Icons in menu bar and standard menus are invisible!

Okey, now I tried the following:

1. installed applejack

2. run mbr in single user mode using cmd + r

3. run applejack

4. entered return on applejack error, that its not possible to find the virtual memory somewhat

5. cleaned the plist settings global and after it for my corrupt user account

6. cleaned the cache files global and after it for my corrupt user account

7. restart

and ... tataaaa

everything works fine now

I have the same issues after upgrading to 10.8.3. I'm running a late 2012 15" rMBP, 16 Gb, 512 SSD, 2.6 GHz i7, with everything up to date (Safari 6.0.3, Java...).

I never had this issue with dissappearing menu icons before (not on 10.8.1 or 10.8.2), until recently. I'm not sure it has something to do with the latest 10.8.3 update, because the problems only started about a week after I've updated. It might have something to do with the Cocktail app (found through Macworld.com). I uninstalled it, but the problems persist. I have tried booting in safe mode, and it temporarily solves the issue, but my menu icons, as well as safari and mail icons are missing whenever I get out of sleep mode. 3rd party icons are ok though, so it must be something inside OS X that is screwing things up.

I think I have encountered other issues that are associated with this problem (or so I think, as they started appearing at the same moment). In my opinion, they are much much worse:

- Safari and mail immediately quit upon startup. No screen, just an instant crash and a crash report. After rebooting this is "solved". I have noticed that - when safari is open - I often get error messages popping up, but they dissappear before I can even read them. Nothing happens, but the fact that a error message pops up is not exactly reassuring...

- I have graphic glitches: the menu bar is all white with purple and green dots (very eighties 😝 ). Sometimes this is also occurs when restarting or logging in: the entire login screen is white with purple and green pixel artefacts, but the password bar is still present. After logging in, some glitches remain (e.g. in menubar, but also in some applications such as Safari or just in the finder). A second restart usually temporarily fixes it.

- Aperture is acting up badly: Again, I have these purple/green/white glitches but furthermore, some pretty recent photo's/folders (imported pre-10.8.3 update though) are corrupt (?). The previews are fine, but the photos themselves are 'unsupported file format" (+ I get a big exclamation mark) or it's just black where my photo should displayed. The unsupported file format bug happens for recent projects, older projects are fine OR they show this black, empty screen. Some projects also have 'mixed' photos e.g. last 5 viewed photos are merged/scrambled into one. All my imported pictures are either .raw, .jpg., .png or .psd. The problem is not dependant on format.

I have bought my rMBP in januari 2013 (LG screen), and I did a clean install of OSX + a slim migration from my 2008 iMac with Snow Leopard (just the documents, no preference files and all that jazz). I didn't install any 'weird' 3rd party applications (only the regular MS Office 2011, Aperture 3, Adobe CS6, Starcraft 2, X-Plane v.10, Papers 2, Google Earth). These applications haven't caused any problems in the past whatsoever (up to 6+ years).
The dissappearing menubar icons is not really enjoyable (to say the least), but I can live with it (for now). The graphic glitches are incredibly disturbing - I really need Aperture to work because I have some projects (e.g. weddings) to finish.

Do you guys also have this additional problems/glitches?

With "very eightis" you mean something like that:

or like that:

But, after this failure and rebooting it looks like this:

And I did not find additional problems, but maybe I just haven´t seen them.

Yes! Exactly like that! The 'scrambled eighties' menubar is right on the money 😝 Most of the time it is limited to the menubar, but sometimes it is duplicated right below it as well (so an 'eigthies' border with the identical height of the menubar across the entire desktop/finder). I haven't seen the things in Safari, but they sometimes appear at random locations in the finder and the entire login screen or whenever I do a shutdown or restart (instead of a grey screen, I get this...).
So far, I haven't seen them in 3rd party applications... I tried switching between the intel Graphics HD 4000 and the GeForce GT 650M, but they both display it, so it must be something software-related (OS X internal).

Btw, the dissappearing icons (in mail, safari, menubar and finder) as you're showing, are exactly the same...

After MBR going to sleep the error occures again. :/

No I tried Yaggo's solution:

1. Again applejack cache + preferences

2. set hibernatemode as suggested

Lets see what'll happen ...

Did not work ... now I am out of solutions.

What now?

How can I set Hibernate to standard behaviour?

Hi all, Is there any known solution for this problem? How to proceed if one is affected? All the best.

Okey after a while I recognized that the problem only occurs if there is no power left.

On "normal" standbye/sleep mode (just closing the lid) everything works fine ...

I try to avoid charging my macbook when its in sleep mode - otherwise the problem appears again. When the problem appeared im booting into single user mode and repair my preferences files (global and per user) with applejack. It usually moves

• com.apple.iPod.list
• jp.co.canon.ij.print.filter.raster2canonij.plist

away and the graphical issues are gone.

It would be interested if anyone else has also this 2 plist files moved away. Maybe its even a problem of the canon driver?

Same here, if it appears, I boot into single user mode (cmd + r) and start apple jack and clean up the global cache files.

but for me its not necesary to clean up the preference files and also not needed to clean up the user cache files.

I only need to clean up the global cache files.

i used to temprorary fix it with reboot in recovery mode (hold the Shift key while boot). It used to help for a while but after next waking up after hibernation mode (deep sleep) the problem appered again.

Upgrade to 10.8.3 treated the same way as reboot in recovery mode - problem showed up again after first hibernation.

Deleting any kind of plist files also didn't help.

Besides icons missing i also had problem with common applications crashing, which i think was consequenced by the that bug. I havn't tried applejac because i didn't think it would solve all of that stuff.

Finally i:

1) reinstalled the system in recovery mode (hold down the Command+R) with full hard drive formatting.

2) set hibernation mode to 0 (If you don't know anything about hibernation modes read about it first before making any changes).

sudo pmset -a hibernatemode 0

3) removed hibernation file

sudo rm /Private/var/vm/sleepimage

4) created a blank zero-byte immutable file so OS X cannot rewrite the file. that means it could never use hibernation (deep sleep).

sudo touch /Private/var/vm/sleepimage

sudo chflags uchg /Private/var/vm/sleepimage

That finally solved my problem. now im happy!

If icons missing is the only problem then u might need go only through 2-4 steps.

By the way, i haven't tried but maybe the first step is enough to solve the problem.

To me it seems that your Extras2.rsrc file gone missing or it has corrupted. Try holding down the option key as the computer starts up, boot it to Recovery HD, and download another copy of OS X.

The problem still exists in 10.8.3 - there's no way to remove the "graphics update" as it was possible with 10.8.2.

My MBPr ran several days without any problem. But today I had to reboot into safe mode two times.

And since today, Google Chrome does no longer start (http://productforums.google.com/forum/?utm_source=142063_en#!category-topic/chro me/report-a-problem-and-get-troubleshooting-help/mac/hhk90MrTltA).

What piece of s... is this "graphics performance update"...

@snazy: Did you contact Apple Support?

Apple asked me to do a new installation with all updates but only with Apple Software, so no Installation of any 3rd party software.

Because i can use another computer this week I did a reinstall. Since 2 days nothing happend, but thats not a real supprise. Because sometimes it takes a week or more till the problem is shown 😟

I did not contact Apple Support - they want money - I will not pay for bugs introduced by Apple operating system. I will not sign a support contract just because Apple coded a bug.

I did a recovery reinstall - problem did NOT disappear.

I have not the option to use another computer - I need that computer. It's not my duty to invest time and money in a bug caused by Apple! Apple seems not to be willing to fix this issue - they just deny knowledge of it. Hey - where's this board hosted...