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Cold restarts after 10.10.3 update.

Hi,

Ever since the 10.10.3 update I am experiencing two problems on my mac mini. I am not entirely sure that they are related to the update but since I haven’t changed anything (hardware or software) on my mac, I can only assume that the update probably triggered the issues.

The first problem is that every now and then I get a bunch of pixels flickering on some random position of my screen. Another user reported the exact same error and posted a video here: https://www.facebook.com/georgetasioulis/videos/10203713632115564/ Once I drag a window over these pixels, the problem is gone.

The second and more major problem is that I get random cold restarts. It could be 5 minutes since I booted my mac or even a day after. There is no specific app that I’m running when the mac restarts. In other words I can’t seem to find a pattern on when this happens.

After reading many forum posts I ended up doing a clean installation of Yosemite and started installing everything from scratch. After a while the same thing happened. I noticed that some “power users” can make sense of the kernel panic logs so here is my latest one:

Anonymous UUID: DFD8BE96-203B-C244-A890-73E40E563534

Sat Apr 18 09:26:15 2015

*** Panic Report ***

panic(cpu 2 caller 0xffffff8030417cc2): Kernel trap at 0xffffff803053ea88, type 13=general protection, registers:

CR0: 0x000000008001003b, CR2: 0x0000000004b77e1e, CR3: 0x0000000023f5e036, CR4: 0x00000000001626e0

RAX: 0xffffff805c11e020, RBX: 0xffffff804fd3ac00, RCX: 0xff0e1b2aff0e1a2a, RDX: 0xffffff804fd3ac50

RSP: 0xffffff822e4f3d30, RBP: 0xffffff822e4f3dd0, RSI: 0x0000000000000025, RDI: 0xffffff804fd3ac18

R8: 0x0000000000000001, R9: 0x0000000000000000, R10: 0x0000000000002000, R11: 0x0000000000000012

R12: 0xffffff805c11e000, R13: 0x0000000000000000, R14: 0xffffff804fd3ac18, R15: 0xffffff804fd3ac50

RFL: 0x0000000000010282, RIP: 0xffffff803053ea88, CS: 0x0000000000000008, SS: 0x0000000000000010

Fault CR2: 0x0000000004b77e1e, Error code: 0x0000000000000000, Fault CPU: 0x2

mp = 0xffffff804fd3ac00, phys = 0x31183c00, prev (0x7: 0x30113000-0x30200000)

vp = 0xffffff804fd3ac00, phys = 0x709000, prev (0: 0xa0000-0xc0000)

0xffffff804fd39000: YwAAAGcAAABtAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABAICA gAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAACAgB4fCQcgAACACAAAACETGg2GU6LSgoMZPwACAgACKggAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACAgEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAG1hcCBhdXRvX2hvbYjEe0+A////AAACAP8PAAAAAAA h/////z8AAAAAhOJQ4IHtUVi9mzYAjtNPAKLTT4D////QoSCysACmMLCE7VHAg+1RUJjTTwgAUAQAAAg AAAQAAAACAAABAAAsFAAAAGF1dG9mcwAAL25ldG1hcCAtaG9zwMwAAOAODu7g7t7uDgUODWWAACAgBLA 5gDsgAAH8/zeAgw8GdAMAAAAA

0xffffff804fd3a000: fwAAAIgAAACTAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACAgB4fCQcgAACACAAAACETGg2G06LTgoMqK0QBMwACKQQ AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AADAwAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAwMAeH4mHLQAKwAgAAAAhExYNqtIqH4qPGr9oAuoAAhoAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAj/fE+A////AAACAP8PAAAAAAAh/////z8AAAAAM3p QwIPtUYDLmjYAmNNPAKzTT2AtpjBQAKYwcNjeT/CAW2Og195PUKLTT4D///9gotNPgP///wAQEAQAEBA AqCFET2RldmYvZGV2AAACAP8PAAAAJGWK/////6AjAAApJAAAAAAAIT8AAAAAc9dP3GSWHQCi00+A/// /4HuvMF6YAQCYl/5VAAAAAkgCpzCQ/6UwgBfdYyAPElwA4BFcMN7eTwDQgAQAAN2AEAAAAAAQAAAAABA AqBR7A/UV4QL1G+ACs/iaAAIAAAERAAAAaGZzAMwAAAwODu7u4O7uDgAAMAABzswA4ODg4Oju4ODuLu7 eBwAAACAACAIBbA44DghQE/8DDiBs2TkBc4AAICAEICibAw44DgjwP4CDYQovAAAA

