code set to 'ES'.

01/08/12 12:13:12,000 kernel[0]: en1: Supported channels 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 36 40 44 48 52 56 60 64 100 104 108 112 116 120 124 128 132 136 140

01/08/12 12:13:12,107 locationd[42]: NOTICE,Location icon should now be in state 0

01/08/12 12:13:12,108 locationd[42]: locationd was started after an unclean shutdown

01/08/12 12:13:12,534 WindowServer[94]: mux_initialize: Couldn't find any matches

01/08/12 12:13:12,953 WindowServer[94]: GLCompositor enabled for tile size [256 x 256]

01/08/12 12:13:12,953 WindowServer[94]: CGXGLInitMipMap: mip map mode is on

01/08/12 12:13:12,988 WindowServer[94]: WSMachineUsesNewStyleMirroring: false

01/08/12 12:13:13,010 WindowServer[94]: Display 0x430265d2: GL mask 0x4; bounds (0, 0)[1920 x 1080], 16 modes available

Main, Active, on-line, enabled, boot, Vendor 410c, Model 8a8, S/N 4fd1, Unit 2, Rotation 0

UUID 0x0000410c000008a800004fd100000000

01/08/12 12:13:13,010 WindowServer[94]: Display 0x003f003c: GL mask 0x1; bounds (0, 0)[0 x 0], 1 modes available

off-line, enabled, Vendor ffffffff, Model ffffffff, S/N ffffffff, Unit 0, Rotation 0

UUID 0xffffffffffffffffffffffff003f003c

01/08/12 12:13:13,011 WindowServer[94]: Display 0x003f003d: GL mask 0x2; bounds (0, 0)[0 x 0], 1 modes available

off-line, enabled, Vendor ffffffff, Model ffffffff, S/N ffffffff, Unit 1, Rotation 0

UUID 0xffffffffffffffffffffffff003f003d

01/08/12 12:13:13,022 WindowServer[94]: Created shield window 0x5 for display 0x430265d2

01/08/12 12:13:13,022 WindowServer[94]: Created shield window 0x6 for display 0x003f003c

01/08/12 12:13:13,022 WindowServer[94]: Created shield window 0x7 for display 0x003f003d

01/08/12 12:13:13,030 WindowServer[94]: Display 0x430265d2: GL mask 0x4; bounds (0, 0)[1920 x 1080], 16 modes available

Main, Active, on-line, enabled, boot, Vendor 410c, Model 8a8, S/N 4fd1, Unit 2, Rotation 0

UUID 0x0000410c000008a800004fd100000000

01/08/12 12:13:13,030 WindowServer[94]: Display 0x003f003c: GL mask 0x1; bounds (2944, 0)[1 x 1], 1 modes available

off-line, enabled, Vendor ffffffff, Model ffffffff, S/N ffffffff, Unit 0, Rotation 0

UUID 0xffffffffffffffffffffffff003f003c

01/08/12 12:13:13,030 WindowServer[94]: Display 0x003f003d: GL mask 0x2; bounds (2945, 0)[1 x 1], 1 modes available

off-line, enabled, Vendor ffffffff, Model ffffffff, S/N ffffffff, Unit 1, Rotation 0

UUID 0xffffffffffffffffffffffff003f003d

01/08/12 12:13:13,030 WindowServer[94]: CGXPerformInitialDisplayConfiguration

01/08/12 12:13:13,030 WindowServer[94]: Display 0x430265d2: MappedDisplay Unit 2; Vendor 0x410c Model 0x8a8 S/N 20433 Dimensions 23.54 x 13.23; online enabled, Bounds (0,0)[1920 x 1080], Rotation 0, Resolution 1

01/08/12 12:13:13,030 WindowServer[94]: Display 0x003f003c: MappedDisplay Unit 0; Vendor 0xffffffff Model 0xffffffff S/N -1 Dimensions 0.00 x 0.00; offline enabled, Bounds (2944,0)[1 x 1], Rotation 0, Resolution 1

01/08/12 12:13:13,030 WindowServer[94]: Display 0x003f003d: MappedDisplay Unit 1; Vendor 0xffffffff Model 0xffffffff S/N -1 Dimensions 0.00 x 0.00; offline enabled, Bounds (2945,0)[1 x 1], Rotation 0, Resolution 1

01/08/12 12:13:13,000 kernel[0]: MacAuthEvent en1 Auth result for: dc:0b:1a:7a:c2:b2 MAC AUTH succeeded

01/08/12 12:13:13,000 kernel[0]: wlEvent: en1 en1 Link UP virtIf = 0

01/08/12 12:13:13,000 kernel[0]: AirPort: Link Up on en1

01/08/12 12:13:13,000 kernel[0]: en1: BSSID changed to dc:0b:1a:7a:c2:b2

01/08/12 12:13:13,000 kernel[0]: en1::IO80211Interface::postMessage bssid changed

01/08/12 12:13:13,507 airportd[66]: _doAutoJoin: Already associated to “raycat”. Bailing on auto-join.

