macbook retina graphic corruption: NVDA(OpenGL): Channel exception! exception type = 0xd = GR: SW Notify Error

What do you mean with "combo update" ?

I've installed OSX 10.8 from my pen drive and then just made a check for updates. It updated directly to 10.8.2.

Before that, i.e. iPhoto didn't work because it needs 10.8.2.

Well, it's not the Retina MBP, because I am seeing very similar problems on my 5-year-old "Santa Rosa" mid-2007 MBP running off an SSD with the original HD in the optical bay. (The original video was replaced under AppleCare in 2010.)

Yes, it seems to have started with one of the ML updates.

In my case, the Channel exception!s occur only when I sleep the MBP. Once I am in the midle of one, the only remedy is to remove BOTH the AC adapter and the battery, and then restart. Otherwise, I am unable to restart - I get an immediate error screen before the startup chime. It was **** before I figured out the battery trick (like THAT will help you).

[edit: Apple substituted **** for that really hot place]

Hi Basti,

Combo updates are special versions of the update that supposedly contain ALL of the updates to system software. In other words, if you update your Mac using Software Update/The App Store, Apple will download only what they think you need in order to bring your software up to date. The Combo update contains EVERY update to Mountain Lion (or whatever OS you are updating), so that it can be used to update any Mac running ML, not just your specific machine.

Because of this, Combo updates tend to be very large and slow to download, and are usually unecessary.

Sometimes, however, the Combo update will fix problems caused by applying a default update to a damaged system (or a damaged update to a good system).

The Combo update for ML is here: http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1581

Yeah, I don't think this is related to MacBooks or Retina Displays or motherboards or anything like that. I think it's just a bug in 10.8.2

I've just seen this for the first time on my Early 2008 MacPro Desktop machine. I first started getting a whole bunch of flickering on both my monitors. I looked in the Console logs and saw the flickering was happening at the same rate as the NVDA(OpenGL) error messages. Then the CPU fans started speeding up, and then the UI froze. I was able to kill the loginscreen task via ssh from another machine and able to re-login fine, but my fans got stuck on near full speed. Rebooted and all is back to normal, for now.

I was thinking it might be related to my recent install of VMWare, but now that I see others having the problem, I'm not so sure anymore. I think it is just a 10.8.2 issue. It's possible that a heavyweight DevStudio compile in my Win7 VM pushed the video drivers to the breaking point, but it looks like there are other ways to get the error. Hopefully Apple will get this sorted out soon.

I brought my MBP to a Apple service partner. They checked it and told me that everything is fine. In their opinion I should install Lion again and the combo update afterwards. :-(

I get the same errors on my Retina MBP. I've been getting them since it first came out. It used to crash a few times a day. Then it only crashed every few days. Sometimes I could go a week or so with none of this freezing. I now have the 10.8.3 beta installed, and I get the same graphics corruptions, but now I can quit Safari and sometimes get out of this. So that's progress I suppose.

But this issue still isn't fixed, and Apple would only replace my logic board. I asked for a replacement a month after I bought the machine, but they said no.

So I am stuck with this freezing. It's somehow related to Safari and Flash as far as I can tell. I haven't tried not using flash or using Firefox or something, and I'm not going to sit here and test it for a week to find out.

Apple customer service is not what it was, and while technology is getting better and smaller, QC is getting worse, and quality is suffering.

Dec 16 01:00:47 DRMBP.local WindowServer[106]: CGXRegisterWindowWithSystemStatusBar: window d already registered

Dec 16 01:00:51 DRMBP kernel[0]: NVDA(OpenGL): Channel exception! exception type = 0xd = GR: SW Notify Error

Dec 16 01:00:51 DRMBP kernel[0]: 0000006e

Dec 16 01:00:51 DRMBP kernel[0]: 00200000 0000a097 00000000 00000000

Dec 16 01:00:51 DRMBP kernel[0]: 00000000 00002398 00000000 00000005

Dec 16 01:00:51 DRMBP kernel[0]: 00000000 00000000 00000000

Dec 16 01:00:51 DRMBP kernel[0]: 00000000 00000000

Dec 16 01:00:51 DRMBP kernel[0]: NVDA(OpenGL): Channel exception! exception type = 0xd = GR: SW Notify Error

Dec 16 01:00:51 DRMBP kernel[0]: 0000006e

Dec 16 01:00:51 DRMBP kernel[0]: 00200000 0000a097 00000000 00000000

Dec 16 01:00:51 DRMBP kernel[0]: 00000000 00000e08 40000000 00000005

Dec 16 01:00:51 DRMBP kernel[0]: 00000000 00000000 00000000

Dec 16 01:00:51 DRMBP kernel[0]: 00000000 00000000

Over and over again.....