0xffffff804fd3b000: WQAAAF0AAABjAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACAgIAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAwgIAaHwoHLQAGQAoxAAAAABIDABAAAIAAFn0AAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHh8JByAAAIAAAAAAAAAiAS9kZXYvZGlzazBzMggY30+A////AAAAAgABAAAAAEA AAwAAANNuCwAAAAAhAN/eTwEAAABAc9dPQLbTTwAQAAAAAAIA/w8AAAAAACH/////wGyqTwIAAAAAAAA AAOUO7u4DzgMADOwAAIIQAIiO/T+AC/A/gEMJJgCBACAgBAA4

Backtrace (CPU 2), Frame : Return Address

0xffffff820ef35e10 : 0xffffff803032bda1

0xffffff820ef35e90 : 0xffffff8030417cc2

0xffffff820ef36050 : 0xffffff8030434b73

0xffffff820ef36070 : 0xffffff803053ea88

0xffffff822e4f3dd0 : 0xffffff80307552f7

0xffffff822e4f3eb0 : 0xffffff803055879b

0xffffff822e4f3ed0 : 0xffffff8030542e24

0xffffff822e4f3f40 : 0xffffff803054d027

0xffffff822e4f3f50 : 0xffffff803084ba86

0xffffff822e4f3fb0 : 0xffffff8030435376

BSD process name corresponding to current thread: sync

Mac OS version:

14D136

Kernel version:

Darwin Kernel Version 14.3.0: Mon Mar 23 11:59:05 PDT 2015; root:xnu-2782.20.48~5/RELEASE_X86_64

Kernel UUID: 4B3A11F4-77AA-3D27-A22D-81A1BC5B504D

Kernel slide: 0x0000000030000000

Kernel text base: 0xffffff8030200000

__HIB text base: 0xffffff8030100000

System model name: Macmini6,2 (Mac-F65AE981FFA204ED)

System uptime in nanoseconds: 648750639627

last loaded kext at 243977764692: com.apple.filesystems.msdosfs 1.10 (addr 0xffffff7fb112b000, size 69632)

loaded kexts:

