Paul Hodson3
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Q: Mac Pro keeps logging out since El Capitan

Upgraded my Mac Pro to El Capitan, all went well. I logged in, then logged into iCloud and that also went well. But then it crashed with a kernel panic, restarted OK.

It now is running OK but after a few minutes it will log me off and back to the password prompt. Very frustrating and not able to work with it in such very short windows of time.

 

Anybody else seeing this?

 

Paul.

Mac Pro, OS X El Capitan (10.11)

Posted on Oct 1, 2015 4:29 AM

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  • by Dominick Saponaro,

    Dominick Saponaro Dominick Saponaro Oct 22, 2015 9:10 AM in response to Skruggs
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    Oct 22, 2015 9:10 AM in response to Skruggs

    No issues with displays have separate spaces disabled though?

  • by sander_p,

    sander_p sander_p Oct 22, 2015 10:08 AM in response to Dominick Saponaro
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    Oct 22, 2015 10:08 AM in response to Dominick Saponaro

    I have two GT 120 cards. At first, it seemed stable. But after 10 or 15 minutes, the crashes came back with a vengeance.

     

    With two displays on one card, everything is stable, as before.

  • by mgerdes,

    mgerdes mgerdes Oct 22, 2015 11:29 AM in response to sander_p
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    Oct 22, 2015 11:29 AM in response to sander_p

    Nvidia has released an new driver today. I been running it for an hour now with 2 Geforce GT 120 cards and have not been logged out. May be to early to tell but this may be working. the normal items that would cause it to log out have so far not done so...

  • by Dominick Saponaro,

    Dominick Saponaro Dominick Saponaro Oct 22, 2015 11:31 AM in response to mgerdes
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    Oct 22, 2015 11:31 AM in response to mgerdes

    Oh how I hope so.  Can you keep us updated?  Also can anyone else with 2 Geforce 120's Confirm or deny if the new drivers work?  Crossing fingers!

  • by sander_p,

    sander_p sander_p Oct 22, 2015 11:31 AM in response to mgerdes
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    Oct 22, 2015 11:31 AM in response to mgerdes

    I used the new Nvidia driver, and the Apple driver. Neither of them were stable...

  • by Dominick Saponaro,

    Dominick Saponaro Dominick Saponaro Oct 22, 2015 11:44 AM in response to mgerdes
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    Oct 22, 2015 11:44 AM in response to mgerdes

    Where are you finding the new driver?  Im still only seeing the one from 10/6/15.  Can someone post a link?

  • by xcrracer,

    xcrracer xcrracer Oct 22, 2015 11:44 AM in response to sander_p
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    Oct 22, 2015 11:44 AM in response to sander_p

    I found a recipe that has been stable for me for a few hours.  Adding a second card causes the logout symptom to return, no matter how many displays are connected.

     

    10.11.1

    1 x nVidia Quadro FX 1800 [borrowed from an old dell computer]

    1 display x dvi

    1 display x dport

     

    If this remains stable, I may consider [after a time machine backup] trying the new nvidia driver and adding a second video card to see what happens.

  • by Donald_Grahame,

    Donald_Grahame Donald_Grahame Oct 22, 2015 12:08 PM in response to JCrebbin
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    Oct 22, 2015 12:08 PM in response to JCrebbin

    This has "fixed" my issue (turning off the option of "separate spaces" in my multi monitor setup), but having "separate spaces" and its associated functionality of the menu bar and the dock appearing on whichever display I happen to be working on is something that I have grown to LOVE in the new OS's. This is a significant step back for me to have to disable this.

     

    I work with three Apple Cinema displays, currently with a mix of graphics cards in my Mac pro - ATI and NVidia, I'm hoping I will solve the problem by replacing the ATI one with another NVidia one, and perhaps using the NVidia drivers (which don't seem to be yet updated though for the recent point one update of El Capitan, or weren't last night when I looked).though

     

    (Although other posters in this forum seem to suggest it is a problem with two of the exact same Nvidia cards in a machine. Ugh.)

     

    I'm heading to the shop later today to buy another NVidia card, I'll report my success, or lack of it.

  • by mgerdes,

    mgerdes mgerdes Oct 22, 2015 12:10 PM in response to Donald_Grahame
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    Oct 22, 2015 12:10 PM in response to Donald_Grahame

    the driver came to me through the Nvidia Driver Manager in the system Preferences. Driver version is

    346.03.02f02

  • by Dominick Saponaro,

    Dominick Saponaro Dominick Saponaro Oct 22, 2015 12:17 PM in response to mgerdes
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    Oct 22, 2015 12:17 PM in response to mgerdes

    Yeah.  Thats the one from 10/6/15.  I don't believe there has been much luck with that one.  I did just find this one though...

     

    WebDriver-346.03.03f01.pkg

     

    Was released yesterday.  Not sure if there has been any luck with it though.  Anyone care to test?  Preferably with three or more displays with two geforce 120's.

  • by sander_p,

    sander_p sander_p Oct 22, 2015 12:24 PM in response to Dominick Saponaro
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    Oct 22, 2015 12:24 PM in response to Dominick Saponaro

    I used the latest Nvidia driver (346.03.03f01) with two GT 120’s, one display on each card. No joy. I tried it with the default OS X drivers as well. Same result.

     

    When I attach both displays to one GT 120 (and leave the other card in place): no problems at all.

  • by mgerdes,

    mgerdes mgerdes Oct 22, 2015 12:26 PM in response to Dominick Saponaro
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    Oct 22, 2015 12:26 PM in response to Dominick Saponaro

    sorry I miss typed the driver I am running as the old one I copied and pasted the wrong number

     

    This is the New Driver I was provided from Nvidia Driver Manager "346.03.03f01" which is the one you just posted here. I been running it for a couple hours now on 2 Geforce GT 120 cards Mac Pro early 2009 and displays as separate Spaces un checked...

  • by Dominick Saponaro,

    Dominick Saponaro Dominick Saponaro Oct 22, 2015 12:32 PM in response to sander_p
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    Oct 22, 2015 12:32 PM in response to sander_p

    In response to

    sander_pOct 22, 2015 3:24 PM


    Yeah.  While I haven't tried 346.03.03f01 yet (Last I tried was from 10/6/15)I have the exact same configuration AND issue as you.  Once I start using two 120 cards, constant crash to log in screen.  Seems to be an issue with Window server crashing.  Normally I run three displays but have had to cut down to only 2 since El Capitan and this bug.

  • by Dominick Saponaro,

    Dominick Saponaro Dominick Saponaro Oct 22, 2015 12:32 PM in response to mgerdes
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    Oct 22, 2015 12:32 PM in response to mgerdes

    In response to...

    mgerdesOct 22, 2015 3:26 PM

     

    Care to try giving the displays separate spaces?

  • by mgerdes,

    mgerdes mgerdes Oct 22, 2015 12:58 PM in response to Dominick Saponaro
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    Oct 22, 2015 12:58 PM in response to Dominick Saponaro

    I am sad to report that checking separate spaces and restarting instantly created the issue of log out. I was not even able to move my mouse to the second display.

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