Had this issue also on my MBP early 2008 with 10.8.2.

When i verified the permissions using the Disk Utility it had the folliwing differences.

Permissions differ on “System/Library/Frameworks/CoreGraphics.framework/CoreGraphics”; should be lrwxrwxrwx ; they are lrwxr-xr-x .

Permissions differ on “System/Library/Frameworks/CoreGraphics.framework/Resources”; should be lrwxrwxrwx ; they are lrwxr-xr-x .

Permissions differ on “System/Library/Frameworks/CoreGraphics.framework/Versions/Current”; should be lrwxrwxrwx ; they are lrwxr-xr-x .

Fixed the permissions and problem was gone

macpeterr wrote:

Fixed the permissions and problem was gone

Obviously it's not that simple. This is a more complex issue than just fixing permissions.

You have a different MBP with different chipsets/issues/workarounds. The NVDA(OpenGL) issue is an issue which occurs on different versions of OS X and hardware models. So there is probably not one magic solution.

Since you have a brand new retina MBP, you could try gfxCardStatus (http://gfx.io) and test if fixing the gpu mode works for you.

Right. I've tried a hundred different things and none of them work. It's certainly not as easy as fixing permissions, I'm not sure why you claim to have found the magic fix when all you did was the first troubleshooting step of dozens. gfxCardStatus doesn't do anything for me. There are several threads regarding a similar issue with different Apple laptops, this one is for RETINA Macbook Pro's. We may have different software versions, but the machines are essentially the same, and most of us probably have the same problem whatever that is. Sometimes the machine doesn't freeze for a week, so it makes it difficult to narrow down the problem. I've tried 10.8.3 and it doesn't fix this problem either.

Where did i state that it was 'the magix fix' ? It worked for me, until this morning. Frustrating? yes!

This thread for Retina MBP only? could make this up out of the title.

Occurs only for me in Netbeans developer, seems that i have found another 'magix fix' (i.e. it seems that i have found another possible direction how to workaround) For Netbeans it seems that changing apple.awt.graphics.UseQuartz in the netbeans configuration file from true to false helps.

Sorry I'm just frustrated about the issue. But you're right, I guess other MBP owners have replied to this thread. I'll try some other stuff to see if I can get this to stop freezing.

Hi,

I've got the same issue with my MBP mid 2010 I.E:

MacBook-Pro-de-jehan kernel[0]: NVDA(OpenGL): Channel exception! exception type = 0xd = GR: SW Notify Error

Jan 15 15:19:09 MacBook-Pro-de-jehan kernel[0]: 0000006e

Jan 15 15:19:09 MacBook-Pro-de-jehan kernel[0]: 00200000 00008597 00000474 00000010

Jan 15 15:19:09 MacBook-Pro-de-jehan kernel[0]: 0000047e 00000dfc 00000016 0000000a

Jan 15 15:19:09 MacBook-Pro-de-jehan kernel[0]: 00000000 00000000 00000403

Jan 15 15:19:09 MacBook-Pro-de-jehan kernel[0]: 00000010 00000000

I started to have this probleme just after an upgrade from 10.7.4 to 10.7.5. I tried to upgrade to 10.8.2 but it didn't change anything.

I decided to downgrade to 10.7.4 and fortunnatly it fixed my problem !

I would be interrested to know if someone else managed to fix this issue by downgrading to 10.7.4

Good luck !

Jehan

Just wanted to let you know that my problem seems to be solved. Unfortunately my hard drive crashed, so I had to reinstall OS X from my Time Capsule Backup. Since then there were no failures and no freezes but a stable mountain lion system. Anyway, thank you all for this discussion.