com.Logitech.Unifying.HID Driver 1.3.1

com.Logitech.Control Center.HID Driver 3.9.1

at.obdev.nke.LittleSnitch 4240

com.apple.filesystems.msdosfs 1.10

com.apple.iokit.IOBluetoothUSBDFU 4.3.4f4

com.apple.iokit.BroadcomBluetoothHostControllerUSBTransport 4.3.4f4

com.apple.driver.AppleUSBCDC 4.3.3b1

com.apple.filesystems.autofs 3.0

com.apple.iokit.IOBluetoothSerialManager 4.3.4f4

com.apple.driver.AGPM 110.19.5

com.apple.driver.X86PlatformShim 1.0.0

com.apple.driver.ApplePlatformEnabler 2.2.0d4

com.apple.driver.AppleOSXWatchdog 1

com.apple.driver.AudioAUUC 1.70

com.apple.driver.AppleMikeyHIDDriver 124

com.apple.driver.AppleHDAHardwareConfigDriver 272.18

com.apple.driver.AppleUpstreamUserClient 3.6.1

com.apple.driver.AppleMCCSControl 1.2.11

com.apple.driver.AppleHDA 272.18

com.apple.iokit.IOUserEthernet 1.0.1

com.apple.Dont_Steal_Mac_OS_X 7.0.0

com.apple.driver.AppleHWAccess 1

com.apple.driver.AppleIntelHD4000Graphics 10.0.6

com.apple.driver.ACPI_SMC_PlatformPlugin 1.0.0

com.apple.driver.AppleHV 1

com.apple.driver.AppleSMCPDRC 1.0.0

com.apple.driver.AppleMuxControl 3.10.22

com.apple.driver.AppleIntelSlowAdaptiveClocking 4.0.0

com.apple.driver.AppleFIVRDriver 4.1.0

com.apple.driver.AppleLPC 1.7.3

com.apple.driver.AppleIntelFramebufferCapri 10.0.6

com.apple.driver.AppleMikeyDriver 272.18

com.apple.driver.AppleThunderboltIP 2.0.2

com.apple.driver.AppleUSBDisplays 372.1

com.apple.driver.AppleIRController 327.5

com.apple.driver.AppleFileSystemDriver 3.0.1

com.apple.AppleFSCompression.AppleFSCompressionTypeDataless 1.0.0d1

com.apple.AppleFSCompression.AppleFSCompressionTypeZlib 1.0.0d1

com.apple.BootCache 36

com.apple.driver.AppleUSBOHCI 656.4.1

com.apple.driver.XsanFilter 404

com.apple.iokit.IOAHCIBlockStorage 2.7.1

com.apple.driver.AirPort.Brcm4331 800.20.24

com.apple.iokit.IOAHCIPassThrough 1.0.3

com.apple.driver.AppleSDXC 1.6.5

com.apple.iokit.AppleBCM5701Ethernet 10.1.3

com.apple.driver.AppleUSBHub 705.4.2

com.apple.driver.AirPort.Brcm4360 930.37.3

com.apple.driver.AppleFWOHCI 5.5.2

com.apple.driver.AppleAHCIPort 3.1.2

com.apple.driver.AppleUSBEHCI 705.4.14

com.apple.driver.AppleUSBXHCI 710.4.11

com.apple.driver.AppleACPIButtons 3.1

com.apple.driver.AppleRTC 2.0

com.apple.driver.AppleHPET 1.8

com.apple.driver.AppleSMBIOS 2.1

com.apple.driver.AppleACPIEC 3.1

com.apple.driver.AppleAPIC 1.7

com.apple.driver.AppleIntelCPUPowerManagementClient 218.0.0

com.apple.nke.applicationfirewall 161

com.apple.security.quarantine 3

com.apple.security.TMSafetyNet 8

com.apple.driver.AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement 218.0.0

