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

May 21, 2015 9:24 AM in response to SnakeMac

The theory is: Intel HD 4000 + animated menu bar items + evil secret 10.10.3 supplemental update ingredient makes the Mac prone to crash. (Variant: Intel HD 4000 and an external monitor as the Mac Mini 2012 is mentioned in the majority of the crash reports.)

I will stick to this theory until it is proven wrong just because a) so far the workaround works and b) we don't have anything better coming from Apple.

Note that this theory does not at all say that the combination of these three factors is the only cause for the crashes!

May 21, 2015 9:40 AM in response to Old Archibald Yates

Seems legit. Still no crashes for me since removing iStat menus and having my Menu Bar unanimated (except for the seconds of the clock).

I'll reinstall iStat after the weekend to prove the theory. 🙂

SnakeMac

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May 21, 2015 9:45 AM in response to Larsen2k4

I really do not believe it's hardware related because Apple exchanged almost every part of my MBA twice (long story) and it didn't help.

I gave the old adapter a new try: Everything is fine.

So yes, I agree. It's a software issue.

I will do clean install with 10.10.4 as soon as it arrives and avoid 10.10.3 in the future.

@Larsen

Since what happened when I uninstalled it I wouldn't if I were you.

May 21, 2015 10:12 AM in response to SnakeMac

This is a long-shot, to say the least... But another menu bar item, this one from Apple, also seems to cause menu bar redraws very frequently: System Preferences > Security & Privacy > Location Services > System Services > Show location icon in menu bar when System Services request your location.

I have it enabled on my Mac mini, which has seen frequent kernel panics running 10.10.3, and disabled on my MBA, also running 10.10.3.

Again, I have not used LS at all, and still experienced frequent panics on my Mini... I do, however, use Chrome browser, which also adds items to the menu bar.

cdolson

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May 21, 2015 3:25 PM in response to Alan Klein1

After working for the last month with the crashes happening only every once and a while (and upon opening iTunes) I have a new problem:

Now my Mac Pro (late 2013) crashes each time I try to wake it from sleep! To get it to boot I have to startup in Recovery mode and repair disk permissions.

I was tolerating 10.10.3 and able to work through a whole day without crashing that often. Some days not at all.

But now it's impossible to work -

Anyone have a solution for the crashing while trying to wake?

May 22, 2015 3:19 AM in response to cdolson

There goes my luck... After all these days, I got the next panic - this time right after waking the Mac from sleep (just had it booted up and opened Safari and Mail for a few minutes before putting it into sleep.)

Again I can see the graphics driver included in the backtrace of the panic report and the last loaded kext is the smb-filesystem (has been shown as last loaded several times)...

So I'll send another report to Apple 😐

May 22, 2015 4:20 AM in response to Alan Klein1

Alan Klein1 wrote:

This is a long-shot, to say the least... But another menu bar item, this one from Apple, also seems to cause menu bar redraws very frequently: System Preferences > Security & Privacy > Location Services > System Services > Show location icon in menu bar when System Services request your location.

I really do hope that your suspicion proves true.

Don't get me wrong: I feel sorry for you as I feel sorry for everyone who can not rely on his Mac anymore. But if the menu bar icon of one of Apple's own applications is causing kernel panics they can not blame the crashes on poorly written third party software. Which might lead to a fix.

There are some crash reports mentioning the Macs are crashing right after waking them up from sleep. Your observation would fit into this crashing behaviour as all apps that request the location will certainly do so after waking up. They will also do so when you switch the Mac on, true. But since the starting process takes quite a while (at least on my Mac Mini with an HD) these apps might request the location while the menu bar and its icons are not working yet.

And what would also fit is that I have never experienced crashes right after waking up my Mac. Because I had found the location request indicator in the menu bar distracting and turned it off in the first hours of using Yosemite.

Funnily, just yesterday I had been musing about the menu bar clock that is sort of animated too. The location request indicator did not come to my mind though.

notcloudy

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May 22, 2015 5:14 PM in response to cdolson

cdolson wrote:

Now my Mac Pro (late 2013) crashes each time I try to wake it from sleep! To get it to boot I have to startup in Recovery mode and repair disk permissions.

I was tolerating 10.10.3 and able to work through a whole day without crashing that often. Some days not at all.

But now it's impossible to work -

Anyone have a solution for the crashing while trying to wake?

Have you thought of just shutting down for the night? I never leave my mac up and running when not in use - its shut down and start up. Keeps the RAM clean and tidy.

May 22, 2015 9:16 PM in response to Old Archibald Yates

Alan Klein1 wrote:

Good thinking about the indicator, but I've checked this and noticed that it was disabled for me already - so the indicator only shows up for the services listed in the main preferences window. Still have had the crashes.

sufisufi

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May 22, 2015 9:33 PM in response to Panagiotis Tsamoudakis

I am on Day 3 of no video glitches and no crashes. Before deleting the plist files I mentioned previously and disabling LittleSnitch in the menu bar, I had video glitches many times daily/crashes nearly every day (and quite a few kernal panics just this past Tuesday before implementing these changes Wednesday morning). I should also mention that I reset the SMC and PRAM Wednesday evening as well.

