macOS Sierra freeze on iMac late 2009 using Safari

I just had to reboot 5 consecutive times and the machine is very, very slow in restarting. Anyone want an expensive brick?

It usually takes a long time after a crash. After it gets working, shut it down again so it writes all it needs to write. It didn't close sone things when it shut down.

When you reboot again by your choice, it will be faster

Pardon my lack of techie terms.

The problem appeared solved after I removed Trusteer Rapport -- for 48 hours. Then one freeze in the afternoon. One freeze the next afternoon. Two freezes today. Always when using Safari on a variety of websites. Am now in an ongoing support ticket with Apple Care.

Hello,

as you can see in this entire discussion, there is obviosly no solution for this problem right now. My experience is don't use Safari and you will not have this kind of freeze on an iMac late 2009. I'm using firefox the latest version. But I must confess Safari is much more faster and responsive. Also Chrome works without problems ralted to this issue.

Best regards!

I'm also very angry because if the freeze happens and you have iTunes open for instance, the iTunes library gets corrupt every time and gets checked at the next reboot required to get out of the freeze. I also experience rebuilt of the spotlight index which obviouls gots als corrupt. Very very bad experience.

@Apple: if you like you can get my sysdiagnose_2016.11.22_15-05-55+0100_1530.tar.gz file (>300MB) I was able to create using the cmd-opt-ctrl-shift-period key stroke after I logged in via ssh from my other mac directly after freeze.

Best regards!

riadfromhabsheim

Q:macOS Sierra freeze on iMac late 2009 using Safari VIN,iMac (27-inch Late 2009), macOS Sierra (10.12)

Posted on Sep 28, 2016 11:13 AM

The original post by riadfrimhabsheim was 55 days ago, going on 8 weeks. I've been getting many email notices of additional posts in this thread.

55 days. Just saying.

I have not seen this iTunes corruption issue on my mid-2010 iMac even though I have had the freeze happen while iTunes was playing. Just another data point, in case anyone at Apple is listening.

Hello Apple,

How about a lonesome hint if anybody of you is listening to this forum or mayby working on this problem?

Would be nice.....

michael.pulm wrote:

Hello Apple,

How about a lonesome hint if anybody of you is listening to this forum or mayby working on this problem?

Would be nice.....

There is no feedback loop on the forums, if you really want this fixed the best thing you can do is to sign up for the macOS Public Beta @ https://beta.apple.com/sp/betaprogram/and use the Feedback Assistant to report this bug. If people would post less on the forums and send more feedback this bug would get prioritized and fixed faster (one could hope).

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One things for sure, I will never rush right out to do an upgrade on either IOS or OS just because it's the newest thing out there. Maybe if it's a patch for a major security flaw but not otherwise.

Let others be the guinea pigs.

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I had this Safari freezing problem too, both in Mavericks and in a recent clean install of Sierra. I read somewhere else to do this and I’ve not had a freeze in 18 days…

Safari Preferences>Search

UNcheck the following:

Include Safari Suggestions

Enable Quick Website Search

Preload Top Hit in the background

Show Favorites

Good luck!

The luck you've wished with that is not on my site. I did exactly this at this morning and it results in no changes. After working for a while with Safari the freeze happend again. This doensn't solve the problem.