com.apple.iokit.IOBluetoothHostControllerUSBTransport 4.3.4f4

com.apple.kext.triggers 1.0

com.apple.iokit.IOSerialFamily 11

com.apple.driver.DspFuncLib 272.18

com.apple.kext.OSvKernDSPLib 1.15

com.apple.iokit.IOSurface 97.4

com.apple.driver.IOPlatformPluginLegacy 1.0.0

com.apple.driver.AppleBacklightExpert 1.1.0

com.apple.iokit.IONDRVSupport 2.4.1

com.apple.driver.AppleGraphicsControl 3.10.22

com.apple.driver.X86PlatformPlugin 1.0.0

com.apple.iokit.IOSlowAdaptiveClockingFamily 1.0.0

com.apple.iokit.IOUSBUserClient 705.4.0

com.apple.iokit.IOFireWireIP 2.2.6

com.apple.driver.AppleHDAController 272.18

com.apple.iokit.IOHDAFamily 272.18

com.apple.driver.IOPlatformPluginFamily 5.9.1d7

com.apple.iokit.IOAcceleratorFamily2 156.14

com.apple.AppleGraphicsDeviceControl 3.10.22

com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily 2.4.1

com.apple.driver.AppleSMBusController 1.0.13d1

com.apple.driver.AppleSMC 3.1.9

com.apple.driver.AppleSMBusPCI 1.0.12d1

com.apple.driver.AppleThunderboltEDMSink 4.0.2

com.apple.iokit.IOSCSIArchitectureModelFamily 3.7.5

com.apple.iokit.IOUSBHIDDriverPM 710.4.7

com.apple.driver.AppleUSBAudio 295.23

com.apple.iokit.IOAudioFamily 203.3

com.apple.vecLib.kext 1.2.0

com.apple.driver.IOBluetoothHIDDriver 4.3.4f4

com.apple.iokit.IOBluetoothFamily 4.3.4f4

com.apple.iokit.IOUSBHIDDriver 705.4.0

com.apple.driver.AppleThunderboltDPInAdapter 4.0.6

com.apple.driver.AppleThunderboltDPOutAdapter 4.0.6

com.apple.driver.AppleThunderboltDPAdapterFamily 4.0.6

com.apple.driver.AppleThunderboltPCIUpAdapter 2.0.2

com.apple.driver.AppleThunderboltPCIDownAdapter 2.0.2

com.apple.driver.AppleUSBMergeNub 705.4.0

com.apple.driver.AppleUSBComposite 705.4.9

com.apple.driver.AppleThunderboltNHI 3.1.7

com.apple.iokit.IOThunderboltFamily 4.2.2

com.apple.iokit.IOEthernetAVBController 1.0.3b3

com.apple.iokit.IO80211Family 730.60

com.apple.driver.mDNSOffloadUserClient 1.0.1b8

com.apple.iokit.IONetworkingFamily 3.2

com.apple.iokit.IOFireWireFamily 4.5.6

com.apple.iokit.IOAHCIFamily 2.7.5

com.apple.iokit.IOUSBFamily 720.4.4

com.apple.driver.AppleEFINVRAM 2.0

com.apple.driver.AppleEFIRuntime 2.0

com.apple.iokit.IOHIDFamily 2.0.0

com.apple.iokit.IOSMBusFamily 1.1

com.apple.security.sandbox 300.0

com.apple.kext.AppleMatch 1.0.0d1

com.apple.driver.AppleKeyStore 2

com.apple.driver.AppleMobileFileIntegrity 1.0.5

com.apple.driver.AppleCredentialManager 1.0

com.apple.driver.DiskImages 396

com.apple.iokit.IOStorageFamily 2.0

com.apple.iokit.IOReportFamily 31

com.apple.driver.AppleFDEKeyStore 28.30

com.apple.driver.AppleACPIPlatform 3.1

com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily 2.9

com.apple.iokit.IOACPIFamily 1.4

com.apple.kec.Libm 1

com.apple.kec.pthread 1

com.apple.kec.corecrypto 1.0

I would really appreciate if someone could point me to the right direction in order to figure out what to do next. My spec is a mac mini (late 2012) 2.3GHz i7 with 16GB RAM from Crucial and a Corsair SSD Force 3 240GB. It is connected to an Apple Thunderbolt display with only one peripheral: a Logitech Anywhere MX mouse.

One last thing… the above kernel crash log is kinda rare. Most of them have this:

Kernel Extensions in backtrace:

com.apple.iokit.IOACPIFamily(1.4)[70E2B65E-A91A-3522-A1A0-79FD63EABB4C]@0xfffff f7f82ecb000->0xffffff7f82ed3fff

com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.9)[52E715FC-521D-3869-B2EA-5228FA4BEA34]@0xffffff 7f82524000->0xffffff7f82552fff

com.apple.driver.AppleACPIPlatform(3.1)[97299A71-6EDD-3AD9-AE1D-2F7B61E8AA72]@0 xffffff7f8458b000->0xffffff7f845e9fff

dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOACPIFamily(1.4)[70E2B65E-A91A-3522-A1A0-79FD63EABB4C]@0xfffff f7f82ecb000

dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.9)[52E715FC-521D-3869-B2EA-5228FA4BEA34]@0xffffff 7f82524000

Not sure if this helps but “com.apple.iokit.IOACPIFamily” is mentioned most of the times.

Mac mini, OS X Yosemite (10.10.3), Late 2012, 2.3 GHz i7

Posted on Apr 18, 2015 12:00 AM

488 replies

MrCamaleo

Level 1

102 points

May 16, 2015 9:39 AM in response to BG2k

BG2k wrote:

I want to believe that Apple is better than that.

I want too and I was considering some time ago to buy a Mac Pro, but now I have found out that even the Mac Pro can face the same issue...

Luckily for the moment my problems seem fixed so I can and will postpone the decision - at the end of the day investing several thousands dollars for a system that can become unusable with a minor upgrade is a risk I cannot take.

This thread is one month old, I expect some kind of comment by an Apple representative, just to let us know that they are working on this.

Am I asking too much?

Good old big cats, why did they kill you?

notcloudy

Level 4

1,252 points

May 16, 2015 12:45 PM in response to MrCamaleo

MrCamaleo wrote:

BG2k wrote:

I want to believe that Apple is better than that.

I want too and I was considering some time ago to buy a Mac Pro, but now I have found out that even the Mac Pro can face the same issue...

Luckily for the moment my problems seem fixed so I can and will postpone the decision - at the end of the day investing several thousands dollars for a system that can become unusable with a minor upgrade is a risk I cannot take.

This thread is one month old, I expect some kind of comment by an Apple representative, just to let us know that they are working on this.

Am I asking too much?

Good old big cats, why did they kill you?