01/08/12 12:13:14,000 kernel[0]: AirPort: RSN handshake complete on en1

01/08/12 12:13:14,183 WindowServer[94]: GLCompositor: GL renderer id 0x01024301, GL mask 0x00000007, accelerator 0x00003b17, unit 0, caps QEX|QGL|MIPMAP, vram 579 MB

01/08/12 12:13:14,184 WindowServer[94]: GLCompositor: GL renderer id 0x01024301, GL mask 0x00000007, texture units 8, texture max 8192, viewport max {8192, 8192}, extensions FPRG|NPOT|GLSL|FLOAT

01/08/12 12:13:14,187 loginwindow[41]: **DMPROXY** Found `/System/Library/CoreServices/DMProxy'.

01/08/12 12:13:15,023 WindowServer[94]: **DMPROXY** (2) Found `/System/Library/CoreServices/DMProxy'.

01/08/12 12:13:15,662 fseventsd[46]: Logging disabled completely for device:1: /Volumes/Recovery HD

01/08/12 12:13:17,889 configd[18]: network changed: v4(en1+:192.168.1.36) DNS+ Proxy+ SMB+

01/08/12 12:13:17,908 UserEventAgent[13]: Captive: en1: Not probing 'raycat' (protected network)

01/08/12 12:13:17,911 configd[18]: network changed: v4(en1!:192.168.1.36) DNS Proxy SMB

01/08/12 12:13:19,142 ntpd[99]: proto: precision = 1.000 usec

01/08/12 12:13:23,637 awacsd[55]: Exiting

01/08/12 12:13:34,883 WindowServer[94]: Created shield window 0x8 for display 0x430265d2

01/08/12 12:13:34,884 WindowServer[94]: Display 0x430265d2: MappedDisplay Unit 2; ColorProfile { 2, "HD 709-A"}; TransferFormula (1.000000, 1.000000, 1.000000)

01/08/12 12:13:34,898 WindowServer[94]: Display 0x430265d2: MappedDisplay Unit 2; ColorProfile { 2, "HD 709-A"}; TransferFormula (1.000000, 1.000000, 1.000000)

01/08/12 12:13:34,912 launchctl[130]: com.apple.findmymacmessenger: Already loaded

01/08/12 12:13:34,942 com.apple.SecurityServer[20]: Session 100004 created

01/08/12 12:13:35,003 WindowServer[94]: Display 0x430265d2: MappedDisplay Unit 2; ColorProfile { 2, "HD 709-A"}; TransferFormula (1.000000, 1.000000, 1.000000)

01/08/12 12:13:35,007 loginwindow[41]: Login Window Started Security Agent

01/08/12 12:13:35,014 airportd[66]: _doAutoJoin: Already associated to “raycat”. Bailing on auto-join.

01/08/12 12:13:35,102 SecurityAgent[139]: This is the first run

01/08/12 12:13:35,103 SecurityAgent[139]: MacBuddy was run = 0

01/08/12 12:13:35,000 kernel[0]: ioqueue_depth = 64, ioscale = 2

01/08/12 12:13:35,691 UserEventAgent[131]: cannot find useragent 1102

01/08/12 12:15:33,957 distnoted[161]: # distnote server agent absolute time: 180.607134157 civil time: Wed Aug 1 12:15:33 2012 pid: 161 uid: 501 root: no

01/08/12 12:15:38,678 mdworker[160]: CFPropertyListCreateFromXMLData(): Old-style plist parser: missing semicolon in dictionary on line 1. Parsing will be abandoned. Break on _CFPropertyListMissingSemicolon to debug.

01/08/12 12:15:50,843 com.apple.SecurityServer[20]: Session 100007 created

01/08/12 12:15:50,843 com.apple.SecurityServer[20]: Session 100006 created

01/08/12 12:17:41,544 SecurityAgent[139]: User info context values set for edu

01/08/12 12:17:41,973 SecurityAgent[139]: Login Window login proceeding

Aug 6, 2012 3:31 PM in response to Fozii

I have the same problem on a new Mini server bought in March. So far only happens when on the Internet but that can be coincidence. So far I CAN power down to reboot by holding down the power button for a 10 seconds or more. How do we notify Apple about this bug?

Until then I'm reverting to Lion.

Aug 6, 2012 3:57 PM in response to Fozii

Hi All, Hi Kevin,


it's a shame, nothing is happening by Apple, I called support they do not have any idea, i had to buy a new Macbook Pro coz i'm not able to work, the MacMini does not run with Mountain Lion, it will freeze also

not opening any Program, without Internet connection, latest when Screensaver starts.

The same HD image on the Makbook is working perfectly, i just cloned it. To my opinion there is some

problem in the I/O system handled by Mountain Lion, i have a 512 GB SSD and 16GB RAM installed on my Mini (Everything worked perfectly under Lion), but the other disks (external) are USB or Firewire, specially the Firewire drive started making strange noise at the moment i started using Mountain Lion, the same Drive works perfectly under Mountain Lion in the Macbook Pro.

So i guess a Firmware update for the Mini is needed, but Apple should move. My Mini is just 6 months old.

It is absolutely the first time since 5 Years that i have a problem with Apple and i have many Apple products,

maybe this is why i feel disappointed. The voices for this problem are raising but still not enough i guess.

It could be also a problem with some component like the I/O controller used in some Minis, of course these are just suppositions but i'm electronical engineer and have to deal daily with weird problems, LOL.

BTW, I tried also a clean install on my Mini, the same result, the machine will freeze within one hour.

I realize that could be hard to figure out what's happening, I can send my Mini to Apple support since I have a replacement now, so they could test it. 😐

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