I don't know if it's complete dumb luck and they just stopped, or if this worked, or if it will eventually come back, but I have been using my computer for 10+ hours a day (Web Dev boot camp), so I am feeling pretty good about this being the magic bullet actually.

Has anyone else tried deleting .plist files in User_Name/Library/Preferences (specifically the ones I mentioned), or testing if they get the same glitches/crashes with different users on their machine?

By the way, I am still running LS in the background, still hooking up to an external monitor via Thunderbolt -> HDMI and still using a Logitech Bluetooth Mouse.

Will certainly let anyone know if my problems return, but I am also curious to know if this might help anyone else.

n748

Level 1

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May 22, 2015 10:27 PM in response to cdolson

cdolson wrote:

I'm having the same issue with 10.10.3 with restarts. Thread here: iTunes crashes Yosemite 10.10.3 to black screen

I'm running a Mac Pro (Late 2013) with 1TB SSD and 2 AMD D700 Firepro.

My issue is similar that it happens with different software (I can regularly trigger it by opening iTunes). My Mac freezes the cursor and completely stops responding and then cold reboots after about 10 seconds and a black screen.

I'm going to try to roll back to 10.10.2 this weekend to see if that helps.

It does seem to be a hardware issue. Depending on the type of hardware you have. SSD might be a common hardware theme with those of us who have the crashing.

@cdolson: The problems you are having are very different from what most people are experiencing here. Also you would be the only Mac Pro user afaik. Most people suffer totally random kernel panics and strange graphics glitches. I wouldn't be surprised if your problem is described better in another thread.

Short update from my side: No panics in three weeks now??? The blinking bars appear very seldomly now. However, I have kind of a flashing screen showing weird noise for a millisecond sometimes when some windows are redrawn, e. g. when I move or switch windows.

LittleSnitchand iStat are still active and in the Menubar. I wish we knew what exactly causes this problem. None of the theories holds so far. Only thing that is clear is the 10.10.3 and Intel 4000 GPU. And most often (but not always) LittleSnitch users are affected.

kadokado

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May 22, 2015 10:38 PM in response to Old Archibald Yates

COLORED animated Menu Bar Items, thatsway problems with Little Snitch, iStatMenu, but not with ShareMouse, because it has an animated Menu bar Item. And its not only a theory, removing the colored Menue Bar item and no Square Flickering on Mac Mini with Intel HD Graphics 4000.

Look at: http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/152038/prevent-redraw-of-menu-bar-icons -yosemite (this Link was posted some days ago in this thread), I inform Obdev.at (Little Snitch, they look for an Workarround, till then remove the NetStatus Monitor Menu Bar Item). And its a Problem of 10.10, not only 10.10.3 allthrough under 10.10.3 affected more people. And not at first from the graphic supplemental update from 10.10.3 (as other useres wrote), You can find similar bug reports for 10.10.1 ...

kadokado

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May 22, 2015 10:48 PM in response to cdolson

I had both problems, the restart problem and the flickering square problem, the first I solved on the first day myself without the help of the Community: I look for old, outdated and incompatible kext Files and other old and obsolete system files, remove them, install 10.10.3 again, make a SMC and PRAM Reset, starting in Secure mode, and the restarts ends. btw: If you remove old and obsolte system files (in Library and User Library), the Mac is quickly again.

The second problem I solved with help of this Article: http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/152038/prevent-redraw-of-menu-bar-icons -yosemite

I remove all colored menu bar items and now no Flickering. And its a software problem. Hope Apple will fixing it with 10.10.4

n748

Level 1

34 points

May 22, 2015 11:53 PM in response to kadokado

kadokado wrote:

COLORED animated Menu Bar Items, thatsway problems with Little Snitch, iStatMenu, but not with ShareMouse, because it has an animated Menu bar Item. And its not only a theory, removing the colored Menue Bar item and no Square Flickering on Mac Mini with Intel HD Graphics 4000.

Interesting. In fact most - but not all of my menubar items are black&white. And I use the black Menubar. I will test what happens when I turn on the color in LittleSnitch and iStat. However, for me the kernel panics started first with 10.10.3. Before the screen froze sometimes but I am pretty sure this was due to GPU switching.

notcloudy

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May 23, 2015 6:01 AM in response to kadokado

kadokado wrote:

I remove all colored menu bar items and now no Flickering. And its a software problem. Hope Apple will fixing it with 10.10.4

Have you sent feedback to apple - along with always sending crash reports? Problem with fixing software problems of the flickering type - or crash type - is that the programmer has to know how to trigger the crash in order to fix it. If you have not sent the reports - look in Console logs for crash reports - sometimes they do identify the program that crashed.

My concern about compression/decompression of RAM - causing the crash or flickering - has to do with a rare - compressed over modem EDI transmission from a retailer experience -- where after many thousands of transmissions - one dataset had a spot that compressed into End of transmission/hang up the phone -- so wondering if within the compressed memory something is compressing into end of set.

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Cold restarts after 10.10.3 update.