In order for Apple support to look at this threat - a person with the problem has to reference it during a support request. If no-one has, then the problem will continue.

notcloudy

Level 4

1,252 points

May 16, 2015 12:50 PM in response to leonardschuetz

Flickering - wondering if it has something to do with Yosemite's eye candy as the article below puts it - is the cause of the problem - maybe in conflict with other programs and causing the flickering. Anyhow - they recommend a clean desktop - minimal icons and turning off transparency.

http://osxdaily.com/2014/10/24/speed-up-os-x-yosemite-mac/

Barney-15E

Level 10

116,908 points

May 16, 2015 10:05 PM in response to notcloudy

I have anywhere from three to a dozen items on my desktop, transparency on, and no flickering--or any other problems on a 2012 Mini. Only system mod is VirtualBox.

My daughter's 2010 MBP doesn't exhibit any flickering, either. Her desktop isn't particularly clean, either.

Isra

Level 1

39 points

May 17, 2015 8:08 AM in response to Panagiotis Tsamoudakis

Mid-2012 Macbook Pro, 2.5 GHz Intel Core i5, 4GB memory, Intel HD Graphics 4000 GPU.

I just had several days in a row of no restarts, with periodic flickering as described by other users that is only a visual annoyance: Small grey or colored bars in a couple of places. The flickering bars go away if I drag a window over the affected areas.
Then just now, I was watching a Flash video embedded in a website and when it finished, I got the worst flickering yet. The entire display went haywire and flickered rapidly in bars across the whole screen. I couldn't get it to go away, so I just restarted my computer.

SnakeMac

Level 1

0 points

May 17, 2015 10:33 AM in response to notcloudy

@ notcloudy

I do have a clean desktop and transparency reduced. Otherwise my system would be painfully slow.

I can live with strange flickering as long as there are no reboots anymore. Still annoying.

@ Isra

The colorful artifacts I had (one could call it static pixel party - the entire upper right corner of about 3 cm) went away after I changed my wallpaper.

Those things seem to happen more often, when pushing the HD 4000 by watching videos or or changing color profiles or doing both at the same time. Which is what I did.

Do you have an external monitor attached? HDMI or DVI?

May 17, 2015 11:36 AM in response to notcloudy

hi with the on board video card hd 4000 normally apple will bundle it in with a update i don't think you can up date the card it self i might be wrong but i been getting a kernel panic about once a day so random today i was just accessing safari with little snitch on

May 17, 2015 12:01 PM in response to Panagiotis Tsamoudakis

After reading that this is affecting multiple platforms, this is clearly a fault in the last update to Yosemite.

I have a mid 2009 iMac 27" desktop. Originally loaded with Snow Leopard, I've upgraded over the years and was running Yosemite successfully for many months. Until the recent patch provided about a week ago. I initially had the pixilation problem described by many in this discussion, but that eventually turned into the White Screen of Death (just a plane white screen, no logos).

After trying a myriad of options provided by sites across the Web that also included formatting and reinstalling Yosemite cleanly from scratch, and after 20+ hours of attempted tricks and installs, I finally had to revert back to Mavericks by formatting the HD in the iMac, downloading a copy on another MAC and loading onto a bootable USB stick, and installing Maverick as a fresh install. Unfortunately, I didn't back-up my system as frequently as I should have, otherwise I could have reverted back to 10.10.2 which was working fine.

The problem is, as updates come along for other applications, they may no longer be compatible with OS X 10.9. So I need Apple to identify the problem in the 10.10.3 version and fix it. But, my service contracts have expired, so they won't listen to me. Hopefully others in this thread with active service contracts will press on.

May 17, 2015 1:39 PM in response to Kabelton

Same here and it crashes relentlessly. I have not observed the flickering graphics but the black screen crashes require an SMC reset before I can restart. This has been going on for weeks because I can't go back to 10.10.2 because Final Cut 10.2 updated the data files it uses and they're not downward compatible. Music and video are what I do so it's an exquisite world of pain.

The only common variables to each startup have been Skype and Safari and the latter looks to be a big part of it as I've been isolating peripheral devices but it makes no difference whether they are online or not. Removing Flash was good because that stopped a lot of Safari / Webkit loops. It's mostly used on tabloid sites but BBC uses it as well. Judging by their morning show, they want to be a tabloid too.

