Recurring error: A graphics problem has been detected.

mbalgavy, I agree it must be related to yosemite upgrade and not a hardware issue. I also had this happen on two different models. I fixed it by running Yosemite Cache Cleaner from http://www.northernsoftworks.com/support.html. Therefore I think it is some leftover files somewhere that cause the problem. You can download and try it for free during the trial period. I did the deep cleaning option for all caches, no negative side effects and I have used this for years on many different systems to restore them to like new condition and performance. Give it a try and let us know if this works for you too.

Regards, Jeff

By the way, at some point, soon after my last post, I also cleared several of my caches (for another problem I was experiencing) and have not experienced any graphics issues since.

I just had the same error on my 1-month old iMac Ultra 5K with Yosemite. It was displaying when the display was dark and unlocking from inactivity. I hope it doesn't display again. I had a work computer reboot suddenly and it is indeed frightening.

Therefore, I don't see the problem is due to cached files or upgrading to Yosemite. I'm using a brand new system and saw this error. Hopefully it's something that will be fixed in the next update. I clicked "Report" error so at least they know it's a problem.

Also note that I have Firefox open with 10 tabs, Thunderbird, 10 Text Edit files, and the console.

i just wonder: if it was just about deleting files, why are all official apple responses state to bring back the mac. ( as reported here incl my warranty support responses ) why would apple rather exchange a 4000euro machine if a little file cleanser would do it? very mysterious!

I have a macbook air in my department that just started giving this error this week. It was upgrade to yosemite a couple months ago. I just tried running the Yosemite Cache Cleaner and a few minutes after, the machine restarted on on it's own for the first time and the message popped back up again. So I'm not convinced it's just a left-over file issue. At this point, I'm leaning toward reverting it back to Mavericks until this gets resolved.

My local apple authorized service provider have been looking into it with Apple technicians and it is a software issue with Yosemite. The solution, how lame it may be, is to downgrade to Mavericks and not upgrade to Yosemite. That is Apples solution to the problem. Also, Apple have informed the service provider that they are aware of the issue and that they are working on a fix for Yosemite.

The pixel error I have is a separate issue and the screen will be replaced.

Thanks for confirming everyones suspicions. I'm relieved to hear it's not recent hardware starting to fail. Let's hope that fix comes sooner than later. I'm holding off downgrading our macbook air for now. It's annoying, but not causing any major halts in production.

I have a 21.5 iMac Mid 2011, that was constantly locking with the video almost daily since I have upgraded to Yosemite. Using System Preferences --> Accessibility --> Display --> Reduce Transparency, I can confirm that I have not had an issue since doing this. (where's that wood to knock on?).

Hopefully this will help others having issues with this.

This may have been shared before but I thought I would add it for the benefit of those who have not seen the article. http://www.macissues.com/2014/11/04/transparency-and-graphics-switching-in-yosem ite-affecting-macbook-pros/

I'm hoping for a fix soon! I saw the alert once several days ago, but now it popped up twice in a row.

It makes my heart jump and I don't need any more stress in my life right now.

As a test I checked the "Reduce Transparency" in Settings > Accessiblity > Display

If I see the alert again then I don't think it is affected by the transparency.

I just saw it twice in a row again.

It occurs every time I view the following website in Firefox:

http://fluenz.com/languages/learn-portuguese/

This is with "Reduce Transparency" so I don't think it is a problem. It may be an issue with the OS but Firefox and certain websites cause this occur to repeat.

10.10.2 is out. Is it fixed ?

I updated to 10.10.2 earlier and I no longer see the error popup window. However, in Firefox 35.0.1 the screen freezes for three seconds when loading the following website, then releases and scrolls freely, but the video (within the iPhone frame) does not play. It appears to be an ogg format video. I can view other ogg videos.

http://fluenz.com/languages/learn-portuguese/

I have a laptop that I updated to 10.10.2 and can view the above website with video playing fine in Firefox 35.0.1.

Troubling that the video is not able to play properly on the iMac. The freezing is also of concern. However, I feel somewhat better without the error popup appearing.

Anyone else update?

I updated to 10.10.2 as well, and I can confirm that the recurring popup didn't show up after applying the update, rebooting and logging in.

Following that, I rebooted into the Yosemite Recovery and performed a permissions repair. Wrong permissions were detected for "displaypolicyd" but this time "GPURestartReporter" did not show up among the files with wrong permissions.

Do you think that doing something to fix "GPURestartReporter" recurring permission problems (as reported above by dsquareddan on page 6) is why the pop-up does not come up again and again anymore?

In any case, I am not convinced that this took care of the original problem. Sometimes, when opening the lid of my rMBP (mid '12) a screen of colorful "noise" (think TV static, but with colors) artifacts appear for just an instant. I have not tried to reproduce this, but surely it is not normal. At this point, I should note that I had my logic board replaced about a month ago and this "noise" thing happened again since, if it was a hardware fault, it persevered even after the logic board replacement.

Well no issues for me on a mid 2014 MBP 15 Retina. I will test and check back. Im always connected, mostly, to an external screen and it most likely happened when not connected to an external screen (maybe because with an external screen the nvidia cad is being used? )

Not sure anyway. Hope this update solves the issue. I also cleared PRAM since I had now with the update scrolling issues when swiping right to return to the previews page.

This i fixed, cleared cache, fixed permissions and reset safari.

I experienced this problem for the first time today. It seems as if turning off Automatic Graphics Switching in the Energy Saver prefs has resolved the issue.