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MacBook Pro (Retina, Mid 2012) freeze with Yosemite

After installing the OS X Yosemite my MBP Retina starts freezing due to graphic problems. The only option is to restart the Mac


How to find the problem and solve it?

MacBook Pro (Retina, Mid 2012), OS X Yosemite (10.10)

Posted on Oct 17, 2014 2:25 AM

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Nov 23, 2014 2:49 PM in response to immortalis

So it just happened again. I got this file sysiagnose_date.tar.gz. It seems there is too much private information stored in it to upload it. However I also would not know where to upload it.


Konsole gave me this this time:


Sun Nov 23 23:28:03 2014



Event: GPU Reset

Data/Time: Sun Nov 23 23:28:03 2014

Application: WindowServer

Path:

OS Version: Mac OS X Version 10.10.1 (Build 14B25)

Graphics Hardware: Intel HD Graphics 4000

Signature: 813



Report Data:



===========================================================================

Intel GPU Hang Summary

version 1.0.0

===========================================================================



-- Summary of Status for ALL Rings --

MAIN Ring is hung in a batch buffer <-- ROOT CAUSE!

MEDIA Ring is idle

BLT Ring is idle




And this:


Sun Nov 23 23:28:13 2014



Event: GPU Reset

Data/Time: Sun Nov 23 23:28:13 2014

Application:

Path:

OS Version: Mac OS X Version 10.10.1 (Build 14B25)

Graphics Hardware: Intel HD Graphics 4000

Signature: 3



Report Data:



===========================================================================

Intel GPU Hang Summary

version 1.0.0

===========================================================================



-- Summary of Status for ALL Rings --

MAIN Ring is hung in the ring <-- ROOT CAUSE!

MEDIA Ring is idle

BLT Ring is idle


And this:


Sun Nov 23 23:28:13 2014



Event: GPU Reset

Data/Time: Sun Nov 23 23:28:13 2014

Application:

Path:

OS Version: Mac OS X Version 10.10.1 (Build 14B25)

Graphics Hardware: Intel HD Graphics 4000

Signature: 3



Report Data:



===========================================================================

Intel GPU Hang Summary

version 1.0.0

===========================================================================



-- Summary of Status for ALL Rings --

MAIN Ring is hung in the ring <-- ROOT CAUSE!

MEDIA Ring is idle

BLT Ring is idle



All of these three reports have a long tail. I could send it to your E-Mail. I think it would just be too long for the forum.

It happened while surfing with Safari.

Nov 23, 2014 2:58 PM in response to TLFonseca

I hope Apple resolves this asap. I am experiencing this same exact issue on a macbook pro retina mid 2012 with 10.10.1. I am seeing every symptom mentioned thus far from sudden freeze (except for mouse) and having to shut down the machine cold to fuzzy looking images like the so many attached to this thread. Freeze happens at least once a day. Fuzzy screen will happen on sites with video and javascript like yahoo, cnn, youtube and soon after playing any of the videos - not before. Sometime I would hear the macbook pro make a chirp like noise at it freezes even when audio wasn't playing prior to the lock.

Nov 24, 2014 1:02 AM in response to Romanist10

+1 here with all the funny symptoms described in this thread: mid-2012 rMBP freezing all GUI access when Safari comes across fancy jQuery stuff.

I also had the impression that LittleSnitch contributed to crashes in the background, and have now disabled it.


Just to be sure: Romanist10 do you suggest reducing transparency in addition to turning off graphics switching in Energy Saver?

Nov 24, 2014 11:44 AM in response to TLFonseca

Freeze happens to me when showing video content on cnn.com using Chrome. MBP 15-inch Mid-2012

  • Intel HD Graphics 4000
  • NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M with 512MB of GDDR5 memory (15-inch 2.3GHz configuration) or NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M with 1GB of GDDR5 memory (15-inch 2.6GHz configuration) and automatic graphics switching


Apple, you have a problem either introduced or aggravated by Yosemite, and it needs to be fixed ASAP. People are losing work.

Nov 24, 2014 10:51 PM in response to TLFonseca

My Macbook Pro Retina Mid-2012 is experiencing hangs and hard crashes and just today started with graphics corruption (mine is black and white and effects only part of the screen.) IIRC I started having problems with an update just before Yosemite. In two years previous I don't remember more than one or two crashes and since Yosemite it has been happening a least every other day. Occasionally since Yosemite my macbook has been able to recover enough to recognize there has been a Graphics Error and send a message to Apple. I tried turning off Transparency in Accessibility earlier this evening and still saw graphics corruption. My wife's early 2008 Macbook Pro went splat with some kind of drive corruption three weeks ago and after many hours I was finally able to put that back together. She is running Yosemite without any problems. Our bullet proof MacBooks pros have been uncharacteristically giving us grief in the last month. Hoping for a solution to the graphics issue.

Nov 25, 2014 5:30 AM in response to helloworlder

Hi all,


for update :


- mine is a aMBP mid-2012 15"

- I'm now on 10.10.1

- I did several times fixing SMC + PRAM + disk + permissions

- I kept the "reduce transparency" option activated in "accessibility"

- I didn't keep the "switch" option in the power settings


although, I have a "quite" stable solution (definitely not stable as macbook air should be)


- I have apparently two types of crashes that occur :


>> "small" crash : then, I have the big black screen of death "a problem occured, type any key to reboot", then the reboot occurs properly and I get this


*** Panic Report ***

panic(cpu 4 caller 0xffffff7fa6377f63): "GPU Panic: [<None>] 5 0 a0 d9 9 8 0 3 : NVRM[0/1:0:0]: Read Error 0x00000100: CFG 0xffffffff 0xffffffff 0xffffffff, BAR0 0x104000000 0xffffff8213400000 0x0e7150a2, D0, P1/4\n"@/SourceCache/AppleGraphicsControl/AppleGraphicsControl-3.7.21/src/Apple MuxControl/kext/GPUPanic.cpp:127


>> "BIG" crash : in such case, happening (I think) more when I connect an external screen on thunderbolt port, I sometimes can't get the macbook booting, and have to do several SMC reset / PRAM / boot fails / SMC / PRAM.... gray screen / boot crash / failsafe mode (keeping "shift" while apple shows up).


I'm very fed up with these and will again call apple care to ask for a REAL solution...

MacBook Pro (Retina, Mid 2012) freeze with Yosemite

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