I've read pages and pages here with many people suffering the same symptoms and not much to identify what causes them but 10.10.3 is in the middle of it. There is a MacBook Pro to one side. It runs 10.10.2 and has been rock solid for quite some time. It's prevented from doing an automatic update as I want to have one reliable machine here. Absolutely infuriating.

notcloudy

Level 4

1,252 points

May 17, 2015 4:13 PM in response to Barney-15E

Barney-15E wrote:

I have anywhere from three to a dozen items on my desktop, transparency on, and no flickering--or any other problems on a 2012 Mini. Only system mod is VirtualBox.

My daughter's 2010 MBP doesn't exhibit any flickering, either. Her desktop isn't particularly clean, either.

So - other people have a problem and are trying to solve it - saying you do not have the problem just means you have not triggered it.

Quick web search using ask.com - brought up a number of other sites with discussions on Yosemite Flickering - this site may be of interest to those with the problem - as to why it is happening.

http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/152038/prevent-redraw-of-menu-bar-icons -yosemite

Barney-15E

Level 10

116,908 points

May 17, 2015 7:31 PM in response to notcloudy

notcloudy wrote:

Barney-15E wrote:

I have anywhere from three to a dozen items on my desktop, transparency on, and no flickering--or any other problems on a 2012 Mini. Only system mod is VirtualBox.

My daughter's 2010 MBP doesn't exhibit any flickering, either. Her desktop isn't particularly clean, either.

So - other people have a problem and are trying to solve it - saying you do not have the problem just means you have not triggered it.

Exactly. I thought someone on this thread was trying to collect information on what systems seem to be affected and why. The post I replied to suggested some combination of desktop items and transparency was involved. I responded with my observations.

If you use the term flickering to mean the Finder or the Status Menu items are crashing and restarting, then that is something completely different than a graphics problem. Both SystemUIServer and the Finder have behaved that way when certain poorly written Status Menu items are involved. They have done that in just about every version of OS X since the Status Menu was introduced.

May 18, 2015 3:47 PM in response to Panagiotis Tsamoudakis

Hi Everyone,

I have been writing on the Yosemite 10.10.3 crashing daily thread https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6999248?tstart=0 also. I recently discovered that my 2013 macbook pro retina display works fine only if I have it plugged into my Thunderboldt display. When it is not plugged in to the display and is running on it's own I am forced to do cold restarts with most of the Adobe programs and some web browsers I use (as a graphic designer this is pretty all I use 😟 ). So good news is I have a work around bad news is this is a very expensive fancy computer that is essentially does not work on it's own. This started immediately after the 10.10.3 upgrade, and yes I have run the subsequent "fix" upgrades. But I truly feel that Apple has broken our computers. I've also noticed in the activity monitor kernel_task running at over 1k mg since the upgrade, which seems high bit since my comp. has 16 gb it doesn't seem to be an issue.

-A

Togão

Level 1

0 points

May 18, 2015 4:57 PM in response to Panagiotis Tsamoudakis

Hi, everyone.

The problem with my macbook is exactly the same of the videos posted in this forum, a deja vu.

Annoying flickering bars randomly placed on its screen.

The problems started after updating Yosemite from 10.10.2 to 10.10.3.

My equipment is a Macbook Pro Mid 2012, with SSD and 8 Gb of memory.

This is clearly a problem with a defective video driver. It's very frustrating because on 10.10.2 was rock solid... I would like my system running without problems.

It's time to Apple start to make moves to fix this.

Best Regards.

May 18, 2015 10:39 PM in response to Panagiotis Tsamoudakis

Hey there,

Little update after a few days: After uninstalling iStat Menus my Mac mini has been crash free and without any flickering for 3 days now (to be honest, I've just worked 3-4 hours with it the last days - so: Trying not to be too happy until the next days). 😁

Yesterday I installed and checked my replacement RAM from Corsair - and I will continue to see what time shows.

n748

Level 1

34 points

May 18, 2015 11:58 PM in response to Larsen2k4

@Larsen24k: Well - you said that before ;D

No - but seriously. I am also panic-free for 19 days now. And I have no clue why. I also renewed my RAM, deactivated GPU switching for a while and deinstalled DisplayLink (USB graphics) drivers. But I am pretty sure it will come back. The flickering did not occur at all recently.

Cold restarts after 10.10.3 update.