Icons in menu bar and standard menus are invisible!

It was a new install including formatting the disk.

Because I had to work on this machine I installed just a few Apps, but no Apps which installs any Kernelextensions. I also did not install any app which deals with displayresolution.

I did not bring any Settings/Preferences/homedirectory over from my old system.

OK, that's pretty close to what I did. Not looking forward to seeing things start to fall apart again. I'll post in this thread if I start having trouble again.

Same problem here... It started about 3 weeks ago, it just disappeared after the update 10.8.4 and yesterday it came back... This is ridiculous... Apple, wake up! a 2000$ MPBR with such a bug, I'm really not happy.

Just make sure, that your battery never runs completely out of power and if it happens use applejack -> cleanup global cache files.

I can confirm that the bug still exists in 10.8.4.

Behaviour has not changed since 10.8.2 w/ Graphics "Performance" update.

It would be very nice if some Apple engineer takes part in this discussion.

Thanks for your help but I'm running 10.8 and applejack is not supported. Is there any other soft, compatible 10.8, that'd do the job?

Same here, with 10.8.4 nothing changed.... frustrating...

A quick question. Have you disabled the swap page by:

sudo launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.dynamic_pager.plist

sudo rm /private/var/vm/swapfile*

I have been having all the same issues reported here. Everytime the issue occured was when my laptop ran out of juice in sleep mode then went into deep sleep. When I charged the battery and started the laptop I would lose all the user interface icons.

I narrowed the issue to having a 3rd party app (Deep Sleep) to enable hibernate when I had Lion originally installed. I upgraded to ML 10.8.x and started to have this issue.

As a temporary solution I would reboot into safe mode by holding the "shift key" during reboot. then once logged in I would launch CCleaner and clean out all temp and junk files. Reboot and the issue would go away until the laptop ran out of juice again and would go into deep sleep.

To resolve my issue i modified the sleep settings to default:

First I checked what hibernate/sleep mode I was set to using the following command:

Command: pmset -g | grep hibernatemode

Results: hibernatemode 3

I changed the setting to the default of 0 using the following command:

sudo pmset -a hibernatemode 0

I will ask for your administrator password, just enter the password of your account and continue.

I also removed the .plist files of the offending app and made sure that there where no traces of it too.

Sine making the changes I have allowed the battery to drain several times then charged it and have found that the issue has gone away (finally). Again, this is my scenerio it may not apply to everyone but its worth checking none the less.

I hope this helps, thank you.

does anyone know if performing a complete clean install will resolve the issue?

No, a complete install did not help on my system, i tried it twice.

The only workaround available is to set hibernatemode to 0.

Since a few month I have a case open with apple, but they still have no solution.

How many cycles of battery do you have?

PS. If you don't know how to check it, use iStat Pro.

72. Why are you asking?

When I am at home my Macbook is always pluged in.

So only during my traveling weeks I use battery very often.

This is exactly why I'm asking.

I use in 95% my laptop plugged in. However recently I used it a way more on battery and experienced the problems.

I asked about cycles as my theory is that OSX can calculates remaining time wrongly.

Just image a simple situation:

OSX gets information it's 60 seconds left and starts a hibernation process. In fact there is only 25 seconds left. So in the middle of hibernation process the battery is off and the hibernation process is done not properly.

Why the information can be wrong? Well it's the same in opposite way when OSX says it's 0m0s left and you still can use the laptop for 5-10 minutes. It's just not perfect. And I think it gets worse when you have more cycles. I have 190 cycles.

You can also try to run hibernation while plugged in. I tried few times and I have never experienced the issue then.

And of course I can be wrong. Maybe OSX check some integration of RAM image (by calculating MD5 for example) and then recheck it with the sleepimage file. Then if the MD5 is not the same it shouldn't try to restore it. But I don't know. It's OSX, not Linux. So we can't check what really happens. Anyone knows?

OK, never thought about that. But you are right: As long as it is plugged in, the problem will not occur.
It only occurs when it is on battery and the content of the RAM has been written to the disk (flash).