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Heidi Robertson
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Q: Macbook Air Locking up with 10.9.2

I have a Macbook Air and have just updated it with 10.9.2 and since then, I am experiencing a total freeze of my computer from time to time.  I have to hold down the on/off key as rest of keys and trackpad are dead. Any ideas. 1.8Ghz i5, 4GB 1600 MHz DDR3.  It seems to do it more after a period of inactivity however it also does it less frequently whilst I am using it so not related to any energy saving issues.  Prior to installation of 10.9.2 update, it was perfect.

 

Can anyone suggest anything?

 

I have verified and repaired permissions and verified the disk via disk utilities but this has made no difference.

 

Thanks

Heidi

Posted on Mar 3, 2014 1:17 AM

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Heidi Robertson

Q: Macbook Air Locking up with 10.9.2

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  • by William Boyd, Jr.,

    William Boyd, Jr. William Boyd, Jr. Mar 3, 2014 7:24 PM in response to Heidi Robertson
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    Mar 3, 2014 7:24 PM in response to Heidi Robertson

    Launch the Activity Monitor utility and see if there are any logged messages from around the time of the problem that might explain what's going on.

  • by UNIXBarfBag,

    UNIXBarfBag UNIXBarfBag Mar 23, 2014 4:32 PM in response to Heidi Robertson
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    Mar 23, 2014 4:32 PM in response to Heidi Robertson

    Heidi:

     

    I am exeriencing the very same issue with my 2012 Macbook Air after applying the 10.9.2 update.  I have never experienced this before while running OS X versions 10.8.x through 10.9.1 on this hardware.  I have dug extensively through the system logs and can find no trace of the cause.  It's definitely not a kernel panic and the system logs show normal activity until the freeze occurs and then show the boot-time messages from the hard reset that I have to perform.  I have reinstalled the OS and have run the Apple Hardware Test diagnostics (with no errors found) and just had another freeze a few moments ago.  I am stumped as to the cause other than to say that it's almost surely a bug that Apple introduced with 10.9.2.  My best suggestion would be to supply feedback to Apple about this at www.apple.com/feedback, since they don't monitor these fora.

     

    Cheers,

    Dave