El Capitan 10.11.4 Issues Freeze/Fans.

Hi

Since I upgraded to 10.11.4, I have had issues with the fan. After a couple of minutes, it starts turning at almost full speed and doesn't stop anymore. And obviously the battery is empty after less than an hour. Before the upgrade I have never observed a similar problem.

I ran your test and here I posted the result:

http://pastebin.com/g2MrZ4Tg

Thank you very much for your support

Claude

Some of us don't even have Flash installed but we still get freezes. It is not related to Flash.

Happened also to me at least 10 times in the last 10 days...

It's interesting that it's only the Mac interface that crashes: in fact during the last freeze Spotify was playing in the background and continued for several minutes/songs after the screen freezing, until I finally decided to manually force shutdown in order to reboot.

I have to promise myself to never install again an Apple update before at least 1 month after the release in order to wait an see if there are any kind of problems. Nowadays these problems are too common.

Have any of you reported these freezes to apple as a bug - and/or set up a support call with them.

As I mentioned in my earlier post - these freezes have happened since snow leopard - -- in my case - no problem for years until--

If you are looking for keyboard shortcuts to Unfreeze or restart -- check your version mac help.

Found them while looking for a key to the keys apple shows in keyboard shortcuts as some of the keys don't have the icon shown next to drop down menu on the key.

If you have a very slow power up or wake up -- restart immediately until and keep doing it until you get a clean(fast) startup with no delays.

I left a feedback at this address, maybe you guys should leave one too. http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html

This seems to have fixed the problem I was having in regard to constant freezing. Thanks for the help!

JD1127 wrote:

I already reported weeks ago this issues!!! and ZERO answers from apple!! I've been also at the apple store few days the issues started and they replied to me with the useless "scripted" sentences like:"we will personally write to apple about this issue"... Of course they didn't...
They just gave me a bitter pill to swallow to avoid the problem and send me away... This is a shame especially from a company like Apple...

Anyway, to be honest, i mostly work on computer and i spend my life on it.. And in the last 6 years i used every day 24h/7 Snow Leopard on my mac pro and also i used it on my macbook pro 2008 (that i recently upgraded with the new mbpro R 13" 2015) And i never had any issues of any kind on the OS X side.

I upgraded this year all my mac's directly from Snow Leopard to El Capitan just because i've been forced since apple and third parts dropped totally any kind of support and for me it started to be very limited by this... For me Snow Leopard and Tiger remain two of the best OSX i've ever had and used!!

Freeze that has been around at least since Snow Leopard - and probably has something to do with the Unix based housekeeping and also disk management.

The freeze may actually be the Finder and not any of the applications - but as finder controls the desktop - what can one do when apple techs may never have the problem because they always get new devices with fresh install - and don't do all the stuff you are doing.

Within the Finder/Desktop processing bogus errors may happen because Finder causes a memory leak and is not easy to quit,

So

Either report as a bug - or request support call by entering the folioing information for the request giving at least the following information.

Do you sleep or shutdown your Mac.

If sleep how often do you shutdown - if ever.

How long do you wait for a slow start to get to the desk top.

How filled is your drive.

What OS did your mac come with.

What OS is it on now.

How many upgrades between.

Amount of Ram you have

If you sleep the system are any applications left open..

Do you allow your system to connect to the internet as required

What applications are open when you have the freeze

In order for any programmer to be able to track down an issue they have to be able to replicate it.

So - if you think of more things than I have listed - report those - -

Could you share more details after a few days of using? And could you really push Safari to test if the issue is really gone using the fresh install method? Really appreciate it if you report back.

I had the same problem with freezing and the following seemed to fix the problem:

Restore Laptop

Shutdown the Laptop

Start laptop while holding the Command & R keys

It will start slowly in the in the “Recovery Partition”

When asked, choose “Install OS” from the menu

It will install OSX over what is in the mac. It will leave user info untouched.

You need to have a consistent internet connection, because the OS is downloaded again. So it takes time.

After that the mac restarts and installs. Supposedly all "fallen bits" are corrected.

This seems to prevent my problem of freezing constantly.

10) "Do you allow your system to connect to the internet as required" To be honest i did not understand this question well, but if i understand good, yes, the mac have full access to the internet since it's connected all the time to the modem via WIFI.

At least through snow leopard I can and do - prohibit my mac from connecting to the internet when it thinks it needs to. I work in Photoshop off-line and never saw a need to be on-line all the time. If your system is on-line and Safari and/or mail is open - mail will keep checking for mail. Check Safari Top Sites -- they refresh and top sites can get added by frequent visits - edit out any sites you don't want to be top sites.

Also check Spotlight preferences - as that is part of finder and is designed to allow more detailed searches -- but can really cause problems if you don't want or need it as in default it indexes everything. Never knew it was causing a problem until my mac froze after I did intense Housekeeping and am still working my way out of it slowly but surely. No freeze but sometimes the power up takes about 5 minutes and then I restart once or twice until I get a clean desktop (no delay) After the first super freeze when I looked through logs I did see Finder caused a memory leak (went where it shouldn't) .

Before you shut down or sleep your mac - after closing all applications - go to Utilities menu and open the Activity Monitor - select Active processes - if you see MDWORKER jobs run by Spotlight or finder - indexing is running.

Now apple does not look at this site unless pointed to it with a request for support. If you click on Contact Us below you should get to a page where you can request a support call - and give them this information so they can review it before calling you. (the information you supplied is what an analyst needs to get started on figuring out what is going on - the more detail the better.

After continuous research and trials of different methods I tried this and the results are very surprising. No need to Fresh install OS X btw.

Steps:

1) Open Safari > Preferences > Privacy

2) Click "Remove All Website Data..."

3) Quit Safari (Command-Q)

Delete Safari Cache.db file:

1) Open Finder

2) From the menu "Go > Go to Folder..." or simply press (Command-Shift-G)

3) Copy "~/Library/Caches/com.apple.Safari/" and click Go

4) Move to Trash "Cache.db" file, and Empty Trash

Final Steps:

1) Launch and then Quit Safari

2) Relaunch Safari